Kathryn made her professional opera debut with English National Opera at The London Coliseum in the role of Cherubino in Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro' to critical acclaim. She also became an English National Opera Young Artist. During January to March 2012 she will make her debut in the role of Sesto in Handel’s ‘Giulio Cesare’ with Opera North. Kathryn is currently represented by the Young Classical Artists’ Trust.

Studies: Born in 1986 in Liverpool, mezzo soprano Kathryn initially attended the Junior Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) where she studied voice and piano. Whilst at the Junior RNCM she won the Helen Latto Soroptomist’s prize (2003) for singing and Director’s prize (2004). At the age of 17 Kathryn entered a competition sponsored by the Rotary Club of Liverpool and BBC Radio Merseyside and won the title of “Merseyside Young Singer of the Year”.

On entrance to the RNCM as an undergraduate in 2004, Kathryn was the recipient of the Elsie Sykes Fellowship Award and an Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Undergraduate Scholarship. During her time at the RNCM, Kathryn studied with Susan Roper graduating in 2008 with 1st Class Bmus (Hons) and in 2009 achieving a PGDip (Dist.) in postgraduate opera studies. During 2011 she completed the RNCM International Artist Diploma scheme.

RNCM Awards: Kathryn's awards and prizes include The James Martin Oncken Song Prize (2005), The Alexander Young Prize (2006), The Amanda Roocroft Award (2008), Brigitte Fassbaender Award for Lieder (2009) and an Annie Ridyard Scholarship (2009&2010). In 2008 Kathryn was awarded the RNCM's prestigious Frederic Cox Award, and in 2009 the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Prize for the singing of Strauss.

National awards: In 2006 Kathryn represented the RNCM in the national “Kathleen Ferrier Young Singer’s Bursary Award” competition and won the Joyce Budd Prize. In 2007 she was awarded a Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Vocal Scholarship and a BBC Fame Academy Education Bursary. During 2008 Kathryn was the winner of the Bruce Millar/Gulliver Award for young opera singers in a national competition held at the RSAMD. In 2009 she was the winner of the Clonter Opera and Audience Prize and she was also awarded a Worshipful Company of Musicians' silver medal for excellence in performance. In 2010 Kathryn received the Worshipful Company of Musicians Allcard Award and The Musicians Benevolent fund Sybil Tutton Award.

During 2011 Kathryn won the Worshipful Company of Musicians Audience Prince’s Prize, The Joaninah Trust Award and she became a Samling Scholar and a Susan Chilcott (RPS) Scholar.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: Kathryn has had a longstanding relationship with the RLPO (her home town orchestra!) over the past years . She has performed with Conductor Carl Davis, CBE, and the RLPO in the Open Air Concerts held at Leeds Castle in Kent (2006) and at the Open Air Southport Summer Classics Concerts (2006&2007). She was also the guest soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with the RLPO and Conductor Carl Davis (2008). Kathryn has also performed with the RLPO under the baton of their Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko in a series of Grieg’s 'Peer Gynt' Concerts and at the Liverpool Echo Arena Opening Ceremony celebrating the City’s European Capital of Culture year (2008). Kathryn has also performed with the RLPO Ensemble 10/10 Luciano Berio's Folk Songs and Kenneth Hesketh's 'Small Tales, Tall Tales – A Grimm Sequence.'(2009). Last year Kathryn performed with the RLPO and conductor Vasily Petrenko as soloist for the Birkenhead School’s 150th Anniversary Grand Finale Concert and again with the RLPO and Conductor John Wilson in Vaughan Williams’ Five Tudor Portraits at the Chester Festival

Concert Performances: Other concert performances have included appearances with the Northern Chamber Orchestra Symphonia and the Liverpool Mozart Orchestra. She has also performed as a soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in the opening festivities at the Royal Festival Hall, London with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Paul Daniel, CBE. Kathryn has performed Mahler’s ‘Fahrenden Gesellen’ with the RNCM Chamber Orchestra and Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra. Other works performed include Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and The Armed Man. During 2010 Kathryn performed extracts from Mahler's 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul’s Church, Wimbledon.

During 2010 Kathryn performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra as a semi-finalist in the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Opera Prize competition which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2's "Friday Night is Music Night."

Opera (2011). In December 2010 Kathryn performed the title role in Bizet‘s 'Carmen' at the Royal Northern College of Music and in March 2011 she performed the role of Erika in Barber’s ‘Vanessa’.

Other roles performed for the RNCM include Olga in Tchaikovsky’s "Eugene Onegin" (2007) and Cherubino in Mozart’s "Le Nozze di Figaro" (2007). Her other RNCM stage performances include ‘La Cenerentola’, ‘La Rondine’, and ‘The Threepenny Opera’.

Masterclasses: Kathryn has participated in masterclasses with Sir Willard White, Jane Eaglen, Christine Rice, Rosalind Plowright, Robin Stapelton, Anne Howells and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. In November 2010 Kathryn participated in a public masterclass with Dame Ann Murray at Wigmore Hall, which marked the start of the Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme in collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Society. During 2011 Kathryn became a Samling Scholar and took part in Masterclasses given by John Mark Ainsley, Della Jones and Paul Farrington.

Future engagements: Future engagements include the role of Sesto in Opera North’s production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, a summer programme of recitals including venues such as Wigmore Hall, Vernon Ellis Recital ENO and the Cheltenham Festival, and a concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kathryn will also perform in the autumn of 2012 in role of Cherubino in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro for Glyndebourne Touring Opera.