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Rachel Speirs

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Originally from Scotland, Rachel Speirs is a recent graduate from the Royal Northern College of Music studying with Deborah Rees.
singer (Soprano)
Manchester

Scottish Soprano Rachel Speirs is a First Class graduate from the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied with Deborah Rees. She is commencing her Postgraduate training at the RNCM in September this year, generously supported by the Scottish International Educational Trust and the Mario Lanza Foundation. In her early years Rachel played the violin to Grade 8 standard and took Tap, Modern, Ballet, and Contemporary Dance classes and exams. She began singing at the age of 7 with the National Youth Choirs of Scotland with whom she featured as a soloist on a commercial recording of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. She attended the Junior Conservatoire at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she studied with Wilma McDougall and was awarded the Junior Cup for Opera in 2012. In the same year, she won the Judith Richmond Memorial Award for Oratorio and the Agnes Duncan Cup for Voice in the Glasgow Music Festival. Rachel’s operatic experience includes the roles of Pamina, Papagena, Second Lady, and Second Spirit Die Zauberflöte, Rose Lakmé, Mustardseed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Hildebrand Street Scene (RNCM Opera), Monica The Medium, Edith Pirates of Penzance (Oxenfoord International Summer School), and has been a chorus member in Cosi fan Tutte, The Merry Widow (RNCM Opera), and Don Giovanni (British Youth Opera). In Summer 2018 she looks forward to working with British Youth Opera again in their production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and performing with Northern professional touring company Heritage Opera in Carmen. Rachel is also delighted to have been cast as Suor Osmina in the RNCM’s upcoming production of Puccini’s Suor Angelica. In her final undergraduate year Rachel performed in many song recitals as a member of the RNCM Songsters programme and took part in masterclasses with Joan Rodgers, Susan Bullock, and Julius Drake. On the Oratorio and Concert platform she has performed as soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Vaughan Williams’ The First Nowell, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and Vivaldi’s Gloria with various choral societies in the North of England, and was honoured to perform Schubert’s Cantata The Shepherd on the Rock with Caroline Clemmow and Linda Merrick in a special memorial concert given for the late renowned pianist Anthony Goldstone in 2017. In October 2018 Rachel will premiere a new work by John Joubert with The Villiers Quartet at the Alwyn Festival in Suffolk.

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