Catherine Bouchier, soprano

Catherine Bouchier is an Australian Soprano and graduate of The Sydney Conservatorium of Music where she completed her Bachelor of Music and Diploma of Opera. During 2006/7 she was a finalist in numerous competitions including; the McDonalds Operatic Aria, Opera Foundation Australia’s; German Operatic Award, Italian Opera Award and National Opera Studio Award. 

She was granted the AIMS prize to study in Graz, Austria in 2007 after having made her professional operatic debut as First Bridesmaid in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and the ensemble of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Verdi’s Otello both with Opera Australia.

Catherine performs regularly in concert and has workshopped new operatic pieces for Opera Australia, these include; ‘Eucalyptus’ composed by Jonathan Mills, ‘When the rain stops falling’ composed by Quentin Grant and ‘Gold Diggers’ co written by Jonathan Biggins and Linda Nagle.

In 2018 she performed alongside renowned Flautist Jane Rutter in her Live at Lunch series at the Concourse in ‘Canticles of Ecstasy’ as well as a Christmas Opera Gala at the Hydro Majestic with Konzert Kollektiv’s Brad Cooper and Katherine Day on the piano.

Most recently she reprised the role of Suor Angelica by Puccini and performed Nedda from Pagliacci by Leoncavallo.