Catherine Redding, Northwest Sinfonia & Clyde Mitchell
Biography Catherine Redding, Northwest Sinfonia & Clyde Mitchell
Catherine Redding
described as ‘warm, clear and impeccably controlled’ (The Irish Times), is based in Wicklow, Ireland and has performed internationally in oratorio, opera and recital.
Catherine has been a guest soprano soloist with the Guinness Choir, Resurgam, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Tallaght Choral Society, the Galway Choral Association, the Palestrina Choir & Orchestra of St. Cecilia, the Dublin Bach Singers, and the University College Dublin Choirs & Orchestra. Oratorio/concert highlights include Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Mass in B minor, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Mondonville’s In exitu Israel (conducted by Christophe Rousset), Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Nees’ Magnificat, and Fauré’s Requiem in venues such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, the National Concert Hall, Dublin and Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
Catherine’s operatic roles include Sandman/Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel) with Longborough Festival Opera, UK, Barbarina (The Marriage of Figaro) and Emmie (Albert Herring) with Opera Project, UK and Oscar/Amelia (A Masked Ball) and Zerlina/Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) with Cork Opera 2005 Education Workshops.
As a recitalist, Catherine’s performances in Canada, Italy, Austria, England and Ireland have encompassed a epertoire of Baroque to contemporary works.
Catherine is featured as a soloist on award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel’s CD, Rain. Her debut solo album Lullaby, arranged, produced and made possible by Christopher Tyler Nickel, was launched in Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin in April 2015, as heard on RTÉ lyric fm.
Catherine was honoured to be the soloist for Ronan McDonagh’s Faith, Hope and Love at the 2018 Papal Mass in Phoenix Park. Catherine holds a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, London and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Clyde Mitchell
is Founding Music Director of Lions Gate Sinfonia, the professional orchestra of Vancouver’s beautiful North Shore. He has also created the growing Lions Gate Youth Orchestra.
After a Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University and Master of Arts from California State University-Northridge, Clyde had a fine career as a professional hornist. He played principal horn in the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia in Bogotá and the Tucson Symphony in Arizona. He then served as associate principal horn in the prestigious Montreal Symphony under Charles Dutoit, and taught at McGill University in Montreal.
Returning to university to study conducting, Clyde received a Master’s Degree from CSU-Long Beach and Artist’s Diploma from the highly respected University of Southern California under esteemed conducting professor Daniel Lewis. Mitchell returned to Canada as conductor of several youth and amateur orchestras in Ontario before winning the position of Resident and Associate Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony, a position he held for nine years. He then followed his dream of creating a new orchestra; with the help of many followers and lovers of classical music on Vancouver’s beautiful North Shore, Lions Gate Sinfonia was born in 2000! Clyde enjoys a busy guest-conducting career with the orchestras of Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria, Hamilton, and Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra. He has also conducted in the United States, Asia, South America, and Europe.
Clyde continues to be an enthusiastic promoter of music education, as well as of Canadian composers and soloists. He frequently works as a clinician and teacher for youth orchestras and bands across the country. A fun extra career sees Clyde as a speaker and host for radio and TV shows about Classical Music, including MASTERWORKS on the Knowledge Network. He divides his time between Vancouver and Los Angeles, where his wife Sarah Jackson is solo piccolo for the LA Philharmonic.
Clyde’s recent guest conducting experiences include Honor Orchestras in several states in the U.S., the KotorArt Festival in Montenegro, the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Teplice, the Transylvania State Philharmonic in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, the Funabashi Symphony Orchestra in Chiba, Japan, the Chiba Festival Honour Orchestra, and over a dozen orchestras in China.
