Biographies

Katherine Eberle is an active and versatile mezzo-soprano soloist. Concert credits include solo performances with the symphonies of Detroit, Lansing, and Saginaw (Michigan) and Atlanta, Macon, Rome, and Valdosta (Georgia). She has given over one hundred solo recitals as a guest artist in eighteen states as well as in Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, Russia, St. John and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She made her New York debut at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall in 1994. She was an Artistic Ambassador for the United States Information Agency, doing solo concert tours in South America (in 1995 she appeared in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad, and Tobago) and in Korea in 1997. Eberle’s recording From a Woman’s Perspective is available on the Vienna Modern Masters label. Eberle earned degrees from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory (BME), the University of Cincinnati (MM), and the University of Michigan (DMA). She has taught at The University of Iowa since 1990. For more information, see The University of Iowa School of Music, or Eberle’s personal Web page.

Maggie Conroy (M.F.A., The University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop) has taught playwriting at The University of Iowa and has had a long career as an actress. She has performed her monologues “Celestial Messengers,” “The Short History of a Colonial Dame,” and “Sailing into Iowa“ at various venues in Iowa and Massachusetts. She wrote the one-man play “Irving Weber’s Iowa City,” which was commissioned by ARTS Iowa City. Her prize-winning monologue, “Foreign Tours,” was performed at the Perishable Theatre in Providence, RI.