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Winner of the Ysgoloriaeth W. Towyn Roberts at the National Eisteddfod 2006, Katherine Allen read Music and English at Cardiff University, before furthering her studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Her other awards include the Laura Ashley Award, Llais Llwyfan Lambed, Sir Geraint Evans Prize, the Michael Head Prize for English Song and the MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of the Year Award. She has participated in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, studying Brahms and Schumann Songs with Robert Holl, the Wexford Festival Opera Artists’ Development Programme with Dennis O’Neill and the Sommer Lied Weinberg with Roger Vignoles. Katherine Allen has also undertaken masterclasses with Sally Burgess, Mary King, Gillian Knight, Ann Murray, Malcolm Martineau, Udo Reinemann, Robert Tear and Jeremy Huw Williams.

Recent engagements have included Essential Scottish Opera on tour, Second Lady Die Zauberflöte for the Oxford Philomusica, Suzuki Madame Butterfly (Cover) and Annina Der Rosenkavalier (Cover) for Scottish Opera, the C.P.E. Bach Magnificat for the Ten Tors Orchestra, the Christmas Oratorio in Chichester Cathedral, the Duruflé Requiem at the Harlton Festival, Messiah in Llandaff Cathedral, the Harmonie-Messe at the St Germans Festival, the Paukenmesse at Dartington Hall, the Maria-Theresa Mass at Birmingham Cathedral and Dido Dido and Aeneas at the Petersfield Festival, as well as recitals in the Crush Bar of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at the Aberystwyth Music Fest, the Swansea Festival and at the Wales Millennium Centre. Her broadcasts include In Tune for BBC Radio 3.

Her current engagements include Tisbe La cenerentola and Flora La traviata for Scottish Opera (for whom she will also cover Meg Page Falstaff), Wellgunde Das Rheingold for Longborough Festival Opera, the St John Passion at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, and Messiah for Raymond Gubbay Ltd at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

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