Norah King - Soprano

Norah King, soprano, graduated with a First Class Honours BA in Music Performance from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, studying under Dr Veronica Dunne. She is presently completing a postgraduate diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, London studying under Elizabeth Ritchie and Ingrid Surgenor. She is currently an Opera Theatre Company's Young Associate Artist and a Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholar.

Norah has won many major singing competitions in Ireland including the prestigious Gervase Elwes Cup at the Dublin Music Festival and the inaugural Irene Sandford Award for Singers at the RIAM.

In 2006, Norah made her debut with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra performing at the National Concert Hall (NCH), Dublin. Norah has also performed the role of Rosina in Italy and the lead role in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the RIAM. Her performances also included recitals at the NCH and in The Great Hall, Queen's University, Belfast for BBC Radio Ulster as part of the Belfast Festival.

Norah has participated in masterclasses with Ann Murray, Marie McLaughlin, Brenda Hurley, Patricia Bardon, Malcolm Martineau, the late Paul Hamburger, and Dennis O'Neill as part of the Wexford Festival Opera Artists' Development Programme.

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