Biography

Angharad studied languages at Clare College, Cambridge, before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music to study with Margaret Kingsley, graduating in 2001. She came second in the 1999 Young Welsh Singer of the Year, and was awarded the 2000 Miriam Licette Scholarship for French Song. Her studies at the RCM were supported by awards from the Arts Council of Wales and the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

Angharad has a wide concert experience both as a consort singer and soloist, working with conductors including Ivor Bolton, Richard Hickox, Robert King, Sir Roger Norrington and Peter Schreier, in repertoire from Bach and Handel to Samuel Barber. Recent concert engagements include Handel L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Vespers in Washington DC under Harry Christophers, Handel Dixit Dominus at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert, and performances of Bach St Matthew Passion in Spain and Handel Israel in Egypt in Vienna and the Barbican, with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. As a recitalist, Angharad has appeared at festivals throughout the UK, and has taken part in a masterclass on Schumann Lieder with Roger Vignoles at the Purcell Room. She has worked on French mélodies in France with Robin Bowman and Michel Piquemal, both former students of the late Pierre Bernac, as a result of winning the Miriam Licette Scholarship. She has recorded for BBC Television and Radio 3, and appears on a number of CD recordings for ASV and Arte Nova.

Angharad was a member of Glyndebourne Touring Opera chorus in 2002, and in 2003 will be a member of the chorus for Berlioz Les Troyens at the Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris. Operatic roles include Despina (Cosi fan Tutte), Lucy (Menotti The Telephone), Giannetta (L’Elisir d’Amore), and a critically acclaimed performance of Dorinda (Handel Orlando) for Cambridge Handel Opera Group. Performances in 2003 include Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ for the Cambridge Festival, a series of recitals at the Beaumaris Festival, Handel Apollo and Daphne with the Brook St Band, and for the Buxton Festival, Iris in Handel Semele, in which she is also covering the title role.

 

Repertoire

Alongside her standard song repertoire, Angharad has a particular interest in French melodie and is a keen performer of composers such as Poulenc, Debussy and Fauré, as well as lesser known songs by Hahn, Ravel, Chabrier and Chausson. A selection of the works she has performed is listed below (song cycles listed in italics):

	Adès	Life Story
	Barber	Hermit Songs
	Britten	On this Island; Folksong Arrangements
	Debussy	Ariettes Oubliées
	Duparc	Selected songs
	Fauré	Cinque Mélodies de Venise; selected songs
	Gurney	Seven Sappho Songs
	Harbison	Mirabai Songs
	Korngold	Songs of the Clown
	Mozart	Lieder
	Poulenc	Fiançailles pour rire; 2 Poèmes de Louis Aragon
	Quilter	Shakespeare Songs
	Schubert	Selected Lieder
	Schumann	Liederkreis Op 39
	Strauss	Selected Lieder (including 3 Mütterlieder)
	Wolf	Italienisches Liederbuch

Any suitable new repertoire could be prepared given reasonable notice. Contact Michael Hampton to discuss more detailed repertoire information, bookings, programming ideas and artist availability.