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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. 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. She has also undertaken masterclasses with Sally Burgess, Mary King, Gillian Knight, Ann Murray, Malcolm Martineau, Udo Reinemann and Robert Tear.

Recent engagements have included Essential Scottish Opera on tour, Second Lady Die Zauberflöte for the Oxford Philomusica, Tisbe La cenerentola for Scottish Opera Go Round and Scottish Opera On Tour, Wellgunde Das Rheingold for Longborough Festival Opera,the C.P.E. Bach Magnificat for the Ten Tors Orchestra, the Christmas Oratorio in Chichester Cathedral, the St John Passion at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, the Harmonie-Messe at the St Germans Festival, the Paukenmesse at Dartington Hall and Dido Dido and Aeneas at the Petersfield Festival, as well as recitals in the Crush Bar of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and at the Aberystwyth Music Fest, the Swansea Festival and the Wales Millennium Centre. Her broadcasts include In Tune for BBC Radio 3. For Scottish Opera, she has also covered Suzuki Madama Butterfly, Annina Der Rosenkavalier and Meg Page Falstaff.

Her current engagements include The Sandman / Hansel and Gretel for Opera Holland Park, Cherubino / The Marriage of Figaro for Mid Wales Opera, Tisbe / La cenerentola for Scottish Opera at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Olga / Eugene Onegin for Iford Arts, Flora / La traviata for Scottish Opera, Messiah for Raymond Gubbay at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, and a recording of Cecilia McDowall’s Laudate with the Orchestra Nova conducted by George Vass for Dutton CD.

www.katherineallen.net

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