Katherine is a Sound Engineer, Producer, Singer, & Instrumentalist from Romford in Essex, UK.
Coming from a disadvantaged background, Katherine is keen to disrupt classical music’s elitist image. She’d like to see a world where it is accessible to more people; and where it platforms and empowers women, queer and gender-nonconforming people, working class people, and other marginalised groups.
Some Katherine facts:
-Katherine’s self-recorded EP “Hert So Hy” has been featured on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction. Her own rock songs have been played by Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6.
-She taught herself to play guitar aged 13 and started recording her own songs on a 4-track machine, inspired by Joni Mitchell. A self-taught instrumentalist, Katherine plays the electric guitar, bass guitar, gittern (medieval guitar) and drumkit. She aspires to learn piano and celtic harp next!
-Katherine comes from a musical family and grew up underneath her Mum’s piano (a baby Grand that her mum has been teaching on since she was 17 years old!). Katherine’s grandma Grace was a wartime nurse and a soprano who toured with the BBC before she had her family. Katherine’s maternal Grandma, Joan, was a cinema organist at the Dominion Theatre on Oxford Street, back when films were silent! And Katherine’s Granddad, Ivor Evans was bricklayer from Swansea who went on to become a principal baritone at the D'Oyly Carte Opera company, and a National Eisteddfod-winning choral director.
-From Guillaume de Machaut to Crowded house and Soundgarden, Katherine’s foremost passion is songwriting. She plays electric guitar and is the lead singer in her own upcoming rock band (Dystopia Gently), and also loves producing with drum machines and synths.
-She accidentally got into Medieval Music after a chance meeting with harpist Leah Stuttard, a kind and lovely person who introduced Katherine to Medieval Music in the Dales festival in Yorkshire!
-Katherine studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and then Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art, in London. She is passionate about visual art and enjoys making her own music videos and costumes. These enable her to be in control artistically to explore her own vision,. She also studied a diploma in contemporary dance, which she brings to her own creative practice.
-Katherine has a rescue turtle named Karen and a male cat named Margaret, both from Tottenham.
