RachelRedmond

Rachel Redmond was born in Glasgow. She discovered her love of singing with the Junior Chorus of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at the age of seven.

She studied at the Music School of Douglas Academy and subsequently received her BA Hons from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where she was awarded the Florence Veitch Ibler prize for oratorio performance. She went on to earn an MA with Merit at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and, in 2011, she was a member of the prestigious Jardin des Voix, the Academy for young singers of Les Arts Florissants.

Rachel Redmond’s recent performances include the role of Léontine in Campra’s Les Fêtes Venitiènnes at the Opera Comique, Theatre de Caen, Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse and BAM, New York, Caecilia in Charpentier’s Caecilia, Virgin and Martyr in Aix-en-Provence, Ambronay and New York, Irene in Lully’s Atys, Grands Motets de Rameau et Mondonville, Bach’s Coffee Cantata and Charpentier’s Te Deum at the opening of the new Paris Philharmonie with Les Arts Florissants, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Rameau’s Pygmalion with the European Union Baroque Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Handel's Saul in Aldeburgh, Carmina Burana at the Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada with Concerts from Scratch, Jommelli’s Beatus Vir with Musica Ghislieri at Ambronay Festival, Handel’s Israel in Egypt at Festival de la Chaise-Dieu with Les Cris de Paris and Loena in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.

Rachel Redmond’s future plans include; Belinda in Dido and Aeneas with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants and Handel’s Messiah with Jordi Savall and the Centre Internacional de Música Antiga .

RachelRedmond’s tracks

• Mozart, Vesperae solennes de confessore - Beatus Vir by RachelRedmond
• Charles Villiers Stanford, A Song of Peace by RachelRedmond