WREXHAM
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Gillian Ramm - Soprano
Gillian commenced her studies
at the RNCM in September 2003 and has already passed her Post-Graduate Diploma
with Distinction. Gillian studies with
vocal tutor Mary Brennan, and is pleased to be a major scholar of the Peter
Moores Foundation for 2004/05. Operatic
roles to her credit at RNCM include Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Anne Trulove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. She has also performed major roles in
staged excerpts from I Pagliacci and La Traviata.
Gillian
was able to travel to England after winning the RNCM prize in the 2002 finals
of the prestigious “Australian Singing Competition”. In that same competition she was awarded a
scholarship to attend the International
Vocal Arts Institute summer programme in Tel Aviv. Gillian was also a Commonwealth Music Scholar
with the Royal Overseas League in 2003, enabling her to perform in recital at
St. James’, Piccadilly.
Born
and raised in Western Australia, Gillian completed a Bachelor of Music at the
West Australian Conservatorium of Music in 2001 and was a Young Artist with the
West Australian Opera Company in 2001/02.
With West Australian Opera she performed the roles of Valencienne in The Merry Widow (Lehár) and Inez in
Verdi’s Il Trovatore, and was a
regular concert soloist and member of the touring Opera in Education
programme.
Other
operatic roles to her credit include the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Oberto in
Handel’s Alcina and the title role in
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. Her concert repertoire includes The Creation (Haydn), Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor and Mahler’s 4th Symphony in G. Gillian
also loves performing song repertoire, and has recorded 2 solo song recitals
for ABC Classic FM in Australia.
April
2005