Kishani Jayasinghe - Soprano 

Sri Lankan soprano Kishani Jayasinghe recently completed two years as a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House. She made her Royal Opera debut as Chloë The Queen of Spades, followed by Ines Il trovatore, Giannetta L’elisir d’amore, Flowermaiden Parsifal, Papagena Die Zauberflöte and Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro.  In 2007/8 she covered the roles of Lauretta Gianni Schicchi,  Zerlina Don Giovanni, Adina L’elisir d’amore, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Echo Ariadne auf Naxos and Susanna Le nozze di Figaro for the Royal Opera House. She also performed at Buckingham Palace for Prince Charles’ 60^th Birthday Celebrations with the Royal Opera House.

Other operatic roles include Fiordiligi Così fan tutte, Mimí La bohème, Dido Dido and Aeneas, Sandrina La finta giardiniera, Leïla The Pearl Fishers and Soprano Actress A Night at the Chinese Opera. Concert repertoire includes Mozart Exsultate jubilate, Mass in C minor, Requiem and Vespers, Mendelssohn Elijah and Hymn of Praise, Handel Messiah, Beethoven Mass in C and Choral Fantasy, Brahms Requiem Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem, Verdi Requiem, Berg Sieben Frühe Lieder and Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder.

Kishani was most recently awarded the top women’s prize at the Francesco Viñas International Vocal Competition 2009 in Barcelona, the Arlene Auger Prize for the Most Accomplished All Round Singer (Opera, Lied and Oratorio) at the Dutch International Vocal Competition 2008 and the 2nd Prize in the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition 2008 in Istanbul. Other awards include Sri Lankan Young Musician of the Year 1995, Winner Concerto Competition 1996, Royal Over-Seas League Scholarship for summer music study, Isabel Jay Operatic Prize, Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, John Warner Award for Young Singers and the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Silver Medal for Musical Excellence. She is currently an Associate Artist of the Classical Opera Company.

Kishani was awarded a full scholarship to study singing and opera at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with Pamela Cook, Noelle Barker, Audrey Hyland and Jonathan Papp. She was most recently made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. She has also obtained a LLB and LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Nottingham.

Future engagements include Countess Le Nozze di Figaro (Garsington Opera), Sifare Mitridate il Re Ponto (Classical Opera Company), Rosina in the European Premier of John Corigliano’s The Ghost of Versailles (Wexford Opera), and recitals in Holland, Sri Lanka and in Sao Paolo in Brazil.

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