Artist Profile

Rebecca Ryan

Rebecca Ryan came to international prominence when she gave the UK première of Handel's rediscovered Gloria conducted by Nicholas McGegan. She graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Music and a BA from the University of Otago before moving to London where she studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Penelope Mackay. This year Rebecca was awarded an Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM). She was an Associate Artist with the Classical Opera Company in London and is a current recipient of an Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells' Voice Fellowship enabling her to continue advanced study with Dame Anne Evans.

Operatic roles have included Micaëla Carmen for University of Otago Opera, and in concert with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at the Hampton Court Palace Festival and RTÉ Concert Orchestra both conducted by Nicolae Moldoveanu, Angelica Orlando for Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells and in concert at London's Wigmore Hall both under direction of Gary Cooper, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (including performances at the Buxton Festival) and Barmherzigkeit Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebotes (The First Commandment) for Classical Opera Company, Mme Silberklang Der Schauspieldirektor for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, as well as Opera Galas for Castleward Opera, Belfast. Recently Rebecca made her debut as Lidka The Two Widows for Scottish Opera including performances at the Edinburgh Festival, sang the four heroines Olympia / Giulietta / Antonia / Stella The Tales of Hoffmann for Mid Wales Opera, Fauno Ascanio in Alba at Kings Place, London for Classical Opera Company, Dorotea Don Chischiotte in Sierra Morena for Musikwerkstatt Wien, Austria, and made her debut as the Heavenly Voice Don Carlos for Opera North (also in recording by Chandos).

Concert engagements have included performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bath Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia, Irish Baroque Orchestra, London Soloists’ Chamber Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, in a repertoire including Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne, Haydn Creation, Mahler Symphony No. 8, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate, Mass in C Minor and Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Poulenc Stabat Mater and Tippett A Child of Our Time, as well as many oratorios by J. S. Bach, Handel and concert arias by Mozart. Highlights include a Four Seasons by Candlelight tour for Raymond Gubbay, returning to sing Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Auckland Philarmonia, singing the British première of John Taverner's Sollemnitas in Conceptione Immaculate, Beatae Maria Virginis at the Brighton Festival, making her Wigmore Hall debut and singing at the inaugural festival of the King's Place concert venue in London.

Her recordings include Silete venti for Naxos, Ch’io mi scordi di te (with Barry Douglas) for RTÉ TV’s The Symphony Sessions and Exsultate Jubilate for RTÉ TV’s The Mozart Sessions.

To find out more about Rebecca Ryan visit www.rebeccaryan.co.nz/

Rebecca Ryan has appeared in:

• The Magic Flute as Pamina