NATASHA JOUHL

Natasha was born in London in 1976 and moved to New York at the age of seven. She received her BMus degree in 1998 from the GuiIdhall School of Music and Drama and continued her studies there on the opera course. In July 1999 she won the Gold Medal Competition. Natasha is presently studying with Susan McCulloch and has just completed a year at the National Opera Studio.

She has performed in masterclasses with Graham Johnson, lain Burnside, and Sir Thomas Allen at the Royal Opera House. Oratorio performances include Handel's Samson, Acis and Galatea, and Messiah at Arundel Cathedral, Haydn's Creation at St George's Chapel as part of the Windsor Festival, Schubert's Mass in A flat, Faure's Requiem, and Dvořák's Requiem for Goldsmiths Choral Union.

Her operatic roles include Lia in Debussy's L'Enfant Prodigue, the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snowmaiden, Bernadette in Andrew Schultz's world premiere Going into Shadows at the Guildhall (including a collaboration project in Brisbane, Australia), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Papagena in The Magic Flute for Longborough Festival Opera, Rosalinda (Wexford Festival Opera) and Adele (Kentish Opera) in Die Fledermaus, and Nella in Gianni Schicchi for the William Walton Foundation Actor-Singer Course in Ischia.

Future plans include various concerts in the UK and First Lady in The Magic Flute for Opera North.

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Last updated: 15 October 2009