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INTERNATIONAL DISTINGUISHED TEACHER, |
 Ava June has had an illustrious carrer as one of England's leading sopranos,
spanning more than 25 years. She worked with many celebrated conductors including
Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras
Sir John Pritchard, Sir Edward Downes, Sir Alexander Gibson, Sir Charles Groves, James Lockhart, David
Atherton, Mark Elder, Richard Armstrong and Steuart Bedford. |
| She was a principal soprano with Sadlers Wells Opera Company from
1956-1963 and a company principal with English National Opera from 1970-1983.
She also sang regularly with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Scottish Opera
and Welsh National Opera, as well as in France, Germany, Belgium, former
Yugoslavia, South Africa, Russia, Bulgaria and the USA. She made many broadcasts for BBC
TV and Radio, and recordings of La Traviata, The Bartered Bride and The Turn of
the Screw. |
| Her wide repertoire embraced many of the operatic heroines such as Mozart's
Pamina, Countess, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira and Ilia; Verdi's Violetta, Elisabetta
and Aida; Puccini's Mimi, Cio-Cio San and Tosca; Wagner's Eva, Freia, Sieglinde
and Gutrune, as well as Leonora (Fidelio), Agathe (Der Freischutz), Micaela
(Carmen), Marguerite (Faust), Nedda (Pagliacci), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin),
Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Judith (Duke Bluebeard's Castle), and the title role
Katya Kabanova. |
| She worked with Joan Cross who was her teacher of singing at the London
Opera School (later to become the National Opera Studio) and became well known
as an interpreter of most of the Benjamin Britten roles which Joan Cross created:
Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes), Elizabeth (Gloriana), Lady Billows (Albert Herring) and
Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw). |
| Ava June studied singing from the age of 16 with Kate Opperman. She later
studied with Clive Carey, Dame Eva Turner and Denis Dowling. Her prizes include
the Gold Medal and First Prize at the 1963 International Competition for Young
Opera Singers in Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| In 1983, she started to coach young professionals at ENO and to teach young
singers. She worked at Morley College, the Royal College of Music and Trinity
College of Music until in 1985 she joined the staff of the Royal Northern College of
Music where she has been a Professor for fourteen years. She also taught singing for
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama between 1986 and 1988. |
| Since
1999 Ava June has been coaching operatic roles with students at the Royal
Northern College of Music. After her successful debut as producer of Gounod's
Romeo et Juliette for the Wilmslow Opera Company in 1997, she returned the following year
to produce La Traviata and in 1999 produced Nabucco for the same opera
company. |
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recently, she has given masterclasses for the Wagner Society and the
National Opera Studio and has adjudicated for the Britten/Pears school and
the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Ava June continues to
teach privately and returned to Bulgaria to adjudicate the International
Singing competition in 2000. Throughout 2001, Ava June has been involved in
masterclasses and coaching operatic roles with groups from the Royal
Northern College of Music, National Opera School Studio, and
Clonter Opera Theatre. She has also performed for Sky TV and in
concert in the USA. |
| In
1999 Ava June became a Member of the Board of the Carl Rosa Company
where she is involved with fund-raising and education projects and in
December 2000, she directed Die Fledermaus for the Carl Rosa Opera
Company. From
2000, she has been directing a choir of senior citizens for the University
of the Third Age. Ava now teaches at Canterbury, Christ Church University
one day a week where she works in particular with very young singers.
In 2002 she is also teaching at Centro Studi Italiani Opera festival in
Italy. |
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