About Katrina

Katrina is a Filipino soprano, conductor, and arts administrator in Austin, TX. 

2023-2024 featured Katrina with her vocal quintet VAMP in Between the Worlds as the season opener for KMFA Classical 89.5’s Offbeat Series. Following that, Katrina sang the soprano solo in “Aurora” by the legendary Icelandic singer Björk, a new arrangement by Benjamin Dia, with new music groups Inversion Ensemble and Density512. She performed in Don’t Blink: An Evening of New Music, a recital with trumpet player Kenken Gorder and pianist Benjamin Dia, singing the music of Susan Kander and Beth Wiemann. She shared the stage with Inversion Artistic Director Trevor Shaw, co-conducting Inversion’s youth choir Nova in Zoology. She joined VAMP in a concert presented by Austin Classical Guitar, singing the world premiere of works by Joe Williams and of celebrated Indian-American composer Reena Esmail. After that, she performed again with VAMP in a concert presented by Austin Community College as part of its Find Your Voice series. Katrina made her directorial debut with the professional soprano-alto choir Da Capo in a concert that centered on immigrant and refugee voices. In that concert, Da Capo premiered works by Inversion in-house composers Benjamin Dia (“Canto del viajero”) and Adrienne Inglis (“The Way We Meet”). Katrina sang two world premieres on both days of the 2nd annual indie-classical music festival Here Be Monsters by Tetractys New Music: As part of VAMP, performing “Push” from Invisible Women by Russell Podgorsek, and as the soprano soloist of Inversion, singing “Godric and His Demons” by James Tecuatl-Lee. She joined fellow Austin-based artists for a Pride recital in Studio A in June. Finally, the season concluded with Katrina singing excerpts of Klara: Opera in Four Haikus for a soirée at Opera Hispánica in San Antonio, TX.