Soloists

Anna Dennis - Soprano

Anna Dennis was the recipient of the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society's Singer's award.

Her opera performances include Katie Mitchell’s stage piece New Dark Age at the Royal Opera House, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at Drottningholms Slottsteater in Stockholm, the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute at Opera North, Handel’s Rodelinda at the Göttingen Handel Festspiel, and roles in all three Monteverdi operas during John Eliot Gardiner’s world tour of the trilogy. She recently created the title role of Violet in Tom Coult’s debut opera, premiered at the Aldeburgh festival with London Sinfonietta, and multiple roles in David Pountney's Purcell pasticcio Masque of Might for Opera North.

She has sung Britten’s War Requiem at the Berlin Philharmonie and Thomas Ades’ Life Story, accompanied by the composer, at New York’s White Light Festival. Recent concert highlights have included performing Boulez' Pli Selon Pli with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican's centenary celebration of the composer, Luigi Nono's Canti di Vita e d'Amore also with BBCSO, Poulenc Gloria with Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Maxim Emelyanychev, Haydn’s Jahreszeiten with Düsseldorfer Sinfoniker under Adam Fischer, and Handel’s Orlando with the Academy of Ancient Music under Laurence Cummings.

Her numerous recordings include Elena Langer’s Landscape with Three People, the Grammy-nominated Kastalsky Requiem with the Orchestra of St Luke’s under Leonard Slatkin, two orchestral song cycles on composer Tom Coult's debut disc "Pieces that Disappear" with the BBC Philharmonic, and Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula with Early Opera Company under Christian Curnyn.

Upcoming engagements include a programme of Mozart concert arias at the Wigmore Hall, performances of Thomas Ades' America A Prophecy with the New York Philharmonic and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the premiere of an orchestral song cycle by Elena Langer with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the title role in Monteverdi's Incoronazione di Poppea.