Katherine is a soprano from Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated from the Opera Course at Guildhall in 2021 and completed a Fellowship the following year. She was an Emerging Artist with New Zealand Opera, a member of the inaugural Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Singer Development Programme, and a Britten-Pears Young Artist. Since moving to the UK, she has performed with English Touring Opera, Garsington, and Glyndebourne, and at the Barbican, Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings, Sadler’s Wells, and live for BBC Radio 3. Katherine holds an Artist Diploma and a Master of Performance with Distinction from the Guildhall, and a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the New Zealand School of Music.

In 2023, Katherine performed the title role in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia with English Touring Opera, as well as stepping in for Delia in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims. In 2022, she performed with If Opera in their inaugural season singing Susanna in Il segreto di Susanna, the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, and covering Magda in La rondine. She has also covered Musetta La bohème for English Touring Opera, and during her time at the Guildhall performed Barbarina The Little Green Swallow, Susanna Il segreto di Susanna, La principessa La bella dormente nel bosco, and Judith Weir’s solo unaccompanied opera King Harald’s Saga. Other roles include the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with Les Azuriales Opera in Nice, the Governess The Turn of the Screw at the Barnes Music Festival, Amelia in the première of TIDE at the Aldeburgh Festival, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte with Bloomsbury Opera, Tatyana Eugene Onegin and Giulietta I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Days Bay Opera in New Zealand. Katherine is passionate about new opera and opera for children, recently performing in ETO’s Zoo! and New Zealand Opera’s Red!. Most recently, Katherine performed Poulenc’s one-woman opera La voix humaine with Green Opera and was a Finalist for an Offie Award for this role.