15th November 2008, 7.30pm
Alto soloist for Britten Rejoice in the Lamb
and Vaughan-Williams Mass in G Minor, in North London.
4th and 5th September 2008
Female chorus, with EXAUDI, in Harrisson Birtwistle's
Last Supper, in Turin and Milan.
8th and 9th August 2008, 7.30pm
Mrs Noye in Britten Noye's Fludde, at the
Ross Live Festival in Ross-on-Wye.
28th June 2008, 7.30pm
Berlioz Death of Cleopatra, the orchestral
monologue for mezzo-soprano, with Kew Sinfonia, in Kew, conducted
by Tom Seligman.
20nd June 2008, 10pm
Singing with EXAUDI, at Aldeburgh Festival, performing
Xenakis Nuits and other repertoire.
13th June 2008, 6.30pm
Singing with EXAUDI, at Shoreditch Church, as part of the
Spitalfields Festival, performing Ferneyhough, Rihm and Tallis.
5th May 2008
Singing with EXAUDI, in Paris, performing from the European Masterworks
Project, with music from Xenakis, Ferneyhough and Finnissy.
15th March 2008
Alto soloist in Scarlatti Stabat Mater, with Ross Choral
Society, Ross-on-Wye.
8th December 2007, 7.30pm
Alto soloist in Handel Messiah, Tewkesbury Abbey, with
Tewkesbury and District Choral Society and the Musical and Amicable
Society Orchestra.
17th November 2007
Alto soloist in Bach B Minor Mass, with Hereford
Choral Society, conducted by Geraint Bowen, in Hereford Cathedral.
9th November 2007
Storge in Handel Jeptha, with Orlando Chamber Choir, conducted
by James Weeks, at St. James' Piccadilly.
6th October 2007
Alto soloist for Mahler Symphony No.2, conducted by James
Lowe, with New Bristol Sinfonia at Colston Hall.
5th April 2007
Solo recital at Handel House, Upper Brook Street, London, with
Ruth Ross on trumpet, combining 18th Century music with contemporary
compositions.
17 March 2007
Alto soloist in Handel Dixit Dominus, a Coronation Anthem
and Mass no 9 by Heinichen, in Bath Abbey with the Chantry Singers.
1st March 2007
Solo Recital including Ravel Chansons Madecasses, with
Anima Ensemble, at St Paul's Church, Deptford.
15th February 2007
Singing Pascal Dusapin's Niobe with 12 part ensemble Philharmonia
Voices, with soprano Claire Booth, as part of the Philharmonia's
'Music of Today' series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
29th January 2007
Singing with EXAUDI, at the Madrid Contemporary Music Festival,
at Museo Nacionale Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, music including
the European Masterworks Project.
18th December 2006
Performances of Xenakis, Finnissy and Tallis at the Spitalfields
Winter Festival, at Spitalfields Church, with EXAUDI.
16th December 2006
Alto soloist in Handel 'Messiah' with Ross Choral Society, in
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
9th-15th October 2006
Residency at Aldeburgh, with EXAUDI, working on the European Masterworks
Project.
30th September 2006
Alto soloist in Mozart 'Requiem' at Eton College Chapel, with
the Windsor and Eton Choral Society and the London Mozart Players,
conducted by Ralph Allwood, as part of the Windsor Festival.
23rd September 2006
Michael Finnissy 7 Sacred Motets; 3 Motets, 2 Interludes, with
Exaudi, at St Paul's Knightsbridge, SW1, including a solo motet.
17th-19th August 2006
Alto soloist in Mozart C Minor Mass and Bach Magnificat in Seillans,
Provence, France, with Ensemble Cordiale.
15th August 2006
Giulio Cesare arias and Bach Cantata 93 in Seillans, Provence,
France, with Ensemble Cordiale.
3rd August 2006
Lunchtime Classical duets, songs and jazz with soprano Maddy Holmes
and pianist Jeremy Limb, in Red Lion Square, as part of the Red
Lion Square Festival.
26th June 2006
Soloist performing new works by the Camberwell Composers Collective,
at the Blue Elephant,in the Camberwell Arts Festival.
23rd June 2006
Soloist performing new works by the Camberwell Composers Collective,
at the Pump House, in the Aldeburgh Festival.
18th June 2006
Alto soloist in Mozart Requiem at St Magnus Festival, Orkney,
with BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
10th June 2006
Singing Brian Ferneyhough's 'Missa Brevis' with EXAUDI Ensemble
at Aldeburgh Festival, with a live broadcast on Radio 3.
21st May 2006
Alto soloist in Lambert 'Rio Grande' at the Wathen Hall, St Paul's
School, Barnes, with the John Colet Singers.
10th May 2006
'Baroque Sacred Arias and Duets', at the Brighton Festival, with
Joseph Cullen.
