KATHARINE FUGE
Katharine Fuge grew up on the Channel Island of Jersey, and moved to London to study music at City University. As a respected and versatile performer, she now has a busy and varied schedule appearing regularly in major festivals, concert venues and cathedrals across Europe and worldwide. She has a well-established reputation as a performer of great integrity and sensitivity, with a special feeling for text and language in both concert and recital.
She excels in the music of J. S. Bach, performing the B Minor Mass at the BBC Proms with the English Baroque Soloists, Cantatas with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and the Ricercar Consort, the Christmas Oratorio with the Århus Symphony Orchestra, Jauchzet Gott with the Akademie für Alte Musik, the St John Passion with the Gabrieli Consort & Players and the St Matthew Passion with the Netherlands Bach Society. Other highlights have included Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Grieg’s Peer Gynt with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Handel’s Athalia at the Göttingen Festival, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra and Belshazzar with the Akademie für Alte Musik, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at the Tage Alter Musik, Regensburg, the Monteverdi Vespers 1610 with Collegium Vocale Gent, and Currende, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bach Choir, Poulenc’s Gloria with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Belinda Dido and Aeneas in the Far East. Conductors with whom she has worked include Frieder Bernius, Harry Christophers, Marcus Creed, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, David Hill, Ton Koopman, Paul McCreesh, Erik van Nevel, Philippe Pierlot, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Daniel Reuss and David Stern.
Her recordings include assorted Cantatas from Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage on DG Archiv and SDG, Bach Cantatas with Philippe Pierlot and the Ricercar Consort for Mirare (GRAMOPHONE Editor’s Choice for September 2007), Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi’s Gloria for Philips Classics and Messiah with Musica Florea Prague for Feldgen.
Current engagements include Bach Actus Tragicus with the Ricercar Consort, the St John Passion with Le Concert Lorrain, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem on tour with Dietrich Henschel and the English Barqoue Soloists conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Die Schöpfung at the Edinburgh Festival with Ian Bostridge, Matthew Rose and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 with Collegium Vocale Gent, A Rameau Spectacular at the BBC Proms and the première of Carl Rütti’s Requiem with the Bach Choir.
