Mary Bevan

Mary Bevan sang with us in Haydn’s The Seasons in December 2010.

 

Mary grew up in Somerset and Berkshire and studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Trinity College, Cambridge.  She is in her second year of the Royal Academy of Music Opera School studying with Lillian Watson and Audrey Hyland.

 

 

Recent performances include Handel's Messiah with the ECO and Raymond Leppard (Cadogan Hall), Thomas Arne's Alfred with the Classical Opera Company at King's Place, a 'Sisters' recital with Sophie Bevan and a solo recital at the Oxford Lieder Festival, a Valentine's Day concert at the Wigmore Hall, Rutter's Requiem at the Albert Hall, Britten's Les Illuminations on the ECO Music Cruise with Vladimir Ashkenazy and at Cadogan Hall, Handel's Apollo e Dafne with the Classical Opera Company at King's Place, and Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Hanover Band (Canterbury Cathedral).

 

Recordings include a premiere of Fen and Flood by Patrick Hadley with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Paul Daniel, and Handel in the Playhouse, a CD of Handel duets and songs with L'Avventura London.

 

Operatic roles include Barbarina and cover Susanna for Garsington Opera's 2010 production of Le Nozze di Figaro, Despina (Cosí fan tutte) for Musique Cordiale Festival in France and with John Cox and Jane Glover for Royal Academy Opera, Iris in Handel's Semele under Sir Charles Mackerras, Pamina and Papagena in The Magic Flute (Palestine Mozart Festival and British Youth Opera respectively), and Frasquita in Carmen (Opera de Baugé).

 

Future engagements include Handel's Messiah (Royal Albert Hall) and Rebecca in the premiere of Nico Muhly's Two Boys for English National Opera.

 

At the Academy, Mary recently won the prestigious Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Competition and the Isabel Jay Prize for opera. She is a Kohn Bach Scholar for the Bach Cantata series and a member of the Song Circle. She has recently been made an Associate Artist of the Classical Opera Company, and has been generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Ian Fleming Charitable Trust Education Award (MBF), the Baroness de Turkheim Award, and a Harold Wingate Scholarship.