Kate Woolveridge
Kate is an accomplished soloist who has made her name on the
operatic and concert platform. During her career she has worked
extensively with the Welsh National Opera as well as Glyndebourne,
English National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and Swansea City
Opera. She has recently taken the lead in two new commissions for
welsh national Opera working with the Welsh poet laureate, Gwyneth
Lewis and the composer, Mervyn Burtch.
She has won numerous awards and has given literally hundreds of
concerts and recitals across Great Britain and worked in the
majority of the UK’s concert halls and Cathedrals including the
Wigmore Hall, Festival Hall and Purcell rooms, St David’s Hall,
Cardiff, the Colston Hall, Bristol and the Kennedy Centre,
Washington D.C. She has also been a guest at the Music Festivals of
Llangollen, Cheltenham and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. Her
versatility and engaging personality ensures that she remains one
of Wales’ most popular concert artists.
Kate has more recently made a name as a vocal animateur and
choral conductor and has run many community singing projects
involving adults and children for Welsh National Opera. This year
she will conduct a new work for Welsh National Opera’s community
choir and join The Royal Opera House and Opera Holland Park as a
vocal animateur. She has given workshops in singing across the U.K
and has worked with the women in Holloway prison and is currently
setting up a male voice choir in the biggest male prison in
Wales.