Katherine Broderick was born in Oldham in
1982. She recently completed a Masters degree, gaining a distinction at
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is currently in her second
year on the Opera Course under the tutelage of Susan Mc Culloch. Her musical
training began at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School in
her home city of Manchester. Katherine went on to study for her first
degree at the RNCM studying with Sarah Castle and Honor Sheppard. Her
third undergraduate year was spent at the Mendelssohn Hochschule in Leipzig
as a student of Frau Prof. Dr. Jeanette Favaro-Reuter on the Socrates/Erasmus
exchange program. On completing her studies at the RNCM she was awarded
the Clare Crozier Prize for French Song and the Bessie Cronshaw Prize
for her performance of Schoenberg’s Brettl Lieder.
Musical
experience includes Countess in Le nozze di Figaro (GSMD),
Tatyana in Eugene Onegin (BYO), Georgetta in Il Tabarro
(GSMD), Countess Dunmow in The Dinner Engagement (GSMD)
the title role in Suor Angellica (Leipzig), Agatha in Der
Freischutz (Gewandhaus Leipzig excerpt), Marchallin in Der
Rosenkavalier (GSMD excerpt), Musetta in La bohème
for Beaufort Opera (Minack Theatre), Dido in Dido and Aeneas
(GSMD), Serenade to Music (Wigmore Hall with Paul Kildea and
the ECO) and a Songmaker’s Almanac recital for the Kodaly Foundation.
Katherine was one of the first and youngest recipients of the Susan
Chilcott Award in 2005 and is the Maggie Teyte Prize winner 2006. She
is a Samling scholar and was a member of the Britten Pears Young Artist
Programme where she took part in masterclasses at Snape Maltings with
Roger Vignoles. She returned this easter to work with the Vladimir Jurowsky
and the LPO on Britten’s Les Illuminations. Recent concert
work includes Mahler’s 2nd Symphony with the RLPO and
Handel’s Messiah with the CBSO. Katherine regularly performs
in recital, most recently in Oxford, Bristol, the Barbican and the Royal
Opera House. She made her Wigmore Hall recital debut last year with
pianist Jonathan Beatty.
Future
engagements include Woglinde in Götterdämmerung for
the BBC PROMS, a recording of Schumann Lieder with Graham Johnson for
the Hyperion label, Gräfin in Capriccio (GSMD), a recital
of the complete Duparc songs in Venelles, Lady Billows in Albert
Herring (BYO) and a recital at the Bridgewater Hall. Katherine
is grateful to have been awarded two successive Maidment Scholarships
and a Sybill Tutton award administered by the Musicians’ Benevolent
Fund.
Katherine won the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2007 and the GSMD Gold Medal.
