Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan
Biography Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan
Rachel Redmond
studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. She went on to participate in William Christie’s training programme Le Jardin des Voix, appearing in this capacity with the ensemble Les Arts Florissants in Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres, Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato and in works by Bach, Charpentier, Monteverdi, Mondonville, Purcell and Rameau.
She made her stage debut at Paris’s Opéra Comique in Lully’s Atys, and went on to appear in André Campra’s Les Fêtes vénitiennes in Paris, Toulouse and New York. She also sang Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Leœna (La Belle Hélène) at the Théâtre du Châtelet. She was awarded the Breakthrough Award by The Times newspaper for her debut as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) with English Touring Opera.
Rachel Redmond is a regular guest at the Göttingen International Handel Festival and at the London Handel Festival, and has recently made debuts with Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, and at the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing. In 2022 she sang in Handel’s Messiah under Jordi Savall at the Salzburg Festival.
She sang in Reinhard Keiser’s Brockes Passion and Carl Heinrich Graun’s Der Tod Jesu with the Netherlands Bach Society for NTR Radio’s ZaterdagMatinee series, and in Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the ensemble Il Gardellino and the Flemish Radio Choir at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Recent engagements have included Handel’s Esther with the ensemble Le Stagioni, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Purcell’s Welcome to all the Pleasures and Handel’s Chandos Anthem No. 6 with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Messiah with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Fortuna (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Baroque ensemble the Dunedin Consort and the Orquestra Gulbenkian, Scarlatti’s Telemaco with the Concerto de’ Cavalieri, Bach’s St John Passion with the Britten Sinfonia, Fauré’s Requiem with Polyphony at the Concertgebouw and various appearances with Les Arts Florissants and the Netherlands Bach Society.
In the 2023/24 season Rachel Redmond will make her debut with the Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik in Messiah, and with the Irish National Opera as Aminta in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade.
