Catriona Hewitson (Soprano)
Named as one of Opera Now's 2022 Hot List Young Artists, Edinburgh-born soprano Catriona Hewitson won the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Loveday Song Prize and was a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist for 2020-22. She is a Samling Artist, and a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal College of Music Opera Studio.
Highlights on the concert platform include a recital for BBC Radio 3 with Malcolm Martineau and performing at the Royal Albert Hall, St John's Smith Square and the Usher Hall with Sir James MacMillan conducting. Catriona has also performed at the Edinburgh International Festival, Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall and Edinburgh's Queen's Hall as well as a solo recital at St Martin-in-the-fields. Last year she won second prize in the inaugural Ashburnham English Song Awards.
With Scottish Opera, Catriona performed Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Gretel in Hansel and Gretel as well as Adina and Despina for Scottish Opera On Screen. Other opera engagements include Micaela Carmen (Waterperry Opera Festival) and Dragon/Teacher/Diva in Lliam Paterson's Catriona and the Dragon (Lammermuir Festival Community Opera) world premiere.
Upcoming performances include returning to Scottish Opera as Kristina in The Makropulos Affair in the new year. Catriona also has concerts with Dundee Choral Union and the University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra.
