Despite her young age she is an experienced opera and solo singer.
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers is a music graduate of the University of Exeter and of Goldsmiths College, London and completed a postgraduate Diploma in Vocal Training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has taken part in concerts with the major London orchestras. Her many awards include the 1999 Maggie Teyte, Ian Fleming and Sybil Tutton Awards. Gweneth-Ann Jeffers represented England in the 2001 edition of “Cardiff Singer of the World” and was a member of The Royal Opera Vilar Young Artist programme.
An experienced recitalist, Miss Jeffers has performed a wide repertoire ranging from Schubert, Schumann and Strauss to Ravel, Samuel Barber, Messiaen and Cage. Recent concerts have included Verdi’s Requiem (Truro Cathedral), Brahms’ Requiem and Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder in Canterbury Cathedral and Messiaen’s Harawi at the 2000 Cheltenham Festival. She made her debut at the 2002 BBC Proms and returned for the 2003 Proms in Elektra under Donald Runnicles. She has appeared regularly at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Aldeburgh Britten Festival, the KlavierFest Ruhr Lieder Weekends with Graham Johnson, the Cheltenham Festival and the Edinburgh Festival.
Her opera engagements have included the title role in Massenet’s La Navarraise at the Guildhall and the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, performed throughout France with the Orchestre de Picardie. With the Royal Opera she has appeared in Il Trovatore, Elektra and Daphne. Most recently she sang the role of Leonora in the new production of Il Trovatore for Welsh National Opera.
Recent engagements include a seven-concert residency at the Perth Festival, Australia, recitals at the Chelsea and Henley Festivals and at the Wigmore Hall, the European premiere of Elliott Carter’s Of Rewaking with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Poulenc’s Gloria for the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival. Future engagements include Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Vaughan Williams’s third Symphony with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
