Despite cancellations due to Covid, during recent seasons Ms. Schutz gave her solo debut recital at Weill Hall, gave a world premier with the Orchestra NOW at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and Stanford’s Bing Hall, appeared in concert with Xak Bjerken on the Oneonta Concert Society series, sang Viardot’s Cendrillon with Opera Ithaca and Glass’s Les enfantss terrible with Opera Parallèle, was featured on WQXR’s “Young Artist Showcase, and appeared at numerous festival including Cornell’s Mayfest, the Mostly Modern Festival, and Yellow Barn.

Ms. Schutz has been praised for her "vibrant, convincing stage presence" (San Francisco Examiner) and "vivacious spirit" (San Francisco Chronicle) on the opera stage. Her recent opera roles have included Lise in Glass's Les enfants terribles, Thérèse in Les mamelles de Tirésias and Jessie in Mahagonny Songspiel with Opera Parallèle; Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Johanna in Sweeney Todd and Diana in Dove's Siren Song with Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre; Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Adele in Die Fledermaus and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Stockton Opera; Maguelonne in Viardot’s Cendrillon with Opera Ithaca; and Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore with the Santa Fe Opera. Other roles have included Musetta in La Bohème, Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Euridice in Orpheus ed Euridice, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Rose in A Street Scene, Gloria in Handel's O come chiare e belle, First Maid in Daphne, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and St. Settlement in Four Saints in Three Acts.

Equally at home in concert repertoire, she has performed Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem and Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass with the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra, Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre with the Stony Brook Symphony, Imbrie's Adam with the Riverside Symphony, Hayes’s Spirit Suite with DCINY, has toured the Northeast with the Boston Pops Orchestra, singing, most notably, Bernstein's "Glitter and be gay," and recently gave the premier of Zhou Long’s Men of Iron and the Golden Spike with the Orchestra NOW.

A seasoned recitalist known for her "communicative zest" (Boston Globe), Ms. Schutz has been invited to perform at prestigious venues around the world including Carnegie Hall's Stern, Zankel, and Weill Halls; the Ravinia, Ojai, Yellow Barn, Tanglewood, and Mostly Modern Festivals; the NATS National Conference; concert series around the country including the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, the Honolulu Chamber Music Series, the Hawaiʻi Concert Society, the Maui Arts and Cultural Center, and the Oneonta Concert Society; and in venues around China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand and Germany. Ms. Schutz has performed with famed artists such as Dawn Upshaw, James Levine, James Conlon, JoAnne Faletta, Keith Lockhart, Leon Botstein, Gilbert Kalish, William Sharp, and Martin Katz.

Ms. Schutz is also a passionate supporter of new music and enjoys close working relationships with many young composers and new music ensembles. She has premiered dozens of new works, including pieces by Eugene Drucker (of the Emerson String Quartet), Michael-Thomas Fumai, Jeff Myers, Thomas Osborne, Zhou Long, and Peter Winkler, and has worked with composers Phillip Glass, George Crumb, Jonathan Dove, William Bolcom, Libby Larsen, John Musto, Brett Dean, and Augusta Read-Thomas on their music.

In addition to winning the NATSAA competition, Ms. Schutz won third prize at the 2016 Jensen Foundation competition, was a finalist in the 2016 Hans Gabor Belvedere competition, and was the recipient of the 2012 Sorel Fellowship. She has been featured on New York City’s WQXR singing Rachmaninoff and Welsh art song, Hawaiʻi's 88.1 KHPR, and Chicago's WFMT, and can be heard singing Thomas Osborne's Rumi Songs on "Elements," an Albany Records album of contemporary American music, and Cone's "Silent Noon" on an Ebb & Flow Ensemble recording of Cone's chamber music.

Ms. Schutz is also an active community arts organizer. In 2017, she founded Artists for Social Justice Hawaiʻi which unites artists of different disciplines to bring awareness to pressing social justice issues such as immigration, civil rights, and climate change. The group presents performances around Honolulu in collaboration with other arts organizations, and offers education and community art opportunities.

Beyond her performing career, Ms. Schutz is an active scholar and dedicated teacher. She recently published two articles on Welsh diction and art song repertoire in the prestigious Journal of Singing, is under contract with Routledge Press for a book titled Welsh Vocal Music: A Guide to Lyric Diction and Repertoire, has co-authored a book chapter on perceptions of linguistic style in a 2021 book for Cambridge University Press, and has been an Assistant Professor of Voice at Ithaca College since 2018.

After making her professional debut at age 12 premiering John Hardy’s The Roswell Incident with Music Theatre Wales, Ms. Schutz began studying with Mark Gruett of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. She holds a BA in Music from Stony Brook University, received her MM degree from the Dawn Upshaw-run Vocal Arts Program at Bard College, completed an MA in Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and in 2016 received her DMA from Stony Brook University.