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Linda Hirst |
Linda Hirst was born and grew up in Huddersfield, and studied flute and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her career began during the early music revival of the early seventies, with Roger Norrington, John Eliot Gardiner and David Munrow. From 1974-78 she was a Swingle Singer, she then co-founded Electric Phoenix. With both groups she travelled the world, leading to work with many living composers, and becoming internationally renowned, in particular for her performances of contemporary music.
Linda has had many highlights while working with composers such as: Ligeti ( Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures - CD for Teldec) Berio (Folk Songs , Recital and A-Ronne - Proms, Geneva Festival), Henze ( Elegy for Young Lovers - London Sinfonietta) Osborne ( The Electrification of the Soviet Union ), Knussen ( Where the Wild Things Are for Glyndebourne), Muldowney ( Lonely Hearts and Duration of Exile - Radio 3) and Weir ( Consolations of Scholarship and Hello Dolly, Goodbye Mummy - BBC 2).
She has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, conductors and chamber ensembles in festivals, broadcasts and recordings (the most recent of which is Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures with the Schoenberg Ensemble and Reinbert de Leeuw for Teldec released last year). Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire has been a constant thread through the last 25 years, and she has just completed a series for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.
Recent concerts have taken her to the Buenos Aires Festival of Contemporary Music to sing Berio and Scelsi, and to Taipei for performances of Benedict Mason’s Chaplin Operas with the Ensemble Modern. This season she will sing Lachenmann in Cologne and Huddersfield with ensemble recherche.
Linda Hirst has worked in education throughout her career, has been Head of the Vocal Faculty at Trinity since 1995, and has given masterclasses in conservatoires, summer schools, the Teatro Colon, La Fenice and several American Universities. She is a Fellow of Dartington College of Arts, a Hon Dlit (Huddersfield), and a trustee of the Hinrichsen Foundation. |
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