Kate Huggett is a soprano specialising in contemporary classical and folk music, and experimental performance.
As a recording artist and session vocalist for film and TV she has worked with Atli Örvarsson (Silo/Apple TV+ 2023), Nils Frahm (All Melody, 2008), Dickon Hinchliffe (Firebrand, 2023), Carly Paradis, PJ Harvey, Luke Howard, Hatis Not, Masayoshi Fujita and Christopher Roth.
She is a founding member of experimental vocal group Shards [Erased Tapes] and female and non-binary ensemble HOWL [Tardigrade Records] and has toured extensively in the UK and Europe.
Kate regularly brings her distinctive folk and contemporary sound into the world of opera, theatre and devising spaces. In May 2023 she premièred the folk singer role of Séréna in Josephine Stephenson’s new opera, Three Lunar Seas, commissioned by Opéra Grand Avignon (FR), directed by Frédéric Roels and conducted by Léo Warynski. This year she was also invited to work with Verity Standen and Kaleider and a small group of singers to develop music for ‘Arch’, a new piece of durational theatre with support from the National Theatre Studio and IN SITU. She is a long time collaborator of award-winning sound artist, Melanie Wilson, including work to create the role of Aphra in Opera for the Unknown Woman commissioned by Wales Millennium Centre for Festival of Voice and Yorkshire Festival in association with Warwick Arts Centre (2016).
She has been commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), NTS Radio and the National Film and Television Studio to compose for voice, including the pickers, a radio piece for folk singer and nuclear power station, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 6 and will be premiering as a live work at Britten Pears Arts in 2024.
