Anna Gillingham

Soprano Anna Gillingham is currently studying for a Masters degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (GSMD). She obtained a Double First in Music from the University of Cambridge, Queens’ College, graduating in June 2010. Anna learns with John Evans.

Anna has sung the soprano solo in performances of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate, Requiem, Vespers, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Mass in the Time of War, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Faure’s Requiem, Vierne’s Les Angelus, Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer and Goodall’s Lux Aeterna. She has performed in operas including The Magic Flute (Mozart, Second Lady; Shadwell Opera), A Hand of Bridge (Barber, Geraldine; Opera Underground), Les Dialogues des Carmelites (Poulenc, Nun; GSMD), Ariodante (Handel, Chorus; Cambridge Handel Opera) and Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Poulenc, Chorus; Cambridge University Opera Society). She recently sang in the chorus of Garsington Opera’s productions of Il Turco in Italia and The Magic Flute at their new theatre on the Wormsley Estate. She has performed the roles of Norina Don Pasquale and Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte in scenes at GSMD and recently premiered the opera Terrible Lips by Kate Whitley, at a warehouse in Cambridge, taking the lead role of SSol

While at GSMD Anna has sung in masterclasses for Gerald Finley, Emma Kirkby, Malcolm Martineau, Claire Booth, Jane Manning, Lillian Watson, Susan Bullock, Graham Johnson and Eugene Asti.  She has performed in recital in the City of London Festival (2011), Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2010) and in the Song in the City concert series at St Mary-le Bow Church (2011). At University Anna was a choral scholar in the choirs of Trinity and Queens’ College, Cambridge; she has toured Hong Kong, Germany, Latvia, Estonia and Italy with various choirs.

Anna’s forthcoming performances include concerts of Italian operatic repertoire in Città Sant’Angelo, Italy, a performance of the Vivaldi Gloria, Magnificat, Handel Chandos Anthem No 9 and Handel arias in Newcastle, a recital of Bernstein songs at the Barbican and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at the Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent.

Anna is grateful to the GSMD and Dr. And Mrs. Padfield for their sponsorship.