English soprano Susanna Fairbairn is a former Opera Awards Foundation bursary recipient and Park Lane Group Young Artist, winner of the Dvořák Prize at the Emmy Destinn Young Singers Awards, and Handel Singing Competition finalist. At Trinity College of Music in London she won the English Song Competition, Wilfred Greenhouse Allt Prize and Paul Simm Opera Prize. She also studied voice at the Wales International Academy of Voice in Cardiff, and flute at Magdalen College, Oxford. Significant solo appearances have included concerts with The Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig conducted by John Eliot Gardiner to a performance of Tavener’s epic Veil of the Temple in Canterbury Cathedral in the composer’s presence. Susanna has performed recitals at major venues including the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, and her début solo CD, ‘Songs of Geoffrey Bush and Joseph Horovitz’, is available on Naxos. Operatic roles include Agathe/Wolfsschlucht (Deutsche Oper Berlin Tischlerei); Bess Foster/Georgiana (Buxton International Opera Festival); Dido/Dido & Aeneas (Nordland Music Festival, Norway); Galatea/Acis & Galatea (Opera Theatre Company, Ireland); Countess/Le nozze di Figaro (Longborough Festival Opera); cover Donna Anna/Don Giovanni (Opera North); Donna Anna/Don Giovanni, Belinda/Dido & Aeneas, Eleonora/Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo, and Juno/La Calisto (English Touring Opera); and Crobyle/Thaïs (Chelsea Opera Group). For more information, please visit www.susannafairbairn.com.