Kristin Norderval has had a dual career as a composer-performer-improviser working with technology and as a singer performing contemporary opera and concert music, primarily by American composers. Norderval’s credits as a soprano soloist include performances with the Oslo Sinfonietta, Philip Glass Ensemble, San Francisco Symphony, and Netherlands Dance Theater/NDT3. As a composer, she combines her operatic lineage with electronic experimentation, focusing on small-scale opera, cross-disciplinary work, and interactive technology. Norderval’s solo CD of her works for voice and electronics, Aural Histories, was listed as one of “Ten Notable Classical Music Recordings of 2012” by The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross. Her opera The Trials of Patricia Isasa (2016) won Quebec’s OPUS prize for best contemporary music and best production. In 2023 Kristin completed a PhD in artistic research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Academy of Opera, where she developed the EVII (Expanded Vocal Improvising Instrument), a wireless performer-controlled interactive system for vocal processing. The EVII was featured in her opera The Sailmaker’s Wife, which was premiered at the 2026 Musiktheatertage Wien Festival in Vienna, Austria. Kristin Norderval’s research “Electrifying Opera, Amplifying Agency” is published on Research Catalogue. https://kristinnorderval.com/
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