Kelley O'Connor

Mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor performs and inhabits a broad selection of repertoire, from Beethoven, Mahler and Brahms to Dessner, Corigliano and Adams. She performs with leading orchestras and conductors around the world, with preeminent artists in recitals and chamber music, and with highly acclaimed opera companies in the U.S. and abroad. In the 2026–2027 season, O’Connor gives the world premiere of a new song cycle by Gonzalo Grau with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. She sings Beethoven 9 with the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Baltimore and Pacific Symphonies. Other highlights include Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Kalamazoo Symphony; Handel’s Messiah with the New Jersey Symphony; Bernstein’s Songfest with the Kansas City Symphony; Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the Fort Worth Symphony; and John Adams’ El Niño with Gulbenkian Orchestra. Chamber and recital highlights include performances at Chamber Music Napa, Chamber Music in the Chilterns, and Garth Newel. For her debut with the Atlanta Symphony in Ainadamar, Kelley O’Connor joined Robert Spano for a Grammy® Award-winning Deutsche Grammophon recording. O'Connor's newest recording, a collaboration with Spano, is “Songs of Orpheus,” a series of song cycles by Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, George Crumb, and Spano himself.