14th April 2006, Good Friday
Alto soloist in Bach St Matthew Passion, at Eton College Chapel,
with Royal Free Singers.
11th December 2005
Alto soloist in Handel Messiah, in Vence Cathedral, South of France,
with the Nice and Monte Carlo Philharmonic, conducted by Errol
Girdlestone.
19th November 2005
Alto and Soprano II soloist in Vivaldi 'Gloria' and Haydn 'Theresienmesse',
with Hereford Choral Society, conducted by Geraint Bowen, at Hereford
Cathedral.
12th November 2005
Alto soloist in Bach Mass in B Minor, with the Academy of St Mary's,
at St John's Church, Spencer Hill Road, Wimbledon.
29th October 2005
Alto soloist in Bach B Minor Mass, at Bath Abbey, as part of the
Bath Bach Festival.
18th-20th August 2005
Alto soloist in Bach 'B Minor Mass' in South of France as part
of music festival with 'Musique-Cordiale'.
12th August 2005
Sorceress and Spirit in Purcell 'Dido and Aeneas', in Ross-on-Wye
with the Ross Choral Society.
July 2005
Alto soloist in Rachmaninoff 'Vespers', with the Huddersfield
Choral Society, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, at Tewkesbury Abbey,
as part of the Cheltenham Festival of Music.
June 2005
Concert with Endymion Ensemble performing Bach, Vaughan Williams,
Saxton and other new works, at St Giles Church, Camberwell.
June 2005
Concert with Endymion Ensemble incorporating music written in
workshops with the charity Creative Routes, as part of the Camberwell
Arts Week 'The Write Stuff', at the Camberwell Leisure Centre.
April 2005
Soloist in fund raising concert for the Sudan in Shoreditch, singing
new music by Gavin Bryers and Ravel songs.
March 2005
Alto soloist in Haydn 'Nelson Mass', conducted by Nick Jenkins,
at St Alfege's Church, Greenwich.
January 2005
Alto soloist in Handel's 'Messiah', with the Edinburgh Choral
Union, conducted by Joseph Cullen, at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh.
December 2004
Alto soloist in Handel's 'Messiah, Part One' and other Christmas
music, with the Eastbourne Choral Society, at Eastbourne Town
Hall, conducted by John Hancorn.
October 2004
Soloist in 'El Amor Brujo' by Manuel de Falla, with the Kew Sinfonia,
at St Anne's Church, Kew.
July 2004
Alto soloist in Rachmaninov Vespers, with the Huddersfield Choral
Society, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, in Reims Cathedral, France.
July 2004
Mrs Noye in Britten 'Noye's Fludde', at the Cheltenham International
Festival of Music, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, in the Cheltenham
Town Hall.
June 2004
Alto soloist in Rachmaninov Vespers, with the Huddersfield Choral
Society, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, in Mirfield Abbey, Yorkshire.
June 2004
Alto soloist in Rachmaninov Vespers, with the Huddersfield Choral
Society, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, in Ampleforth Abbey, Yorkshire.
June 2004
Interviewed by Dr Armand Leroi and performing 'Castrati' arias
on Channel Four's 'Human Mutants'.
May 2004
Berg 'Seven Early Songs' with the Edinburgh University Music Society
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jim Lowe, in Edinburgh.
March 2004
Duet concert with Madeleine Holmes at the Old Charterhouse in
the City, with music by Purcell, Brahms and Mozart and jazz standards
by Gershwin, Porter, Kern et al.
March 2004
Soloist in 'Chantre' - Improvisation by Stephane Altier, with
the Manson Ensemble, conducted by James Macmillan, at the Royal
Academy of Music and at the St Stephen's Centre, Canterbury, as
part of the 'Sounds New Festival'.
November 2003
Recital at King's College, London, Strand, at 7.30pm, accompanied
by Lucy Walker, including Ravel 'Histoires Naturelles' and Rodrigo
'Quattro Madrigales Amatorios'.
November 2003
Duet concert with Madeleine Holmes in Leaminster, Worcestershire,
including works by Mozart, Purcell, Rossini and Brahms.
August 2003
Alto soloist in Handel ‘Dixit Dominus’, conducted by
John Hancorn, and alto soloist in Mozart ‘Vesperae solennes
de Dominica’ and Britten ‘Rejoice in the lamb’,
conducted by Scott Stroman, both at Dartington International Summer
School.
July 2003
Assunta in ‘The Saint of Bleeker Street’ by Menotti,
at the Peacock Theatre, Kingsway.
June 2003
Final Recital for Advanced Postgraduate Diploma at TCM, in Old
Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich. Programme included Haydn
‘Arianna a Naxos’ and Schumann ‘Liederkreis op.39’.
