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Angharad Gruffydd Jones (Soprano) |
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Born: Wales (?), UK |
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The Welsh (?) soprano, Angharad Gruffydd Jones, studied French and Italian languages at Clare College, Cambridge, before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music to study with Margaret Kingsley, graduating in 2001. She came second in the 1999 Young Welsh Singer of the Year. She won the 2000 Miriam Licette Scholarship, which funded several short periods studying French song in France. Her studies at the RCM were supported by by generous awards from the Arts Council of Wales and the Musicians Benevolent Fund Music Education Awards.
Angharad Gruffydd Jones has a wide concert experience both as a consort singer and soloist, and she has performed extensively in Britain and Europe working, with conductors including Ivor Bolton, Richard Hickox, Robert King, Sir Roger Norrington, Roy Goodman and Peter Schreier, in repertoire from J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel to Samuel Barber.
Recent appearances include J.S. Bach's Cantata Jauchzet Gott BWV 51 in Birmingham's CBSO Centre, G.F. Handel's Athalia at St James' Piccadilly, Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Richard Hickox, Bach B Minor Mass (BWV 232) in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, and G.F. Handel's Messiah in Spain with Harry Christophers. Recent concert engagements include G.F. Handel's L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Vespers in Washington DC under Harry Christophers, G.F. Handel's Dixit Dominus at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert, and performances of Bach St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) in Spain and G.F. Handel's Israel in Egypt in Vienna and the Barbican, with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. More Recent engagements include Haydn Nelson Mass and W.A. Mozart's Vespers in the USA with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, J.S. Bach's B Minor Mass (BWV 232) with the Northern Sinfonia, and a European tour of G.F. Handel's L'Allegro ed il Pensieroso under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Operatic roles include Despina, Lucy (Menotti The Telephone), Giannetta (L’Elisir d’Amore), and a critically acclaimed performance of Dorinda (G.F. Handel's Orlando) for Cambridge Handel Opera Group.
In 2000 Angharad Gruffydd Jones appeared as a soloist as part of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the Monteverdi Choir. She was a member of Glyndebourne Touring Opera chorus in 2002, and in 2003 was a member of the chorus for Berlioz Les Troyens at the Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris. Performances in 2003 included Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ for the Cambridge Festival, a series of recitals at the Beaumaris Festival, G.F. Handel's Apollo and Daphne with the Brook St Band, and for the Buxton Festival, Iris in G.F. Handel's Semele, in which she was also covering the title role. Performances in 2004 included a European tour of J.S. Bach B Minor Mass (BWV 232) with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, Heinrich Schütz and Monteverdi with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen at the Aldeburgh Easter Festival, and a return visit to the Petworth Festival with the Brook Street Band for G.F. Handel's Dixit Dominus.
As a recitalist, Angharad Gruffydd Jones has appeared at festivals throughout the UK, and has taken part in a master-class on Schumann Lieder with Roger Vignoles at the Purcell Room. She has worked on French mélodies in France with Robin Bowman and Michel Piquemal, both former students of the late Pierre Bernac, as a result of winning the Miriam Licette Scholarship. She has recorded for BBC Television and Radio 3, and appears on a number of CD recordings for ASV and Arte Nova. Alongside her standard song repertoire, she has a particular interest in French melodie and is a keen performer of composers such as Francis Poulenc, Debussy and Gabriel Fauré, as well as lesser known songs by Hahn, Ravel, Chabrier and Chausson. |
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Source: The Accompanist Website, Sanctuary Classics Website; Goldbergweb
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2007) |
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Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works |
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Conductor |
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Works |
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Jonathan Cohen |
Soprano |
Member of Arcangelo:
[V-2] (2015): BWV 243 |
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John Eliot Gardiner |
Soprano |
BCP: BWV 6, BWV 145, BWV 181 |
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John Eliot Gardiner |
Soprano |
Member of Monteverdi Choir:
BCP Vol. 1: CD-2: BWV 75, BWV 39, BWV 20
BCP Vol. 2: CD-1: BWV 2, BWV 10, BWV 76; CD-2: BWV 21, BWV 135
BCP Vol. 7: CD-2: BWV 50, BWV 130, BWV 19, BWV 149
BCP Vol. 8: CD-1: BWV 138, BWV 99, BWV 100
BCP Vol. 9: CD-2: BWV 96, BWV 169, BWV 116
BCP Vol. 11: CD-2: BWV 109, BWV 38, BWV 98, BWV 188
BCP Vol. 20: CD-2: BWV 18, BWV 181, BWV 126
BCP Vol. 21: CD-1: BWV 22, BWV 23, BWV 127, BWV 159
BCP Vol. 22: CD-1: BWV 4 [2nd], BWV 31, BWV 66 [2nd]; CD-2: BWV 6 [2nd], BWV 134, BWV 145
BCP Vol. 23: CD-1: BWV 150, BWV 67, BWV 42, BWV 158
BCP Trinity I: BWV 94, BWV 105, BWV 168
BCP Trinity II: BWV 113, BWV 179 |
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Links to other Sites |
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Sanctuary Classics - Artist Biographies: Angharad Gruffydd Jones
Angharad Gruffydd Jones, Biography, Discography (Goldberg)
TheAccompanist.com - Angharad Gruffydd Jones
Angharad Gruffydd Jones (Naxos) |
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