Madeleine Shaw - Mezzo Soprano

Since studying music at Goldsmiths, University College London, Samling Scholar Madeleine has completed a Post-Graduate Diploma, MMus in Opera and MOpera from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Distinction. She studied with Kathleen McKellar-Ferguson. Whilst at the RSAMD she was awarded the Mary Garden Entrance Scholarship and the Ye Cronies Opera Prize.

Recent solo performances include Bach's B Minor Mass and Copland's In the Beginning (St. John's College, Cambridge), Rossini's Petit Messe Solonelle (St Edmundsbury Cathedral), Mendelssohn's Elijah, Vaughan-Williams' Serenade to Music, Berio's Folksongs (Glasgow Summerfest), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Tavener’s Lamentation for Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Ramalah, Abu Gosh and Bethlehem), Duruflé Requiem (Paisley Abbey) and Haydn’s Nelson Mass (Cadogan Hall, London) and opera gala with Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Barony Hall, Glasgow) and Mozart Requiem (Anghiari Festival, Italy). She has appeared in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Phillip Langridge and Malcolm Martineau.

Madeleine took part in the ENO Baylis Programme 'The Knack' performance skills course and subsequently became a company principal for the programme in Palace in the Sky by Jonathan Dove and Rachel Leach's South of the River. She regularly sings with The Cambridge Singers, and European Voices, most recently performing Così fan tutte and the role of Cretian Woman in Idomeneo in the Salzburg Spring Festival, Berlin and Lucerne with Sir Simon Rattle.

Operatic roles include Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw), Mrs Herring (Albert Herring), The Forrester's Wife and The Owl (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), The Grand Duchess of Monteblanco (A Dinner Engagement) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) for Opera East Productions , Nerone ( L'Incoronazione di Poppea), Meg Page (Falstaff), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Un P â tre (L'Enfant et les Sortileges) and Cretian Woman (Idomeneo) at the RSAMD. Opera scenes performed include Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Mercédès (Carmen), Idamante (Idomeneo), Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict) , Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) , Frau Reich (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Mère Marie ( Les Dialogues des Carmélites) , Madame Larina (Eugene Onegin) and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier).

Future engagements include Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

Madeleine is currently studying at The National Opera Studio, London. She is grateful to English National Opera, W F Wotherspoons Trust, The Kathleen Trust and The Sybil Tutton Awards for their support.