Soprano

Kate Pinkerton

(all performances)

At the age of eight, the Tyrolean soprano took on her first solo role at the Tiroler Landestheater, appearing in roles such as Klein Cosette in Les Miserables, as Oliver Twist in the musical of the same name and Sprintze in Anatevka. During her school years, she received not only singing lessons but also training in speech and acting, and in 2019 she was awarded the Audience Prize of the Josef-Kuderna Scholarship Austria. In addition to her Bachelor’s degree, which she completed with Katerina Beranova at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz, she participated in masterclasses in opera and song with KS Robert Holl, Michelle Breedt, Karlheinz Hanser and Eva Lind.

During her studies in Linz, she performed both the Sand- and Taumännchen as well as the role of Gretel in the opera Hänsel und Gretel. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree with Zoryana Kushpler at the Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2024/2025 she was a finalist in the International Francesco Paolo Neglia Competition in Sicily and the operetta competition of the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl. In 2024 she took part in the Croatian Opera Academy, through which she made her debut in the leading role of the opera Dido & Aeneas.

Engagements also took her back to the Tiroler Landestheater for the leading role in a children’s opera by Peter Lund, which was revived due to its great success, to the Musiktheater Vorarlberg for the role of Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and for the role of Anita in the operetta Giuditta. At the Stadttheater Badhall she made her debut in the role of Annamirl in the operetta Der Fidele Bauer, which was fully recorded and broadcast by ORF3.

The soprano is also regularly heard in concerts and oratorios. Recently, she performed the soprano part in Handel’s Messiah at the Kaufmännisches Palais in Linz (Palace of Commercial Association), Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s Stabat Mater as part of the concert series of the Haydn Region Lower Austria, Bach’s Coffee Cantata with the Murnauer Chamber Orchestra in Germany, and in Salzburg the soprano part in Mozart’s Requiem.