Susan Jiwey

Voice Type :
Soprano

E-mail Address :
susanjiwey@yahoo.co.uk

Web Site :
www.susanjiwey.com

SUSAN JIWEY's recent operatic appearances include Apparition in Verdi’s Macbeth with Opera Holland Park, the title role in Handel’s Alcina, Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneus and Anna in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda.

She performs regularly as an oratorio soloist and made her St. John, Smith’s Square début singing Mozart’s Requiem. Recent engagements include being soloist for the Trafalgar Nelson 200 Celebrations in Trafalgar Square, attended by HRH Duke of Edinburgh and televised by the BBC. She has also sung Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Seasons and Handel’s Dixit Dominus with well-known choral societies in the UK. Susan also completed a successful recital tour of music societies in Wales.

Susan has toured Europe with the Academy of Ancient Music and recorded with gramophone award-winning Coro Cervantes. She has worked extensively with London Voices and The Geoffrey Mitchell Choir for Chandos and Opera Rara and is currently recording a solo CD of contemporary music.

Susan graduated with a First from Bristol and a Masters from King's College, London, winning the prestigous Arts and Humanities Research Board Scholarship.

Plans for 2006 include performing Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore with Vox Lirika in February, appearing in the Nevill Holt Young Artist Program as Berta in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Grange Park Opera and Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Opéra de Baugé in France in summer.

She studies with Susan McCulloch, Professor of Singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Reviews:
“The power of Susan Jiwey’s singing as Alcina is more than matched by her acting and stage ability.”
Camden New Journal - 21 April 2005 (correction printed 29 April 2005)

“Due to the sudden indisposition of one of the soloists the last minute addition of the recording artist Susan Jiwey sang scenes from Mozart’s Zauberflöte…Ms. Jiwey was a name unfamiliar to me. I observed her singing as being exemplary and her singing presence was enjoyable to everyone present if the enthusiastic applause from the audience carries any indication. I couldn’t fault much in her production of both sound quality as well as interpretative merits.”
Stephen Bennett, Clapham Festival of Music and Arts - June 2004

”The Pamina, Susan Jiwey, gave a heart-rending account of Pamina's aria, and throughout sang with full, exciting voice and total commitment to her role. Throughout, her performance was very impressive indeed. [Her] performance would grace any stage."
David Selig, OperaTalent - May 2004

“Susan Jiwey in turn excelled in her most dramatic pieces, ranging from Verdi and Bellini to a delightful group of Portuguese salon songs. She entered fully into the emotional twists and turns of each piece, and combined vivid characterisation with exhilarating vocal range and intensity.”
Ben Ridler, Dolellgau Music Club - November 2003 (www.dolgellaumusicclub.org.uk)