KATIE SONG-YI NAM
Katie Song-Yi Nam
Singer, Teacher & Producer
Katie Song-Yi Nam is Korean-American soprano, voice teacher and producer originally from Boston, Massachusetts. Equally at home singing opera, musical theatre and popular music, she is an advocate for crossover music and vocal sustainability across genres. Most recently she was an Emerging Young Artist at the Netherlands Lyric Opera Festival as Norina from Don Pasquale and Elisetta in Il Matrimonio Segreto for their opera scenes concert at Opera Zuid.
Nam is a proud recipient of the Georgina Joshi International Fellowship to fund the program. As a producer, she most recently created and performed in a benefit concert for Blood Cancer United and for her mom’s cancer treatment. She is a true believer in the power of music to heal. The concert raised over $5,000 for cancer research and treatment.
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Nam is honored to have had many roles across the musical canon, including Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Manon (Manon), and Nedda (Pagliacci) at the IU Musical Arts Center. At NYU Steinhardt she played Ilia (Idomeneo), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Venus (Orpheus in the Underworld), and Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte). She is an alum of the Trentino Music Festival and played the Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte). Some of her favorite musical theatre roles include Marian Paroo (Music Man), Johanna Barker (Sweeney Todd), and Claudia u/s (Nine) at the Frederick Loewe Theatre, where she worked with Broadway Music Director Joshua Rosenblum (“Into the Woods'') and Associate Director Taylor Haven Holt (''& Juliet”).
Nam holds a Master of Music in Voice at the IU Jacobs School of Music and studied with Heidi Grant Murphy. She is a proud recipient of the Harriett Block Operatic Scholarship, Jeannette Bredin Fellowship, Graduate Tuition Award, and Artistic Excellence Award. She was honored to be a finalist for the Georgina Joshi Fellowship Award and William Bain Scholarship in 2024.
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Nam also was a University Honors Scholar from New York University where she earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance in the vocal studio of Harolyn Blackwell. She was awarded the Vocal Performance Program’s Exceptional Contribution To Classical Award for Undergraduate Academic and Artistic Excellence. She also earned a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology from NYU Stern and Tisch School of the Arts.
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At NYU, She was a member and the President of the Classical Vocal Collective where she produced an opera scene production "Last Resort: Scenes in Paradise". Nam also enjoys singing contemporary repertoire and was a singer with GRAMMY-winning Janis Siegel and Lauren Kinhan's Contemporary and Jazz Ensemble Village Voices as well as NYU's women's Acapella group Cleftomaniacs. Nam sang the National Anthem at the Yankee Stadium for New York University for their 190th All-University Commencement Exercises as well as Radio City Music Hall singing with the New York University Steinhardt Singers for Baccalaureate Ceremony, Valedictory ceremony, and Doctoral Convocation produced by Warren Freeman.
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Nam currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts and enjoys teaching voice, learning about vocology and vocal health and making matcha lattes.
