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The English mezzo-soprano, Siân Menna Price, studied at Mynyddbach Girls School (Class of 1978). She graduated in Singing and Piano with honours from the Royal College of Music in London.
Siân Menna has worked with many leading orchestras and conductors with performances including W.A. Mozart's Requiem (The Sixteen and Harry Christophers) Haydn's Paukenmesse (Ulster Orchestra and David Hill), Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle (The King's Consort), Haydn's Nelson Mass and Copland's In the Beginning (Britten Sinfonia and The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge), W.A. Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and John Rutter) and George Frideric Handel's
Messiah (BBC Concert Orchestra and Stephen Cleobury).
Siân Menna also appears regularly with Choral Societies throughout the UK and her repertoire includes J.S. Bach's Passions, Maurice Duruflé's Requiem, W.A. Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Copland's In the Beginning, Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and Verdi's Reqiuem, and, recently, Tippett's A Child of our Time.
Siân Menna's discography includes the première recording of Granville Bantock's Omar Khyyam with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Vernon Handley, the BBC Singers' recording of Tippett: Choral Music (“The angular solo is admirably sung by Siân Menna”, MusicWeb International April 2007) and Second Woman in Judith Weir's The Vanishing Bridegroom with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martin Brabbins.
Operatic roles include La Ciesca (in Gianni Schicchi), Dido (in Dido and Aeneas), the Beggar Woman (in Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice), and the young widow in Janacek’s Osud performed at the BBC Proms.
Siân was a staff member of the BBC Singers from 2001 to 2010 and also sings regularly with leading choirs and ensembles such as The Sixteen (Director: Harry Christophers), Gabrieli Consort (Director: Paul McCreesh), and The King's Consort (Director: Robert King) and Arcangelo (Director: Jonathan Cohen). She got married in 2007. |
