Multiple Grammy Award-winning Katy Avery, with her “beautifully pure tone” {Classical Voice of North Carolina}, is a soloist and ensemble singer based in Philadelphia. Regularly appearing at home and abroad, Katy has most frequently performed as a core member of four-time Grammy winning new music choir, The Crossing.
Katy has also enjoyed engagements with Roomful of Teeth, Conspirare, The Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, Choral Arts Philadelphia, Variant 6, The Thirteen, and Opera Philadelphia, among many others. Recordings of Ms. Avery have been featured on the ECM, Parma, Innova, Albany, and Deathbomb Arc record labels.
Katy received her Bachelor of Music degree from East Carolina University in 2009, where she studied jazz and classical vocal performance, and completed her Masters of Music in Vocal Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College under the tutelage of Dr. Christopher Arneson. She is currently on the voice faculty at St. Joseph's University, maintains a private voice studio, and is the artistic director of the Katy Avery Commission Project. When she’s not performing or teaching, you can find Katy sewing her own couture or cooking creative meals.