Captivating audiences with her voice and presence

Dramatic coloratura soprano, Kerri Lynn Slominski, is a dynamic singing actress who dominates the stage with commanding force, delightful comedic timing and provides memorable performances to all. She performs all over the country and overseas being praised for having a powerful, lovely, expressive warm voice and outstanding presentation. 

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An avid traveling artist, Slominski has performed with Boheme Opera NJ, Theatre Now NY, Amici Opera Company, Opera on the Rocks, Rochester Fringe Festival, ROCopera, Brooklyn Opera Institute, Connecticut Lyric Opera, Opera Breve, Trentino Music Festival, Opera in the Ozarks and Mercury Opera Rochester.  

Decorated with many achievements, Slominski is a recipient of a Fall 2024 Artist Grant by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.  In 2021, she was a semi-finalist for the Premiere Opera Foundation/NYIOP International Vocal Competition and a 2021 GVCA Restart NY Performance Grant for her self-produced performance of La Voix Humaine. She is a two-time performance grant recipient from the Opera Guild of Rochester.  In 2020, she received a vocal competition grant from the Jensen Foundation. Her performance of Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone earned her the 2019 Critics’ Pick by CITY Newspaper (Rochester, New York).  She was a Finalist in the 2018 Elaine Malbin Vocal Competition.  Additional accolades include the Philip Y. Cho Scholarship Fund, Howard Olian Memorial Fund and the Lillian Mann Prize in Voice.
 

Noted as a talented creator and producer, Ms. Slominski devotes part of her performance time serving as a teaching artist bringing opera outreach to all ages.  Recently, she developed her own school assembly: What Is It Like To Be An Opera Singer: An Interactive Assembly For Kids! that provides a ‘kid friendly’ introduction to the operatic artform.  She was the original Co-Founder of ROCopera and served as the Co-Artistic Director from 2020-22 where she provided artists with performance opportunities online during the COVID pandemic.  Additionally, in 2017, she debuted her own operatic cabaret show: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Audition at the Rochester Fringe Festival.  Jack Garner (Democrat and Chronicle) praised it as an “amusing opera memoir”.

Ms. Slominski holds a Professional Studies Certificate in Opera and a Master’s in Music in Opera Performance from the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.  She also received her Bachelor’s in Music in Vocal Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.  Slominski attended the high school preparatory program at the Eastman Community Music School and received an Advanced Achievement Diploma in Voice.