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Kate completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal College
of Music in July 2006 having also obtained her BMus(Hons) degree
as a Scholar from RCM. She now studies with Kathleen Livingstone.
Kate gave her professional operatic debut as a member of Carl
Rosa Opera Company, in their revival production of Die Fledermaus
and has recently worked with Raymond Gubbay Opera Company in
their production of Madame Butterfly at the Royal Albert
Hall.
Kate made her first festival appearance singing Weber’s
Mass in Eb under Brian Kay and recently appeared as
a soloist for Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass
for Peace at the Royal Festival Hall. Other solo oratorio
performances have included Handel’s Messiah and
Solomon, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Magnificat,
Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle, Vaughan William’s
Mass in G Minor, and Mozart’s Requiem.
Her operatic roles have included scenes at RCM playing ‘Dorabella’
from Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, ‘Cherubino’
from Mozart’s Le nozze di figaro, ‘Annio’
from Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito, ‘Diana’
from Cavalli’s La Calisto and ‘Fidalma’
from Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto. She has
performed in Masterclasses with Roger Vignoles, Ashley Stafford
and Sarah Walker and has sung at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre
for the National Youth Ballet Company. She was selected to represent
RCM at the Junior Kathleen Ferrier Award in Blackburn and recorded
for Howard Goodall’s television documentary ‘Great
Dates’. She has given recitals at several venues in London
and has made festival appearances at Sophie's Silver Lining
Music Festival, Oxfordshire; and the Leith Hill Music Festival,
Surrey.
Forthcoming performances include second bridesmaid in Mozart’s
Le nozze di figaro with the Classical Opera Company
both in the UK and Italy and chorus member in Puccini’s
Tosca with Raymond Gubbay Opera Company at the Roual
Albert Hall.
Kate is a former member of the National Youth Choir and Chamber
Choir of Great Britain where she was section leader, both directed
by Michael Brewer OBE and has travelled worldwide as a member
of the choir and a soloist. She has also sung with the Academy
of St. Martin-in-the-Field, with the RCM Chamber Choir, the
RCM Chorus and the Exon Singers.
Kate is most generously supported by the Derek Butler Trust.
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