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This American soprano continues to surprise. As a singer, writer, researcher, and curator of concert programs. She also garners interest with the recordings she made with pianist Sam Armstrong for the label “7 Mountain Records.” Both the CD recording “Regards sur l’Infini,” featuring songs by Messiaen and Debussy, and the CD recording “Forget This Night,” with works by Lili Boulanger, Szymanowski, and Bacewicz, were acclaimed. The former received an “Edision Klassiek” for Best Debut, the latter was named “CD of the Month” by BBC Music Magazine. The duo was a guest at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, De Doelen Rotterdam, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Konzerthaus Wien, Concertgebouw Brugge ... The way the duo caught the (little) drama in each of the songs and brought them to life using an unexhaustible range of colors, is just pure art.

Although Katharine Dain is a highly sought-after interpreter of Mozart roles, participating in productions in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium in roles such as Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), and most recently as Contessa (Nozze di Figaro), she tirelessly dedicates herself to contemporary opera. So she debuted with the Dutch National Opera in Claude Vivier’s Kopernikus, a co-production of its Talent Development Programme and the experimental company Silbersee. More recent ishe appeared in the world premiere of “I have missed you forever” at the National Opera Amsterdam and that of “Barzakh” at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.

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This 2026-2027 season, Katharine  will perform amongst others alongside the Nürnberger Symphoniker, the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, het Collectief znd the Ragazze Quartet ...

She made her debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam in the world premiere of Bram Kortekaas’s “Notenkrakers’ notulen”. During the 2022-23 season, Katharine Dain was Artist in Residence with the Finnish Tapiola Sinfonietta. Other highlights include her performances with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, both the Arcangelo and Utopia ensembles, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orhestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, BBC Wales, to name juste a few.

Meanwhile the artists sang numerous contemporary scores with Dutch ensembles including Asko|Schönberg, LUDWIG, the New European Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble, and the Ragazze Quartet. She participated in various projects taking her to Paris (Philharmonie), Brussels (La Monnaie), and the Aldeburgh Festival in ENOA’s widely acclaimed original production Be With Me Now (co-mounted by the Festival Aix-en-Provence, the Dutch National Opera, and six other European presenters), in which her rendition of Anne Trulove’s aria from Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress was praised by Arts Desk as “a better performance than any I’ve heard in the opera house.”

She stepped out as soprano soloist in Luigi Nono’s oratorio Il Canto Sospeso at the Holland Festival under Ingo Metzmacher, which led to an invitation from the Teatro Comunale di Bologna to perform the same piece under Roberto Abbado. She has also been called in at the last minute for performances at Ireland’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival (“singing as though the music had been written just for her,” said the Irish Times), a solo recital of Strauss, Marx, and Korngold lieder in the Concertgebouw Kleine Zaal (called “a miracle” by Place de l’Opera), Carmina Burana at the Concertgebouw’s Robeco Summer Nights series, and for the world premiere of an oratorio by Dutch composer Jan van de Putte with Asko|Schönberg and Cappella Amsterdam under Reinbert de Leeuw - a performance that was broadcast live on Dutch Radio 4 from the Concertgebouw’s Zaterdagmatinee series and later released commercially on Etcetera Records.

RECORDINGS

CD > "O schöne Nacht", the debut cd-recording released in 2018, of the Damask Vocal Quartet, of which Katharine Dain is one of the co-founders. This remarkable cd won France’s prestigious Prix-Choc awarded by Classica.

CD > “Regards sur l’infini”, the artist's most recent recording (released Autumn 2020) proposes a selection of songs by Saariaho, Dutilleux, Debussy, Delbos and Messiaen which she recorded together with her musical partner Sam Armstrong for the label "7 Mountain records". A recording awarded by the EDISON AWARD 2021 FOR BEST DEBUT.

CD > "Notenkrakers' Notulen", by Bram Kortekaas' released on the Horizon-label of the Royal Concertgebouw Label and on Warner classics (Erato).

CD > "Forget this night", released in November 2023, again on the label "7 Mountain records". It proposes songs by Lili Boulanger, Szymanowski and Basewicz. The recording was called CD of the month by the BBC-Music-Magazine.

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