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The English soprano, Helena Moore, read music at Trinity College Cambridge (2015-2018), and is currently a postgraduate scholar at the Royal Academy of Music. Having been awarded the Finzi Trust Scholarship, she studies with Elizabeth Ritchie and Iain Ledingham.
Past leading opera roles include Galatea in Acis and Galatea, Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Magic Flute, Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Iphis in Jephtha, Servilia in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, The Snow Child in Snow Child (new commission) and Venus in Venus and Adonis.
Recent oratorio engagements include J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245), St Matthew Passion (BWV 244), Weinachts-Oratorium (BWV 248), J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor (BWV 232), L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, George Frideric Handel's Dixit Dominus, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4, and W.A. Mozart's Requiem at St Martin-in-the-Fields. As well as performing G. Mahler's Rückert Lieder with Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra, she has also sung solos with The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge and St John’s Sinfonia with Andrew Nethsingha for their termly Bach Cantata series, and with the King's College Choir Cambridge directed by Stephen Cleobury. Having been selected as a Bach scholar at the Royal Academy of Music, she has performed solos for the Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series and for the new series Bach the European working with Trevor Pinnock, Philippe Herreweghe and John Butt. She has also recorded solos with The Choir of Merton College, Oxford on Delphian Records and Trinity College Choir of Cambridge on Hyperion Records. Helena is grateful to be supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust (as a recipient of the Derek Butler award), and the Josephine Baker Trust. |
