Jane Irwin Click here for photographs Download Ms. Irwin's biography (MS Word) Mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin studied at Lancaster University and at the RNCM. Her many prizes include the 1993 Singers' Competition at the Geneva International Music Competition and the 1991 Decca Kathleen Ferrier Prize. As a concert and recital singer Jane Irwin has appeared regularly in Britain, Europe and America. In November 2002 she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by Mariss Jansons. This followed on from highly successful concerts in 1999 of Mahler Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen with the same forces at the BBC Proms and the Berlin Festival. She made her debut with the San Francisco Symphony singing Handel Lucrezia in 2005. She has sung Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Michael Gielen and Mahler Das Lied von der Erde for the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Kent Nagano. She has worked with the Orchestre de Paris, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra (Zemlinsky Eine Florentinisches Tragödie and Schreker Funf Gesänge), Finnish Radio Symphony, Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome (Mahler Das Klagende Lied), and with Semyon Bychkov, Libor Pesek, Donald Runnicles, Antonio Pappano, Matthias Bamert, Trevor Pinnock, Mark Elder, Paul Daniel, Joseph Swensen, Richard Armstrong and Jakov Kreizberg. She has given recitals at the Châtelet, Paris, London, Geneva, Aix-en-Provence and Japan. Jane Irwin has sung regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival, most recently Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Jonathan Nott.. Other concerts at the Edinburgh Festival have included a recital at Queen’s Hall, Mahler Rückert Lieder and Honegger Le Bucher de St Jeanne, the title role of Poro by Handel with Emmanuelle Haïm, Verdi Requiem with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Myung Whun Chung, and in a Beethoven evening with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Günther Herbig. With the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra she sang Wagner Wesendonck Lieder with Walter Weller and Bernstein Symphony No 1 Jeremiah with Sakari Oramo. Other engagements have included Mahler Symphony No 2 and Rückert-Lieder under Gerard Schwarz with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Elgar Dream of Gerontius, Sea Pictures and The Music Makers with the Hallé and Mark Elder, Gerontius with the CBSO and Sakari Oramo; and Brahms Alto Rhapsody with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Frankfurt and London also with Mark Elder. She has sung Elgar Sea Pictures with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig and Honegger Le Bucher de St Jeanne for the Orchestre National de Lyon both with Jun Märkl. She has also worked with the BBC Philharmonic (Elgar The Kingdom), BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Berlioz La Mort de Cléopâtre), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra (Tippett’s A child of our Time and Mahler Kindertotenlieder), the English Concert, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Handel Lucrezia and Resphighi Il Tramonto at the Wigmore Hall). In 1995 she made her debut at the ROH in a new production of Götterdämmerung/Second Norn under Bernard Haitink, and returned in the Autumn of 2003 to sing Suzuki/Madam Butterfly. In the summer of 2000 she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in Die Walküre. For Scottish Opera she has sung Suzuki/Madam Butterfly in a new production by David McVicar, Maddalena in Rigoletto and Waltraute/Götterdämmerung in a hugely successful Ring Cycle directed by Tim Albery and conducted by Richard Armstrong at the 2003 Edinburgh International Festival, Fatima in Weber's Oberon at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival and Thea in Tippett's The Knot Garden. For English National Opera she sang Brangäne/Tristan und Isolde with great success. For Opera North she sang Fenena in Nabucco in concert, which was also recorded by Chandos and will be released in 2006. Future opera engagements include Brangäne/Tristan for San Francisco Opera. Future concerts include The Dream of Gerontius in Gran Canaria, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Zurich Tonhalle and Ivor Bolton, a weekend of Elliott Carter’s music with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, and Mozart Coronation Mass with the San Francisco Symphony, Mahler Symphony No 2 in Luxembourg and with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Mahler Das Lied von der Erde with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andew Davis.