Rhona McKail - soprano

Rhona McKail, 26, from Prestwick  Ayrshire studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama where she gained a BA (Musical Studies) with first class honours in 2005. She is currently studying in the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, from where she recently graduated with distinction from the Masters of Music degree, and is very much looking forward to starting on the opera course there in September.

Studying with her vocal tutors Patricia MacMahon and Jane Irwin in the RSAMD, she won many accolades. These include The Jean Highgate award, a prize in the Margaret Dick competition, she was selected for the final of the RSAMD Governors competition and won the Bill McCue Memorial prize for Scots Song. Rhona was also chosen to participate in masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau, Catherine Bott and Margaret Marshall.

Rhona is now increasingly in high demand as an artist across the UK in concerts and oratorios and has recently performed in the Guildhall Gold concert at the Wigmore Hall, a recital in St. Martin in the Fields, a project for BBC Radio 4 with Robin Bowman, a masterclass and recital in the Ludlow English Song Festival, Brahm’s Requiem with Southend Bach Choir and Carmina Burana in Brockenhurst.  Future engagements include: recitals in the Windsor Festival and the Chelsea Schubert Festival.

Since beginning her studies in London, Rhona has been under the tutelage of John Evans and she has already enjoyed the privilege of working and performing with alumni which include Graham Johnson, Iain Burnside, Eugene Asti, Yvonne Kenny and most recently in masterclasses with Philip Langridge and Ann Murray. Having moved to London, Rhona is has been awarded the prestigious Miriam Licette Scholarship administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund as part of the Maggie Teyte Competition and she recently won the Association of English Speakers and Singers Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition. She is generously supported by The Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarships Trust, The Kathleen Trust, The Scottish International Education Trust, The Hope Scott Trust, The Worshipful Company of Innholders and The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, and is proud to be a Samling Scholar.

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