Katerina Mina, Soprano Opera Singer

Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni

Leading an outstanding cast, Katerina Miná made a welcome return to Bahrain to sing an stupendous Donna Elvira and her interaction with Jonathan Sells’ Leporello made his Madamina, il catalogo è questo all the more fun.

George Younis

 

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Biography

Katerina Miná is making a name for herself as one of the finest sopranos of her generation. Originally a pianist and a music teacher, Katerina completed her BMus (Hons) Degree and Postgraduate Diploma in Music Performance (Opera) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her opera studies were sponsored by the Corporation of London, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The Greek Cypriot soprano is a prize winner in two International singing competitions, the ‘1st Concorso Vocale Internazionale di Musica Sacra’ and the ‘7th Julian Gayarre International Singing Competition’, as well as the winner of the 2008 Madame Figaro Magazine Singer-of-the-Year Awards. Katerina is based in London and continues her vocal studies with Janice Chapman.

Katerina most recently sang Rossini’s Stabat Mater with conductor Lukas Karytinos, the roles of Violetta La Traviata in Kuwait and Donna Elvira Don Giovanni in Bahrain, and appeared at Megaron in Athens with international pianist Elena Mouzalas in a series of concerts to celebrate Schumann’s and Chopin’s birthday anniversaries. With the Kolobov Novaya Opera of Moscow she performed the role of Nedda I Pagliacci. Katerina performed the role of Elle from Poulenc’s opera La Voix Humaine within the Kypria International Music Festival, and appeared as Fiordiligi Cosi Fan Tutte on a tour in the Far-East and Middle-East with European Chamber Opera. Other operatic roles include Donna Elvira Don Giovanni with Staatstheater Cottbus, Mimi La Bohème with British Youth Opera and European Chamber Opera, Karolka Jenufa with English Touring Opera and Maria West Side Story with Oxford Philomusica.

 

 

Concert performances include Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony no.9 at St. John’s Smith Square in London, Michael Tippett’s Negro Spirituals and David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus in Bahrain and Thame, Pitta’s symphonic piece 1973 with the National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of ERT, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Stanley Hall Opera, Haydn’s Scena di Berenice with the Georgisches Kammerorchester in Ingolstadt, A. Charalambou’s Requiem for Heroes with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra; world premières of C. Stylianou’s song cycles Of the Beautiful Kingdom for voice and piano, A. Sakali’s oratorio Liturgy beneath the Acropolis with Oxford Philomusica, the orchestral songs of Henry Duparc, oratorios of Mikis Theodorakis, and symphonic songs by composer M. Christodoulides with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra.

Katerina has given numerous recitals and concerts in the UK, Germany, Finland, Italy, France, Japan, Cyprus, Greece and the Middle East, and has recorded music for ERT, CyBC Radio and Television. Her performance venues include, amongst others, the Athens Concert Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Gasteig München, St. John’s Smith Square, Hackney Empire, Buxton Opera House, Sheldonian Theatre, De Montfort Hall, London Hellenic Centre, Les Invalides in Paris, Athenaeum Concert Hall and Theocharakis Foundation of Fine Arts in Athens, and all major theatres in Cyprus. Katerina has performed at International Music Festivals ‘KYPRIA’, ‘Manolis Kalomiris’, ‘Around the Piano’, ‘Roman River Music’, ‘London Song Festival’ and ‘Eure poetique et Musicale’ in France. She participated in Masterclasses with José Cura, Nelly Miricioiu and John Fisher, and appeared live at BBC London Radio show 94.9 FM, ‘A World In London’.

Katerina represents Cyprus in all major events of the country. At the Celebratory Concert for the accession of Cyprus to the Euro Area Katerina performed Christos Pitta’s symphonic works Helen & Rime d’Amore (world-premiere) with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. On the 1st of October 2010, Katerina performed the ‘Hymn for Cyprus’ Peace Comes as a Dream by film music composer Roman Kariolou on lyrics by Neşe Yasin, to celebrate the 50th Independence Anniversary of Cyprus. The ‘Hymn for Cyprus’ is available on iTunes and amazon.com and is the new boarding music of Cyprus Airways. Katerina’s new CD, with pianist Elena Mouzalas, has recently been released and features Chopin’s 17 Polish Songs and Schumann’s Frauenliebe und-Leben. The CD is produced by IRIDA Classical.

Katerina Miná is kindly sponsored by LACA CYPRUS, and wears cosmetic and make-up products by Antology Internacional.

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