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document.write('<div class="contenthead">Katharine Hawnt</div>');

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document.write('<div>Kate Hawnt is a young soprano with a growing reputation in early music circles throughout Europe. She was a choral scholar at King\’s College London and then trained at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, where she studied with some of Europe\’s leading experts in the performance of medieval, renaissance and baroque music. Her main teacher there was Evelyn Tubb, and after finishing, Stefan Haselhoff. She has also studied with Emma Kirkby, Andreas Scholl and Ian Partridge, among others and now works with Paul Farrington. Katharine performs regularly throughout Europe as a soloist and ensemble member with a number of groups including Collegium Vocale Ghent, Musica Secreta, Al Ayre Español, Trinity Baroque, Ensemble Plus Ultra and Nuove Musiche (based in the Netherlands), under directors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Peter Phillips, Sir Neville Marriner and Anthony Rooley, and has appeared in a number of recordings, broadcasts and festivals in the UK and abroad. In recent years, she has also enjoyed performing a small number of operatic roles including Dido, in Purcell\’s \‘Dido and Aeneas\’ and Bastienne in Mozart\’s \‘Bastien und Bastienne\’. Her latest engagements have included performing Belinda in \‘Dido and Aeneas\’ in San Sebastian, Spain, the soprano soloist in Haydn\’s Creation with the Grange Choral Society and her voice was recently used by the BBC as the sung voice of \‘Serafina\’ in a radio drama for Woman’s Hour, Radio 4. Katharine teaches singing at Sherborne School for Girls, and alongside her husband, Uri Smilansky, she directs the group Le Basile (www.lebasile.co.uk), which specialises in 14th and 15th century music and performs regularly in Germany, Switzerland and the U.K.</div>');



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