Kathryn Whitney

Following the completion of her DPhil in music at Somerville College, Oxford in 2000, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Whitney took a post-graduate diploma in singing performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where her teachers were Susan McCulloch and Emma Kirbky. In October 2002, Kathryn was elected Creative Arts Fellow in Music at Wolfson College, Oxford, a position that requires her to perform a number of solo concerts in Oxford each year until 2005. Kathryn is the recipient of a number of scholarships and awards, including the Postgraduate Arts Award from the Worshipful Company of Drapers of London and the Margaret Pollock Scholarship from Somerville College, which supported her singing studies in London.

Kathryn has appeared with numerous orchestras, ensembles and opera companies and is a regular recitalist both in the UK and abroad. Operatic roles include the Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), La maestra delle Novizie (Suor Angelica) Dido and the Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) and the title roles in Handel's Rinaldo and Ariodante, which she has performed in excerpts.

Future engagements include return appearances at the Balliol College Music Society Concerts in Oxford, a début concert at St John's Smith Square in London, a final series of Creative Arts Fellow Concerts at Wolfson College, Oxford, and two concert tours -- one of Vancouver Island in Canada and the other (with assistance from the Arts Council) of rural venues in England.