Katharine Fuge

Katharine grew up on the Channel Island of Jersey, and moved to London to study music at City University. She excels in the music of J. S. Bach, performing the B Minor Mass with the English Baroque Soloists, Cantatas with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and the Ricercar Consort, the Christmas Oratorio with the Århus Symphony Orchestra, Jauchzet Gott with the Akademie für Alte Musik, the St John Passion with Le Concert Lorrain and the Gabrieli Consort & Players and the St Matthew Passion with the Netherlands Bach Society and the North Netherlands Orchestra.

Other highlights have included Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Grieg’s Peer Gynt with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Athalia at the Göttingen Festival, Belshazzar and Elijah with the Akademie für Alte Musik, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, Messiah and the Mozart Requiem with the North Netherlands Orchestra, Die Schöpfung at the Tage Alter Musik, Regensburg and with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, Monteverdi Vespers 1610 with Collegium Vocale Gent and Currende, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Carmina Burana with the Bach Choir, Poulenc’s Gloria with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and A Rameau Spectacular at the BBC Proms. Conductors with whom she has worked include Frieder Bernius, Harry Christophers, Marcus Creed, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, David Hill, Ton Koopman, Paul McCreesh, Erik van Nevel, Sir Roger Norrington, Philippe Pierlot, Hans-Christoph Rademann and Daniel Reuss.

Her recordings include assorted Cantatas from Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage on DG Archiv and SDG, Bach Cantatas with Philippe Pierlot and the Ricercar Consort for Mirare (GRAMOPHONE Editor’s Choice for September 2007), Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi’s Gloria for Philips Classics and Messiah with Musica Florea Prague for Feldgen.

She recently made her debut at the Newbury Festival and returned to the Edinburgh Festival in programmes with Concerto Caledonia and the Ricercar Consort. Engagements in 2009 / 2010 include Bach Cantatas with Musica Saeculorum in Bolzano and Merano, the Christmas Oratorio with the Real Filharmonia de Galicia, the St Matthew Passion and Pergolesi Stabat Mater with the North Netherlands Orchestra, the St Matthew Passion at King’s College, Cambridge, Israel in Egypt with Arsys Bourgogne, Handel Laudate Pueri with the Orchestra of the Swan, Die Schöpfung with the English Baroque Soloists and the Mozart Requiem with the Academy of Ancient Music and the City of London Sinfonia. She also appeared at the Opening Concert of the 2009 EARLYMUSIC Festival, St Petersburg.