Once a piano and viola student, then trained at the Guildhall School, London, as a Lieder and opera singer, Lorna Windsor has performed in many major theatres and festivals. She has sung Salieri with Frans Bruggen, and Bach directed by Gustav Leonhardt, and has recorded Les Motets de Versailles by Blanchard. She performed Monteverdi in Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Mantova, and the title rôle in Peri's Euridice at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; her Mozart rôles include those of Venus in Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne, Despina in Così fan tutte directed by Claudio Abbado, and in the Strehler production (Piccolo Teatro di Milano) performed in Rome, Beijing, St Petersburg and Moscow. Her Lieder repertoire, following the tradition of her teacher, Hans Hotter, is vast and varied, and she is a well-known interpreter in the field of experimental contemporary music and theatre, the recipient of frequent dedications from today's composers, combining theatrical experience and poetical insight with vocal and technical versatility.

NOVEMBER 2008