Soprano Katerina Mina completed her BMus (Hons) Degree and Postgraduate Diploma in Music Performance (Oper) at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Her studies were sponsored by the Corporation of London, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, and the GSMD. The London based Greek-Cypriot soprano was the prize winner at the Julian Gayarre and Musica Sacra International Singing Competitions, as well as the winner of the 2008 Madame Figaro Magazine Singer-of-the-Year Awards. Katerina sang the roles of Nedda I Pagliacci (Kolobov Novaya Opera of Moscow), Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Staatstheater Cottbus), Violetta La Traviata & Fiordiligi Cosi Fan Tutte (European Chamber Opera), Elle La Voix Humaine (Grimeborn Opera Festival & Kypria International Music Festival), Vivika Vaftistikos (Cyprus Sumphony Orchestra), Mimi La Bohème (British Youth Opera), Karolka Jenufa (English Touring Opera) and Maria West Side Story (Oxford Philomusica).
Concert performances include Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony no. 9 with the London Chorus at St. John’s Smith Square, Haydn’s Nelson & Little Organ Masses at Shrewbury Abbey, Tippett’s Negro Spiritual’s & Fanshawe’s African Sanctus with the Manama Singers in Bahrain, Pitta’s symphonic piece 1973 at Athens Megaron (National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of ERT), Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stanley Hall Opera), Haydn’s Scena di Berenice (Georgisches Kammerorchester), A. Sakali’s oratorio Liturgy beneath the Acropolis (Oxford Philomusica), Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Theodoraki’s Oratorios and Duparc’s Orchestral Songs (Cyprus Symphony Orchestra). Her performance venues include amongst others, the Athens Concert Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Gasteig Munich, Hackney Empire, Buxton Opera House, St. John’s Smith Square Riverside Studios, Sheldonian Theatre, Shrewbury Abbey, De Montfort Hall, London Hellenic Centre, the Juhlasali of the Helsinki City Hall, Les Invalides in Paris, Theocharakis Foundation of Fine Arts in Athens, and all major theatres in Cyprus.
Katerina has performed at International Music Festivals KYPRIA, Manolis Kaloniris, London Song Festival, Around the Piano and Eure poetique et Musicale. She participated in Masterclasses with José Cura, Nelly Miricioiu, John Fisher, Lubov Stuchevskaya and Dmitri Jurowski, appeared live at BBC London’s Radio Show 94.9 FM, A World in London, and has recorded music for ERT, and CyBC Radio and Television. Katerina Mina represents Cyprus in all major events of the country. On the 1st of October 2010, Katerina performed the Hymn for Cyprus by composer Roman Kariolou on lyrics by Neşe Yasin, to celebrate the 50th Independence Anniversary of Cyprus, which has become the new boarding music of Cyprus Airways. She is currently engaged by the House of Representatives to perform a series of concerts for the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2012. Her first CD, with pianist Elena Mouzalas, has recently been released and features Chopin’s 17 Polish Songs and Schumann’s Frauenliebe und-Leben. The CD is produced by IRIDA Classical.