Kiera Duffy has performed as a soloist with many of the world’s preeminent classical music organizations, including the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ungaku-Juku Japan, as well as the Aldeburgh Festival, Ojai Festival of Contemporary Music, Wigmore Hall, Mostly Mozart Lincoln Center, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has performed an extraordinarily wide range of repertoire, and is an especially sought-after interpreter of the work of the European modernists as well as contemporary composers like Caroline Shaw, Mohammed Fairouz, Michael Hersch, Jake Heggie, Grace Evangeline Mason, Rene Orth, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Layale Chaker, Philip Glass, Unsuk Chin, George Lewis, and Missy Mazzoli, among many others.

For the last seven years Kiera Duffy has been Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame, where has served as the Coordinator of Undergraduate Voice Studies and Creative Producer of Opera ND for the Department of Music, and voice faculty for the Graduate Program of Sacred Music. Duffy’s research interests include Evidence-Based Vocal Pedagogy; Cognition and Motor Learning Theory; Modern and Contemporary Repertoire and Performance Practice; Interdisciplinarity in Western Classical Performance; Fostering Inclusion in the Classical Canon; and Mindfulness Practices for the Performing Musician.