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Jennifer studied at Cambridge University, where she was a choral scholar, and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (MA Opera). At RWCMD she was a Leverhulme scholar and winner of the Jo and Martin Furber Prize for Opera, and gratefully supported by the South Square Trust, Sir Richard Stapley Foundation, Winship Foundation, Split Infinitive Trust, Yorkshire Ladies’ Council of Education and The Kathleen Trust.
Recent and future engagements include Little Red Little Red Riding Hood (Northern Opera Group), Gretel Hansel and Gretel (Opera North: Whistlestop opera tour and Opera’r Ddraig), Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro (West Green House Opera), Flora The Turn of the Screw (Opera North and Bury Court Opera), cover Anne Egerman A Little Night Music (Opera North and Leeds Playhouse), First Boy The Magic Flute (WNO), Peep Bo The Mikado (CCO), and cover Blondchen Seraglio and cover Emmie Albert Herring (The Grange Festival). |
Further engagements include Patience Patience, Mabel The Pirates of Penzance, Josephine HMS Pinafore and Suor Genovieffa Suor Angelica (Opera Anywhere), ensemble Messiah (Merry Opera), Felicity and cover Adele Die Fledermaus (Opéra de Baugé), Bacchis La Belle Hélène (Opera della Luna / New Sussex Opera), Belinda Dido and Aeneas (The Baroque Collective), Galatea Acis and Galatea, Morgana Alcina, Rosaura Pinocchio, Cupid Venus and Adonis (Sforza) and Iris Semele (Sforza and HGO), Iphis Jephtha (St Cecilia Chorus), Tytania A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Links) and Nightingale L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Bute Park Opera).
Jennifer is passionate about creating new work. In 2019 she worked on a new opera, Façon Tragique de Tuer une Femme with composer Diana Soh and librettist Richard Dubelski as part of an ENOA residency at Snape Maltings, and in 2020 sang Aimee in Christopher Schlechte-Bond’s new online opera The Den, recorded in isolation during the pandemic for OperaHarmony.
As a chorister, she has appeared with Opera North (Carmen and Parsifal), The Grange Festival (Belshazzer, Seraglio, Falstaff, Candide, Carmen) and ENO (Macbeth - Chandos recording). She is a regular recording artist for film, TV and video games with London Voices and Pinewood singers.
On the concert platform, engagements include Handel Israel in Egypt (Florilegium / Wimbledon Choral Society), Bush Christmas Cantata and Mozart Vesperae di Dominica, Schutz Christmas Story with Armonico Consort (Cadogan Hall), Mozart Vesperae di Confessore, Mozart Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Brahms Requiem and Handel Messiah. She has also appeared with The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Southwell Festival Voices, Tenebrae, Armonico Consort Soloists and Musica Beata.
Jennifer is passionate about creating new work. In 2019 she worked on a new opera, Façon Tragique de Tuer une Femme with composer Diana Soh and librettist Richard Dubelski as part of an ENOA residency at Snape Maltings, and in 2020 sang Aimee in Christopher Schlechte-Bond’s new online opera The Den, recorded in isolation during the pandemic for OperaHarmony.
As a chorister, she has appeared with Opera North (Carmen and Parsifal), The Grange Festival (Belshazzer, Seraglio, Falstaff, Candide, Carmen) and ENO (Macbeth - Chandos recording). She is a regular recording artist for film, TV and video games with London Voices and Pinewood singers.
On the concert platform, engagements include Handel Israel in Egypt (Florilegium / Wimbledon Choral Society), Bush Christmas Cantata and Mozart Vesperae di Dominica, Schutz Christmas Story with Armonico Consort (Cadogan Hall), Mozart Vesperae di Confessore, Mozart Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Brahms Requiem and Handel Messiah. She has also appeared with The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Southwell Festival Voices, Tenebrae, Armonico Consort Soloists and Musica Beata.