Katrina Mackenzie is an Australian soprano, currently based in the UK while pursuing a Master of Music at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). She has performed as a principal artist and chorus member for several Australian opera companies and international festival productions. This summer she makes her UK professional debut with the International Gilbert and Sullivan festival at the Buxton Opera House.

A former Emerging Artist of State Opera South Australia, Katrina performed with the company for several years in many main stage productions. Her operatic roles include Musetta (La Bohème), Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites), Alice (BOOJUM!) and Young Vixen (The Cunning Little Vixen). She has also made numerous appearances in Adelaide Festival productions such as Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel directed by Barrie Kosky, and Romeo Castellucci’s staged production of Mozart’s Requiem with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

On the concert stage Katrina is a regular recitalist, and concert and oratorio soloist. Highlights include singing the soprano role for the world premiere of Felicity Wilcox’s Threading the Light, a collaboration on Messiaen’s Harawi, and a concert of Handel’s Il delirio amoroso with the RNCM Baroque ensemble.

Katrina’s vocal and performance abilities have been recognised through many awards and prizes. She is a two-time Vocal Prize Winner of the 5mbs Young Virtuoso SA Final and was awarded second place in The Friends of the State Opera Dawn Wallace Aria Award.

In the course of her studies at RNCM she has been granted the Brigitte Fassbaender Award for Lieder and performed as a finalist in both the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss, and the Frederic Cox Award for Singing. Katrina has recently accepted a scholarship to undertake a PGDip in Advanced Studies in Musical Performance at the RNCM.