Catriona Morison

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Catriona Morison (2015)

Catriona Morison (* 1986 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish mezzo-soprano .

Life

The daughter of a music teacher (Fiona) and a German teacher (Alan) Morison grew up in Barnton , a district of Edinburgh . Both she and her sister played the violin and sang in choirs such as the Waverley Singers as teenagers. Morison also played the viola in her youth. She studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland , RCS) and spent a year in Berlin as part of the Erasmus program. At the University of the Arts in Berlin she was taught by Julie Kaufmann , among others .

Morison began her professional singing career in Germany initially with an opera studio in Weimar . She then entered the opera in Wuppertal as a company artist and won a permanent engagement there.

In the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, Morison was the joint Song Prize Winner and Grand Prize Winner, becoming the first British female singer to ever win the Grand Prize. Morison became a member of the BBC New Generation Artists program for the planned period from 2017 to 2019. She made her professional song debut in January 2018 at Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.

In October 2017, Morison received an honorary professorship from the RCS.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b How Scotland's Prima Donna became the best singer in the world. In: heraldscotland.com. HeraldScotland, June 25, 2017, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ones to watch in 2018: opera singer Catriona Morison. In: scotsman.com. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Mike Wade: Scots singer hits a high note with Cardiff opera prize victory . In: The Times . 2017, ISSN  0140-0460 ( co.uk ).
  4. ^ A b Catriona Morison: 'Opera is the themes of everyday life. OK, maybe not the murders ... ' In: heraldscotland.com. HeraldScotland, January 10, 2018, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Cardiff World Singer winner crowned . 2017 ( bbc.com ).
  6. ^ City of Wuppertal - Catriona Morison. (No longer available online.) In: wuppertal.de. web.archive.org, December 22, 2017, archived from the original on December 22, 2017 ; accessed on December 31, 2019 .
  7. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison remains connected to Wuppertal. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Arts News: Honor for Catriona Morison, new Burns festival, Our Fathers at the Traverse. In: heraldscotland.com. HeraldScotland, accessed December 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Morison, Catriona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish mezzo-soprano
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh