Courtney Fletcher

Mezzo-soprano Courtney Fletcher is a nationally acclaimed performer and educator, praised for her “powerful” and “persuasive” voice (Ladue News). She is the 2026 winner of The American Prize in Art Song and the inaugural winner of the NATS Barbara Hill Moore Emerging Teaching Artist Award.

Her operatic repertoire includes leading roles such as Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Laurene Powell Jobs (The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs), Angelina (La Cenerentola), and Paula (Florencia en el Amazonas). She has appeared with leading organizations across the U.S., including the New World Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Winter Opera St. Louis, Opera Memphis, Memphis Symphony, Northeast Choral Society of Pennsylvania, and the Boise Philharmonic. Internationally, she debuted with Prague’s National Theatre Orchestra through Opernfest Prague. An enthusiastic advocate for contemporary music, Fletcher has premiered and workshopped pieces with Grammy Award-winning composers Terence Blanchard and Tobias Picker, as well as Ingrid Stölzel, Robert Patterson, Shulamit Ran, and Matthew Recio.

In 2022, she was selected for the prestigious NATS Intern (Teaching) Program, and in 2025, received a New Faculty Research Development Grant from the University of Kansas. Her first album, I Know My Mind, with pianist Marika Yasuda, will be released on all digital platforms in November 2026 through Lexicon Classics. Other album recordings include A House of Light, with songs by composer Sam Ritter.

Dr. Fletcher’s students have participated in national and international young artist programs, such as Chicago Summer Opera and Bel Canto in Tuscany, won multiple awards from the National Association of Teachers of Singing Student Auditions, received district and regional recognition in the Laffont Competition, and performed with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s chorus.

Fletcher earned her Doctor of Music in Voice with a minor in Music Theory from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Kansas, where she teaches applied voice, diction, and opera. www.courtneyjfletcher.com