Katherine Williams

Katherine was born in Stoke-on-Trent and whilst at Kingswood School, Bath learnt singing, piano and organ. She studied music education at Warwick University singing with Warwick University Chamber Choir under Simon Halsey and then gained an MA (Hons) in History of Art at Aberdeen University in 1990. She was a choral scholar in King’s College Chapel Choir and studied with Raimund Herincx at NESMS and Kate Hughes. She did a post graduate year at Trinity College of Music, London studying voice with Sally Le Sage. After getting married in 1992 she moved back to Aberdeen and combined raising 3 children with teaching piano and singing around Aberdeen and the shire. She recorded The Brass Kettle in 1992 – a collection of Victorian parlour songs and piano duets with Roger Williams and Graeme Stevenson. She has sung many oratorio roles and specialises in Lieder, French art song and works by contemporary composers.