Caroline
started singing after graduating from Durham University with a degree in music specialising in composition. Encouraged by her first 
teacher, Norman Welsby, to
pursue a singing career she studied to attain a Postgraduate Diploma in
Performance Studies from the University of London. At the same time she was gaining performance
experience by singing chorus and small roles with Southgate Opera and Opera
Holland Park. She also reached the final
stages of Channel 4's Operatunity
competition, where she received valuable coaching and advice.
Her operatic roles have since included performances as Queen of the
Night (Mozart's Magic Flute) for British Youth Opera and Surrey Opera, Gilda (cover) and Countess Ceprano (Verdi's Rigoletto) for Heritage Opera, Clorinda (Rossini's La Cenerentola) and Adina (Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore) for Vox
Lirika, Adèle (J. Strauss' Die Fledermaus) for Steyning Music Society, Fiordiligi (Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte) for Opera UK and Birmingham Chamber Orchestra, Tatyana (Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin) for Birmingham Chamber Orchestra and the Lace
Seller (Britten's Death in Venice) in
the Aldeburgh Festival - a role she went on to perform at the Bregenz Festival in Austria, where she also appeared as the ZDF Director and Airport Officer in Benedict Mason's Playing Away.
A regular concert performer, Caroline has sung in venues such as the Royal
Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Cadogan Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and St John's, Smith Square and
has sung in performances featured on BBC Radio 3. She has performed as a soloist in venues across Europe, particular highlights being Brahms' Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate,
Vivaldi's Gloria, Schubert's Magnificat, Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Rachmaninov's Vocalise.
As a session singer Caroline has sung with the
BBC Singers, RSVP Voices and Conventus in concerts and recordings. She now appears regularly with Darren Clarke as the duo Trovatori. Caroline has received coaching from David Syrus, Mary King, Anthony Legge, Donald Maxwell and Steven Maughan and continues her vocal studies with Arwel Treharne Morgan.
Future plans include gala concerts with Merry Opera, further performances of Cosi fan Tutte with Opera UK and her debut in the role of Musetta in November 2013. |
