Katharine Fuge (Soprano) - Short Biography

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Katharine Fuge (Soprano)
Born: England
The English soprano, Katharine Fuge, grew up in Jersey, then moved to London to study music, first at The City University and later at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Katharine Fuge’s increasingly busy and varied schedule includes singing with professional ensembles such as the Gabrieli Consort, the Monteverdi Choir and as a soloist in major concert venues, cathedrals and festivals throughout Britain and Europe. She appears with many period performance ensembles in the UK. Throughout 2000 she was a regular soloist in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner in venues throughout Europe and New York. In April 2001 she performed Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) across Holland with De Nederlandse BachVereniging. Other highlights include works by Händel and Zelenka with Collegium Vocale Gent, Händel Belshazzar with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Händel’s Athalia with Frieder Bernius and Kammerchor Stuttgart in Ghent and Göttingen, and others. Katharine Fuge has performed in such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall. She has performed with many of England’s leading orchestras, including Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and London’s Mozart Players. Katharine Fuge’s recordings include Bach Cantatas, Vivaldi Gloria and Händel's Dixit Dominus with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sacred Voices with Harry Bicket, and a recording of Christmas music with the Monteverdi Choir, and Dvorak’s Mass in D.

Source: The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage brochure (December 2000); Programme notes to a concert of The Israel Camerata (June 2002) Contributed by Galina Kolomietz (May 2001) Website & Aryeh Oron (August 2002)
Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Conductor	As	Works
Michael Brewer	Soprano	BWV 244 [sung in English]
John Eliot Gardiner	Soprano	BWV 94, BWV 98, BWV 105, BWV 133, BWV 139, BWV 168 BCP: BWV 8, BWV 27, BWV 69a, BWV 85, BWV 86, BWV 91, BWV 95, BWV 97, BWV 112, BWV 121, BWV 122, BWV 133, BWV 137
Philippe Pierlot	Soprano	BWV 18, BWV 106, BWV 150, BWV 198, BWV 234 [w/ Ricercar Consort]
Links to other Sites
Soloists of the season 2001/2002: Katharine Fuge Katharine Fuge (City Choir)			Katharine Fuge [French]

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