CATHERINE KING
She has performed with many of the UK’s leading ensembles and orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music, Florilegium, Fretwork, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gothic Voices, London Baroque, the Nash Ensemble, the New London Consort, the Northern Sinfonia, the Royal Philharmonic and the Taverner Consort. She also makes regular appearances at the Aldeburgh, Bruges Early Music, Edinburgh, Lufthansa and Three Choirs Festivals.
Catherine King’s recordings include Bach Arias with the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, the award winning Airs de cour, Vizzana Componimenti musicali and Verdelot The Complete Madrigal Book of 1536 (Linn), Dowland Lachrimae (Naxos), Judas Maccabaeus from the Maulbronn Festival (K & K), Andrew Keelings’s Sad Steps – New Settings of Renaissance Poems (Riverrun), Milán – Songs and Solos and Mudarra – Songs and Solos (ASV) and Tomkins – Above the Starrs (Harmonia Mundi).
Recent highlights have included the B Minor Mass with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the St John Passion at the Bath Bach Festival, The Dream of Gerontius in Warsaw, Messiah with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Vitige / Flavio with the Early Opera Company, Alisa / Lucia di Lammermoor for Iford Arts, Ernesto / Il mondo della luna for Opera Della Luna and the Verdi Requiem with the CBSO.
Her current engagements include La Speranza L’Orfeo for the English Bach Festival, The Fairy Queen for the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Filipyevna Eugene Onegin for Longborough Festival Opera, Elgar Coronation Ode with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Messiah for the Hallé Orchestra, and the Oxford Philomusica, Respighi Il tramonto with the Israel Camerata and Verdi Requiem in Worcester Cathedral, as well as programmes with Gothic Voices, the Rose Consort of Viols, Trinity Baroque and Virelai. Her new recording for Avie Forgotten Arias of a Venetian Master was chosen as a GRAMAPHONE CD of the Month for January 2007.