March 2003
Soloist in concert with soprano Madeleine Holmes at the Old Charterhouse
in the City, London, with
a programme consisting of Pergolesi ‘Stabat Mater’ and
other duets.
March 2003
Alto Soloist in Mozart ‘Requiem’ in St Alfege’s
Church, Greenwich, conducted by Nicholas Jenkins,
for the University of Greenwich.
March 2003
Second performance of 'Metro' by Simon Katan at the Laben Centre,
Woolwich.
March 2003
Alto Soloist in Rossini ‘Petite Messe Solonelle’ with
Collegium Musicum, in Exmouth Market,
conducted by Peter Owens.
February 2003
Premiere of ‘Metro’ (composition for voice, tape and
double bass) by Simon Katan, at St
Cyprian’s Church, Baker Street, in conjunction with the BMIC.
November 2002
Alto Soloist in Mahler’s Third Symphony, with TCM, conducted
by Diego Masson, at Ely
Cathedral and in Brighton.
August 2002 - Chorus of 'La Traviata', Verdi,
at Dartington International Summer School, Devon to end the five
week course.
August 2002 - Lunchtime recital including songs by Schumann,
Faure and Barber, accompanied by Andrew Macmillan at Charlton
House, East London.
July (mid) 2002
Nerone in 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea' by Monterverdi, conducted
by Philip Thorby.
July 2002
Recital with Lucy Walker at the Cheltenham Internation Music Festival,
as part of the Young Artist's Series, featuring music from the
CD.
April 2002
Recital in Herefordshire with Sian Jones (Soprano) of Italian,
French and English song, accompanied by Lucy Walker. The programme
includes two song cycles from Polly's CD 'Songs from the exotic'.
Recital at Tretire Music Centre, Herefordshire.
March 2002
Recital at the Charterhouse in the City of London with Sian Jones
(Soprano) of Italian and French song, accompanied by Andrew MacMillan.
December 2001
Soloist on Bach Cantata weekend, conducted by Stephen Jackson,
culminating in performance of excerpts from several Cantats, as
part of Dartington International Music Festival.
October 2001
Alto soloist, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerass, with Trinity
College of Music Chamber Orchestra and Choir, in performance of
Haydn's Nelson Mass in the Old Roayl Naval College Chapel, Greenwich.
September 2001 Alto soloist with Hammersmith and Fulham choral
society for Haydn's Nelson Mass in St Peter's Hammersmith.
September 2001
Understudied Louise Innes The Seer, an opera by John Bevan-Baker,
for a festival in Inverness, conducted by William Conway.
September 2001
Released CD at Edinburgh Festival, with recital accompanied by
Christopher Glynn. Programme included Berio, de Falla, Copland
and Britten.
August 2001
Awarded bursary to study Contemporary Performance at Dartington
International Summer School. Performed in two concerts of contemporary
music.
May 2001
Alto soloist with Hammersmith and Fulham choral society for Haydn's
Nelson Mass in Fulham.
January 2001
Recorded debut solo album for Delphian Records, including song
cycles by de Falla, Rodrigo, Weir and Berio.
November 2000
Sang Raising Sparks by James MacMillan with EUCME (Edinburgh University
Contemporary Music Ensemble), in Edinburgh. Reviewed by the Scotsman,
who commented on her "richly inviting voice", saying that "this
singer is clearly on the cusp of a brilliant career, the give-away
emanates from her attention to detail".
October 2000
Recital of early music in Herefordshire, including Monteverdi,
Vivaldi, Dowland and Purcell, with continuo accompaniment (Mark
Summers - Viola de Gamba) and Ibi Aziz - Harpsichord).
August 2000
Premiered a new work by Daniel Williams, Crammond, written especially
for her, at the Edinburgh Festival at St Cecilia's Hall.
August 2000
Awarded a bursary to study with Linda Hirst, at Dartington International
Summer School, in the 20th century vocal class.
June 2000
Final degree recital in Reid Concert Hall, including de Falla
Siete Canciones Popolares Espanolas and Songs from the Exotic
by Judith Weir (both on Album), in which she gained a high first.
March 2000
Alto soloist in Bach's St Matthew Passion, in Greyfriar's Kirk,
Edinburgh, directed by William Conway.
Feburary 2000
Performed de Falla's Siete Canciones at the Edinburgh Society
of Musicians and again at a lunchtime concert in the Reid Concert
Hall, as part of the series organised by the University.
October 1999
Sang selection of Duparc songs, accompanied by Alex Taylor, at
the Janet Buckley Memorial Concert.
May 1999
Sang Phaedra by Britten, with the University Chamber Orchestra,
conducted by Christopher Bell, having won their concerto competition.
February 1999
Finalist in the Tovey Award, Edinburgh University.
