Katherine is one of our assistant directors and executes her role with patience and good humour. She has calmly and quietly taken a huge part in the chorus leadership for years, making big contributions to our performance and musical direction.
About Katherine
Katherine joined London City Singers in 2015 and quickly became a dedicated and inquisitive part of the baritone section. After a while she became the bari section lead, and then our joint assistant director.
In ‘real life’, Katherine is a Lecturer in Chemistry Education at King’s College London. She brings her natural ability to teach and mentor into chorus life too. She runs fun warm ups and vocal tech sessions, always with her trademark patience and positivity. Katherine puts a lot of work and preparation into everything she does for London City Singers, but makes it look easy and never expects recognition. She also has the longest regular commute to rehearsal of all our members.
Katherine created our ‘intent’ Slack channel – a place where we share what we plan to focus on in our personal practice each month, and motivate each other. She also took the lead on creating a performance plan for our medal-winning performance at SABS in 2017. She has a knack for tapping into the chorus psyche and putting into words how we all feel about a song.
A popular chorus game is making Katherine laugh – she has been known to fall off her chair laughing!