Abby Kate Boeschen

Soprano Abby Kate Boeschen is originally from Des Moines, Iowa, but has enchanted audiences across the United States and Europe. Recent performance credits include Little Red in Little Red’s Most Unusual Day (2025) and Nora (cover) in Vaughan William’s Riders to the Sea (2025) with The Boston Conservatory, and Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (2023) and Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the Drake Opera Theater (2022). Ms. Boeschen also performs as a concert soloist, and most recently sang as a featured soloist in the Des Moines-based Music Under The Stars concert series (2024), and as the soprano soloist in the Des Moines Community Orchestra’s Handel’s Messiah (2023).

Ms. Boeschen is a five-time winner and multiple-time finalist of both the state and regional NATS competitions and has been a featured performer in several masterclasses, most recently singing for Roderick Williams at the Boston Conservatory.

An in-demand teacher and director, Ms. Boeschen most recently served as the assistant director for Hoiby’s Summer and Smoke at The Boston Conservatory under director David Gately and will be a featured director for the upcoming Opera Scenes program at that same institution. She also enjoys teaching voice lessons to students of all ages and has served as a voice faculty member at the Drake University Voice Intensive.

Ms. Boeschen holds a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance from Drake University under the tutelage of Leanne Freeman-Miller. She is currently in the process of obtaining her Masters in Opera Performance at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, under the tutelage of Dr. Rebecca Folsom.