Sylvia Strand Soprano

Curriculum Vitae

Sylvia Karine Nedregotten Strand 01.05.74

39 Blaen-Y-Cwm Terrace, Tynewydd, Treorci CF42 5ND

Education:
University of Wales	•Phd in performance		2003-06
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama	•PgDip	distinction	2002-03
	•Mmus	pass	2001-03
	•BA (hons)	first class	1998-01
University of Oslo	•Musicology		1995-98

Solo experience:

• Soprano solos in choral works include; Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Rutter’s Requiem, Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Handel’s Judas Macchabeaus, Mendelsohn’s Elija, Handel’s Messiah, Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass, Faure's Requiem, Kodaly’s Missa Brevis and Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb.

•Several solo recitals with highlights from opera, musical theatre and jazz in venues such as St David’s Hall, The Norwegian Church Art Centre, Brecon Cathedral, Llandaff Cathedral and The National Museum of Wales as well as appearances at Halifax Chamber Music Festival, Ross on Wye International Festival and Ribchester Music Festival

•Operatic parts include Lady Billows in Britten’s Albert Herring at the Sherman Theatre, Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea at Craig Y Nos as well as understudying The Countess in the world premier of Rochester’s Second Bottle by Hans Kox. Chorus experience include the opening show at the Welsh Millennium Centre, La Boheme with Swansea Opera and Cole Porter’s Jubilee for the international Music Theatre Festival in Cardiff as well as numerous concerts, radio broadcasts, recordings and television appearances with BBC Now, Vivace Singers and the Welsh Chamber Singers

Recordings:

April 2005	• Karl Jenkins Requiem main chorus	conducted by Timothy Rhys Evans for EMI classics
March 2005	• Basil Harwood Complete Choral Music soprano solo and main chorus	conducted by Adrian Partington for Priory records
May 2004	• William Walton Christopher Columbus	conducted by Richard Hicox for Chandos
July 2003	• Gustaf Holst The Planets	conducted by Adrian Partington for BBC television
March 2003	•Songs of Praise for St David’s day	Vivace singers for BBC television
December 2002	•Vaughan Williams The Poisoned Kiss main chorus and semi-chorus	conducted by Richard Hickox for Chandos
November 2002	•George Dyson Quo Vadis main chorus and soprano two in the trio of angels	conducted by Richard Hickox for Chandos
October 2002	•Hector Berlioz L’enfance du Christ	conducted by Richard Hickox for BBC television

Selection of Solo Repertoire

Song cycles: Olivier Messiaen: Poemes pour Mi, Chants de Terre et de Ciel and Harawi, Maurice Ravel: Chanson Madecassees, Edvard Grieg: Haugtussa.

Songs, Lieder and Chansons and Cantatas: a vast number by the following composers - Faure, Sibelius, Chausson, Schubert, Mozart, Ravel, Debussy, Grieg, Kuula, Beethoven, Haydn, Bach, Brahms, Vivaldi, Britten, Tippett , Berlioz, Purcell etc.

Operatic repertoire: Dvorak, Puccini, Bellini, Mozart, Nicolai, Delibes, Britten, Handel, Kox, Rossini etc.

Prizes:

The Sir Geraint Evans’ Scholarship, The Elias singing prize for soprano, The E. A Redman performance prize. The PgDip year Price and the Performance Practice Prize.

Languages:

• Fluent English and Norwegian, good knowledge of German, Italian, French, Swedish and Latin, plus some Finnish, Russian, Welsh and Icelandic

References:

•Adrian Partington Janet Price

sylvia@goldcd.co.uk