Biography - Kate Corrigan - Mezzo Soprano

Kate Corrigan completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in July 2006 having also obtained her BMus(Hons) degree as a Scholar from RCM. She now studies with Kathleen Livingstone.  Kate gave her professional operatic debut as a member of Carl Rosa Opera Company, in their revival production of  Die Fledermaus and has recently appeared as second bridesmaid in Mozart’s Le nozze di figaro with the Classical Opera Company both in the UK and Italy and worked with Raymond Gubbay Opera Company in their production of  Madame Butterfly at the Royal Albert Hall.

Kate made her first festival appearance singing Weber’s Mass in Eb under Brian Kay and recently appeared as a soloist for Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace at the Royal Festival Hall. Other solo oratorio performances have included Handel’s Messiah and Solomon, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Magnificat, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle, Vaughan William’s Mass in G Minor, and Mozart’s Requiem. Her operatic roles have included scenes at RCM playing ‘Dorabella’ from Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, ‘Cherubino’ from Mozart’s Le nozze di figaro, ‘Annio’ from Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito, ‘Diana’ from Cavalli’s La Calisto and ‘Fidalma’ from Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto. She has performed in Masterclasses with Roger Vignoles, Ashley Stafford and Sarah Walker and has sung at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre for the National Youth Ballet Company. She was selected to represent RCM at the Junior Kathleen Ferrier Award in Blackburn and recorded for Howard Goodall’s television documentary ‘Great Dates’. She has given recitals at several venues in London and has made festival appearances at Sophie's Silver Lining Music Festival, Oxfordshire; and  the Leith Hill Music Festival, Surrey.

Forthcoming performances include chorus member in Puccini’s Tosca with Raymond Gubbay Opera Company at the Royal Albert Hall.

Kate is a former member of the National Youth Choir and Chamber Choir of Great Britain where she was section leader, both directed by Michael Brewer OBE and has travelled worldwide as a member of the choir and a soloist. She has also sung with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Field, with the RCM Chamber Choir, the RCM Chorus and the Exon Singers.

Kate is most generously supported by the Derek Butler Trust.