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Lorna Anderson is a highly regarded British soprano whose career has centered on the concert and recital stage. A student of Patricia MacMahon at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, she excelled, winning several awards. In 1984, she won First Prize in the
Peter Pears and Royal Overseas League Competitions and in 1986 won the most highly regarded English vocal award, the Purcell-
Britten Prize for Concert Singers.
A performer with a particular interest in early opera,
Anderson sang Handel's Theodora with the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Purcell's Fairy Queen with the
English Concert, the role of Morgana in Handel's Alcina at the Halle Handel Festival, and the role of Servilia in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito with the
Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra. The Netherlands Opera production in which she sang in Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda was recorded for video.
Anderson sings a wide range of the concert repertoire. Her British credits include appearances with the
BBC Philharmonic, the
BBC Symphony Orchestra, the
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
The Sixteen,
The King's Consort, the
London Mozart Players, St. James' Baroque, the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with conductors such as Sir
Simon Rattle,
Roger Norrington,
Andrew Parrott, and
Richard Hickox.
Overseas, she has sung with the
New World Symphony in Miami, the
Academy of Ancient Music on its French and South American tours, the
Ensemble InterContemporain, under
Pierre Boulez,
La Chapelle Royale, under
Philippe Herreweghe, the Hague Residentie Orchestra, and the
Stuttgart Chamber Choir.
She has recorded frequently, including a performance in Purcell's The Fairy Queen with
Harry Christophers conducting, a series of Haydn Masses under
Hickox, and Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. In 2008
Anderson and
Jamie MacDougall completed sets of recordings of Haydn's Scottish songs with the
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt. This was followed by another multi-artist, multi-disc project of
Poulenc mélodies with pianist
Malcolm Martineau begun in 2011.