ABOUT ME

Inspired by the teachings of tutor and professional opera singer Alla Ardakov, I carried on my studies at the University of Roehampton, achieving a first class honours degree in Music and Performance. Having won various awards in the Richmond and Kingston Music Festivals in Early Song and Opera, and was twice selected as a finalist in the Richmond Young Musician of the Year, I attended the postgraduate course for classical acting and Musical Theatre at the London Academy of Performing Arts. My roles included “Polly” in the Beggars Opera, “Dido” in Dido and Aeneas, “Polly” from The Boyfriend and “Yum Yum” from the Mikado.

 

Since graduating I have performed extensively as a solo singer and actress, touring internationally and nationally. I performed as a regular soloist for the Epsom Chamber Choir, and now sing with the award-winning vocal ensemble Chantage in London.

 

I record solo vocals for library music and commercials for television and radio, and work free lance as a wedding singer for sacred and secular ceremonies and in professional church services on an ad-hoc basis in London and the home counties. I also enjoy recording with Metro Voices for feature film soundtracks such as “The Da Vinci Code” and “Gnomeo & Juliet”. For the past five years, I have devised my own one -woman cabaret act that I can perform in venues across London for public audiences, corporate functions and private parties.

FUTURE APPEARANCES

Guest Entertainer on board the:

Ventura  - January 17th-22nd

Oriana - Febuary 15th-22nd

Oriana - April 11th- 16th

Blackwatch - May 11th - 25th

Female Vocalist in The Cromer Pier Show 2019 from June til September, Pavilion Theatre, Cromer, Norfolk

 

MUSICAL & THEATRICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Postgraduate Musical Theatre Course - The London Academy of Performing Arts

First Class Honours Music Degree - University of Surrey, Roehampton

Singing Teachers: Felicity Cook, Maureen Scott, Gary Coward

Previously - Philip Spendley, Linda Richardson, Simon Egerton, Sandra Wilkes, Alla Ardakov

 

OPERA

 

2018     Classical Guest Artist on Fred Oslen Blackwatch First Leg World Cruise

2018     Classical Guest Artist on Fred Olsen Balmoral - Norway Cruise

2015     Acis & Galatea ~ Galatea  St Albans Chamber Opera

2015     The Mikado ~ Yum Yum   St Albans Chamber Opera

2014     Cosi Fan Tutte ~ Fiordiligi  St Albans Chamber Opera

2013     Carmen ~ Micaela   St Albans Chamber Opera

2012     Phantom of the Opera Evening ~ Soprano  Viva Live Music

2012     Opera Gala  ~ Soprano   St Albans Chamber Opera

2012     Madam Butterfly ~ Cio Cio   San St Albans Chamber Opera

2011     TV1 Pop Star to Opera Star ~ Chorus  Michele Thorne

2005     The Magic Flute (Mozart) ~ Chorus  Opera Del Mar

2000     The Beggars' Opera (John Gay) ~ Polly  LAPA

1999     Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) ~ Dido   USR

 

MUSICALS & THEATRE

2018     Cromer Pier Show Summer Season- Female Vocalist

2017     Lily and Bear - Lily - Irrational Theatre

2016     Cromer Pier Show Summer and Christmas Season - Female Vocalist

2016     Cromer Pier Show , Summer and Christmas Season - Female Vocalist

2015     Camelot  ~ Guenevere  Surrey Opera

2002     The Secret Garden ~ Mary   Image Musical Theatre

2001     No Frills  ~ Sarah   Shaw Theatre Company

2000     Pride and Prejudice  ~ Kitty   AJ Productions

2002/10 Thursford Spectacular ~ Narrator  John Cushing

2001     Jack The Ripper  ~ Matilda  Merlin Entertainments

2000     MacBeth   ~ Malcom/2nd murderer LAPA

 

CABARET

Songs From The Movies – My own one-woman Cabaret evening performed on the Battersea Barge, private and corporate events and parties in London, Home Counties and Melbourne, Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONCERT WORK

2017  "Missa Solemnis" Beethoven with the Philharmonia Chorus at the Elbphilharmonie,
 Hamburg, Germany

2016   "African Sanctus" and world premiere of "A Time For All Seaons" , Soloist, Harlow Chorus 40th Anniversary Concert, Chelmsford Cathedral

2015     “Sound of Wales”, Soloist, London Welsh Rugby Male Voice Choir,

             West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

2015     “Haydn’s The Seasons, Soloist, Manuden Singers, Ian Priest, Manuden, Essex

2014     “Messiah” Handel, Soloist, Manuden Singers, Manuden Parish Church, Essex

2014     “Christmas With Kings College Cambridge Choir, Philharmonia Chorus,

             RAH, Nicholas Cleobury

2014     “Beethoven – Symphony No.9”, Philharmonia Chorus, RAH, Warren-Green

2014     “Exclusive Congress Concert” Philharmonia Chorus, Central Hall, Westminster

2014     “Glyndebourne in Manuden”, Bach’s Peasant Cantata, Manuden Singers, Manuden

2014     “Gladiator Live”, RAH, Justin Freer, Philharmonia Chorus

2013     “Christmas Oratorio”, Saint-Saens with the Manuden Singers, Manuden

2013     “Katherine Jenkins Christmas Concert” RAH, Anthony Ingliss, Philharmonia Chorus

2013     “40 Shades of Spem in Alium” Brighton Early Music Festival with Chantage

2013     “Fete de la Musique at L’Institut Francais”,London with Chantage, James Davey

2013     “An Opera Afternoon Tea” Puccini, Madam Butterfly, Cio Cio San, Stapleford Park

2013     “Opera Gala”, Soloist, Harlow Chorus, All Saints’, Hockerill, Herts Alexander Chaplin

2013     “Around The World in 18 Tunes” Armonico Consort, RAH, Christopher Monks

2012     “Rutter Requiem” Royston Choral Society, Royston, David Boarder

2012     “Misa Flamenca Africa”, Paco Pena with Chantage, Royal Festival Hall, London

2012      “Celebrate Britain” Wandsworth Older People’s Forum Concert, London

 

RECORDING STUDIO

Soloist singing for KPM Music Library, We Write Music Ltd, Apollo Voices.

2001     Spygame                                               2015     Pan

2001     Tombraider                                            2014     Exodus

2002     Veronica Guerin                                    2014     Interstella

2005     Charlie & the Chocolate Factory         2014     How To Train Your Dragon II

2005     The Corpse Bride                                  2014     Invictus Games

2006     Over The Hedge                                    2014     Jupiter Ascending

2006     The Da Vinci Code                                2010     Gnomeo & Juliet

2006      Arthur & the Invisibles                       2009     This Is It

2006     300                                                        2007      Pirates of the Caribbean III

2006     Blood Diamond

 

TV and FILM

2005      Annette   Peter Ackroyd’s The Romantics  BBC   Sam Tomkinson

2011     Soprano  Pop Star to Opera Star   ITV  Michelle Thorne

2001     Sarah  What We Don’t Know  Short Film Stephanie Mott

2012     Paramedic/Banshee The Circle   Feature Film

 

Multiple concerts previously with BBC Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, Epsom Chamber Choir, Chantage, Hartley Voices.