Rhona McKail

Rhona M^cKail studies with John Evans and completed her training on the GSMD opera course in 2009 where she gained MMus and MMP degrees. Prior to that she received a BA Hons (Musical Studies) from the RSAMD.

Roles Rhona has sung include: Rezia in La Rencontre Imprévue by Gluck, Anne Who Steals in The King goes forth to France by Sallinen, Agafya in The Marriage by Martinů, all for GSMD opera; Gianetta in L’Elisir d’Amore and Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky both for British Youth Opera; Ortensia (cover) in Mirandolina by Martinůfor Garsington Opera; Adele in Die Fledermaus, Constance in The Sorcerer and Josephine in HMS Pinafore for Opera Della Luna; Fiordiligi In Cosi fan Tutte for Vignette Opera in Provence and London; Servillia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito for English Touring Opera and Angel 1 in Luke Bedford’s new opera Seven Angels for the Opera Group. She is currently covering the role of Eurydice for Scottish Opera.

Rhona has enjoyed the privilege of studying and performing with distinguished artists which include: - Graham Johnson; Iain Burnside; Sir Thomas Allen; Eugene Asti; Yvonne Kenny; Catherine Bott; Malcolm Martineau; Philip Langridge; Ann Murray; François le Roux; Daniel Taylor and Sir Timothy West. She has performed in many of the UK’s most prestigious venues, including: Wigmore Hall; St. Martin in the Fields; Cadogan Hall; Barbican Hall; and the Birmingham Symphony Hall. Most recently she performed in a Park Lane Group recital in the Purcell Room with Yshani Perinpanayagam. Rhona has also enjoyed performing regularly in concerts with Sholto Kynoch for the Oxford Lieder Festival and recorded Messiaen’s La Mort du Nombre with him and Kaoru Yamada for Stone Records. Broadcasts have included a programme for BBC Radio 4 with Robin Bowman and In Tune with Iain Burnside on BBC Radio 3.

After winning a prestigious Samling scholarship in 2006, Rhona has excelled in the Maggie Teyte French Song competition winning the Miriam Lycette Scholarship, she was the winner of the Association of English Speakers and Singers Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition and won second prize in the London Handel Festival’s Handel Singing competition.