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The English soprano, Holly Teague, graduated from The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and completed her first four years of training with Amanda Roocroft and Catherine Benson (2015-2019). She is the 2020 recipient of the St Clare Barfield Rosebowl for Operatic Distinction. Over summer 2018, she attended workshops run by British Youth Opera at the Southbank Centre, where she worked on her own selection of repertoire titled "Mostly Mozart!. She is currently completing her masters at The Royal College of Music where she is a Audrey Sacher Award Holder, and is kindly supported by the Dick Maidment and Peggy Cooper Award (Help Musicians UK), the Countess of Munster Trust and the Mario Lanza Educational Foundation.
This summer (September 2021) Holly Teague is looking forward to singing the role of Despina for Cumbria Festival Opera's W.A. Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, as well as Geraldine in Samuel Barber's Hand of Bridge. College roles include lots of Jonathan Dove! - Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park, Tina in Flight, Cricket in Pinocchio, as well as Hanna in Lehar's Die Lustige Witwe and Ariel in Sams' The Enchanted Island. She is the winner of the 2019 RBC Singing Prize, the 2019 Cecil Drew Oratorio Prize and the inter-departmental 2019 Doris Newton Music Club Award. She came second in the 2019 Edward Brookes English Song Prize and the 2019 Mario Lanza Opera Prize, and was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Bromsgrove International Musician's Competition. In June 2018, she was awarded a place at CNSMD (Conservatoire de Paris), where she studied at the college with Elene Golgevit and Anne le Bozec.
In March 2020, Holly Teague independently released her first album "Songs From A Shropshire Lass" with pianist Jonathan French; a personal project exploring the musical settings of the A.E. Housman Shropshire-inspired collection, "A Shropshire Lad," featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Somervell and John Ireland. She particularly enjoys performing these songs at home.
A versatile musician, Holly Teague has sung at venues ranging from her local church in Shropshire, to Westminster Central Hall, where she opened the 2018 British Council Conference. Recent projects include a touring English Lute Song programme with Myles Payne, and a recital exploring the works of W.H. Auden by Britten, Barber and Stravinsky.
Passionate about the arts in education, Holly Teague teaches Singing and Drama at Central Stage & Dance Academy in Burton Upon Trent, hosts bespoke workshops for schools, as well as her own one-to-one teaching from home. In spring of 2021, she will publish her first children's story inspired by the learning's of the COVID-19 crisis, which aims to highlight the importance of music for children. She is currently based in Birmingham. |
