Katherine Bond
Katherine Bond (soprano) graduated from Cardiff University with First Class Honours in Music, and from the Royal Academy of Music Opera course with a DipRAM; she was supported by The Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Alfreda Hodgson Award for Young Concert Artists from Making Music. She studies with Noelle Barker and Clara Taylor and has participated in masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau, Robert Tear, Barbara Bonney, and Renée Fleming.
Solo concert appearances include Bach's Magnificat (Snape Maltings Concert Hall), Darlow's Music for Holy Week (première for the London Handel Festival), Mozart's Requiem (St Martin in the Fields and Dunblane Cathedral), and Scarlatti's Stabat Mater (St John's, Smith Square). For the Omaggio Festival (RA/South Bank) she performed Berio's Sequenza III in concert and on Radio 3's In Tune and she guests on the newly released Copland & his Contemporaries CD with the Choir of New College Oxford. Opera performances include Lucietta in Wolf-Ferrari's I quattri rusteghi, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Massenet's Cendrillon (all with RAO), as well as Aricie in Hippolyte et Aricie (Welsh National Youth Opera), Cis in Albert Herring (Britten-Pears Young Artists) and Genius in Der Stein der Weisen (Garsington Opera).
Katherine looks forward to performances of Handel's Acis & Galatea, Bach's Mass in B minor, and to taking the role of Rose in Delibes's Lakmé (Opera Holland Park).