Katherine Sandoval Taylor, a native of Asheville, NC, has appeared in oratorio, concert, musical theater, and opera performances throughout the Southeast, as well as in various venues in Massachusetts. Studying voice and pedagogy under Mark St. Laurent, she earned a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, MA. She also holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Furman University, in Greenville, SC, where she studied with mezzo-soprano, Trudy Hines Fuller.

While at NEC, she performed the roles of Aurelia Havisham, in Dominick Argento's monodrama, Miss Havisham's Wedding Night and Pernile, in American composer John Duke’s comedy, Captain Lovelock. She was also a featured soloist in the musical review, There Once Was a Girl Named Jenny – Theater Music of Kurt Weill, performed in the legendary Jordan Hall, which is considered one of the two most acoustically perfect performance spaces for classical music in America. Also at NEC, she performed the partial roles of Nannetta, in Falstaff, Sifare, in Mitridate, Nellie, in Summer and Smoke, Elisetta, in Il Matrimonio Segreto, and Vénus, in Orphée aux enfers. While at Furman University, she performed the role of Countess Almaviva, in Le Nozze di Figaro, and the partial roles of Mimi, in La Bohème and Frasquita, in Carmen. April 2007, Ms. Taylor was delighted to return to her home town to perform as a featured soloist with the Asheville Lyric Opera and Asheville Bravo! in the concert, Rising Stars: A Homecoming.

In addition to her operatic repertoire, Ms. Taylor has performed a variety of musical theater roles such as Eliza, in My Fair Lady, of which the Boston Globe   said, "You're so amazed that she has such a beautiful soprano that you forget how beautiful she is until she comes out in her gown. She makes a stunning Eliza." Of her performance as Guenevere, in The Savoyard Light Opera Company's production of Camelot, The Carlisle Mosquitoe said, "The luminous Katherine Sandoval Taylor wows the audience as Guenevere, running the gamut from coquettish to regal to sorrowful with a soaring soprano. She seems imbued with her own spotlight." Ms. Taylor has also performed the roles of Anna & Tuptim, in The King and I , Maria, in The Sound of Music, Hodel, in Fiddler on the Roof, The Narrator & Rubens Wife, in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and both Philia, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Anne, in A Little Night Music with Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater.

An avid supporter of young artists pursuing their dreams, Ms. Taylor has organized, produced, and performed several productions, including the 2002 benefit concert, Bach to Broadway, for the Asheville Area Arts Council (Asheville, NC) and the 2009 benefit concert An Evening of Songs and Arias, for the Rutherford County Center for the Arts (Murfreesboro, TN).   100% of the funds raised from both performances were donated to each organization - $4,000 to the Asheville Area Arts Council, for their Arts in Education scholarship program, and over $11,000 to the Center for the Arts, for their theater's renovation efforts. Of the 2002 concert, The Asheville Citizen Times said, "Bach to Broadway expresses her ambition and her range, both of which are formidable... She convincingly conveyed the inner feelings of the characters and brought them to dramatic as well as musical life... She has been doing musical theater since girlhood and knows well how to tell a story in song, how to work with other actors, and how to connect with an audience."

An experienced teacher, Ms. Taylor has taught voice and pedagogy at the New England Conservatory, Boston Children’s Chorus, Furman University, and currently maintains a private studio in the Nashville, TN area.

This past October 2010, Ms. Taylor returned to her hometown to headline the annual concert Arts in the Garden with Asheville Bravo!. On her performance Tracey Johnston-Crum, Executive Director of Asheville Bravo Concerts said "In addition to being exceptionally talented, Katherine serves as an outstanding role model for our younger musicians." (Asheville Tribune) Upcoming performance engagements include a 2-performance concert series in the Asheville-area this coming April, 2011. The concert, "Spring Song," presented by Classicopia, will showcase music about spring from both the Classical and Musical Theater repertoire.