Nina Bennet

Nina Bennet was born in North Lincolnshire in 1978. She studied Philosophy and English at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, before embarking on musical training at the Royal College of Music, London. Whilst there, under the tutelage of Margaret Cable she gained a Graduate Diploma in Singing and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Early Music. She now studies with Annette Thompson.

Recent concert platform work has included Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation and Nelson Mass, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem, and Bach's St John Passion. She has also performed Haydn's Little Organ Mass and Faure's Requiem with the City of London Sinfonia, Mozart's C Minor Mass under Jeremy Backhouse, Bach's Magnificat under Timothy Brown, Bach's B Minor Mass and Monteverdi's Vespers with Charivari Agreable in St John's Smith Square, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Peter Schreier, also in St John's. Most recently she performed Birtwistle's Nine Settings of Celan with Kokoro, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's contemporary ensemble.

She has performed Nancy in Britten's Albert Herring for Unicorn Opera, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneus in St James' Piccadilly with Counterpoint, and Cherubino in Mozart's and Clorinda in Rossini's Marriage of FigaroLa Cenerentola for the RCM opera scenes series. She also appears regularly with the BBC Singers and the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir.

Future plans include more Birtwistle with Kokoro, Bach's St Matthew Passion in Guilford Cathedral, and Vivaldi's Gloria with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Cadogan Hall.