SOPRANO

Born in Surrey, Sally Harrison trained at the Royal Northern College of Music with Joseph Ward, and at the National Opera Studio. Since graduating, her career has taken her throughout the UK, to Europe and the Far East. She has appeared with the Classical Opera Company, the English Bach Festival, English National Opera, the Greek National Opera, the Opera Society of Hong Kong, Scottish Opera, and at the Buxton Festival and La Fenice, Venice, in repertoire including Pat Nixon Nixon in China, Micaëla Carmen, Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor, Poppea Agrippina, Romilda Xerxes, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte, Pamina The Magic Flute, Countess Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Musetta La bohème, the title role in Daphne, The Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier, Yum-YumThe Mikado and GildaRigoletto.

Her concert repertoire ranges from J. S. Bach, Handel and Mozart through Rossini and Verdi to Elgar, Richard Strauss and Vaughan Williams. Recent engagements have included appearances with the Young Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sussex Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Conductors with whom she has worked in opera and concert include Nicholas Braithwaite, Ivor Bolton, Stephen Cleobury, Laurence Cummings, Paul Daniel, Noel Davies, Mark Elder, Sian Edwards, Alexander Gibson, Charles Groves, Jan Latham Koenig, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Charles Mackerras, Naoto Otomo, Ian Page, David Parry, Mark Shanahan, Jeffrey Tate and David Willcocks. Her concert repertoire includes Beethoven Missa Solemnis, the Brahms, Dvorak, Fauré, Mozart and Verdi Requiems, Dvorak Stabat Mater and Te Deum, Elgar The Kingdom, Haydn The Creation, Mozart Mass in C Minor and Vesperae solemnes de confessore, Poulenc Gloria, Rachmaninov The Bells, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater, Tippett A Child of Our Time and Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem and A Sea Symphony.

Sally Harrison is a specialist in the music of Hans Werner Henze, and has sung Minette The English Cat in Berlin, Gütersloh, London and at the Montepulciano Festival, Cantata della fiaba estrema with the Scharoun Ensemble of Berlin, Novae de infinito laudes with the London Sinfonietta and Whispers of Heavenly Death with the Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt. Her recordings include Mercédès Carmen for Chandos and Sultana Rose-in-Bloom The Rose of Persia for cpo and her broadcasts include Friday Night is Music Night for BBC Radio 2.

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