Meet the Ensemble
Katie Carmichael
Soprano
Scottish Soprano, Katie Carmichael, has recently graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with her Masters of Music in Vocal Performance where she was taught by Elizabeth McCormack. Katie is currently a young artist on British Youth Opera’s Serena Fenwick Programme in collaboration with Garsington Opera for 2026.
Awards include Governor’s Recital Competition 1st Prize, the A Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize, Leonie Kayser Competition 1st Prize, Winnie Busfield Award and 2nd Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary Competition for young singers.
Katie’s solo concert repertoire includes Bruckner Mass in D Minor, Britten Rejoice in the lamb, Handel Utrecht te Deum HWV 278, Mahler Symphony No.4, Mozart Requiem and Vesperae solennelle de confessore, Poulenc Gloria, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and Schubert Mass No.2 in G.
Opera Credits include Pamina, Die Zauberflote (Lyric Opera Studio Weimar) and Servant, Cendrillon (RCS). In scenes at the RCS, Katie has performed the roles of Countess Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro, The Governess, The Turn of the Screw, Adina, L’elisir d’amore and Alice Ford, Falstaff.
Katie has been a young artist on the RCS Associate Artist Programme with Mezzo Soprano Karen Cargill and participated in Sir James MacMillan’s Mentoring Programme with the Cumnock Tryst Festival in 2024. In the summer of 2025 Katie was a young artist on the International Vocal Competition s-Hertogenbosch singer sessions.
Caitlin Mackenzie
Mezzo-Soprano
Isle of Lewis born mezzo-soprano Caitlin Mackenzie is a recent graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she completed her MMus studies with Elizabeth McCormack.
Caitlin is a Samling Artist, and a keen oratorio soloist, with recent performances alongside the Sòlas Ensemble of Mozart’s Requiem and Bruckner’s Mass in D Minor, as well as Solos in Handel’s Messiah, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Requiem and Vespers and Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man.
Caitlin’s recent credits include Auntie (Peter Grimes) with British Youth Opera, Dritte Damme (Die Zauberflöte) and Spirit (Cendrillon) at the RCS, as well as performances as a member of the Scottish Opera Chorus in Glucks’ Orfeo and Euridice at the Edinburgh International Festival, and Puccini’s La Bohème. Later this year, Caitlin is looking forward to rejoining the chorus at Scottish Opera for their production of Puccini’s Turandot.
Euan McDonald
TENOR
Scottish Tenor, Euan McDonald is a Samling Artist and a recent graduate of the MMus in Vocal Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he was awarded the RCS Performance Prize for Voice.
Last summer, he was a Young Artist with both Garsington Opera and Waterperry Opera Festival, alongside the Rising Stars programme at the Edinburgh International Festival. On the operatic stage, he has performed with Opera Cameratina in Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins (Father) and Samuel Barber’s A Hand of Bridge (Bill). He appeared with Lyric Opera Studio Weimar as Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Fife Opera as Gherardo in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Most recently, he joined the chorus of Irish National Opera for their production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
On the concert platform, his repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C Minor, Haydn’s Creation, Schubert’s Stabat Mater, Bruckner’s Mass in D Minor, Britten’s Saint Nicolas, Brahm’s Libeslieder, and Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle.
As a choral singer, Euan is a member of Dunedin Consort, previously as one of their Bridging the Gap Young Artists in the Scattered Rhymes Tour, and most recently on the The Quality of Mercy Tour. He is a Leverhulme Scholar alumnus of the National Youth Choir of Scotland Chamber Choir and is also a member of Scottish Vocal Quartet, Sòlas Ensemble, a rising group with performances at the Usher Hall, Perth Concert Hall and BBC Studios.
Euan is a Leeds Lieder Young Artist and within the RCS was part of Sir James MacMillan’s mentoring programme and one of Karen Cargill’s Associate Artists. He was the winner of the Elgar Spedding Memorial Lieder Prize and the Hugh S Roberton Prize for Scottish Singing.
He now looks forward to joining Glyndebourne Chorus for Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo this summer.
Joshua McCullough
BASS
Scottish-Maltese Bass Joshua McCullough is an MA (Hons) Music Graduate from the University of Glasgow, and recently completed his MMus Vocal Performance studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Joshua is a Samling Artist, and was a young artist with Genesis Sixteen and Dunedin Consort. Recent opera credits include Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Le Roi (Cendrillon) and Neptune (Idomeneo) at the RCS, The Notary (Gianni Schicchi) at Grange Park Opera, Hobson (Peter Grimes) with British Youth Opera, Quince (Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Don Prudenzio (Il Viaggio a Reims) at Wexford Festival Opera.
When not singing as a member of the Sòlas Ensemble, Joshua is often in demand around Scotland/UK as a low bass, including international bookings and recordings with the Dunedin Consort, Mancunium Consort, Chamber Choir Ireland and KANTOS. Upcoming in 2026, Joshua will join the Dunedin Consort for their annual performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion in early April, and looks forward joining the Alvarez Emerging Artist Programme at Garsington Opera this summer.