Katja is one of the West Australian Opera
Company’s Young Artists for 2007, and sang the role of Eurydice
in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld in February this
year. She made her debut singing the role of the First Spirit in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and has also sung in the chorus of Mills’
Batavia, Gounod’s Faust, Bellini’s Norma,
Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Bizet’s Carmen and
Verdi’s Nabucco. Last year, Katja was thrilled to be able
to sing a duet with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa during her Perth concerts. She
also came second in the Opera Foundation of Australia’s 2006 New
York Study Award and was a finalist in the German Operatic Award and Barilla
Italian Opera Award.
Katja completed
her Bachelor of Science with a Diploma of Modern Languages in German
in 2001 and her Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts in Classical voice
at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2004. While completing
her first degree, she played principal roles in many theatrical performances
around Perth, including Cosette in Les
Miserables, Lily Craven in The Secret Garden, Eliza Doolittle
in My Fair Lady, as well as Julia in The Grand Duke,
Aline in The Sorcerer and Princess Zara in Utopia Ltd.
with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Katja has also appeared as Proserpina
in the Academy’s production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo,
Anna Maurrant in Weill’s Street Scene and Cunegonde in
Bernstein’s Candide, as well as singing excerpts from
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale , Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
Onegin and Verdi’s Rigoletto and Falstaff.
As a soloist,
Katja has sung with choirs in Perth and in Germany, as well as performing
recitals for the West Australian Lieder Society and Opera Lovers. Her
repertoire includes Faure’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat
in D, Christmas Oratorio and Mass in F, Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus and Gloria, Handel’s Messiah
and Acis and Galatea, Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation
Mass and Exsultate, Jubilate, Haydn’s Nelson
Mass, Dvorák’s Mass in D and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle.
