BIOGRAPHY
Kate is currently involved in a major recording project as well as a TV documentary project
March - Brahms Requiem, Soprano Soloist for St Paul’s Knightsbridge Festival Choir
March - Mozart Coronation Mass, soprano soloist for Carshalton Choral Society (Surrey)
May – Recording BBC documentary soundtrack
June – Filming a series of Opera reviews for the new Opus Arte website
July – series of solo recitals in St Paul’s Church, Chelsea
July – Opera Holland Park Chorus, Carmen
September – private gala event in Lake Como, Soloist (to sing a recital of Italian Arias)
Christmas - Solomon, Soprano soloist for St Paul’s Knightsbridge
Autumn - Soprano Soloist in UK touring stage show by Goldie
PAST ENGAGEMENTS
Oratorio;
Soprano soloist:
Faure Requiem; Durufle Requiem; Brahms Requiem; Mozart Requiem; Handel Messiah; Haydn Harmonimesse; Bach Magnificat; Handel Joshua; Handel Samson; Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Vivaldi Gloria; Mozart C Minor Mass; Mozart Coronation Mass; Handel Nelson Mass; Mendelssohn Psalm 42
Opera roles:
Puccini La Boheme Mimi or Musetta; Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Susannah; Handel Guilio Cesare Cleopatra; Mozart The Magic Flute Pamina; Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte Despina; Handel Alcina Morgana; Mozart La Clemenza di Tito Servilia; Johann Strass Die Fledermaus Adele; Puccini Turandot Liu; Mozart Don Giovanni Zerlina; Mozart Idomeneo Ilia; Lehar The Merry Widow Hanna; Montiverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea Poppea; Donizetti L’Elisir d’Amore Adina; Handel Rinaldo Almirena; Gilbert and Sullivan Trial by Jury Plaintiff; Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana Santuzza, Sondheim A Little Night Music The Countess
Television/Radio/Commercial:
British Airways TV commercial Australia 2006, BBC radio 2 Christmas service 2004, Australian TV airing of Haydn Harmonimesse 2005. BBC documentary soundtrack ‘the Seven Ages of Britain’, National Anthems at Ajax and Upton park stadiums.
Corporate performances Private recital for Madonna in the London home, Milan Fashion Week singing during the Luisa Beccaria show, Gala events for Bulgari in Dubai, Taj hotels in Mumbai, HSBC and Swarovski in Gstaad, Lawrence Delaglio in London, the Prime Minister and Boris Johnson at the Ritz in London and more with Opera Quartet Passionata.
Training:
Downe House School - music scholar
Oundle School – music scholar, Voice studies with Rita Cullis
University of Leeds – BA Music degree, head of chamber choir, Leeds Youth Opera, Soloist with Leeds Symphony Orchestra, Studied with Paul Wade (WNO, Opera North)
Leeds College of Music – Opera course completed
Sydney (2006/7): Opera course with the Conservatory in Sydney, Solo performances with Cantillation, North Sydney Opera, The Renaissance Players, solo recitals, soloist St Mary’s Cathedral
Teachers include Pippa Dames-Longworth, Paul Wade, Rita Cullis and Emma Kirkby.
Currently with Arlene Randazzo
Performances include a number of concerts organised to raise money for various charity organisations in the
UK as well as corporate and private events
Kate's repertoire ranges broadly from folksong, early music, church music to opera and more popular pieces
Kate has sung at private request of celebrities including Madonna
