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Cora Burggraaf soprano

Cora was born in The Netherlands in 1977. She studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague where she studied with Maria Acda and completed a Masters Degree in Music with distinction.

Afterwards she went to study at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the Royal College of Music with Lillian Watson as the Sir Thomas Allen Scholar. She is currently studying at the National Opera Studio.

She has participated in masterclasses with Elizabeth Söderström, Margo Garrett, Thomas Quasthoff, Roger Vignoles, Thomas Hampson and Sir Thomas Allen.

In 2003 she won the Maggie Teyte Prize and the Miriam Licette Scholarship and in 2001 she won a second prize in the National Mozart Competition.

Her concert performances include Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate with the Brandeburg Orchestra at St.Martin’s in the Field, the Maggie Teyte Prizewinner’s Recital at the Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, a Wigmore Hall concert with the Classical Opera Company with Ian Page conducting, Beethoven’s Ah perfido and Egmont Incidental Music with the London Mozart Players with Andrew Parrott conducting, a contemporary music tour to Tokyo, Japan with the Maarten Altena Ensemble and numerous concerts at the Tanglewood Music Center, USA, among which Bach’s Magnificat soprano I solo with Seiji Osawa conducting. She has also given many lied recitals in The Netherlands and the UK.

Her operatic appearances include Mozart’s Magic Flute (Papagena) with BBIOS, Handel’s Agrippina (Poppea) for the London Handel Society, Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna) with British Youth Opera under direction of Dominic Wheeler, A Midsummernight’s Dream (Helena) with BBIOS, Mozart’s Il re Pastore (Aminta) with the Classical Opera Company under direction of Ian Page, J.C. Bach’s Adriano in Siria (Farnaspe, concert performance) at St. John’s Smith Square with the same company and Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Zerlina) with BBIOS, Sir Colin Davis conducting.

Future engagements include Belinda Dido and Aeneas for Aix-en-Provence, Zdenka Arabella for Garsington and Ismene Alceste in concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

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