Maguelonne in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon
April 2022
As part of a weekend of events celebrating Pauline Viardot with Opera Cameratina (Artistic Director, Susanna Stranders), Katy sings Maguelonne in Viardot’s Cendrillon as well as featuring in a salon concert of works by Viardot and her circle. More information coming soon.
St. Endellion Easter Festival
9 – 17 April 2022
Katy returns to perform Shostakovich 7 Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok (Opus 127) and other delights at the St. Endellion Easter Festival, of which she is also the co-chair. More information coming soon.
Katy Thomson @ 2022 Aldeburgh Festival
21 June 2022, 12noon
Britten Studio @ Snape Maltings
Katy is thrilled to present a programme exploring music, poetry and place with fellow Britten Pears Young Artists Trio Mazzolini and Omri Kochavi.
Shostakovich, 7 Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok
Ravel, Deux Mélodies Hèbraïques
*World Premiere* Omri Kochavi, Nahar Amok
Weir, On the Palmy Beach
A note on the World Premiere: Nahar Amok means “deep river” in Hebrew. Writing in response to Ravel’s piece Kaddish, Omri Kochavi sets a poem on the theme of loss by Iraq-born Israeli poet Amira Hess, taken from a cycle dedicated to her late brother.
More information and tickets here.
Garsington Opera Young Artist Programme
Summer Season 2022
Full details to be announced in due course.
PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
Emerging artist recital @ Oxford Lieder festival
Monday 18th October 2021 @ Saint John the Evangelist, Oxford
Katy Thomson & Ana Manastireanu
Katy joined duo partner & fellow Britten Pears Young Artist Ana Manastireanu to perform a short recital of Rebecca Clarke, Nadia Boulanger, Claude Debussy and Roger Quilter, as part of the Oxford Lieder Emerging Artist platform.
Performances at 17.30 and 20.15, ahead of Christoph Prégardien & Michael Gees performing Duparc and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.
More information and tickets here
Garsington Opera young artist
Der Rosenkavalier, Richard Strauss
Katy stepped-in for one performance, and made her debut, as the Marscallin in Der Rosenkvalier on Sunday 13 June 2021. Her friend and colleague, Glen Cunningham, also went on as the Italian Tenor. Katy and Glen studied together at the Royal College of Music, it was very special for them to both make their Garsington debut!
Katy Thomson - Soprano 