Kim Criswell is one of the most exciting performers of our time. Her stage appearances include the original casts of Nine, Baby, The First, Stardust and The Threepenny Opera (Sting revival) on Broadway; Opera Pacific’s Kismet and Cats in Los Angeles; and Annie Get Your Gun, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Dames at Sea and The Slow Drag in the West End.
She won a Helen Hayes Award for Side By Side By Sondheim at the Olney Theatre, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for her Annie Oakley. She has made more than 25 recordings, including solo albums, original cast albums and numerous compilation albums. She has sung in Candide at the Châtelet, Paris and La Scala, Milan.
Kim has appeared with orchestras such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony, Hallé, London Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta and City of London Sinfonia, Vienna Symphony, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra del Teatro G. Verdi di Trieste, Orchestra Della Toscana, Flemish Radio Orchestra, Suisse Romande, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Cleveland, Chicago, Utah, Dallas, Toronto, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Colorado, San Antonio, New Jersey and National Symphony Orchestras, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.
She has worked with numerous leading conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Richard Hickox, Marin Alsop, Leonard Slatkin, John McGlinn, and her regular partners Wayne Marshall and John Wilson with whom she appears in recital, concerts and festivals all over the world.