Jennifer Johnston
Introduction
The young dramatic mezzo-soprano is a BBC New Generation Artist, and was named by BBC Music Magazine as a Rising Star, and the Financial Times as the ‘Face to Watch in Opera’. She is the recipient of numerous awards including Second Prize in the Montserrat Caballé International Singing Competition, two Susan Chilcott Scholarships and a Wingate Scholarship.
Jennifer's engagements in 2012-3 season include Götterdämmerung at the Bayerische Staatsoper and at the Munich Festival; Birtwistle's Gawain at Salzburg Festival, Oedipus Rex with the LSO for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s 70th Birthday in London and Paris, her debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Symphony No 9 with Sir John Eliot Gardiner as part of a major tour of the US and Europe, Act 3 of Die Walküre in concert with the Philharmonia and Sir Andrew Davis; Die Zauberflöte with Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony at the Baltic Sea Festival; Paukenmesse (BBCSSO/Labadie), Handel’s Messiah (RLPO/Cummings), Britten’s Spring Symphony (BBCNOW/Atherton), Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 (BSO/Karabits), Bach’s B Minor Mass (Northern Sinfonia), Britten's Phaedra / Haydn's Arianna a Naxos (Gamba/Ulster Orchestra live on Radio 3) and her solo recital debut at the Wigmore Hall with Joseph Middleton broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. She will twice appear at the BBC Proms: in Beethoven 9 with Petrenko and the NYO, and will give the world premiere of Anthony Payne's arrangement of Vaughan Williams Four Last Songs with Vanska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Please contact Paul Meyer for a current biography.
Jennifer's engagements in 2012-3 season include Götterdämmerung at the Bayerische Staatsoper and at the Munich Festival; Birtwistle's Gawain at Salzburg Festival, Oedipus Rex with the LSO for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s 70th Birthday in London and Paris, her debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Symphony No 9 with Sir John Eliot Gardiner as part of a major tour of the US and Europe, Act 3 of Die Walküre in concert with the Philharmonia and Sir Andrew Davis; Die Zauberflöte with Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony at the Baltic Sea Festival; Paukenmesse (BBCSSO/Labadie), Handel’s Messiah (RLPO/Cummings), Britten’s Spring Symphony (BBCNOW/Atherton), Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 (BSO/Karabits), Bach’s B Minor Mass (Northern Sinfonia), Britten's Phaedra / Haydn's Arianna a Naxos (Gamba/Ulster Orchestra live on Radio 3) and her solo recital debut at the Wigmore Hall with Joseph Middleton broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. She will twice appear at the BBC Proms: in Beethoven 9 with Petrenko and the NYO, and will give the world premiere of Anthony Payne's arrangement of Vaughan Williams Four Last Songs with Vanska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Please contact Paul Meyer for a current biography.
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