Katharine Tier, mezzo-soprano

Adler Fellow, Katharine Tier, was born in Australia and graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium and was enrolled in their Diploma of Opera program. She was a participant in the 2006 Merola Opera Program where she performed excerpts from Donizetti’s La Favorite at Yerba Buena Gardens. Other roles include Amaranta in Haydn’s La Fedelta Premiata with the Sydney Conservatorium Opera School and Nicklausse/The Muse/The Voice of Antonia’s Mother in The Tales of Hoffman with Sydney Festival. Concert performances include La Rondine and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Sydney Symphony, excerpts from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Western Australia Symphony and Israel and Egypt and Mozart Requiem with Macquarie University Singers. She made her Melbourne Symphony Debut in December 2006 singing L’enfant et les Sortileges. She has given recitals for the National Lieder Society and the Joan Sutherland Society, and her first recording is a new oratorio, Hallel for our Times by Shelley Olsen. Her awards include the prestigious Marianne Mathy Scholarship at the 2002 Australian Singing Competition, the 2004 Barilla Opera Award for study at the Rome Opera Company, and the 2006 Vocal Workshop Award from the Neue Stimmen (New Voices) international singing competition in Germany. Other awards include the Encouragement Award in the McDonald’s Operatic Aria Competition, the Operatic Voice Award in the McDonalds Performing Arts Challenge and the Mezzo-soprano Award in the 2005 Sydney Opera Awards, the Joan Sutherland Society of Sydney Scholarship.