Performances with The Perth Choral Society

Merryn Gamba studied at the Royal Northern College of Music under Anthony Roden and Teresa Cahill. She was awarded a major scholarship twice from the Dame Eva Turner Fund for Potential Dramatic Sopranos and received the John Cameron Special Prize for Lieder. She now studies with Dinah Harris.

Recent roles include Frasquita for Opera Brava, First Lady / Papagena for English Pocket Opera, Amelia(cover). Simon Boccanegra for Opera UK, First Lady Die Zauberflote for Longborough Festival Opera and Jenny The Beggar's Opera (Britten) and Scat Girl in Trouble in Tahiti for Opera Project, Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw for RNCM, Frasquinella in La Perichole for Buxton Festival Opera.

A keen exponent of contemporary music and opera, in May 2007 she performed in Hallgrimmson's opera Die Walt der Zwischefalle with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Andre de Ridder. In 2005 she performed the song cycle Raising Sparks under James MacMillan for the Sounds New Festival and at the Royal Academy of Music. Merryn had previously performed James MacMillan's Parthenogenesis and Raising Sparks for BBC Radio 3.

In 2004 Merryn gave her debut performance of Tippett's Byzantium with the Slovenian Radio Orchestra in Ljubljana, performed an experimental opera project by composer John Avery in association with Opera North and performed the Devil in a Soldier's Tale for Opera Project. Merryn can be heard as the solo soprano on the Chandos CD of Vaughan Williams' Scott of the Antarctic.

She has also performed Hadewijch in Andriessen's De Materie at the Cheltenham Festival; Magd in Sancta Susanna with the BBC Philharmonic and Riot Woman in Turnage's Greek.

Concert work has included Dvorak's Te Deum with the BBC Philharmonic, Honneger's King David with Bollington Festival Choir, Berlioz' Nuits d'Ete and Mahler 4 with the Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn's Elijah with Salford Choral Society, Dvorak's Stabat Mater with for Altrincham Choral Society, Dvorak's Mass in D for Boston Philharmonic Chorus and Schoenberg's Cabaret Songs for Buxton festival Opera.

Future engagements include Leonora in Forza del Destino with White Horse Opera.

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