K a t h e r i n e  B r o d e r i c k is an Edinburgh-based soprano who wins praise for her expressive range and versatility across repertoire that spans intimate lieder recitals to orchestral songs and leading Wagner roles. In 2007, she won the Kathleen Ferrier Award, and the Gold Medal at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied before attending the National Opera Studio. In 2025 she was nominated for Best Female Lead Role at the Austrian Musiktheaterpreis for her portrayal of Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung (Stadtheater Klagenfurt). She subsequently returned to Klagenfurt to make her acclaimed debut as Isolde. She is in great demand at international opera houses, concert halls and recital stages, as well as enjoying a busy recording schedule.

Her opera roles include Brünnhilde - Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung; Sieglinde, Ortlinde and Helmwige - Die Walküre; Ariadne/Primadonna - Ariadne auf Naxos; Adriana Lecouvreur (title role); Leonore - Fidelio; Vitellia - La Clemenza di Tito; Tatyana - Eugene Onegin; Alice Ford - Falstaff; Vitelia - Clemenza di Tito; Gräfin - Capriccio; Giorgetta - Il Tabarro; Lady Billows - Albert Herring; Miss Jessel - The Turn of the Screw and Mrs Coyle - Owen Wingrave. She has appeared in performances and recitals at the Royal Opera, ENO, Glyndebourne, Garsington, Opera North, Opéra de Paris, Opéra-Comique, Opéra national de Montpellier, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Oper Leipzig, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, and the Oxford International Song Festival among others.

Concert repertoire includes Mahler's Second Symphony, Fourth Symphony, Eighth Symphony, Rückert-Lieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Lobgesang; Britten's Spring Symphony and War Requiem; Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été; Berg's Sieben frühe Lieder and Wozzeck fragments; Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder; and Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder. She performs with leading orchestras that include LSO, Philharmonia, Hallé, BBC orchestras, Ulster and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, Salzburg Mozarteum, Singapore and Queensland Symphony orchestras and Hong Kong Philharmonic.

She has a growing discography which includes R.V. Williams A Sea Symphony - Mark Elder (Hallé); Mendelssohn Lieder - Eugene Asti (Hyperion); Britten Songs - Malcolm Martineau (Onyx Classics); Turn of the Screw - Farnes (LSO Live); Walküre and Götterdämmerung - Mark Elder (Hallé); Schumann Lieder- Graham Johnson (Hyperion); Mussorgsky Songs - Sergei Rybin (Stone Records) and Songs for the Turn of a Century, Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg Lieder - Malcolm Martineau (Champs Hill). 

She is originally from Saddleworth, but now lives by the beach with her two children in Edinburgh.

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