"The sheer expressivity was profound. In the most intimate moment in the whole Mass, the Agnus Dei, one felt mezzo-soprano Kate Symonds-Joy communicating the deep pathos of the words with complete emotional nakedness." The Telegraph 2017
ABOUT
KATE SYMONDS-JOY graduated with a First Class music degree from Cambridge University and a DipRAM from the Royal Academy Opera Course. Concert highlights include Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Sydney Opera House, Rutter's Feel the Spirit at the Barbican, Mahler's Symphony no.2 at Cadogan Hall, Elgar's Sea Pictures with the RPO and Christopher Robinson, Handel's Messiah at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Mozart's Requiem with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and Verdi's Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall.
Kate cycled to the most northerly inhabited part of the UK to sing Judith Weir's King Harald's Saga in the Shetland Islands' Muckleflugga lighthouse and joined the Prison Choir Project to sing the role of Carmen with a chorus of inmates in Dartmoor and Wandsworth Prisons. Kate sings regularly as a core member of Solomon's Knot, a Baroque music collective who are a Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence and have appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival, Leipzig Bachfest, and BBC Proms.
Kate teaches choral scholars of Gonville & Caius, Schola Cantorum and Clare College, Cambridge.