Born in London, Kate Royal studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio. Her many awards include the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Award, the 2004 John Christie Award at Glyndebourne and the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Award as Best Newcomer.
Concert performances include Wagner’s Das Rheingold with Sir Simon Rattle (BBC Proms and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden), Mendelssohn’s Der Onkel aus Boston with the Bach Akademie Stuttgart under Helmut Rilling (also recorded), Mozart’s Zaide under Sir Charles Mackerras at the Edinburgh Festival and she made her US debut with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington) under Helmuth Rilling (Bach’s St Matthew Passion). She has appeared in recital in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels and Cologne and at the BBC Proms.
She has recorded Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Manchester Camerata and Schumann’s Liederkreis with Graham Johnson. In October 2006 Kate Royal signed an exclusive contract with EMI Classics.
In opera her engagements include Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) for the Glyndebourne Festival, Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) and Governess (The Turn of the Screw) for Glyndebourne on Tour, Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for both the Teatro Real, Madrid and the Glyndebourne Festival, Miranda (Ades’ The Tempest) for the Royal Opera, Countess Almaviva for the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the title-role in “The Coronation of Poppea” for English National Opera and Handel’s “L’Allegro” for the Paris Opera. She will sing Pamina for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Micaela (Carmen) for Glyndebourne.
Future concert engagements include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Rattle, the Berlin Philharmonic and Christie and her debut at the Salzburg Festival with Robin Ticciati. She will undertake her first recital tour of North America with appearances in New York, Atlanta, Vermont, Montreal, Vancouver and San Francisco.
Kate Royal is represented by
Askonas Holt artist management and is an exclusive recording artist with
EMI Classics
Hi, thanks for adding me! My husband played at your concert last thursday, I heard the concert over the radio.I liked it very much! Wonderful Queen Anne!
