Catriona Morison (born 1986 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish mezzo-soprano.
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Early life and education edit
The daughter of a musician mother (Fiona) and a teacher of German (Alan),[1][2] Morison grew up in Barnton, Edinburgh.[3] Both she and her sister played violin and sang in choirs such as the Waverley Singers as youths.[2] Morison also played the viola in her youth.[4] She formally studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland [RCS]), and spent a year in Berlin on the Erasmus programme.[4] In Berlin, at the Universität der Künste, her teachers included Julie Kaufmann.[1]
Career edit
Morison began her professional singing career in Germany, initially with an opera studio in Weimar. She subsequently joined Oper Wuppertal as a company artist, and won a Festengagement (company principal singer) there.[2]
In the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, Morison was the joint winner of the Song Prize and the winner of the Main Prize, the first British singer ever to win the Main Prize.[5] Morison became a member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, for the scheduled period of 2017-2019. Her professional song recital debut was in January 2018, at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.[2][4]
In October 2017, Morison received an honorary professorship from the RCS.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b Jody Harrison (24 June 2017). "How Scotland's Prima Donna became the best singer in the world". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d Ken Walton (9 January 2018). "Ones to watch in 2018: opera singer Catriona Morison". The Scotsman. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Mike Wade (20 June 2017). "Scots singer hits a high note with Cardiff opera prize victory". The Times. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ a b c Kate Molleson (9 January 2018). "Scottish mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison on becoming a star". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "Catriona Morison wins BBC Cardiff Singer of the World". BBC. 18 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- ^ Phil Miller (5 October 2017). "Arts News: Honour for Catriona Morison, new Burns festival, Our Fathers at the Traverse". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 17 March 2018.