Artists

For the 2017-18 season Katherine returns to the Staatstheater Karlsruhe for her second season as part of their Ensemble and reprises her roles as Sieglinde Die Walküre, Adriana Adriana Lecouvreur and Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito. Other engagements this season and beyond include Britten War Requiem Montpellier Opera, Brünnhilde Siegfried Leipzig Opera and Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony with the National Norwegian Opera Orchestra, Oslo. Recitals include a concert of Russian repertoire with pianist Sergey Rybin at the Oxford Lieder Festival

Past opera appearances include Helmwige, Woglinde and also Brünnhilde Siegfried in Opera North’s Ring Cycle; Helmwige for Oper Leipzig and in concert with WNO and with the Hallé, Philharmonia and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras; Mrs Coyle in Britten Owen Wingrave for Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy; Donna Anna Don Giovanni and Berta The Barber of Seville for ENO; First Lady Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne on Tour and most recently, a concert performance of Maxwell Davies’ opera The Hogboon with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle.

Katherine made her BBC Proms debut in 2007 singing Woglinde with the BBC SO and Donald Runnicles, returning the following year to sing Young Lover in Puccini Il Tabarro with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Other concerts have included appearances with the UK’s leading Symphony Orchestras, repertoire including Mahler Symphonies 2, 4 and 8; Britten War Requiem;  Zemlinsky Waldgespräch; Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony and Sinfonia Antartica; Honegger Joan of Arc; Verdi Requiem; Brahms Requiem;  Dvořák Stabat Mater, Te Deum and Requiem; Bruckner Mass No 3; Rossini Stabat Mater and Berlioz Les nuits d’été.  Elsewhere, she has appeared with the Polish National Radio SO; National Orchestra of Spain; has sung Mahler Symphony No 4 and Poulenc Gloria with the Singapore SO; Strauss Vier letzte Lieder with the Queensland SO and Britten Spring Symphony in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

Katherine enjoys a successful recital career, appearing at Opéra de Lille, Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival, Bath Mozartfest, Leeds Lieder as well as regular BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.  She works frequently with pianists Simon Lepper, Malcolm Martineau, Eugene Asti, James Bailleau and Joseph Middleton.

A busy recording schedule and a growing discography includes repertoire such as  Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony – Mark Elder (Hallé); Mendelssohn Lieder – Eugene Asti (Hyperion); Britten Songs – Malcolm Martineau (Onyx Classics); Turn of the Screw – Farnes (LSO Live); Walküre and Götterdämmerung – Mark Elder (Hallé); Schumann Lieder – Graham Johnson (Hyperion);  Mussorgsky Songs – Sergei Rybin (Stone Records) and Songs for the Turn of a Century Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg Lieder – Malcolm Martineau (Champs Hill).