Catherine Redding, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra & Clyde Mitchell
Biography Catherine Redding, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra & Clyde Mitchell
Catherine Redding
Wicklow-based Canadian Irish soprano Catherine Redding, described as `warm, clear and impeccably controlled´ (The Irish Times), has performed internationally in opera, oratorio and recital.
Catherine has performed the operatic roles of Oscar (A Masked Ball) and Zerlina/Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) with Opera 2005, Barbarina (The Marriage of Figaro) and Emmie (Albert Herring) with Opera Project, and Sandman/Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel) with Longborough Festival Opera.
Oratorios include Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Brahms’ Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Great Mass in C Minor, Credo Mass and Requiem, Dvorak’s Mass in D, Nees’ Magnificat, and Fauré’s Requiem in venues such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, The National Gallery, The National Concert Hall, St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway, and Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Catherine has been a guest soprano soloist with ensembles including the Guinness Choir, Resurgam, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Tallaght Choral Society, the Galway Choral Association, CHANT21, RBS Singers, the Ranelagh Singers, the DCU Campus Choir, the Palestrina Choir & Orchestra of St. Cecilia, the Dublin Bach Singers, and the University College Dublin Choirs & Orchestra. As a guest soloist with Resurgam, Catherine has performed Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Mondonville’s In Exitu Israel, directed by internationally-renowned Christophe Rousset, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Catherine was the soprano soloist at the World Premiere of Christopher Tyler Nickel’s Requiem with the Lions Gate Sinfonia and Vancouver Chamber Choir at West Vancouver United Church, Canada.
As a recitalist, Catherine’s performances in Canada, Italy, Austria, England and Ireland have encompassed a repertoire of Baroque to contemporary works. Recent recitals include An Evening of Baroque Delights with harpsichordist Rachel Factor at Calary Church, Wicklow, Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel with pianist Yonit Kosovske at the Hugh Lane Gallery (Sundays@Noon), Dublin and St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Taverner’s To a Child Dancing in the Wind with Trio Táin at An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk and the Whale Theatre, Greystones, Songs to the Moon with harpist Aisling Ennis at Killruddery House and as part of the Sundays at Noon/Concerts in the Courtyard series presented by The Hugh Lane Gallery & IMMA, Dublin, and L’heure exquise with pianist Michael Quinn at Castalia Hall (Music in Kilkenny), and the Hugh Lane Gallery (Sundays@Noon).
Catherine sang the solo soprano role in Christopher Tyler Nickel’s Requiem (2024), and his seven-disc long Gospel According to Mark (2023), released by AVIE Records. She was honoured to be the soloist for Ronan McDonagh’s Faith, hope and love at the 2018 Papal Mass in Phoenix Park. Her debut solo album Lullaby was launched in Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin in April 2015, as heard on RTE lyric fm.
Catherine holds a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, London and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
