Soprano Karen Cook is active as a choral artist with ensembles across the country. She sings regularly with the Berwick Chorus of the Oregon Bach Festival, the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus, the Baroque on Beaver Festival, Audivi, Beyond, Choral Artists of Michigan, Detroit Concert Choir, ProArteOHIO, sounding light, Vox GR, Toledo Opera, and the Mariners' Church of Detroit Choir. She has also performed with the Dallas Choral Festival, Knoxville Choral Society, Knoxville Chamber Chorale, Taylor Festival Chorus, Tennessee Chamber Chorus, The Union, and Knoxville Opera.

Karen is frequently sought after as a concert soloist and has been featured in performances including Bach's Magnificat and St. John Passion, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Purcell’s Te Deum and Jubilate, and Schubert's Mass in G. She is principal soprano at the Baroque on Beaver Festival where she has performed as soloist in numerous works such as Bach’s Christ lag in Todes Banden, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music, and Vivaldi’s Gloria. 

Karen also enjoys performing in the opera chorus and has appeared with Toledo Opera in Barber’s Vanessa, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Puccini’s La Bohème and as the shepherd boy in Tosca, and Verdi’s La Traviata and Macbeth; with Knoxville Opera in Boito's Mefistofele, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Puccini's Tosca, and Verdi's Otello and Il Trovatore, with Spoleto Festival USA in Barber’s Vanessa and Puccini’s La Bohème, and with the Baroque on Beaver Festival as Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.

Upcoming engagements include Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the Detroit Concert Choir, Bach’s Mass in b minor with sounding light, and Bizet’s Carmen and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore with Toledo Opera.

Karen earned her Master of Music in Voice Performance from Eastern Michigan University and lives in Ypsilanti, MI with her husband, Matt, and five other ladies:  two dogs and three chickens.

2023-2024 Ensemble Vocalist

2024-2025 Resident Vocalist

2025-2026 Resident Vocalist