Who is Catriona Morison?

Catriona Morison

Scottish mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison, currently residing in Berlin, made her break-through in 2017 when she won the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. She has been a member of the Oper Wuppertal company and has appeared in houses in Edinburgh, Cologne, Hamburg, Weimar and elsewhere.

In 2015 she made her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele. Morison is also a sought-after soloist, singing with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2022 in Bach’s Johannes-Passion conducted by Andrew Manze. She has performed Alma Mahler’s li­eder with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo conducted by Fabio Luisi.

This season she has been a soloist in Mahler’s Second Symphony in Melbourne, Sapporo and Dallas. The mezzo-soprano has given er s in London’s Wigmore Hall, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and elsewhere.

This is her debut in The Concertgebouw’s Recital Hall.