Georgia Knower as born in London 1984. She recently graduated from the University of Edinburgh, where she read Music and studied singing with Margaret Aronson. Georgia is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music on the Postgraduate Vocal Diploma Course with Elizabeth Ritchie and Iain Ledingham.
In concert, Georgia has performed various Bach Cantatas, Dvořak Mass in D, Haydn Nelson Mass, Mozart Coronation Mass, Requiem (with The Brandenburg Sinfonia in St Martin-in-the-Fields), Vesperae de Confessore and Vivaldi Gloria. Future engagements include Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate and Requiem.
Her operatic roles include Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Mařenka (The Bartered Bride), Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring), Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance) and Stephanie Williams (The Turing Test (2007). Georgia has performed excerpts from Beethoven’s Fidelio (Marzelline) and Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea) working with David Roblou. Recently, Georgia featured in the R.A.M. Opera Scenes as Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Catherine (L’Étoile du Nord). In July 2008, she will sing Despina (Così fan tutte) for Situation Opera in London.
Future recital plans include Michael Head’s Over the Rim of the Moon and Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch at the R.A.M. Georgia has already performed a wide range of song repertoire to audiences in Edinburgh, London and Stuttgart. She has participated in masterclasses at Ardingly International Singing Summer School with Eugene Asti, Robin Bowman, Ameral Gunson, Richard Jackson, Penelope Mackay, Jonathan Hinden, Brian Mackay and Hans Peter Blochwitz, with whom she regularly works; in Scotland with Patricia MacMahon, Helen Yorke, Christopher Underwood and Malcolm Martineau; and at the R.A.M. with Lillian Watson and Diane Forlano.
Georgia is grateful to the Royal Academy of Music (Nan Copeland Award), the University of Edinburgh (Bucher Fraser Scholarship) and The Vegetarian Charity for supporting her studies.
