Annie Gill

Born in Edinburgh, Annie completed her postgraduate studies at the RNCM before becoming a young artist at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg for the season 2005/06.

Annie has sung a wide range of repertoire across Europe, including Amore and Valletto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea with Rinaldo Alessandrini at the Opera du Rhin and Adza in Chabrier’s Etoile at the Opéra Comique Paris with John Eliot Gardiner. For the Glyndebourne Festival Annie has covered the roles of Hermia in Midsummer Nights’s Dream and Tisbe in La Cenerentola, the latter including a showing with the OAE and Vladimir Jurowski. Other operatic roles include Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with English Chamber Opera, the title role in Offenbach’s La Périchole, Dorabella, Mercedes, and Annio in Gluck’s La Clemenza di Tito. Her credits in contemporary opera include Sara in Tobias and the Angel (Jonathan Dove) and Suzanne in Martin Butler’s A Better Place.

On the concert platform, Annie’s performances include B Minor Mass in Edinburgh and at the Belfast Festival with The Dunedin Consort, Mozart Coronation Mass in St Petersburg with Kristofer Wahlander and the St Petersburg Festival Orchestra, Messiah in Hamburg and at The Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, Mozart Requiem with the Manchester Camerata, and performances of the cantata BWV60 with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the ORR at the RFH and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

She has performed Britten’s Phaedra with the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse in Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse, and recitals of French song with Antoine Palloc,with whom she continues to collaborate.

Annie’s recordings include the Dublin version of Handel’s Messiah, which won a Gramophone Award 2007 in the Baroque Vocal category. Future plans include Waltraute in Die Walküre in David McVicar’s new Ring Cycle at the Opera National du Rhin.