British soprano Nina Kanter has performed in concert and opera in venues throughout the UK, Europe and India, including the Aldeburgh Festival, Oxford International Song Festival, Royal Festival Hall and the Bangalore International Centre. Praised for her ‘full, rich and intense voice’, she is particularly at home in Slavic and Italian repertoire, with roles including Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. Nina’s passion for teaching has led to a break in performing in recent years, but she returns to the concert platform in 2024 with a recital for the Leeds Lieder Festival with pianist Keval Shah, and a lecture recital on Indian Art Song for the first Global Art Song conference at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg.

Nina’s successes include being selected for the prestigious Britten-Pears young artist programme at the Aldeburgh Festival and as an ENOA Artist at Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera, as well as winning second prize in the 2018 North International Music Competition. She was a member of English National Opera’s Opera Works and the Glyndebourne Academy opera studio programmes. In 2023 Nina was appointed as one of the first female cantorial soloists at Edgeware and Hendon Reform Synagogue, sharing the role with Sara Brummer. 

Nina read Music as a choral scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with first class honours and the Sir Rudolph Peters’ Prize for Music, and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded Distinction and the Grabowsky Connell Prize for high achievement. She was a Josephine Baker Trust Artist and won second prize in the Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Prize during her studies.