Katy Tansey

Soprano

"...stole our hearts with her gorgeous voice."

(Verdi Requiem - South Chiltern Choral Society - March 2003)

Katy Tansey read music at Selwyn College, Cambridge and subsequently studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Whilst there she won a scholarship to study Russian song at the Britten-Pears School with Galina Vishnevskaya, with whom she continued to study privately. She now studies with Marie McLaughlin.

Katy’s operatic experience has included a European tour covering the role of Marzelline (Leonore) for Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) at the Snape Proms under Tadaaki Otaka, and British tours performing Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) and Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) for Pimlico Opera. She also regularly sings with the Monteverdi Choir and the choir of the English Concert under Trevor Pinnock with whom she sang Pilate’s Wife in Bach’s St Matthew Passion in a series of performances at major concert halls throughout Europe and at the 2002 BBC Proms.

She has also performed a wide range of oratorio and concert works; highlights have included Handel’s Solomon with the Northern Sinfonia in York Minster, Britten’s War Requiem in St Albans Abbey and Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in Guildford Cathedral. She made her Purcell Room debut singing Handel and Vivaldi Cantatas and has given a song recital in the Septembre Musical de l'Orne Festival in France.

Forthcoming engagements include Verdi, Fauré and Mozart Requiems, Rossini Petite Messe and Strauss Four Last Songs.