“Another plus [to the success of Messiah with the Handel Choir of Baltimore] was the stylish, well-matched solo vocal quartet ... smooth-toned soprano Katharine Dain ...”
--Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun, 14 December 2009
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“Providing vivid interpretations of [Messiah’s] recitatives and airs, Katharine Dain (soprano), Ian Howell (countertenor), Steven Brennfleck (tenor), and Craig Phillips (bass) served the oratorio as vibrant soloists. Ms. Dain and Mr. Howell often thrilled by their rippling variations on the Handel score.”
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“The musicians are young, energetic and finely polished, with a sense of humor about their generally sober repertory. ... [In Pierrot Lunaire,] Katharine Dain, the ensemble’s engaging soprano, gave as graceful, and as intense, a performance of Schoenberg’s stylized vocal line as you could want. She moved easily between its slides, whispers and more straightforward expressivity, as she also had earlier in the program, in Hanns Eisler’s Palmström, which uses a similar Sprechstimme style. In the Eisler Ms. Dain’s bright, light tone marked her as a soubrette. But she quickly countered that impression with the warm, almost mezzo-like sound she brought to Peter Kelsh’s appealing, neo-Romantic “When Shall We Set Sail for Happiness?”
--Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, 20 May 2009
“Callisto Ascending devoted its set to works celebrating the Virgin, most notably a lovely account of Purcell’s ‘Tell Me, Some Pitying Angel,’ in a passionate, almost operatic reading by Katharine Dain, the soprano. ... [In duets by Purcell, Couperin, and Cozzolani,] Ms. Dain and Laurie Rubin, a mezzo-soprano, blended comfortably and projected with clarity and the kind of shaping that seemed rooted in the emotional currents of the texts.”
--Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, 30 September 2008
“Soprano Katharine Dain sang with rich tone, investing her lines with deep emotion.”
--Steve Smith, The New York Times, 2 May 2007
“The singers of the Aoede ensemble are superb, both as a group and as soloists. I especially enjoyed the beautiful production and phrasing of sopranos Katharine Dain and Allison Mondel and contralto Mary Abba-Gleason...”