Winner of the Elizabeth Connell Prize at the International Singing Competition for Dramatic Sopranos, Katie Lowe studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal College of Music and the Wales International Academy of Voice, returning to the RNCM to complete the International Artist Diploma Course studying with Susan Roper, supported by the Sir John Fisher Foundation.
A Samling Scholar, her awards further include a Josephine Baker Trust Award, a Countess of Munster Award, the Sybil Tutton Award MBF, the Ian Fleming MB, the Robin Kay Memorial Prize, a Dennis O’Neill Foundation Award and an Independent Opera Postgraduate Voice Fellowship.
Since graduating, she has sung Dama/Macbeth for The Grange Festival and Brünnhilde in Act Three of Götterdämmerung for The Mastersingers, as well as covering Helmwige/Die Walküre for The Royal Opera, London.
Recent engagements have included her debut with English National Opera as Freia/The Rhinegold, and at La Monnaie as Helmwige/Die Walküre. Her upcoming engagements include a return to La Monnaie as Third Norn/Götterdämmerung and her debut at The Royal Opera, London, as Ortlinde/Die Walküre.