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Samantha Binnie
Lyric Coloratura Soprano

8 Elmstone Road, London SW6 5TN
Tel. 020 7731 1885 /
07712 921457

E-mail: samanthabinnie@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.samanthabinnie.com

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Last updated 1 May 2005
Date of Birth: 29 April 1972 Height 5'4½"

EDUCATION

Guildhall School of Music & Drama (GSMD) 2003 - 04

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Professors: Penny Mackay, Andrew Watts (singing); Eugene Asti, Robin Bowman, Paul Hamburger, Emma Kirkby (vocal coaching)

Royal Academy of Music (RAM) and King's College, London
BMus, 1st class honours
LRAM Teaching Diploma
AKC Diploma, First Prize
Professors: Kathleen Livingstone (singing); Anthony Hose, Iain Ledingham, Malcolm Martineau, Robert Spencer (vocal coaching)

 1992 - 96
Samantha studies with Stuart Kale and Andrew Watts.

COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
Peter Latham Award (RAM)1996
Hanson Award (King's)1994, 95 & 96
Grisi and Mario competition (RAM), Third Prize1995
Oratorio Competition (RAM), Second Prize1994
Voice and Organ Competition (RAM), First Prize1993

Glasgow International Oratorio Competition, Finalist

1992

COURSES

Full scholarship to attend Handel L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato course with Della Jones and Richard Egarr, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme2004
Lieder and Operetta Course with Paul Hamburger, Vienna2002
Acting for Singers, John Abulafia1997
Full scholarship to play title roles in Baroque Opera Course at Dartington International Festival1994 & 1995

Awarded full scholarship by RAM to take part in Handel Opera and Baroque Drama Course with ENO

1993

Masterclasses

Samantha has performed in masterclasses by Graham Clarke, Rebecca da Pont Davies, Paul Esswood, Nicolai Gedda, Della Jones, Emma Kirkby and Robert Tear

FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS include:

Opera

The Nightingale and the Rose (Nightingale) by Y Katori, dir. Claudio Tedesco
Not in front of the Waiter (principal role) by Offenbach

Oratorio

Handel Solomon, Leamington Spa
French Baroque Cantatas, Bristol Bach Choir, Gloucester Cathedral
Programme of favourite arias with Boston Choral Society

Recitals etc

The Bowes Museum, County Durham
Hampstead Festival of Song
Rosslyn Recital Series

See diary for fuller details of future engagements.

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PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS include:

The Magic Flute (Papagena) with Surrey Opera, dir. Christopher Cowell2004
The Nightingale and the Rose (Nightingale), dir. Claudio Tedesco2004
Offenbach Not in Front of the Waiter (principal role), Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh2004
Purcell Dioclesian or The Prophetess, fully-staged (title role)

  • Split International Festival, Croatia, Director Catherine Mackintosh
1996
  • Dartington International Festival, Varazdin Baroque Festival and Zagreb Theatre, Croatia, Director Paul Goodwin

1995
Purcell The Indian Queen, fully-staged
  • QEH & Schwetzingen Festspiele, King's Consort (Aerial Spirit)
1994
  • Dartington International Festival, Director Paul Goodwin (title role)
1994

Recitals include:

  • the Barbican Purcell Festival
  • St Martin-in-the-Fields
  • Guildhall School of Music & Drama
  • Christ Church, Oxford
  • Balliol College, Oxford
  • Holywell Music Room, Oxford
  • Warwick Arts Society
  • Guildhall, Bath
  • the Hampstead Festival of Song
  • Bowes Museum, Co. Durham

Performances with various choral societies across the country include:

Charpentier - Messe de Minuit
Handel - Messiah, Judas Maccabeus, Samson
Haydn - St Nicholas Mass, Nelson Mass, Creation
Mozart - Mass in C minor, Requiem
Mendelssohn - Elijah
Orff - Carmina Burana
Vivaldi - Gloria

Samantha is married with three children.

References are available on request.

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