Madeleine Shaw mezzo

Since studying music at Goldsmiths, University College London, Samling Scholar Madeleine has completed a Post-Graduate Diploma and MMus in Opera from the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio (RSAMD) with Distinction where she studied with Kathleen McKellar-Ferguson. Whilst at the RSAMD she was awarded the Mary Garden Entrance Scholarship and the Ye Cronies Opera Prize.

Recent solo performances include Bach's B Minor Mass and Copland's In the Beginning (St. John's College, Cambridge), Rossini's Petit Messe Solonelle (St Edmundsbury Cathedral), Mendelssohn's Elijah, Vaughan-Williams' Serenade to Music, Berio's Folksongs (Glasgow Summerfest), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Tavener’s Lamentation for Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Ramalah, Abu Gosh and Bethlehem), Duruflé Requiem (Paisley Abbey) and Haydn’s Nelson Mass (Cadogan Hall, London) and opera gala with Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Barony Hall, Glasgow) and Mozart Requiem (Anghiari Festival, Italy). She has appeared in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Phillip Langridge and Malcolm Martineau.

Madeleine took part in the ENO Baylis Programme 'The Knack' performance skills course and subsequently became a company principal for the programme in Palace in the Sky by Jonathan Dove and Rachel Leach's South of the River. She regularly sings with The Cambridge Singers, and European Voices, most recently performing Così fan tutte and Cretian Woman in Idomeneo in the Salzburg Spring Festival, Berlin and Lucerne with Sir Simon Rattle.

Operatic roles include Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw), Mrs Herring (Albert Herring), The Forrester's Wife and The Owl (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), The Grand Duchess of Monteblanco (A Dinner Engagement) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) for Opera East Productions, Nerone (L'Incoronazione di Poppea), Meg Page (Falstaff), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Un Pâtre (L'Enfant et les Sortileges) and Cretian Woman (Idomeneo) at the RSAMD. Opera scenes performed include Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Meg Page, Mercédès (Carmen), Idamante (Idomeneo), Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Frau Reich (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Mère Marie (Les Dialogues des Carmélites), Madame Larina (Eugene Onegin) and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier).

Madeleine is grateful to The Tillett Trust, The Music Sound Foundation, W F Wotherspoons Trust and The Kathleen Trust for their support.