Elenor Bowers-Jolley  (soprano)

Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
Bristol Cathedral
Saturday, 20th March 2010

Having graduated with distinction from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2006, Elenor's career has gone from strength to strength. Prizes and awards to date include the Mabel Christopher Linwood Award for singers, the Margaret Tann Award, the RWCMD Friends prize for Music, and The Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal for Excellence. Elenor was a participant in the renowned Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme where with assistance from the Leverhulme Trust she has taken part in courses on Purcell's King Arthur with Michael Chance and Lawrence Cummings, the songs of Fauré and Duparc with Malcolm Martineau, and sang the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni conducted by Richard Egarr. She is currently studying with Paul Farrington.

Elenor has performed as the soprano soloist in numerous Oratorios including a tour of Handel's Messiah for the English Symphony Orchestra, Haydn's Creation, Mozart's Requiem and Coronation Mass and Mendelssohn's Elijah. On the concert platform, both at home and abroad, Elenor has performed in numerous recitals including works by Strauss, Walton, Mozart, Handel, Wolf, Menotti and Trevor Hold. Opera roles studied and performed include Adele (Die Fledermaus - Strauss), Suzanna (Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart), Elizetta (The Secret Marriage - Cimarosa), Nanetta (Falstaff - Verdi), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas - Purcell) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni - Mozart).

Elenor is a member of Sir John Eliot Gardener's internationally renowned Monteverdi Choir with whom she has performed as a soloist in their recent tour of Bach's St John Passion. She also participated in the choir's residency at Spitalfields performing Bach's Christmas Oratorio and motets. Elenor performed in the chorus of Bizet's Carmen at the Opera Comique in Paris, a prom of Bach motets at the Royal Albert Hall, and performed as a soloist in the choir's European tour of Handel's Israel in Egypt. Most recently Elenor took part in a tour of Europe and America performing Haydn's Creation and Seasons, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra. She will be touring extensively with the group over the next year performing works by Bach and Monteverdi. She also performs with The Academy of Ancient Music, Tenebrae and The Kings Consort with whom she will perform as a consort soloist in Bach's St Matthew Passion in March 2010.

Among other recording credits, Elenor performed the Soprano solos on the score for the film The Escapist and The Mermaid's Song for the new production of Peter Pan which could be seen in Kensington Gardens, both scores composed by Ben Wallfisch. She has also performed on the soundtracks of many films including Monsters vs Aliens, Milk, Angels and Demons, Nine and Tim Burton's new adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

Recent solo performances include Haydn's Creation Mass, Bach's B minor mass and Jauchzett Gott in Allen Landen, Schubert Mass in G, Mozart Confessore Vespers and Exultate Jubilate. Future solo engagements include Haydn's Creation at the Snape Maltings, Handel's Dixit Dominus for the Kings Lynn Festival and the Taverner Requiem for Southend Choral Society.