Join us on Wednesday the 22nd September from 1.10pm-1.50pm for our weekly Lunchtime Music Recital at the IIMS, with the amazing Katy Kelly.
Please Note: This is an indoor event. In order to comply with government guidelines and regulations, all ticket holders must be fully vaccinated or recently immune.
ABOUT
Katy Kelly studied for her Graduate Performance Diploma in Opera at the Boston Conservatory, and for her MMus in Performance from the Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin under Anne Marie O'Sullivan. She qualified as a Regional Finalist at the Metropolitan Opera New England National Council Awards (USA), and has won many prizes for her singing in Europe, including the IAWS John McCormack Bursary. Katy has represented Ireland in many premier European competitions including Belvedere International Singing Competition (Vienna), the IVC (Holland), and the Stuart Burrows (Wales), for which she received the runners up prize. She has performed in Carnegie Hall with the Thomas Moore Festival, and she is a regular performer at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Recent operatic performances include “Donna Anna” in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, “Countess” in Le Nozze di Figaro, Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte, and Le Feu/Le Rossignol in Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortilèges. She performed excerpts from two new operas; A Brief History of Root Vegetaables (“Trophy”), and The Inspector (“Bobachina”) for the 2011 Opera America Conference in Boston. She has also performed the roles of “Euridice” in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, “Musetta” in Puccini’s La Boheme, and “Sandman” in Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel. She toured Germany with the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival performing Faure’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Beethoven’s Fantasie. Other solo performances include Poulenc's Gloria, Rutter's Magnificat, Bach's St John Passion, Beethoven's Mass in C, Bach's Magnificat, Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Mozart's Requiem & Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Haydn's The Creation & Nelson Mass, Handel’s Messiah, Saint-Saens’ Oratorio de Noel, and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Elijah.