Originally a pianist and a music teacher, Katerina Mina completed a BMus (Hons) degree and a PGDip (Opera) at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Her opera studies were sponsored by the Corporation of London, the A G Leventis Foundation, and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. The Greek Cypriot soprano, resident in the UK, was a prize winner in the “1st Concorso Vocale Internazionale di Musica Sacra” in Rome, and the “7th Julian Gayarre International Singing Competition” in Spain.

Katerina Mina recently appeaed at The Megaron, Athens with the National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Greek Radio and Television (ERT), in the premiere of Christos Pittas symphonic work 1973 for soprano, orchestra, chorus and electronic sound track. With the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow she performed the role of Nedda I pagliacci. Other operatic roles include Donna Elvira Don Giovanni with Staatstheater Cottbus, Mimi La Bohème with British Youth Opera, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte with Minotaur Musical Theatre, Karolka Jenufa with English Touring Opera, Flora La traviata with Polish National Opera, Contessa Le nozze di Figaro, Clorinda La cenerentola and Maria West Side Story with Oxford Philomusica.

Concert performances include Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Haydn’s Scena di Berenice with the Georgisches Kammerorchester, world premières of C Stylianou’s song cycles Of the Beautiful Kingdom for voice and piano, and Poreia for soprano, flute, guitar and piano, A Sakali’s oratorio Liturgy beneath the Acropolis with Oxford Philomusica, three of Duparc’s songs with orchestra and oratorios by Mikis Theodorakis with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra.

Katerina Mina has given recitals and concerts in the UK, Germany, Finland, Italy, France, Cyprus and Greece, and has recorded music for ERT, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)Radio and Television.

Katerina Mina represented Cyprus at the Celebratory Concert for the accession of Cyprus to the Euro Area with Christos Pitta’s symphonic works Helen and Rime d’amore (world-premiere), and was nominated to represent Cyprus at the 2nd World Delphic Games in Saratov. She took part in the first ‘Greek Festival of Youth Arts’ (EKON) in London. Most recently she appeared as Mimi La Boheme and Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, in concerts at St John’s Smith Square and Cadogan Hall and La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) with Cyprus Symphony Orchestra under Orlando Jopling, in the International Music Festival ’KYPRIA 2009’,

Engagements this season include Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte on an international tour, recital in Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Violetta La Traviata on an international tour and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Bangkok.