Rosie Aldridge, mezzo-soprano

Born in Hertfordshire in 1985, Rosie’s passion for singing and performing was established from a young age. As a sixth-form vocal scholar at Haileybury, Rosie performed many genres of repertoire, ranging from Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and the role of the Baker’s Wife in Sondheim’s Into The Woods, to excerpts of Bizet’s Carmen with the College Orchestra.

She also enjoys oratorio and concert repertoire and has performed the mezzo-soprano solos in many works, including Copland’s In The Beginning; Lambert’s The Rio Grande; Rutter’s Gloria; Mozart’s Vespers; Holst’s The Cloud Messenger; Schubert’s Mass in A Flat; Duruflé’s Requiem; Purcell’s Te Deum and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Concordia Young Artists Foundation.

Rosie’s spent a gap year studying recital repertoire, working with the Russian concert pianist, Marina Korneva and performing with the Colchester Chamber Orchestra, including solo work under the baton of Bob Chilcott. She also performed the role of Speranza in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, with The Opera Group; and enjoyed working and improvising as a jazz soloist with a Big Band!

Rosie is currently a scholar at London’s Royal College of Music, where she studies with Kathleen Livingstone. She has taken part in numerous prestigious master classes with Sarah Walker, Stephen Varcoe, Patricia Macmahon and Michael Chance. She is also a scholar on the Josephine Baker Trust, and recent solo performances have included Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater at the Cadogan Hall with the Brandenburg Sinfonia. Future projects include Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Welsh Baroque Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah with Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; and the role of Un Pâtre in Ravel’s opera, L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Benjamin Britten International Opera School in their 2006 Summer Season.

 

Performances with the Corinthian Chamber Orchestra