
Jessica Dandy
Contralto
Jess Dandy studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she held a fellowship and graduated with distinction. She was the winner of the London Bach Society Singers Prize 2017 and the 2018 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform.
Jess is co-founder with mezzo-soprano, Joanna Harries, of the SongPath initiative, founded to promote walking and music-making in the context of mental health, by exploring the routes and roots of the local landscape.
Her concert appearances have included Samson (Micah) with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort at the Händel-Festspiele Halle, Mass in B Minor at Wigmore Hall, Mozart Requiem at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Berlioz Roméo et Juliette at the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, and Andriessen De Staat at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Recent highlights include Charles Villiers Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix and Handel Messiah with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Mozart Requiem with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, further Messiah performances with the Hallé orchestra and at Hereford Cathedral, Berlioz Les Nuits d’été with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and St John Passion with Les Arts Florissants on tour in Europe.
Recent engagements include St John Passion with the Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Mass in B Minor in Leipzig and St Matthew Passion at the Boston Early Music Festival (both with the Dunedin Consort), her role debut as Dido in Dido and Aeneas at the Ryedale Festival, Handel Israel in Egypt at the Three Choirs Festival, and Bach cantatas at the Edinburgh International Festival with the Dunedin Consort.
Upcoming engagements include Messiah with the Dunedin Consort both in South America and in Scotland, Beethoven Symphony No.9 with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and Eduige in Handel’s Rodelinda with the Harry Bicket and the English Concert.
Featured Artists
- Louise Alder
- Benjamin Appl
- Eugene Asti
- Nikolay Borchev
- Katherine Broderick
- The Carice Singers
- Schubert & Co.
- Imogen Cooper
- Stéphane Degout
- Marcus Farnsworth
- Marta Fontanals-Simmons
- Maria Forsström
- Cheryl Frances-Hoad
- Christopher Glynn
- Matti Hirvonen
- Graham Johnson
- Sophie Karthäuser
- Sholto Kynoch
- Simon Lepper
- Stephan Loges
- Elin Manahan Thomas
- Nathaniel Mander
- Malcolm Martineau
- Joseph Middleton
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Thomas Oliemans
- George Parris
- Rowan Pierce
- Christoph Prégardien
- Gweneth Ann Rand
- Ashley Riches
- Dorothea Röschmann
- Katharina Ruckgaber
- Carolyn Sampson
- Michael Scott
- Toby Spence
- Cédric Tiberghien
- Anna Tilbrook
- Camilla Tilling
- Jac van Steen
- Kitty Whately
- Roderick Williams