Carolyn Black-Sotir is a versatile artist performing in opera, oratorio (click to hear audio sample), recital, musical theatre, and cabaret.

As guest artist, she has sung with some of the country’s finest regional orchestras such as Annapolis, Lancaster, Columbia, Susquehanna, and Hershey Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Atlanta Pops Orchestra. On the concert stage she has been the soprano soloist in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Mozart’s Mass in C Major and Exultate Jubilate, Vaughn Williams’s Hodie, Brahms’s A German Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, and Bach’s St. John’s Passion. In a special guest appearance she performed at The Baltimore Lyric Opera House with singing sensation Michael Amante. 

As guest recitalist, Ms. Black-Sotir has presented programs ranging from the music of Mozart to the songs of the Gershwins at West Virginia University, University of Cincinnati, United States Naval Academy, Franklin and Marshall College, York College, Gretna Theatre, Pennsylvania Chautauqua, Alexandria Lyceum, and for the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts. 

As recording artist, Ms. Black-Sotir is currently finishing a CD based on her revue, The Sweetest Sounds: a Richard Rodgers Celebration. Her 1999 recording By George! By Ira! By Gershwin! continues selling here and abroad. 

As writer and director, she has created numerous works for Carolyn Black & Company, an ensemble of musicians and actors dedicated to the American Broadway Song founded by Ms. Black-Sotir in 1998.

Ms. Black-Sotir is a magna cum laude graduate of Eastman School of Music with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Vocal Performance.