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Gemma Morsley Mezzo-Soprano Email: [email protected] Website www.gemmamorsley.com Teacher: David Barrell Current Highlights: Verdi Requiem soloist with Wooburn Singers, Witch in ‘Hansel & Gretel’ with Lambeth Orchestra, Mrs Bear in premiere of ‘Peace at Last’ for OperaUpClose Roles Flora La traviata King’s Head Theatre Helena Jackson/Panaretos Kyriatzidis 2018 Larina Eugene Onegin OperaUpClose Lucy Bradley/Elspeth Wilkes 2018 Marcellina The Marriage of Figaro The Merry Opera Company John Ramster/Harry Sever 2018 Grimgerde Die Walküre Grange Park Opera Stephen Medcalf/Stephen Barlow 2017 Dorabella Così fan tutte Opera Chez Cartier, France John Ramster/Orlando Jopling 2017 Soloist Staged Messiah The Merry Opera Company John Ramster/Mark Austin 2017 3rd Flowermaiden Parsifal Elemental Opera Mark Burns/Michael Thrift 2016 Mrs Sowerberry Oliver! Grange Park Opera Jean-Pierre van der Spuy/Adam Rowe 2016 La Ciesca Gianni Schicchi Fulham Opera Fiona Williams/Nick Fletcher 2015 Fruma-Sarah Fiddler on the Roof Grange Park Opera/BBC Proms Antony McDonald/David Charles Abell 2015 Carmen Carmen Opera South East Fraser Grant/Kenneth Roberts 2014 Maddalena Rigoletto Opera Loki France/UK Tour Rae Leaver/Nick Fletcher 2014 Third Lady The Magic Flute The Merry Opera Company Kit Hesketh-Harvey/Stephen Hose 2013 Flora/Annina La traviata The Merry Opera Company Kit Hesketh-Harvey/Stephen Hose 2012 Dorabella Così fan tutte Jacksons Lane, Highgate Fraser Grant/Ian Shaw 2011 Second Lady/Boy The Magic Flute St John’s Smith Square Clive Bebee/Richard Black 2011 Chorus Un ballo in maschera (cover Ulrica) West Green House Opera Richard Studer/Jonathan Lyness 2017 Don Carlo Grange Park Opera Jo Davies/Gianluca Marciano 2016 Eugene Onegin Grange Park Opera Stephen Medcalf/Gianluca Marciano 2015 Die Zauberflöte Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Simon McBurney/Pablo Heras-Casado 2014 I gioelli della Madonna Opera Holland Park Martin Lloyd-Evans/Peter Robinson 2013 L’elisir d’amore Opera Holland Park Pia Furtado/Stephen Higgins 2013 Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci Opera Holland Park Stephen Barlow/Stuart Stratford 2013 H.M.S. Pinafore (cover Hebe) The G&S Opera Company Vivian Coates/Timothy Henty 2012 The Mikado The G&S Opera Company Simon Butteriss/Timothy Henty 2012 The Elixir of Love Oyster Opera Clive Bebee/Richard Black 2010 Concert Highlights Witch Hansel & Gretel Lambeth Orchestra Christopher Fifield 2019 Soloist Verdi Requiem Wooburn Singers Tom Hammond-Davies 2019 Marcellina Le nozze di Figaro Dartington International Fest. Timothy Redmond/Mark Austin 2018 Chorus Le villi Opera Rara Sir Mark Elder 2018 Soloist Serenade to Music Monckton Combe Hall George Bevan 2018 Chorus Semiramide Opera Rara / BBC Proms Sir Mark Elder 2016 Soloist Mozart Requiem Woodside Singers Catherine Gosney 2017 Fleta Iolanthe Tarantara Productions William Relton/Martin Handley 2016 Referees John Ramster Freelance Director Philip White Head of Music, Grange Park Opera .

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MAG IC L A N T Sophie Daneman ~ soprano Beth Higham-Edwards ~ vibraphone E D Alisdair Hogarth ~ piano Anna Huntley ~ mezzo-soprano R A George Jackson ~ conductor Sholto Kynoch ~ piano O N Anna Menzies ~ cello Edward Nieland ~ treble H Sinéad O’Kelly ~ mezzo-soprano Natalie Raybould ~ soprano - T S E Collin Shay ~ countertenor Philip Smith ~ baritone Nicky Spence ~ tenor A Mark Stone ~ baritone Verity Wingate ~ soprano C L N A E R S F L Y R E H C Y B S G N O S FOREWORD Although the thought of singing and acting in front of an audience terrifies me, there is nothing I enjoy more than being alone at my piano and desk, the notes on an empty page yet to be fixed. Fortunately I am rarely overheard as I endlessly repeat words and phrases, trying to find the music in them: the exact pitches and rhythms needed to portray a particular emotion often take me an exasperatingly long time to find. One of the things that I love most about writing songs is that I feel I truly get to know and understand the poetry I am setting. The music, as I write it, allows me to feel as if I am inhabiting the character in the poem, and I often only discover what the poem really says to me when I reach the final bar. This disc features a number of texts either written especially for me (Kei Miller, Tamsin Collison, Andrew Motion, Stuart Murray), or already in existence (Kate Wakeling, Ian McMillan, 4th century Aristotle).
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