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Gweneth Ann Rand trained at the University of Exeter, Goldsmith’s College and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. During her training she received the Maggie Teyte, Ian Fleming and Sybil Tutton Awards. She was a Vilar Young Artist at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in 2001 represented England at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. She is currently an Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall.
In the current season engagements include recitals at Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder and the Howard Assembly Room; Judit Bluebeard’s Castle for Theatre of Sound; 4.48 Psychosis at the Philharmonie de Paris with Ensemble intercontemporain; and the world premiere of The Blue Woman at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Highlights in recent seasons include acclaimed performances of 4.48 Psychosis for The Royal Opera/Lyric Hammersmith, at the Prototype Festival in New York and Opéra national du Rhin; Serena in Porgy and Bess for English National Opera; Mother Hansel and Gretel for ENO at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; and Tippett A Child of Our Time with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Operatic engagements include Aida (English National Opera, Opera Holland Park, Theater Bremen, Oper Kiel, Finnish National Opera, Macedonian Opera, Opera Poznań and Oldenburgisches Staatstheater); Senta Der fliegende Holländer (London Lyric Opera at London’s Barbican Hall); Leonora La forza del destino (Oper Köln and Chelsea Opera Group); Leonora Il trovatore (Welsh National Opera); Amelia Un ballo in maschera and Margherita/Helena Mefistofele (Theater Erfurt); Tosca (Teatro Nacional de São Carlos); Gutrune Götterdämmerung (BBC Proms under Donald Runnicles); the title roles in La Gioconda and La Wally, and Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana (Opera Holland Park); Bess Porgy and Bess (Basel Chamber Orchestra and Macedonian Philharmonic); Ariadne Ariadne auf Naxos (Orchestre de Picardie); and appearances for The Royal Opera in Elektra, Daphne and The Cunning Little Vixen.
Her varied concert and recital engagements include Schoenberg Gurrelieder (Orquesta Sinfónica de Mineria under Carlos Miguel Prieto and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Markus Stenz); Tippett A Child of Our Time (NDR Hannover, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Göteborgs Symfoniker under Robin Ticciati); Mahler Das klagende Lied (BBC Proms); the European premiere of Elliott Carter Of Rewaking and Vaughan Williams Third Symphony (both with the CBSO); Verdi Requiem (Truro Cathedral, King’s College Chapel and York Minster); Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem and Strauss Vier letzte Lieder (Canterbury Cathedral); Poulenc Gloria (Three Choirs Festival); Zemlinsky Der König Kandaules in Gran Canaria; Dvořák Stabat Mater in Madrid; and Britten War Requiem in Warsaw.
Gweneth Ann is widely known for her acclaimed interpretations of Messiaen’s song cycles Harawi (including Cheltenham Festival, Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder and Opera North) and Poèmes pour Mi (Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra all under Jun Märkl). She also performed Harawi as part of the Southbank Centre’s composer centenary celebrations From the Canyons to the Stars and at the BBC Proms.
Her recordings include Mélodies Passagères, The Songs of Samuel Barber (Quartz Music); Janáček The Eternal Gospel with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Hyperion); Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi (Sanctuary Classics); and John Metcalf’s Under Milk Wood (Ty Cerrd).
Gwen / 4.48 Psychosis / Ensemble intercontemporain / 2021
“Gweneth-Ann Rand, embodies the main character of the drama with rare intensity.”
(Première Loge)
“Gweneth-Ann Rand valiantly ascends the river of her pain and adapts her declamations to the currents that gnaw within her.
(Opera Online)
“…this concert performance highlights Gweneth-Ann Rand’s outstanding interpretation…”
(Altamusica)
In the footsteps of… / Wigmore Hall / 2021
“a programme basically criticproof because it was so thought-provoking and ultimately inspiring… Rand had a wonderful quality to evoke the emotion of each song we heard, and this was underscored by Devenish’s consummate piano accompaniment which was always supportive and, where appropriate, sensitive or impassioned.”
(Seen and Heard International)
Mrs Grose / The Turn of the Screw / OperaGlass Works / 2021
“Gweneth Ann Rand a big-voiced dramatic soprano as Mrs Grose, as Britten intended.”
(The Sunday Times)
“superb performances… Gweneth Ann Rand’s purposeful Mrs Grose…”
(The Stage)
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