Soprano Mona Kreitner has appeared in solo recitals and chamber music concerts at Rhodes College, the University of Memphis, Christian Brothers University, and Lyon College in Arkansas. She has appeared locally under the auspices of the Rhodes MasterSingers Chorale, Memphis Chamber Music Society, Calvary and the Arts, the Birmingham Arts Festival, and the University of Memphis Imagine Festival. She is a frequent guest soloist with the Mockingbird Early Music Ensemble from Oxford, Mississippi—most recently joining them for a program of music in celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday. Since 2002 she has been the vocal soloist for The Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass Band based in Silverton, Colorado. With them she has performed and recorded arias by Donizetti, Bellini, Puccini, Rossini, Franz Lehar, Johann Strauss, and Victor Herbert. Mona’s orchestral solo appearances include performances of the Bach Magnificat, Copland Old American Songs, Haydn Creation, Poulenc Gloria, Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio, Barber Prayers of Kirkegaard.

Mona has performed and recorded with the Memphis Chamber Choir and the Memphis Consortium for Early Music. She was the soprano soloist for the Kamran Ince Ensemble in recordings of the composer’s scores for the films Love Under Siege, Sarkici, and Aphrodisiac. And she was vocal soloist with Kamran Ince on two international tours to Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Mona may be heard on CD with the Memphis Chamber Choir on the Pro Organo label, and with the Kamran Ince Ensemble on the Raksmusik label.

Mona′s research interests include gender studies in music, 17th-century performance practice, and American music.  Her dissertation, completed in 2007, was titled "A Splendid Group of American Girls:  The Women Who Sang with the Sousa Band".