Jonathan Lemalu

Jonathan Lemalu, a New Zealand born Samoan, is already among the very forefront of today’s young generation of singers. He graduated from a Postgraduate Diploma Course in Advanced Performance on the London Royal Schools Opera Course at the Royal College of Music and was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier award and the recipient of the 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Award for Young Artist of the Year. He has performed at the Munich, Edinburgh, Ravinia and Tanglewood Festivals and at the BBC Proms. He is already in great demand from the major opera houses, orchestras and recital venues of the world. An exclusive EMI artist his first recording, a debut recital disc with Roger Vignoles, was released in 2002 to great critical acclaim and won the 2002 Gramophone Debut Disc of the Year award. Recent recordings include an operatic arias disc with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and a disc of English and American songs with Malcolm Martineau.