Kelly Stultz

Kelly Stultz is a full-voiced contralto with a dark vocal color, generous but scalable vocal size, and facility with coloratura that makes her equally comfortable singing Baroque alto repertoire as well as more dramatic works that call for a Romantic-sized orchestra. A musician to her toes (she is the daughter of a bass-baritone and a pianist), she has sung comprimaria roles in such operas as Rigoletto (Countess Ceprano), Madama Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton), and l’Elisir d’Amore (Giannetta) and leading roles in scenes from such operas as The Medium (Madame Flora) and Carmen (title role). She has relished getting back to the full scenic and musical commitment opera requires as Lady Davenaut in Der Vampyr.

Kelly also loves to bring her dramatic artistry to concert performance; she has traveled the world as a soloist with the Glenn Draper Singers and has soloed in such works as Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Coronation Mass. In recent seasons she has been a featured soloist with the Chattanooga Bach Choir and Orchestra in Vivaldi’s Gloria in D Major and also in Mendelssohn’s Elijah (unforgettable as Jezebel in Act II). Kelly was a featured soloist in classic oratorio arias by Handel and Dvorâk in the presentation God Bless the Altos: Sacred Music Composed for Mezzo-soprano and Contralto Voices in Signal Mountain, TN, and sang opera arias from Un Ballo un Maschera, La Favorita, and Samson et Dalila for “Hops & Opera,” Chattanooga’s long-running seasonal opera concert event. Most recently, she was a soloist in Hear Ye, Israel: Classical Vocal Music in the Jewish Tradition for Mizpah Congregration in music by Handel and Copland last month.

A graduate of Bryan College and Bob Jones University, Kelly is the Director of Music & Arts at Chattanooga’s First Presbyterian Church and is a member and Associate Conductor of the Voice of Reason Women’s Ensemble.