Kate Golla

Kate studied piano accompaniment at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and subsequently worked in Australia as a pianist and repetiteur. In 2006 she was appointed Assistant Chorus Master at Opera Australia after which she joined the music staff. Kate relocated to London in 2014, where she worked at English National Opera for several seasons. She has performed at the Proms and at the Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Festivals, and works regularly with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Opera House and English National Opera. Kate has worked on the music staff at the Hamburg Staatsoper, Opera de Rouen Normandie, Norwegian National Opera, and with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. She continues to work regularly with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and played on their European Tour in 2018, performing in venues including the Philharmonie in Berlin, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden. Conductors with whom she has worked include Sir Simon Rattle, Mark Wigglesworth, Ed Gardner, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Lorin Maazel. Since 2023 Kate has worked with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra on their Janacek opera recording project, and in the 2024/25 seasons she has been part of the music staff working on two world premiere operas by Mark-Anthony Turnage, ‘Festen’ at the Royal Opera House and ‘The Railway Children’ at Glyndebourne. Kate is also a member of the vocal and opera department coaching staff at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.