Jennifer Walker (Soprano)


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Musical Education

BMus (Hons) First Class & MMus - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (02-07)

Operatic Experience

Denise - Veronique - Buxton Festival Opera 2009

Water - The Merman King WNO MAX 2009

Billy - Billy and the Dragon WNO MAX 2009

Maisy Day (Cover) - The Calling of Maisy Day - Welsh National Youth Opera 2008

Micaela - Carmen - Lyric Musical Society 2008

Pamina - Magic Flirt - WNO MAX 2009

Cendrillon - Cendrillon - RWCMD 2007

Belinda (cover) - Dido and Aeneas - RWCMD 2006

Tailor's Daughter - The Tailors Daughter WNYO 2005 (Premiere)

Carmen - Ten Belles - RWCMD 2005

Chrysea - Arasmon and Chrysea - RWCMD 2005

Alice - Alice in Wonderland - RWCMD 2004

Pitti-Sing - The Mikado - WNYO 2003

RWCMD POSTGRADUATE OPERA PATHWAY EXCERPTS AND SCENES FROM OPERA 06/07

Susanna - Le Nozze di Figaro

Adina - L'Elisir d'Amore

Miss Wordsworth - Albert Herring

Ilia - Idomeneo

CHORUS/ENSEMBLE WORK

Lucrezia Borgia - Buxton Festival Opera 2009

Camacho's Wedding - Buxton Festival Opera 2009

Extra Chorus - Welsh National Opera

BBC National Chorus of Wales (2003 - Present)

Oratorio

Brahms - Requiem

Dvorak - Te Deum

Faure - Requiem

Handel - Messiah

Haydn - Maria Teresa Mass

Haydn - Nelson Mass

Haydn - Paukenmesse

Mendelssohn - Elijah

Mendelssohn - Hear My Prayer

Pergolesi - Stabat Mater

Tippett - A Child of our Time

Vivaldi - Gloria

Vivaldi - Magnificat

Concerts

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Brass, Opera and Song - Bromsgrove

Frequent appearances alongside choirs including Bridgend Male Choir, Pendyrys MVC and Cor Bro Ogwr

Numerous charity concerts and recitals including festivals including Buxton and Rosslive!

Competition

Prize of the Province of Noord-Brabant - International Vocal Concours 's-Hertogenbosch

Monmouth Choral Prize 2006

Elias Singing Prize for Soprano 2005

Finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Bursary Competition 2003

Film, Television & Radio

Soprano 1 - The Twelve (Walton) - BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, Radio 3/Wales

Soprano - Ceremony After a Fire Raid (Mathias) and Lisa Lan (arr. Mathias) - BBC NOW/NCW 'The Choir', Radio 3/Wales

Soprano - Chichester Psalms (Bernstein) BBC Radio 3 'Discovering Music'

First Lady - The Magic Flute (Mozart) - BBC Radio 3 'Discovering Music'

Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol programmes - S4C

Awards & Scholarships

Arts & Humanities Research Council MMus Scholarship 2006-7

Russel Sheppard Memorial Vocal Scholarship 2006

Sir Geraint Evans Singing Scholarship 2006

Jenkins Phillips Scholarship 2006

Mansel Thomas Award for Music 2005

Aneurin Davies Memorial Prize 2005

RWCMD Prize for Achievement 2003-4, 2004-5, 2005-6

4 Annual Scholarships from BBC National Chorus of Wales 2003-2007

Recordings

Siren - Salome (Schmitt) Hyperion records, BBC NOW/NCW

Solo - British Church Composer Series (6) Basil Harwood - Priory Records, The Vivace Singers