Susanna Andersson

Susanna Andersson (born 1977) is a Swedish soprano and the winner of the 2003 Guildhall School of Music and Drama's Gold Medal Competition. Her debut performance was in 2005 as Zerlina in the Grange Park Opera’s staging of Don Giovanni.

Background

Andersson was born in Östersund, Sweden. She received her education at the Ljungskile College Institute before moving to London where she was admitted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2003 Susanna graduated from their opera course with First Class Honours.

In 2004 Susanna was chosen as the soloist for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where she performed with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Among the pieces she performed was “Prosperine” by Joseph Martin Kraus.

In 2006/2007 Andersson was the only singer chosen for the ECHO Rising Stars series at the Barbican Theatre, and she gave recitals with her pianist Eugene Asti in London, New York, Athens, Amsterdam, Birmingham, Brussels, Stockholm, Cologne and Vienna.

Awards and prizes

* 2000 – Finalist, The Young Kathleen Ferrier Award
* 2001 - Semi-finalist, The International Mozart Competition
* 2004 – Sigrid Paskells Scholarship for the Performing Arts

* 12 May 2003 - Andersson won the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Gold Medal Competition after the final performance at the Barbican Theatre, London. After performing pieces such as Debussy’s Pantomime and Clair de lune to piano and the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, she was announced as the winner.

*2004 – Song Prize at The Kathleen Ferrier Awards

Stage roles

Opera

* Atalanta, Xerxes (GSMD)
* The Queen of the Night, The Magic Flute (Oxford Philharmonia, 2006)
* Lucia, Rape of Lucretia (Nurnberg KammerMusikFestival, 2003)
* Flora, Turn of the Screw (Nurnberg KammerMusicFestival, 2004)
* Philline, Mignon (GSMD, 2005)
* Therese, Les Mamelles de Tiresias (GSMD)
* Susanna, The Marriage of Figaro (Guildhall 2004)
* Adina, L'Elisir d'amore (Staatstheater, Nurnberg, 2006)
* Giannetta, The Elixir of Love (2007, Opera North)
* Echo, Echo and Narcissus, The Lindbury Theatre at Covent Garden (2007)
* Papagena, The Magic Flute (2007, English National Opera)
* Die Freudin, Von heute auf morgen (2008, Oper Leipzig)
* Blondchen, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2008, Oper Leipzig)
* Servilia, La clemenza di Tito (2008, Oper Leipzig)
* Valencienne, The Merry Widow (2008, Oper Leipzig)
* Papagena, The Magic Flute (2008, Oper Leipzig)
* Zerbinetta, Ariadne auf Naxos (2008, Oper Leipzig)

References

* [http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=362&c=2 IMG Artists profile]
* [http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/media_centre/files_archive/GSMD_gold_medal_2003.htm Press release: Guildhall School of Music & Drama Gold Medal winner 2003 + biographical info]
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobelfoundation/press/2004/award-banquet.html The Nobel Foundation press info: The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and Banquet in Stockholm 2004]
* [http://www.ferrierawards.org.uk/main/Winners.asp The Kathleen Ferrier Awards winners]
* [http://www.operabase.com/listart.cgi?lang=da&name=Susanna+Andersson&loose=E&acts=+Skema+ Operabase list of future commitments at Oper Leipzig]
* [http://www.sweaguiden.com/sweastipendier-stipendiater.htm Sigrid Paskells Scholarship for the Performing Arts]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article2577522.ece The Times review of The Magic Flute at the English National Opera, 2 October 2007]