Lorna Anderson

Lorna Anderson is an extremely regarded Uk soprano whose profession has devoted to the concert and recital stage. Students of Patricia MacMahon in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Episode, she excelled, earning several honours. In 1984, she received First Reward in the Peter Pears and Royal Abroad League Contests and in 1986 received the most respectable British vocal honor, the Purcell-Britten Reward for Concert Performers. A performer with a specific fascination with early opera, Anderson sang Handel’s Theodora using the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Purcell’s Fairy Queen using the British Concert, the function of Morgana in Handel’s Alcina on the Halle Handel Celebration, and the function of Servilia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito using the Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra. HOLLAND Opera production where she sang in Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda was documented for video. Anderson sings an array of the concert repertoire. Her United kingdom credits include performances using the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of age Enlightenment, The Sixteen, The King’s Consort, the London Mozart Players, St. Adam’ Baroque, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, as well as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with conductors such as for example Sir Simon Rattle, Roger Norrington, Andrew Parrott, and Richard Hickox. Abroad, she’s sung with the brand new Globe Symphony in Miami, the Academy of Old Music on its French and South American trips, the Outfit InterContemporain, under Pierre Boulez, La Chapelle Royale, under Philippe Herreweghe, the Hague Residentie Orchestra, as well as the Stuttgart Chamber Choir. She’s recorded regularly, including a overall performance in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Harry Christophers performing, some Haydn People under Hickox, and Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. In 2008 Anderson and Jamie MacDougall finished units of recordings of Haydn’s Scottish tunes using the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt. This is accompanied by another multi-artist, multi-disc task of Poulenc mélodies with pianist Malcolm Martineau started in 2011.