IBO Musicians

KRISTINE CASWELCH, soprano, performs a wide variety of genres and styles, using her music to highlight and share stories of unheard and overlooked voices. After spending a large portion of her childhood in Indianapolis, she is excited to be back and making her debut with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. Described by Boston Musical Intelligencer as having a “sparkling voice”, past performances include her television debut singing in a choir alongside GRAMMY-winning artist Sam Smith on SNL, her soloist debut with GRAMMY-winning Baroque group Apollo’s Fire in their program Lift Ev’ry Voice, and in choruses for Apollo’s Fire, the New York Philharmonic, Les Délices, and others. She can be heard on CD’s in the chorus for Apollo’s Fire Israel in Egypt (2023), O Jerusalem! (2022), and on Metal group Mushroomhead’s A Wonderful Life (2020).

Currently living in Boston, Kristine is a staff singer at the historic Trinity Church Copley Square. While in Boston she has participated in Castle of Our Skins Black Student Union Fellowship Program, culminating in a performance exploring Afrofuturism, and in Boston Early Music Festival’s Young Artist Training Program, appearing in Desmarest’s Circé (Chorus) and Élizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Cephale et Procris (Dorine). Kristine received her MM in Historical Performance from Longy School of Music of Bard College, where she served as Co-President of Longy’s BSU, a DEIB Student Representative, and received the Longy Leadership Award. During her free time she enjoys knitting, learning the viola da gamba, or curling up with a good book and her latest tea blend creation.