Kathryn Rudge

Kathryn was born in Liverpool and studied at the RNCM. Featured as The Times Rising Star of Classical Music in 2012 she was an ENO Young Artist , a YCAT artist and a BBC New Generation artist. She has won numerous prizes and awards including MBF Sybil Tutton Award, Susan Chilcott Scholarship and is a Samling Scholar.

Recent and future concert engagements include performances with the RLPO, Dresden Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Manchester Camerata, Hamburg Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Rheinische Philharmonie, Britten Sinfonia under Sir Mark Elder, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Huddersfield Choral Society. She has sung in the world premiere of Nyman’s Hillsborough Symphony with the RLPO and has made recordings and given concerts with Opera Rara. She made her début as well at the BBC Proms in 2016 and returned in 2019. Sought after as a recitalist her recent and future recitals include engagements at the Wigmore Hall, the Brighton, City of London, Ryedale, Chiltern Arts, Leeds Lieder, Aldeburgh, Oxford Lieder and Cheltenham Festivals.

Operatic engagements include Cherubino with Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Annio /La Clemenza di Tito, Hermia A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Zerlina / Don Giovanni for Opera North, Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) for Garsington, Rosina (Barber of Seville) for ENO and Nancy / Albert Herring for the Buxton Festival.

Her debut recital album Love’s Old Sweet Song was released in 2014. Other recent releases include a disc of Elgar orchestral songs with the BBC Concert Orchestra as well as a disc featuring songs by Coates, both on the Somm label, Elgar’s Sea Pictures and the Music Makers with the RLPO under Vasily Petrenko for Onyx. Future releases include a disc of Vaughan Williams for Albion Records.

Updated September 2024