An emerging mezzo-soprano, Katerina Utochkina has just appeared in the title role of Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri with Vera Causa Opera in Cambridge and Waterloo in April 2018, the role she has just recently understudied at MYOpera in Toronto. Ms Utochkina has made her York Symphony debut as a soloist at The Night at theOpera this February, a Heliconian Club appearance in October 2017and performed a solo recital as a part of The Young Artists’ Showcase at the Newmarket Theatre earlier that year. Ms Utochkina has also appeared in the roles of La Marquise de Berkenfield in La Fille du Regiment and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Vera Causa Opera (Kitchener and Cambridge, ON), and covered the role of Mercédès in Carmen with the Brott Opera Festival in Hamilton, ON. She has made her professional debut in 2015 in the role of Gretchen (The Student Prince) with the Toronto Operetta Theatre. Other credits include Zita in Gianni Schicchi and Sour Osmina in Suor Angelica with the Halifax Summer Opera Festival, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Erika in Vanessa with Summer Opera Lyric Theatre. Ms Utochkina is a graduate of the Performance Diploma Program at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music, where she has also performed in a number of opera productions, appearing as La Mere Michele in Le Laureat, Third Model in The Silent Serenade and The Innkeeper’s Wife in The Cunning Little Vixen. Apart from operas Ms Utochkina has also performed solo recitals in Mazzoleni Hall and was a recipient of The Karen Dart Vocal Scholarship and The Deanna Prezio Scholarship at The Glenn Gould School for the 2014/2015 academic year.