Kanade Motomura is currently a first year Master’s student at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, studying under Dr. Robin Rice. This school year, she will be covering the role of Meg Page in Falstaff and Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte. In the fall of 2024, she covered Ruggiero in the fall production Alcina, and sang in the annual Aleko Residency with Ryan McKinney, where she performed a scene alongside McKinney as Sister Helen from Dead Man Walking.