Sarah-Jane Lewis (born 1987)
is a British
soprano opera singer. Lewis graduated from the
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...
in 2009 and received her diploma from the
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke ...
in 2013.
She then finished her education at the
National Opera Studio
The National Opera Studio in London, England was established in 1977 by the Arts Council as a link between the music colleges and the six main UK opera companies. It was resident at Morley College in Lambeth until 2003, when it gained use for th ...
in 2014.
Lewis has won multiply awards including the Hampshire National Singing Competition in 2013, earning a prize of UK
£6,000.
In 2014, she won second place behind
Christina Gansch
Christina Gansch (born 1990) is an Austrian operatic soprano. She won first prize in the 2014 Kathleen Ferrier Competition.
Life and career
Born in St. Pölten, during her school time Gansch studied at the Konservatorium für Kirchenmusik of t ...
at the
Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the c ...
Awards.
''
The Times
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'' described Lewis as "a warm, capacious soprano, its strength powerfully contained and focused throughout its wide register. And her wonderfully serene and assured stage presence reaches out to her audience,"
As of 2015, Lewis is currently a guest artist for the Henley Symphony Orchestra.
References
External links
Sarah-Jane Lewison
Twitter
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Sarah-Jane Lewis' channelon
YouTube
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*, video 3:09, 23 September 2012.
* by
Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
Life
Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845-1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a ...
, accompanied by pianist Daniel Hill, video 3:38, 22 September 2014.
*, directed by Errollyn Wallen. Grimeborn Festival 2008 at the
Arcola Theatre
Arcola Theatre is an Off West End theatre in the London Borough of Hackney. It presents plays, operas and musicals featuring established and emerging artists.
The theatre building, in the former Colourworks paint factory on Ashwin Street, Dals ...
, London, video 3:15, 10 March 2010.
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Living people
British sopranos
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
1987 births
21st-century British women opera singers