Katherine Day
One of the most versatile pianists of her generation, pianist Katherine Day is in demand as a soloist, orchestral pianist, chamber musician, arranger, repetiteur, and art song collaborator.
Katherine’s love of theatre, new music, and vocal music, has seen her perform in countless art song and operatic performances. She has appeared with singers Margaret Haggart, Shu Cheen Yu, Helen Noonan, Jan Friedl, Bradley Cooper, Michael Smallwood, David Hobson, and Alteouise DeVaughan. She has been involved in premieres of operas by Angus Grant (Contact: A Netball Opera), Martin Friedel (Operatic event for skyscraper), and Richard Mills (The Pied Piper).
She has won numerous awards across solo, art song, chamber and online digital content. These include the Victorian College of the Arts Concerto Competition, the Victorian Liederfest Accompanist Award, and a NSW Creative Kids Digital Content Grant.
Festival appearances include: the Melbourne Comedy Festival, the Melbourne Fringe Festival, the Apollo Bay Music Festival, the Australian Flute Festival, the Melbourne International Brass Festival, the Castlemaine Music Festival and the 2016 Satie Festival in Canberra which received national coverage on ABC TV.
Katherine has toured Australia many times as a collaborative pianist and soloist. As an orchestral pianist, Katherine was Principal Pianist with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra for three years, performing in Nigel Westlake’s Oboe Concerto with Diana Doherty, and playing the celeste solo in Matthew Hindson’s The Stars Amongst Us All.
Her concerto repertoire includes: the Grieg Concerto in A minor; Mozart Concerto in D minor; Ravel Concerto for Left Hand; Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F; F. X. Mozart Concerto in E flat; and Beethoven Concertos 1, 3 4 and 5. As a recital pianist, Katherine has been welcomed into many recital series around Australia, including the Montague Visiting Artists, Sapphire Coast Music Society, and St Stephen’s lunchtime concerts.
Visit katherinedaypianist.com.au for more details, future appearances and recordings.
Katherine Day is featured on the following titles
Enfantines I
Katherine Day’s first solo album gathers piano works by Joachim, Krenek, Granados and Mozart chosen for young players. Her finely sculpted readings treat often-overlooked teaching repertoire with the care usually reserved for the concert canon.
Lotus Dreams
Soprano Shu-Cheen Yu and pianist Katherine Day present eighteen favourite songs and ballads, from Brahms and Schubert to Chinese and Irish folk airs, a personal path through Lieder and art song.
Katherine Day also appears on
Sonorous Sonatas
Peter Sheridan set out to bring the larger, lower flutes to centre stage, testing their sound and colour within one of Western music’s most traditional forms: the sonata. Commissioned works and substantial duo writing put alto, bass, contrabass and subcontrabass flutes in the foreground.