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Catrin Aur Davies
completed a year of postgraduate study at RWCMD gaining a Diploma with Distinction and was awarded the first Dame Shirley Bassey Vocal Award, Sir Geraint Evans Scholarship and the Elias Soprano Prize. She is currently studying with Elizabeth Ritchie and Michael Pollock and won the Major Sommersen Godfrey Song Prize at the end of a successful year at the RAM. She won the Roland Jones Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod last year. Other awards include the Lee Freeman Scholarship and the DISS Advanced Opera Scholarship. She has sung in America with Catrin Finch and in Kyoto, Japan to Japanese Royalty. She performed at the St David’s Day reception held at the Foreign Office and at Lower Machen Festival, Fishguard Arts Festival, Rhosygilwen, St David’s Cathedral, Craig y Nos, St Andrews Hall, Norwich and the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.
Catrin’s Oratorio work includesHaydn’s Creation and Nelson Mass, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Schubert Mass in G. She has appeared in numerous Lieder and Welsh song recitals and has taken part in masterclasses with Dennis O’Neill, Malcom Martineau, Roger Nichols, David Syrus and Donald Maxwell. Opera roles include Countess Marriage of Figaro, Annchen Der Freischutz, The Merry Widow, Hannah Merry Wives of Windsor and Danubia ‘Ten Belles’, Von Suppé. She performed Dido and Aeneas at the Clwyd Music Festival, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance in Barbados and Aeres in a Welsh opera Cythraul y Canu at the National Eisteddfod. She has recently released a CD of Welsh songs and will be performing the role of Tatiana in a production of Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky at DISS in August. |
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