Mhairi Lawson

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Mhairi Lawson is a Scottish soprano .

Life

Mhairi Lawson graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . Her first CD was English and Scottish Songs by Joseph Haydn . As a soloist she sang with Les Arts Florissants and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under conductors William Christie , Charles Mackerras , Paul McCreesh , Jane Glover and John Eliot Gardiner . She sang operas by Henry Purcell , Marc-Antoine Charpentier , Stefano Landi , Georg Friedrich Händel , Johann Adolph Hasse and Claudio Monteverdi . The venues were the English National Opera , the Cité de la musique , the Barbican Center and the Wigmore Hall . She was Purcell's Fairy Queen at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall .

She sang in the Messiah (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Paris and Barcelona) and was with the title roles in Acis and Galatea and Dido and Aeneas in Scandinavia and in the Netherlands as well as in Jerusalem and Beaune . She performed with the St. John Passion in the Lincoln Center and in Weimar , with the Mass in B minor in Leipzig and with the St. Matthew Passion in Spain. King Arthur performed it with the Mark Morris dance troupe in San Francisco . In Madrid she sang in Athalia , in Zurich in Bach's Christmas Oratorio . Arias by Vivaldi and Mozart were on the program in Nantes .

Mhairi is in the (living) folksong tradition of the United Kingdom . With songs by Haydn, Mozart, Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf , she appeared at the Edinburgh Festival , Newcastle University and the University of York ; BBC Radio 3 recorded a few.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bach Cantata's website

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Lawson, Mhairi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chandler, Mhairie (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish soprano
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century