BIANCA ANDREW, mezzo-soprano
Born in Wellington, Bianca Andrew is considered
one of New Zealand’s most promising young
singers to emerge in recent years. She is currently
continuing her vocal studies at the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama in London under the tutelage
of Yvonne Kenny, where she is a full scholarship
awardee on the Opera Studies programme for
2015/16.
Bianca studied with Margaret Medlyn and Bruce
Greenfield at the New Zealand School of Music,
graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor and Postgraduate
Diploma of Music. She received further training at
the New Zealand Opera School between 2010 and
2013 with Paul Farrington. Bianca went on to be
appointed as a Freemasons Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist with New Zealand
Opera, with whom she made her mainstage debut in the role of Kate Pinkerton in
Madam Butterfly . She completed her internship with New Zealand Opera in 2013,
having understudied the roles of Suzuki and Zerlina for the company.
In January 2015, Bianca appeared as a Guildhall School soloist with Sir Simon
Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die
Peri. She has taken part In Guiladhall masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Dame
Felicity Lott and Martin Kaz, and with Roger Vignoles at Wigmore Hall.
Bianca was the recent winner of the Guildhall School’s coveted Chartered
Surveyers vocal competition adjudicated by Sarah Walker and Stephen Loges,
and was a finalist in the Susan Longfield Vocal Competition. She was awarded
the Kiri Te Kanawa Scholarship for outstanding potential in the 2014 New Zealand
Lexus Song Quest.
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