PHILIPPA MURRAY (soprano)
Biography
Philippa
Murray (Soprano) sings
with various professional ensembles, including Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort, 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 recently given concerts in St Petersburg and
at King’s Place, London. She has just been chosen to sing in the Philharmonia Chorus’s Young Professional Singers Scheme for 2010.
Recent solo engagements include Graupner's Ach Gott und Herr in the London Handel Festival, 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, in Holy Trinity, Sloane Street. She performed scenes from Handel’s Orlando (Angelica) and Alcina (Morgana) last January at Guildhall with the Baroque Orchestra and more recently was the soloist in Bach’s cantata Lobet den Herren (BWV 11) with them. She appeared as Second Lady in the Magic Flute with Armonico Consort Opera in 2007, and followed this with a tour of Dido and Aeneas, singing First Witch and Second Woman. More recently, she sang Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) 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.
In June, Philippa will be singing Cupid in Blow's Venus and Adonis and Peep-Bo in The Mikado, both in concert performances with fellow students from Guildhall. She will also be the soloist for Bach's Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11) with the choir of St John's College, Cambridge and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Philippa is
currently studying with Susan Waters and Mhairi Lawson at Guildhall
School of Music and Drama.
Download Philippa's CV here