PHILIPPA MURRAY (soprano)
Biography
Philippa
Murray studied at King's College, London and Guildhall School of Music
and Drama, from where she graduated with distinction in 2010. She was
generously supported during her studies by the Michael James Musical
Trust. She sings with Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort, Oxford
Camerata,Tenebrae, Armonico Consort, Philharmonia Voices, and many of
the leading London church choirs. She is one of Howard Goodall’s
‘Enchanted Voices’ and is a founder member of the early music consort,
il Suono, with whom she has performed in St Petersburg, Dinard and at
King’s Place, London.
Recent solo engagements include Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle with Woking Choral Society, Couperin's Trois Lecons de Tenebres with Rococo Consort, Bach's Magnificat with Armonico Consort, Bach's Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11) with the choir of St John's College, Cambridge and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Graupner's Ach Gott und Herr in the London Handel Festival with Adrian Butterfield, Bach's St John Passion, Monteverdi’s Vespers, Carissimi’s Jephte, Rutter’s Mass of the Children, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, and Handel’s Messiah. Roles include Second Lady (Magic Flute) and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), both for Armonico Consort, Sandrina (La Finta Giardiniera) in Italy for Handmade Opera, Galatea (Acis and Galatea) for Benedict Hoffnung, First Witch (Dido and Aeneas) and solo Chorus in Haydn’s Philemon und Baucis at the Rydedale Festival, and First Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Larina (Eugene Onegin) and Leonora (Fidelio) in Guildhall opera scenes. Most recently she performed Cupid in Blow's Venus and Adonis and Peep-Bo in The Mikado, both in concert performances with fellow students from Guildhall, and sang Belinda in Dido and Aeneas in a sell-out production at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, with the Iris Theatre Group and Orchestra of St Paul's.
Future plans include Venus (Venus and Adonis) for Rococo Consort, Vivaldi's Magnificat and Handel's Salve Regina in St James', Piccadilly, and a recital for the Elgar Society in June. Philippa is continuing to study privately with Elizabeth Ritchie and Mhairi Lawson.
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