The Girls
The Sopranos
| Jessica Broad Jessica Broad, soprano, aged 22, is in her fourth year at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), studying with Helen Lawson. Whilst still at school in Salisbury she studied with Christopher Hobkirk and aged 17 she gained High Honours in her Guildhall Diploma in singing.... [more] |
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| Jessica Broad Jessica Broad, soprano, aged 22, is in her fourth year at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), studying with Helen Lawson. Whilst still at school in Salisbury she studied with Christopher Hobkirk, and aged 17 she gained High Honours in her Guildhall Diploma in singing. Earlier this year she was a part of the chorus in the production of Eugene Onegin which was a collaborative project between the RSAMD and Scottish Opera. She played a nun in the RSAMD production of Les Dialogues des Carmelites in June 2008 and in August 2008 she sang in Kurt Weill’sThe Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Edinburgh International Festival’s opening concert. Jessica was awarded the Jean Highgate Scholarship in 2007 and has been highly commended in the Scottish Song Prize two years running. Jessica has been involved in Handel’s Messiah, which the academy performed under the direction of Lutz Kohler in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Potsdam and Berlin. Her solo work in the past year has included Mozart’s Requiem, Faure’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, Vaughan-Williams G Minor Mass, Schubert Mass in G and recitals in Paisley Abbey and Salisbury. Jessica has been lucky enough to participate in master classes with Malcolm Martineau, Professor Paul Farrington and Julius Drake. Jessica is also a member of the RSAMD Chamber Choir. Future engagements include singing in the chorus and understudying the role of Nicolette in Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges, a collaborative production between the RSAMD and Scottish Opera. Also this term, Jessica is auditioning for postgraduate studies. [less] |
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Emily Mitchell Emily Mitchell was born in Edinburgh and currently lives in Dalkeith, Midlothian. While still at school she represented Dalkeith at the Rotary Young Singer of the Year Competition, which she won in 2004. At this time she was studying singing with her mother, Fiona Mitchell. In 2005 Emily began studies at the Royal Scottish... [more] |
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Emily Mitchell Emily Mitchell was born in Edinburgh and currently lives in Dalkeith, Midlothian. While still at school she represented Dalkeith at the Rotary Young Singer of the Year Competition, which she won in 2004. At this time she was studying singing with her mother, Fiona Mitchell. In 2005 Emily began studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where her singing teacher is Margaret Aronson. In 2006 she represented the RSAMD at the Junior Kathleen Ferrier Singing Competition. In February 2007 she sang in Handel’s Messiah in Berlin and Potsdam with conductor Lutz Kohler. In September 2007 she appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival with Stephane Denève and the RSNO as one of the nuns in a concert performance of Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmelites at the Usher Hall. In November 2007 she performed as the soprano soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria and in Faure’s Requiem in Cleish. She recently preformed at Glasgow Royal Theatre and Edinburgh Festival Theatre in the chorus of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with RSAMD opera school and Scottish opera Orchestra, directed by Will Kerley. She has also recently performed in The Edinburgh International Festival singing with the RSNO at the Usher hall in Kurt Weil’s The Rise and Fall of Mahagony as one of the Ladies of Mahagony. She has recently performed the soprano solo in Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Cleish. She is due to perform the same solo in April of next year. She is currently understudying the role of Ninette in Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges. [less] |
The Altos
| Catriona Morison Edinburgh born Catriona is in her 4th year of undergraduate studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama under the tuition of Margaret Aronson. She is a former student of the RSAMD Junior Academy where she was the winner of the Junior Glasgow Grand Opera Society Cup for Voice and the Concerto Competition... [more] |
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| Catriona Morison Edinburgh born Catriona is in her 4th year of undergraduate studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama under the tuition of Margaret Aronson. She is a former student of the RSAMD Junior Academy where she was the winner of the Junior Glasgow Grand Opera Society Cup for Voice and the Concerto Competition, and sang with the Chamber Orchestra at the RSAMD and in Carlisle Cathedral. At the RSAMD, Catriona has sung with the Chamber Choir with whom she toured Berlin and Potsdam in 2007. As well as Dieci she also sings with the quartet Vocal Fusion. With these ensembles she has sung at the Balquhidder and Brechin music festivals, the RSAMD’s Summerfest. A former member of the National Youth Choir of Scotland and the NYCoS Chamber Choir, Catriona has toured the UK and has sung in the Grant Park Festival in Chicago with them. Catriona has recently returned to Scotland from a 5 month ERASMUS exchange where she studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, under the tuition of Julie Kaufmann. While she was there she took part in masterclasses with Håkan Hagegård and Svein Bjørkøy. Earlier this year Catriona performed for the Friends of Scottish Opera in a master class and workshop, was in the Carmelites chorus for the RSAMD opera production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites and appeared at the opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival as one of the Ladies of Mahagonny in Kurt Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Solo performances include Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri; Handel’s Dixit Dominus; Vivaldi’s Gloria; Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G Minor; Bach’s Magnificat, Mass in A, and Cantatas 39 and 150, and a recital in St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh. Future performances include a Vocal Fusion concert in Kirkaldy. In the new year she will appear as a chorus member in the RSAMD’s next opera production, Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, for which she is also understudying the role of Smeraldine. [less] |
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Lynda-Jane Workman Lynda-Jane Workman was born and raised in Northern Ireland. She is currently studying a BMus Honours at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, under the tutelage of Kathleen McKellar-Ferguson. Lynda-Jane comes from a musical background and before coming to Scotland she sang with the Ulster Youth... [more] |
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Lynda-Jane Workman Lynda-Jane Workman was born and raised in Northern Ireland. She is currently studying a BMus Honours at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, under the tutelage of Kathleen McKellar-Ferguson. Lynda-Jane comes from a musical background and before coming to Scotland she sang with the Ulster Youth Choir at Proms in the Park and took part in their Ireland and France Tour. In 2006, at the end of her first year at RSAMD, Lynda-Jane represented the RSAMD at the Junior Kathleen Ferrier Awards. In the RSAMD’s Opera productions she was involved in Handel’s Rinaldo, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Poulenc’s Dialogues les Carmelites, and in Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Magnificat with the RSAMD Chamber Choir. Solo concert performances include Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Mass in C and Vivaldi’s Gloria and future engagements include Bach’s Magnificat, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum, Charpentier Te Deum and Prokofiev The Love for Three Oranges. Lynda-Jane will graduate in 2009 after which she hopes to continue postgraduate study in Concert singing and Opera. Outside the RSAMD she has been involved in Little Larks, a course involving children from the Glasgow community and bringing music into their lives by playing musical games, using Kodaly methods and providing a concert for the parents to see the end product. Life is pretty full but in her spare time there is nothing she likes better than to relax with friends, reading a book and watching TV. [less] |
