Alexandra Sherman
Professional Opera & Concert Singer at Mezzo-soprano/Alto- Claim this Profile
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
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French Professional working proficiency
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German Professional working proficiency
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Italian Professional working proficiency
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Hebrew Native or bilingual proficiency
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Frank Pam
Alexandra is intelligent and very musical with a wonderful rich voice. She is in every way very professional and very easy to work with. She comes to rehearsals fully prepared and delivers a first rate performance on the night.
Frank Pam
Alexandra is intelligent and very musical with a wonderful rich voice. She is in every way very professional and very easy to work with. She comes to rehearsals fully prepared and delivers a first rate performance on the night.
Frank Pam
Alexandra is intelligent and very musical with a wonderful rich voice. She is in every way very professional and very easy to work with. She comes to rehearsals fully prepared and delivers a first rate performance on the night.
Frank Pam
Alexandra is intelligent and very musical with a wonderful rich voice. She is in every way very professional and very easy to work with. She comes to rehearsals fully prepared and delivers a first rate performance on the night.
Experience
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Self-employed - Music
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Musicians
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400 - 500 Employee
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Professional Opera & Concert Singer
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2003 - Present
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Mezzo-soprano/Alto
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2003 - Present
Alexandra performs extensively in oratorio and recital in Europe, Australia and the UK with repertoire such as the Bach Passions, Mendelssohn Elijah, Handel Messiah and Verdi Requiem. Concert highlights have included Mahler 2nd Symphony and Songs of a Wayfarer, Berlioz Les Nuits d’Été, Elgar Sea Pictures, Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, de Falla El Amor Brujo and Pergolesi Stabat Mater with such conductors as Christopher Hogwood, Alexander Shelley and Gianandrea Noseda and orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music and the Northern Sinfonia. Alexandra made her Wigmore Hall debut in 2005 and BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2006. Most recently Alexandra made her recital debut at the St. Petersburg White Nights Festival and, with the Bach Choir and Heidelberg Philharmonic with conductor Christian Kabitz. Alexandra’s stage roles to date include Guido (Flavio) and Irene (Tamerlano) London Handel Festival; Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos) Aldeburgh Festival; Third Lady (The Magic Flute) Opera Holland Park; 3rd Wood Nymph/Jezibaba (Rusalka) Opera North; Juno/Ino (Semele) Scottish Opera; 2nd Secretary to Mao (John Adams Nixon in China) Théâtre du Châtelet and English National Opera; Malcolm (La Donna del Lago) Garsington Opera; Bradamante (Alcina) and Orlando (Orlando) Opera Australia; Olga (Eugene Onegin) and Pauline (Queen of Spades) Welsh National Opera and Opera North. Recent engagements includes the role of Mary in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (Thüringer Schlossfestspiele Sondershausen) and Erda (Die Walküre/Siegfried) at the Tiroler Festspiele, Erl, under Maestro Gustav Kukn, as well as solo concerts in Prague, Brno, Weimar, Seoul, Xinxiang and London. Discography includes Handel’s Messiah (ABC Classics, conducted by Antony Walker); Offenbach Entre Nous (Opera Rara conducted by David Parry).
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Education
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1997 - 2002
Royal College of Music
PGCert (Concert); PGDip (Opera); PG Adv.Dip (Opera), Voice and Opera -
1994 - 1997
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Music (Hons), Voice -
1992 - 1992
Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne
A.Mus.A, Pianoforte
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