Callie Cooper

Soprano, Callie Cooper’s performance credits include the title role of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah at Wichita Grand Opera in 2022, Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter by Lori Laitman, and Arminda in La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang A. Mozart, at Wichita State Opera Theater. She has also been a featured soloist in Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum and George F. Handel’s Messiah with the Wichita State University Symphony. 

In 2021, Ms. Cooper was a winner of the Thursday Musical’s Scholarship Competition, as well as the First-Place winner and Encouragement Award recipient of the National Society of Arts and Letters Shirley Winston Voice Competition. In 2018, she was awarded First Place in the Glenn Miller Vocal Competition. Recently she has been an artist at the Source Song Festival in Minnesota, an Emerging Artist at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival Operafest in Tennessee, as well as a Young Artist at the Berkshire High Peaks Festival in Massachusetts.

In 2021, Ms. Cooper graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. She was awarded a music study grant from Vieyra Foundation in 2022 and graduated with a Master of Music in Opera Performance in 2023 from Wichita State University.