Australian-born Katharine Tier graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium in 2003, studying voice with Rowena Cowley and subsequently enrolled in the Diploma of Opera course.
She has recently returned from the 2006 Merola Program Summer School at San Francisco Opera, and in 2007 she will join San Francisco Opera's Adler Young Artist Program. Her awards include the prestigious Marianne Mathy Scholarship at the 2002 Australian Singing Competition, the 2004 Barilla Opera Award for study at the Rome Opera Company, and the 2006 Vocal Workshop Award from the Neue Stimmen (New Voices) international singing competition in Germany.
Her operatic repertoire includes roles in Les Contes d'Hoffman, iI Matrimonio Segreto, Cosi fan tutte, Vaughn-Williams' Riders to the Sea, Werthe, The Rape of Lucretia, La Rondine and the title roles in Tancredi and Carmen. Her concert performances include Puccini's La Rondine, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Israel in Egypt, 'Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and Donizetti's La Favorite, and Ravels L'Enfant et les Sortileges. She has given recitals for the National Lieder Society and the Joan Sutherland Society, and completed her first recording of a new oratorio, Hallel for our Times, by Shelley Olsen./ Profile |
