With her versatility and a voice that has been described as “rich and dusky, but so beautifully clear and expressive,” Saskatchewan native Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber has established an active career in both concert and operatic mezzo soprano and contralto repertoire.

Ms. Cutsforth-Huber was a finalist in the American Prize in Opera competition in both 2021 and 2022. She has performed the role of Suzuki in Center Stage Opera's 2022 production and New Jersey Lyric Opera's 2023 production of Madama Butterfly. She also appeared as Flora in Center Stage Opera’s 2021 production of La Traviata. Her 2020 schedule featured two demanding roles with Amici Opera – Judith in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Aldagisa in Norma. Her 2019 schedule included two engagements with New York Lyric Opera Theatre - The Principessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Madame de la Haltière in Massenet’s Cendrillon - along with Maman/La Tasse Chinoise/La Libellule/Un Pâtre in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with Vera Causa Opera (Ontario).

As a concert artist, she has appeared in prestigious concert spaces across the world, including Carnegie Hall (Mozart Requiem), Avery Fisher Hall (Duruflé Requiem), Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Andrew T. Miller's The Birth of Christ), and Cemal Resit Rey Hall in Istanbul, Turkey (Adnan Saygun's Yunus Emre). Concert engagements include performances with the New York City Chamber Orchestra, Altoona Symphony, Nittany Valley Symphony, the Presidential Orchestra of Turkey, the Cemal Resit Rey Orchestra, Susquehanna Valley Chorale, Harford Choral Society, and The Bach Concert Series of Baltimore. Most recently, she performed as the alto soloist in Verdi’s Requiem under the baton of Murry Sidlin with the Defiant Requiem Project, Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and as the alto soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Regina Symphony Orchestra. In 2024, she will appear as the alto soloist in Ciné Messiah – a film of Handel’s Messiah that will be featured in IMAX theatres.

Ms. Cutsforth-Huber’s interests also extend to new works. She was the mezzo soloist in the world premiere of Robert Cohen's Alzheimer’s Stories with the Susquehanna Valley Chorale and Orchestra. She also premiered the song cycle Something So Necessary, So Real for contralto, piano and chamber orchestra by Timothy Melbinger. In recital, she premiered a five-song concert set, Saskatchewan Songs, in which poetry written by the singer is set to music by Kingston, Ontario composer Martha Hill Duncan, and also sang the United States premiere of Triptych, a song cycle for mezzo soprano, piano, and alto saxophone by Canadian composer Lloyd Burritt.

Ms. Cutsforth-Huber holds a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from the University of Saskatchewan, a Master’s degree in vocal performance from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Kentucky.