Karin Weston

Karin Weston is a singer specializing in early music, with a particular emphasis on medieval repertoires. She is a founding member of Trobár, and is a member of the ensembles memor and Contre le Temps, which respectively garnered the first and second prizes in the 2023 International Van Wassenaer competition. She is active within the medieval scene at large, singing with the medieval ensembles Per-Sonat, Ensemble Parlamento, Rubens Rosa, Concordian Dawn, Moirai and Dialogos. A regular on international stages, she has sung in festivals and on series such as AMUZ (Belgium), the Utrecht Early Music Festival (Netherlands), Freunde Alte Musik Basel (Switzerland), Voix et Route Romane (France), Montalbâne (Germany), Tage Alter Musik in Herne (Germany), and Innsbruck Early Music Festival (Austria), amongst others. Karin can be heard on albums by Concordian Dawn (Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera, Fortuna Antiqua et Ultra) and Moirai (Wa funde man sament so manic liet?), as well as on Trobár’s recently released Il dit/Elle dit. She holds degrees in historical performance practice, medieval/Renaissance music performance, and voice pedagogy from Case Western Reserve University and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and is currently based in Basel, Switzerland.