Trainees 2009/10
Sopranos
Elizabeth Llewelyn
Sadhbh Dennedy
Madeleine Pierard
Meeta Raval
Mezzo-sopranos
Sara Gonzalez-Saavedra
Raquel Luis
Tenors
John Pierce
Nicky Spence
Baritones
Gerard Collett
Joa Rasmus Helgesson
Bass
John Molloy
Repetiteurs
Marie-Elise Boyer
Cameron Burns
Jean-Paul Pruna |
Anna Devin soprano
Irish soprano Anna Devin recently graduated from the award winning Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London under Janice Chapman. Prior to this she was a Young Artist with Opera Theatre Company, Ireland. Since graduating she has made her Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut in The Fairy Queen, directed by Jonathan Kent and conducted by William Christie. Her operatic roles include The Anne Who Steals/The King Goes Forth to France, Rezia/Le Rencontre Imprévue (GSMD); various roles in The Fairy Queen (Aix, Aldeburgh, GFO); Virtue, Damigella/L’incoronazione di Poppea (Buxton, Aldeburgh, Ireland tour); Belinda/Dido and Aeneas (Royal Irish Academy of Music); Venus/King Arthur (Aldeburgh).
Anna is also highly sought after on the concert platform across Europe having appeared in the Gottingen Handel Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, London Handel Festival and ROH Crush Room, amoungst others. Her oratorio and concert repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to Tippett.
In competition her UK successes include Maggie Teyte and Miriam Licette Scholarship 2009, Finalist at the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2009, Stuart Burrows International Voice Award 2008, Singer’s Prize at the Gerald Moore Award 2008, London Handel Singing Competition winning the Audience Prize 2007, Thelma King Award for Young Singers in Bath, UK 2006, the Acton Travel Bursary at the RIAM 2006 and received third prize at the Great Elm Awards in Wigmore Hall 2006. Anna would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Merchant Taylor’s Company Scholarship, AHRC, Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholarship, the Arts Council of Ireland, Wingate Scholarship, Independent Opera Scholarship and the RDS Music Bursary 2007.
Future engagments include Governess Turn of the Screw (Aldeburgh), 2nd Fairy/2nd Woman The Fairy Queen (Opera Comique, Caen and BAM New York).
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