Andee-Louise Hypolite
Contact details: contact through the Samling Foundation

History and experience
with the Samling: I became involved with the Samling Foundation in Autumn 2000 when I was selected for a masterclass with Barbara Bonney. I would describe it as a defining episode in my singing career! It was a tremendous experience to have the opportunity to work so intensely in such wonderful surroundings with such an eminent artist who had so much to say!

While spending time working on my singing, I learned a great deal about myself. What I feel I learned there changed some fundamental ideas about how I approach performing, both technically and as a human being. Watching others go through the same kind of experience alongside me was both extraordinary and special. I believe that the Samling format is unique and personally feel privileged to have been part of it!

Past achievements
After gaining a First Class Honours Bmus in Performance and and Mmus in Advanced Opera with Distinction at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, I studied at the National Opera Studio (with the assistance of awards from The Friends of Covent Garden, The Peter Stuyvesant Foundation and The Amici di Verdi).

Operatic roles have included Marchioness Clarice in Rossini's La Pietra del Paragone and Berta in The Barber of Seville Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, Mrs Grose in The Turn of the Screw and Mrs Herring in Albert Herring, both by Britten and Mercedes in Bizet's Carmen.

Major concerts have included performances of Berio's Folk Songs, Ravel's "Chansons madecasses", Brahms' "Four Serious Songs" Berlioz's "Les Nuits d'Ete" and Elgar's "Sea Pictures". Oratorio repertoire includes Bach's St Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, Handel's "Messiah" and "Belshazzar", Vivaldi's "Gloria", Mozart's Requiem and Mass in C minor, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius" and Verdi's Requiem.
Also an occasional performer of more popular music, singing songs from West End shows and jazz and blues standards, working with big bands and jazz ensembles including that of the Scottish saxophonist Bobby Wishart.

Forthcoming activities
Working with Birmingham Opera Company in Bernstein's Candide directed by Graham Vick, Spring 2003

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