Natasha
was born in London in 1976 and moved to New York at the age of seven.
She received her BMus degree in 1998 from the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama and continued her studies there on the opera course.
In July 1999 she won the Gold Medal competition. Natasha is presently
studying with Susan McCulloch and in 2002 completed a year at the
National Opera Studio.
She
has performed in masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Iain Burnside
and Sir Thomas Allen at the Royal Opera House. Oratorio performances
include Handel’s Samson, Acis and Galatea
and Messiah at Arundel Cathedral, Haydn’s Creation at St George’s Chapel as part of the Windsor Festival, Schubert’s Mass in A Flat, Faure’s Requiem and Dvoraks’s Requiem for Goldsmiths Choral Union.
Her
operatic roles include Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant
Prodigue, the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The
Snowmaiden, Bernadette in the world premiere of Andrew Schultz’s Going into Shadows at the Guildhall (including a collaboration
project in Brisbane, Australia), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni,
Papagena in The Magic Flute for Longborough Festival Opera,
Rosalinda (Wexford Festival Opera) and Adele (Kentish Opera) in
Die Fledermaus, Nella in Gianni Schichi for the
William Walton Foundation Actor-Singer course in Ischia and Elisetta
in The Secret Marriage, Ilia in Idomeneo, First
Lady in The Magic Flute and First Wood Nymph in Rusalka
for Opera North.
