Katharine
Hawnt is a young soprano with a growing reputation in early music
circles throughout Europe. She was a choral scholar at King’s
College London and then trained at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
in Switzerland, where she studied with some of Europe’s leading experts
in the performance of medieval, renaissance and baroque music. Her
teachers there were Evelyn Tubb, Kathleen Dineen and Dominique Vellard.
She now studies with Stefan Haselhoff in Basel and has also studied
with Emma Kirkby, Ian Partridge and Andreas Scholl, among others.
She performs regularly throughout Europe with a number of groups
including Collegium Vocale Ghent, Musica Secreta, The Musical and
Amicable Society and The Earle His Viols, under directors such as
Philippe Herreweghe, Peter Phillips and Anthony Rooley, and has appeared
in a number of recordings, broadcasts and festivals in the UK and
abroad. She directs her own group Le Basile, which
specialises in 14th and 15th century music and
performs regularly in Germany, Switzerland and the U.K.
