Professional mezzo soprano vocalist and wedding singer. Contact Kate here or tel: 07786 835203
Biography
Kate Woolveridge Biography
Kate is an accomplished soloist who has made her name on the operatic and concert platform. During her career she has worked extensively with the Welsh National Opera as well as Glyndebourne, English National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and Swansea City Opera. She has recently worked with the welsh poet laureate, Gwyneth Lewis on a new commission for Welsh national opera in which she took the lead role.
She has won numerous awards and has given literally hundreds of concerts and recitals across the UK and worked in the majority of the countries concert halls and Cathedrals including the Wigmore Hall, Festival Hall and Purcell rooms and her versatility and engaging personality ensures that she remains one of wales most popular concert artists.
Last year saw her perform at the Cheltenham Festival, Llandaff, Coventry and Worcester Cathedrals as well as two occasions at St David's Hall, Cardiff and this year at the LLangollen music festival, performing the Verdi Requiem with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at their new home in Cardiff bay, joining the Bristol Choral society at the Colston Hall and singing on the Orient Express as it journeys across the country.She was also fortunate to give a concert at the Kennedy centre in Washington and to join Richard Baker for his Music Festivals at Sea.
Kate has more recently made a name as a vocal animateur and choral conductor and has run many of community singing projects involving adults and children for Welsh National Opera. This year she conducted the first Welsh performance of On The Rim Of The World, new work by Orlando Gough commissioned by the Uk’s National Opera Companies. She was once more a tutor for the National youth choir of Wales this summer. She has recently returned from Washington where she ran workshops on Welsh folksong at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Above: Kate with The Band of the Welsh Guards, The Welsh Association of Male Choirs conducted by Alun John MBE and Bryan Davis