Katherine Broderick is the winner of the 2007 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She finished her studies at the National Opera Studio in London in 2008, having previously studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the Gold Medal, and the undergraduate course at the Royal Northern College of Music, during which time she spent a year at the Mendelssohn Hochschule in Leipzig. She studies with Susan McCulloch.
She has sung the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Agathe in Weber’s Der Freischütz in Leipzig, Georgetta in Puccini’s Il Tabarro, Countess Le Nozze di Figaro and Countess in Strauss’ Capriccio for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. For British Youth Opera she has sung Tatyana Eugene Onegin, which prompted Hilary Finch in The Times to write “Katherine Broderick - still only in her twenties - now confirms and expands her thrillingly burgeoning vocal skills in her formidable stage presence as a Tatyana of outstanding character and power.” and Lady Billows Albert Herring.
Recent concert appearances have included her Proms debut singing Woglinde Götterdämmerung with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Donald Runnicles in 2007, returning to the Proms in 2008 to sing the Young Lover Il Tabarro with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda; Mahler’s Symphony No 2 and Bruckner’s Te Deum as part of the Chester Festival with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under David Hill; Britten’s Les Illuminations with St George’s Orchestra at LSO St. Luke’s; Haydn The Seasons at the Aldeburgh Festival with Harry Bicket; Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony with the Munich Bach Choir and also with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Rossini Stabat Mater with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven Mass in C Minor with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. She regularly performs in recitals most recently at the Aldeburgh and Aix-en-Provence Festivals.
Katherine was one of the first and youngest recipient’s of the Susan Chilcott Award in 2005 and the following year won the Maggie Teyte Prize. She was a member of the Britten- Pears Young Artist Programme in 2005, taking part in a Lieder course with Roger Vignoles. Since then she has returned to Aldeburgh as an Alumna to sing the role of Eve in Haydn's Creation, conducted by Richard Egarr, featured in an Aldeburgh Festival masterclass with Anne Evans and taken part in a working rehearsal of Britten’s Les Illuminations with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski. Current and future plans include Beethoven 9 with Ivor Bolton and the Mozarteaum Orchestra, Mozart Requiem with Madrid Radio Symphony Orchestra and Takuo Yuasa, Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne on Tour; Bruckner Mass in F Minor with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jiri Belohlavek; her debut with the Halle Orchestra singing Woglinde Götterdämmerung with Mark Elder and recitals at Kings Place in London with Eugene Asti, at the Perth Concert Hall with Simon Lepper and at the Aldeburgh Festival with Malcolm Martineau.
Katherine has also been awarded successive Maidment Scholarships from the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, the Claire Francis award from the Ogden Trust, the Sybill Tutton award, and is a Samling scholar.
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