{"id":35,"date":"2012-10-14T20:17:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T09:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2012-10-14T20:17:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T09:17:34","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CatherineProf\"<\/a>It’s so very tempting to make a soprano joke here, because, you know, I’m a soprano (when I’m not a mezzo… it’s complicated), so it’s obviously all about me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Still, this is my website, so that probably makes it acceptable.<\/p>\n

As is probably evident from this website, I’m a singer.\u00a0 Actually, by day I am a Scientific Co-Ordinator in a medical research institute in Melbourne, but by night – and by weekend – I sing in as many choirs as I can, study singing whenever I have five spare minutes, run a choir at work, and perform as a soloist anywhere they will let me.\u00a0 Mostly, that turns out to be at weddings and funerals, though this involves more variety than you might think – I’ve sung Billy Joel \u00e0 cappella, Rutter with a Scottish ceilidh<\/em> band, and more liturgical music than you can possibly imagine, accompanied by piano, harp, organ or backing CD, and even Rossini’s Cat Duet.\u00a0 Right now, I am completely obsessed with Bach and am working my way through learning all the alto solos in his many oratorios.\u00a0 I predict that this project will keep me busy for quite some time.<\/p>\n

My background has largely been in church music and oratorio, with an emphasis on polyphony and baroque music, sudden-death sight-reading, and the sort of solos originally written for male alto, but I’ve recently discovered opera – and high soprano notes – and there’s no turning back from that…<\/p>\n

This blog, then, will be part musical CV, part repository for recordings I have made or been part of, and part a chance to share some of the music I love.\u00a0 And yes, it’s also part advertising – I love singing, and would like to do more professional work in this area, so if you live in or near Melbourne and are in need of a singer for an event, drop me an email. I’d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s so very tempting to make a soprano joke here, because, you know, I’m a soprano (when I’m not a mezzo… it’s complicated), so it’s obviously all about me. Still, this is my website, so that probably makes it acceptable. As is probably evident from this website, I’m a singer.\u00a0 Actually, by day I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}