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'Catriona Hewitson has a lovely peaches-and-cream timbre’

David Karlin

www.BachTrack.com

ABOUT

 

Named as one of Opera Now’s 2022 Hot List Young Artists, Edinburgh-born soprano Catriona Hewitson won the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Loveday Song Prize and was an Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera.

With Scottish Opera, Catriona performed Tytania in their five star production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and Casilda in The Gondoliers which is on BBC iPlayer as well as Adina and Despina for Scottish Opera On Screen. Other recent highlights onstage also include Micaela Carmen (Waterperry Opera Festival), Mabel Pirates of Penzance at the Celebrate Voice Festival and for Charles Court Opera, title role of Patience in the award winning production for Charles Court Opera and multiple roles in the Lammermuir Festival Community Opera's world premier of Catriona and the Dragon. Other roles performed include Cis Albert Herring (Grange Festival); Elsbeth Fantasio (Garsington Festival Opera); Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, directed by Sir Thomas Allen, Tytania and Edwige in Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoe (Royal College of Music).

In 2022 she sang in recital with Malcolm Martineau as part of the RCS: Fridays at One series for BBC Radio 3. Earlier this year she made her Edinburgh International Festival soloist debut working with James Baillieu. She also made her home concert hall debut to great acclaim at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh performing Messiah conducted by Sir James MacMillan. Other highlights on the concert platform include performing at the Royal Albert Hall, St John's Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields and touring with the Ulster Orchestra. Catriona has also performed at the Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall, Queen’s Hall and Lammermuir Festival. Last year she won second prize in the inaugural Ashburnham English Song Awards. Catriona was a finalist in the Belvedere Singing Competition in 2022. She has won several other prizes including the Clare Croiza Prize for French Song and the Chris Petty English Song Competition.

 

She is a Samling Artist and was one of Making Music’s Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists. Catriona is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and Royal College of Music Opera Studio She attended the City of Edinburgh Music School all through her schooling and was a member of ENO Opera Works.

Recent and upcoming performances include returning to Scottish Opera in to play Kristina in Janáček's The Makropulos Affair directed by Olivia Fuchs and conducted by Martyn Brabbins. On the concert platform she is returning to Dundee Choral Union and will perform with Aberdeen Bach Choir, Warwick University Symphony Chorus and Orchestra. 

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