Anna Devin – Soprano

Anna Devin is in her final year of her B.A. in Music Performance under Colette Mc Gahon-Tosh at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. In July 2006 she made her UK stage debut as Virtue and Damigella in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea at Buxton Opera Festival and Aldeburgh Proms. This summer Anna participated in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, she was a soloist in Purcell’s King Arthur conducted by Laurence Cummings and attended masterclasses on French song with Malcolm Martineau. Although still in full-time education Anna is highly sought after on the concert platform performing works Orff’s Carmina Burana and Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the National Concert Hall and Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate at the National Gallery of Ireland. As part of the Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival, Anna performed the world premier of ‘One Fine Day’ by Micheal Holohan. This song cycle was composed for her and she premiered it in the National Gallery of Ireland May 2006.

Anna is multiple prize-winner at the Irish Feiseanna. This year she also won the Thelma King Award for Young Singers in Bath, UK, the Acton Travel Bursary at the RIAM and received third prize at the Great Elm Awards in Wigmore Hall. Her solo repertoire to date includes John Rutter’s Requiem and Gloria, Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C, Missa Brevis in C and Requiem, Bach’s Cantata 202, Faure’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Intro al Gloria and Gloria, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Little Organ Mass, Rossini’s Petie Messe Sollonelle, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate Handel’s Messiah, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Damigella and Virtue in Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea. Anna will commence her postgraduate studies in Guildhall School of Music and Drama Opera Studio in London this September.

Anna will be one of the soloists in a new English translation of the JS Bach St John Passion in the National Concert Hall on Sunday May 13 with The Dublin County Choir.

Anna Devin © 2007