Katie Coventry

Enjoy a morning recital in the beautiful setting of St John's Kirk with Scottish Mezzo Soprano Katie Coventry.

Katie is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera School where she studied with Tim Evans-Jones as an Independent Opera Voice Scholar. She is currently performing at the Salzburger Landestheater, where the 2018/19 season will see her perform Rosette Manon, Doralice La Gazzetta, Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina Don Giovanni and in Philip Glass's The Trial. 

An English National Opera Harewood Artist, Katie made her début there as Cherubino, and at the Teatro Real, Madrid, as Jennie Hildebrand in Street Scene.

She has also performed with the Camerata Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festival Opera and has wide-ranging concert platform experience. Katie was a finalist for the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition, the winner of the 2017 Joaninha Award, and is also an Independent Opera Voice Fellow. 

Katie will be accompanied by Paul McKenzie for her Festival recital.

Programme 

Meyerbeer,  Nobles seigneurs, salut! from Les Huguenots

Maurice Ravel, Histoires Naturelles

     Jules Renard

         I. Le Paon

         II. Le Grillon

         III. Le Cyne

         IV. Le Martin-pêcheur

         V. Le Pintade

Joseph Horovitz, Lady Macbeth: A Scena

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Songs of Travel

     Robert Louis Stevenson

         II. Let Beauty Awake

         III. The Roadside Fire

         IV. Youth and Love

         V. In Dreams

         VI. The Infinite Shining Heavens

         VII. Whither must I Wander

         VIII. Bright is the Ring of Words