PIERARD, MADELEINE

New Zealand-born Soprano, Madeleine Pierard completed an MMus (Opera) at the Royal College of Music in London, studying with Lillian Watson. She has won many awards, notably the Les Azuriales Ozone Opera Competition in France and the Singer’s Award at the Royal Overseas League Competition. She is also a New Generation Artist of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand and winner of the 2005 Lexus Song Quest. In 2008 she was named ‘What’s Hot’ by Opera Now Magazine for recent opera rôles in London. These include Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Cherubino, Prince Charmant (Cendrillon), Thaïs, Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Erissena (Poro) (at the RCM), Justice (The First Commandment) with the Classical Opera Company, Marzelline (Fidelio) with NBR New Zealand Opera and APO and Musetta (La Bohème) with Longborough Festival Opera. Madeleine Pierard has performed extensively on the concert platform throughout New Zealand and Britain, notably in Verdi’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation and Handel’s Messiah, recitals with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and pianists Simon Lepper and Stephen De Pledge, and as soloist on tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in China. She is a 2009/10 trainee at the National Opera Studio in London.

CRESSWELL, L.: Voice Inside (The) / Alas! How Swift / Cassandra's Songs / Kaea (Pierard, New Zealand Symphony, Judd)	8.570824