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Katharine Fuge grew up on the Channel Island of Jersey, and moved to London to study music at City University. She excels in the music of J. S. Bach, performing the B Minor Mass at the BBC Proms with the English Baroque Soloists, Cantatas with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and the Ricercar Consort, the Christmas Oratorio with the Århus Symphony Orchestra, Jauchzet Gott with the Akademie für Alte Musik, the St John Passion with the Gabrieli Consort & Players and the St Matthew Passion with the Netherlands Bach Society and the North Netherlands Orchestra. Other highlights have included Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Grieg’s Peer Gynt with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Handel’s Athalia at the Göttingen Festival, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra and Belshazzar with the Akademie für Alte Musik, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at the Tage Alter Musik, Regensburg and with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, the Monteverdi Vespers 1610 with Collegium Vocale Gent and Currende, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bach Choir, Poulenc’s Gloria with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Belinda Dido and Aeneas in the Far East and A Rameau Spectacular at the BBC Proms. Conductors with whom she has worked include Frieder Bernius, Harry Christophers, Marcus Creed, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, David Hill, Ton Koopman, Paul McCreesh, Erik van Nevel, Sir Roger Norrington, Philippe Pierlot, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Daniel Reuss and David Stern.

Her recordings include assorted Cantatas from Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage on DG Archiv and SDG, Bach Cantatas with Philippe Pierlot and the Ricercar Consort for Mirare (GRAMOPHONE Editor’s Choice for September 2007), Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi’s Gloria for Philips Classics and Messiah with Musica Florea Prague for Feldgen.

Her recordings include assorted Cantatas from Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage on DG Archiv and SDG, Bach Cantatas with Philippe Pierlot and the Ricercar Consort for Mirare (GRAMOPHONE Editor’s Choice for September 2007), Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi’s Gloria for Philips Classics and Messiah with Musica Florea Prague for Feldgen. Current engagements include La Folle Journée on tour with the Ricercar Consort, Bach Cantatas with the Collegium Vocale of Gent, the St John Passion with Le Concert Lorrain and at the BBC Proms with the Monteverdi Choir, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Messiah and the Mozart Requiem with the North Netherlands Orchestra, Haydn Harmonie-Messe with the French Radio Orchestra, conducted by Ton Koopman, Elijah with the Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, and the première of Carl Rütti’s Requiem with the Bach Choir conducted by David Hill.

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