Catrin Aur

Catrin Aur is from West Wales. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Royal Academy of Music, London and at the International Academy of Voice in Cardiff with Dennis O'Neill. Whilst at the Royal Academy she was the recipient of the RAM English Song Prize, the Sir Geraint Evans Scholarship, the Elias Soprano Prize and the first Dame Shirley Bassey Vocal Award. In 2009, she won the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, represented the UK in the final rounds of the Montreal International Singing Competition and was named Young Welsh Singer of the Year by the Morriston Orpheus Choir Supporter’s Association. Catrin was a finalist in the BBC Welsh Singer Competition in 2010.

Her operatic roles include Aida and High Priestess in Aida for Raymond Gubbay Productions at the Royal Albert Hall in London and Musetta in La Boheme for Opera Project. She has also understudied the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Garsington Opera,Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream for English National Opera and Dew Fairy in Hansel & Gretel for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Her operatic repertoire also includes Violetta in La Traviata, thetitle-role in Madama Butterfly, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, the title role in The Merry Widow andElisetta in Il Matrimonio Segreto.

Concert highlights include concerts in Hong Kong with the City Chamber Orchestra Hong Kong, Mendelssohn Symphony No2 ‘Lobgesang’ at Cadogan Hall in London and performances at Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva. Catrin was guest soloist in a UK tour of Johann Strauss music and has also performed in the USA, Canada, Italy and Japan. She has an extensive oratorio repertoire includingVerdi’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation and Nelson Mass, Handel’s Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Schubert’s Mass in G. 

Catrin has performed in numerous recitals and has taken part in masterclasses with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Ileana Contrubas, Sir Jonathan Miller, David Syrus and Malcolm Martineau.

Operatic roles this season include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Mid Wales Opera and Pamina in Die Zaubertflöte for London Festival Opera. Future roles include Kate Pinkerton and understudy of Madama Butterfly in Madama Butterfly for Scottish Opera and Lady Billows in Albert Herring for Mid Wales Opera. Future concerts include a series of Classical Spectacular Galas at the Royal Albert Hall in London for Raymond Gubbay Productions Ltd.