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Biography
Linda Gerrard was a prize-winning student at the Royal Northern College of Music, winning the Freckleton Prize for Singing. Her career has taken her throughout the UK and also to Europe and North America. She recently appeared as Comtesse Adèle / Le Comte Ory at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad and covered the role of Aspasia in Mitridate, Re di Ponto for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Her other operatic engagements have included Bellante / Almira at the Bremen Opera House, in a production which also went to the Halle Festival, Josephine in Martinu's Comedy on the Bridge with the Northern Sinfonia, Konstanze / Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Orchestre National d'Ile de France under Marc Minkowski and Gilda in Rigoletto for Opera Holland Park.
Her varied concert career has included a European Tour (including performances in the Aix-les-Bains Festival, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Paris) with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre as The Angel / La Resurrezione, the J. S. Bach Easter Oratorio under Roy Goodman, Messiah with the New Hamilton Orchestra, Canada, the Telemann Consort, Germany and the English Symphony Orchestra, the Nelson Mass at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s South Bank, Lloyd Webber Requiem with the Scottish Opera Orchestra, Elijah with Willard White in Southwell Minster, Poulenc Gloria at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Rossini Stabat Mater at Westminster Abbey and Handel Israel in Egypt in Wells Cathedral. She has also appeared frequently at St John’s Smith Square, the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, and in Canterbury, Chester, Gloucester, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Ripon Cathedrals.
Her recording as Bellante in Almira with Fiori Musicali, Bremen, under the direction of Andrew Lawrence-King is available on cpo CDs. In January 2009 it was featured on the BBC Radio 3 Handel Opera Series to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Handel's death.
The Rossini opera, Le Comte Ory in which she sings the role of the Countess de Formoutiers was released in June 2007 on Naxos.
She is currently appearing in concerts throughout the UK.
