Biography, Media, & Resume

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“The audience was touched and inspired with her impressive, powerful voice and amazed by her youthful, fresh charm…. She conquered the hearts of the audience and offered a feast for the ears with her pure and clear singing."   -Rheingau Echo on Kara Grover

After making her professional debut in Germany in 2011, lyric-coloratura soprano, Kara Grover, has firmly established herself as an internationally acclaimed performer.  In spring of 2022, Ms. Grover debuted one of her dream roles as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Opera Fort Collins.  More recently, she is particularly excited about the fourth appearance of her newly commissioned work, BELLESONGS - a song cycle for high voice and piano muisc by Lois Henry and poetry by Belle Turnbull, which was premiered at her master recital, presented at the Mississippi University for Women's Music by Women Festival,  featured in Opera Las Vegas' Women Composer Festical 2022, and will apprear again this October 2023 at Tyler Recital Hall at NWFC. This project is a reflection of her dedication to promoting women in music.

In 2021 Ms. Grover graduated with a Master's of Music degree from Florida State University where she appeared in Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict (as Héro), performed Offenbach's Bagatelle (as Bagatelle), was featured in Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi's The Filthy Habit (as Susan), and studied Donizetti's La fill du régiment (as Marie).  Immediately following the completion of her undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Northern Colorado - where she performed leading roles in Xerxes (as Romilda), Don Giovanni (as Zerlina,) L'elisir d’Amore (as Adina,) and Cosi fan tutte (as Despina), - Ms. Grover moved to central Germany.  In Europe she made her debut singing the role Poussette in Massenet's Manon in Versailles, France. While in Germany, Ms. Grover co-founded a performing troupe, Opera Et Cetera, with her colleagues and artistic director, tenor star Kaith Ikaia-Purdy. Ms. Grover has been featured on German television and has performed hundreds of concerts throughout central Germany, including notable invitations from the Wiesbaden Kurhaus, Theater Dolce-Bad Nauheim, the Johannisberg Schloss, the Biebrich Schloss, and the Rheingauer Dom; each among the region’s most prestigious concert locales. Ms. Grover continues to perform with her beloved troupe when her schedule allows.

During this same brief period, Ms. Grover has earned a stellar reputation as a gifted lied and art-song recitalist. Through her critically acclaimed, thematically based recital evenings, she has succeeded in reestablishing within the Rheingau Region the “Salon Concert” tradition, once closely associated with the great coloratura singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The charm of these concert evenings has led to ever-increasing demands on Ms. Grover as a recitalist, and as a specialist in the nearly forgotten coloratura song literature.

In the summer of 2014, Ms. Grover was one of a select group of young singers drawn from throughout the world to appear with the Greek Opera Studio under the auspices of the Festival of the Aegean, in Syros Greece. In addition to performing the Nightingale in Ravel's L’Enfant des Sortileges, Kara Grover performed extensive excerpts from Werther (as Sophie,) and Don Giovanni (as Zerlina,). The previous spring, saw Ms. Grover's California concert debut in an Opera Gala performed with MET star, Eduardo Villa, presented on the campus of the California Opera Academy of the West.

In 2016, Opera et Cetera made their international debut in Hawaii and the following year in Florida where Ms. Grover performed, gave master classes, and was featured on NPR.  In that same year Ms. Grover relocated back to the United States where she established her teaching career while also developing multiple educational music programs for children and seniors in north-west Florida. She, again, established herself as an active performer regularly appearing with the Panama City Symphony Orchestra, and in November of 2019, Ms. Grover premiered a new and anticipated song cycle, Viola! by, Lois Henry in Pensacola, Florida with the Kakua Institute.

Ms. Grover currently resides in the Sumter, SC area.