PHILIPPA MURRAY (soprano)

Biography 

PhilippaPhilippa 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 has sung with many of the leading British groups, notably Academy of Ancient Music, Ex Cathedra, Gabrieli Consort, the Monteverdi Choir, Oxford Camerata, the Sixteen and Tenebrae.

 

Recent solo engagements include Haydn's Creation with the Hogarth Singers, Handel's Messiah, Faure's Requiem and Gounod's Messe Solennelle for Ben Palmer, 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, and Graupner's Ach Gott und Herr in the London Handel Festival with Adrian Butterfield. 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), Cupid (Venus and Adonis), Peep-Bo (The Mikado), and First Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Larina (Eugene Onegin) and Leonora (Fidelio) in Guildhall opera scenes. More recently she has sung 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, and Mary in Vaughan Williams' Hugh the Drover for Hampstead Garden Opera.

 

Future plans include a trip to Versailles with Gabrieli Consort in June, solos in Bach's St John Passion, Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Theresienmesse  with various choral societies, and Berlioz's Messe Solennelle in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2013. This summer she will be performing as part of a small chorus in Stockhausen's opera MIttwoch aus Licht with Ex Cathedra and Birmingham Opera Company. Philippa is continuing to study privately with Dinah Harris and Mhairi Lawson.

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