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Prize-winning soprano Kate is a graduate of Trinity College of Music and can perform a capella or with organ/piano.
Kate can sing at any point during the wedding service- entrance of guests, Communion, signing of register- as well as at the reception. Kate performs wedding classics, opera and smooth classics from Bach and Vivaldi.
There are special Christmas and children's repetoires. For an extensive list of pieces please click on the set list link.
Kate studied at Oxford University, then won a Bodyform Careers Award to study on the ENO 'Knack' after which she studied opera performance at Birkbeck College. She continued postgraduate vocal studies with Wendy Eathorne and Robert Aldwinckle at Trinity College of Music. Kate was one of the singers on the prestigious Oxford Lieder Festival Mastercourse 2008, with Sarah Walker and Julius Drake.
Kate has sung all over the UK in venues including the Holywell Rooms Oxford, Keble College Chapel, Oxford Playhouse, Edinburgh Playhouse, Corn Exchange Newbury, Grantham Guildhall, Waltham Abbey and Leighton House. She has also performed at the Bloomsbury, Hungerford and Hackwood Festivals. She recently performed with the Corkery Consort at the Inchigeela Festival in Ireland. Recent engagements also include Verdi and Mozart Requiems and recitals at St John's Bethnal Green and Dartford Church.
In 2008 she won the Opera, Oratorio and Song Recital Prizes in the Stratford & East London Festival. She also won the bronze medal in the North London Festival's Premier Challenge class. Kate represented Trinity in the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize and AESS Patricia Routledge English Song competitions. She was a semi-finalist in this year's Stuart Burrows International Vocal Awards and the Llangollen Eisteddfod.
Operatic roles include Laila (Les Pecheurs de Perles), Frasquita (Carmen), Belinda, Aeneas, 1st Witch (Dido & Aeneas), Giannetta (L'Elisir d'Amore), 1st Lady, 2nd Boy (Die Zauberflote), 3rd Bridesmaid (Der Freischutz), Lonely Heart (Shawna & Ron's Half Moon), Diana (Orphee aux Enfers), Lover (Il Tabarro), Cis (Albert Herring), Suor Genovieffa, Suor Osmina (Suor Angelica), Sister 1 (Cinderella: an original opera), Phyllis (Iolanthe), Katisha (Mikado), Bridesmaid (Trial by Jury) and 3rd Wild Goose (Paul Bunyan). She represented Trinity in David Owen Norris' 2007 Elgar Masterclass.
"Kate Garner- a name you may want to remember...Kate's performance was breathtaking, and she had excellent command of the pieces and the way in which they were performed. Just by looking at the faces around me, you could tell that she had nailed it."
Greenwich Gazette,
June 07
