Katie Tretheway - Soprano

Katie Trethewey is an English soprano specialising in the performance of Baroque and Classical oratorio. She has appeared regularly as a soloist at many high-profile UK venues, including London’s Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall and St John’s Smith Square, and Symphony Hall in Birmingham. She was delighted to fulfil a dream and make her solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2016, performing, amongst others, the Pie Jesu from Fauré’s Requiem for Carlos Acosta’s The Classical Farewell tour with Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet.  In 2022, she performed Vaughan Williams’ Scott of the Antarctic with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Martyn Brabbins.  She has received solo engagements for various UK festivals, including the Three Choirs Festival and Brighton’s Early Music Festival and has also appeared at the Händelfestspiele in Halle, Germany, performing William Boyce’s Solomon with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music.

Described as ‘sensational’ by Gramophone Magazine in her recording of Nunes Garcia’s Laudamus Te from his Missa Pastoril, Katie has also received great critical acclaim for her concert performances, notably Mozart’s Requiem with Ex Cathedra at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Orff’s Carmina Burana for Birmingham Royal Ballet at Birmingham Hippodrome, and Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Academy of Ancient Music. She sang the role of Anne Hathaway in the world premiere of Sally Beamish’s A Shakespeare Masque, with poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, and the arias in a reconstructed performance of The Garrick Ode by Thomas Arne, recorded by the BBC.

An established consort singer, Katie has worked with many of the elite UK vocal ensemble and consort groups and regularly performs across the UK and abroad, both as a soloist and consort member, singing a huge variety of music. Katie is a featured soloist on Ensemble Plus Ultra’s Grammy-award-winning discs of Victoria’s sacred works and on A Tender Light, Tenebrae’s critically-acclaimed CD of works by Paul Mealor. An impressive discography comprises numerous recordings with celebrated ensembles Ex Cathedra, The Cardinall’s Musick, Dunedin Consort, Ensemble Plus Ultra, the Gabrieli Consort, The Tallis Scholars and Tenebrae.

A busy 2024 includes soprano solo in the première of John Adams’ Vespers of the Blessed Earth with CBSO, Bach’s St John Passion with Ex Cathedra, Monteverdi’s Vespers, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, several performances of Haydn’s Creation, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, and several performances of Handel’s Messiah across the country.