Born in Liverpool in 1986, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge completed her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2010.  She was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation artist from 2015-17, an ENO Young Artist and a YCAT Artist (Young Classical Artists Trust) between 2010-13. She has won numerous awards, including the MBF Sybil Tutton Award, the Bridgitte Fassbaender Award, the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Strauss Award, the RPS Susan Chilcott Scholarship and the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary, Merseyside Woman of the Year Arts Award and Kathryn was appointed as an RNCM Honorary Associate Artist in 2020.