Jeni Bern - Soprano

Born in Glasgow, Jeni graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and from the opera course of the Royal College of Music. The winner of numerous college prizes, including a Countess of Munster Award and, for two consecutive years, the President Emerita Award. She was recently a participant in the prestigious Samling Foundation masterclasses.

On the concert platform, Jeni has sung the Teixera Te Deum with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in Macao, Cupid King Arthur with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort in the Bergen Festival, with Trevor Pinnock in the Stour Festival, with the Bach Choir and Sir David Willcocks, Haydn's Creation in Spain with Sir Neville Marriner, Messiah with Rudi Lutz in Switzerland, the Beethoven Missa Solemnis and the Bruckner Te Deum, a UK tour of Vivaldi by Candlelight, the UK première of Michael Torke's Book of Proverbs with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Belinda Dido & Aeneas for the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, and with countless choral societies throughout the UK. Most recently, Carmina Burana for RSNO.

She has also appeared on television as Ann Trulove in the series Of Beauty and Consolation with the Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vredenburg, Utrecht; for BBC1 Scotland. She has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 & 4 and recorded for Naxos. Her CD of Handel and Purcell with Crispian Steele Perkins for Carlton achieved widespread critical acclaim. Recent recordings include: The Divan of Moses Ibn-Ezra by Castelnuovo Tedesco for Somm Records and Haydn's Stabat Mater with Christ Church Cathedral Choir.

Her stage roles have included The Guardian of the Threshold Die Frau ohne Schatten, Heavenly Voice Palestrina, Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro and Blumenmädchen Parsifal for the Royal Opera House; Amor Orpheo and Eurydice for ENO; La Princesse L'Enfant et les Sortilèges for Opera North; Amor Orphée et Eurydice for WNO; Jano Jenufa for GFO; Susanna The Marriage of Figaro for English Touring Opera; Christa The Makropoulos Case for Scottish Opera Go Round; the title role Deidamia and Sigismondo Arminio for the London Handel Festival, Atalanta Serse for the Early Opera Company, Elissa Tolomeo with Nicholas Kraemer; Narcissa Philemon und Baucis (Haydn) with Trevor Pinnock, Dalinda Ariodante in the Covent Garden Festival; Adina L'Elisir d'Amore in Cambridge.

Current season/future plans: The Creation with Nicholas Kraemer and the SCO, Oscar Un Ballo in Maschera for Opera Zuid.

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