Artists

Katherine recently returned to Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier for Ariadne Ariadne auf Naxos, made her debut at Opéra national de Paris with Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia and gave recitals of Schubert Winterreise at the Oxford Lieder and Leeds Lieder festivals with Kathryn Stott and at Opera North with David Cowan. Recent highlights have included Leonore Fidelio for Garsington Opera in concert, which was recorded for BBC Radio 3, performing with Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier as Alice Ford in a filmed new production of Falstaff and Mahler Rückert-Lieder with the Ulster Orchestra. This season she sings excerpts from Wagner Götterdämmerung with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, the Verdi Requiem with the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier and gives recitals throughout the UK with Kathryn Stott.

Other highlights have included her highly successful debut with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra singing Brunnhilde Die Walküre with Jaap van Zweden, appearances with the Ulster Orchestra in Wesendonck Lieder conducted by Jac von Steen and the Oxford Lieder Festival with Sholto Kynoch as part of their successful ‘Tales of Beyond’ Festival.

For the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons Katherine was a member of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Ensemble where she sang Sieglinde Die Walküre, Adriana Adriana Lecouvreur and Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito. She has also sung Brünnhilde Siegfried for Oper Leipzig, Helmwige, Woglinde and Brünnhilde Siegfried in Opera North’s Ring Cycle; Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw for Garsington Opera and Mrs Coyle in Britten Owen Wingrave for Opéra national de Lorraine.

A committed concert singer, Katherine appears regularly with leading symphony orchestras in the UK and abroad and made her debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Sir Simon Rattle singing Helmwige Die Walküre. She has also sung Strauss Vier letzte Lieder with the Ulster Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León and Wagner Wesendonck Lieder at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

A busy recording schedule and a growing discography includes repertoire such as  Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung with Mark Elder and the Hallé; Mendelssohn Songs and Duets with Eugene Asti on Hyperion; Britten Songs with Malcolm Martineau for Onyx Classics; Schumann The Complete Songs with Graham Johnson on Hyperion;  Mussorgsky Songs and Romances with Sergey Rybin for Stone Records and Lieder for the Turn of a Century a recital disc of Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg with Malcolm Martineau for Champs Hill Records.