“Katie has an impressive instrument with great strength and beauty. She is an elegant performer who commands the stage. I believe a voice like hers has the potential to go on and tackle the great roles of Wagner and Strauss. This scholarship was devised by Elizabeth Connell to nurture and encourage voices just like Katie’s therefore we are delighted to have discovered this remarkable young artist.”
So wrote Fiona Janes, Judge and Trustee of the Elizabeth Connell Prize, of Katie Lowe, Winner of the 2017 International Singing Competition for Dramatic Sopranos.
Katie Lowe studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal College of Music and the Wales International Academy of Voice, returning to the RNCM to complete the International Artist Diploma Course studying with Susan Roper, supported by the Sir John Fisher Foundation. She continues to work with both Susan Roper and Philip Thomas.
A Samling Scholar, her awards further include a Josephine Baker Trust Award a Countess of Munster Award, the Sybil Tutton Award MBF, the Ian Fleming MB, the Robin Kay Memorial Prize, a Dennis O’Neill Foundation Award and an Independent Opera Postgraduate Voice Fellowship.
At the RNCM, her roles included Anna Maurrant Street Scene. Since graduating, her engagements have included covering The Foreign Princess Rusalka for English National Opera, the title role in Tosca for Scottish Opera and Helmwige Die Walküre for the Royal Opera, London, as well as Brünnhilde in Act 3 of Götterdämmerung for The Mastersingers conducted by Anthony Legge.
Roles of current interest include Leonore Fidelio, Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw, Ariadne Ariadne auf Naxos, Chrysothemis Elektra, Gutrune Götterdämmerung, Elsa Lohengrin, Freia Das Rheingold and Elisabeth Tannhäuser.
Her concert repertoire includes Beethoven Ah! Perfido, Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9, Dvorak Requiem and Stabat Mater, Elgar The Kingdom and Wagner Wesendonck Lieder.
Current engagements include Helmwige Die Walküre and Third Norn Götterdämmerung for Longborough Festival Opera.
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