Kylie is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Opera at Curtis Institute of Music, under the tutelage of Julia Faulkner. She recently completed her bachelor’s degree at Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Katherine Jolly. At Oberlin, Kylie was honored with the Pi Kappa Lambda Award for Musicianship, awarded to students judged to be the most outstanding of those elected to Pi Kappa Lambda, an American honor society, the Margot Bos Stambler ‘84 Award for Professional Development, awarded to an outstanding vocal performance major of great promise, and the Theodore Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award for outstanding musicianship, academics, and professional potential.

This upcoming season at Curtis, Kylie will be singing Marianne in the Act 2 Opening of Der Rosenkavalier with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center. She will make her role debut as Fox Gold-Stripe in The Cunning Little Vixen this spring in the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center.

Recent awards and honors include an Encouragement Award at the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in the Kentucky District, the 2022 Jessye Norman Award in the Great Lakes NATS Region for most promising singer as well as 1st place prize and winner of the 2022 Schmidt Undergraduate Vocal Competition Upper Division.

Kylie made her professional debut in the summer of 2021 with Soo Opera Theatre as Annina in La Traviata, and has recently performed with Oberlin Opera Theatre in multiple leading roles including Diana in Henry Mellicone’s Emperor Norton, Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, and Cat Lady in GRAMMY-Award Winning Composer, Stephen Hartke’s new opera, Rhino.

Kylie was a 2022 Vocal Fellow at Music Academy of the West. There, she worked with composer-in-residence, Tom Cipullo, as a featured soloist in his showcase, performed in a masterclass with renowned singer Sasha Cooke, was featured as a soloist in an original cabaret directed by James Darrah and Craig Terry, performed in the chorus of Eugene Onegin, competed in the Marilyn Horne Song Competition, and sang the part of Lisette in the La Rondine quartet for the Music Academy Festival Orchestra Concert under the baton of Speranza Scappucci.

As a second year fellow at Music Academy, Kylie made her role debut as Musetta in their 2023 production of La bohème under the baton of Daniela Candillari in the Granada Theatre of Santa Barbara. Other performances of the summer included Libby Larsen’s Try Me, Good King, Music Academy’s Una noche en Miraflores under the direction of César Cañón and Ana María Martínez, and Cabaret: 1979 under the direction of James Darrah and Craig Terry.

In the summer of 2023, Kylie will be attending Wolf Trap Opera’s Studio Artist Program to cover Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, as well as Jackie O. in a workshop for Sankaram’s The House of Yes, commissioned for Wolf Trap Opera for 2025.