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The British
Philharmonic
Concert Orchestra
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 JENI BERN - Soprano
Born in Glasgow,
Jeni graduated from the Royal
Scottish Academy
of Music and Drama and from the opera course of the Royal College of
Music. On the concert
platform, Jeni has sung the Teixera Te Deum with The Sixteen in Macao, Cupid King Arthur with
the Gabrieli Consort in the
Bergen Festival, Stour Festival. The Bach Choir, Haydn's Creation in Spain with Sir
Neville Marriner, Messiah with
Rudi Lutz in Switzerland, the Beethoven Missa Solemnis and the Bruckner
Te Deum, a UK tour of Vivaldi by
Candlelight ,
the UK première of Michael Torke's Book of Proverbs with the Royal Scottish
National Orchestra, and with
countless choral societies throughout the UK. Most recently, Carmina Burana for
RSNO and The Creation with SCO. She has also appeared
on television as Ann Trulove in the series Of
Beauty and Consolation, broadcast for BBC Radio
3 & 4 and recorded for Naxos. Her CD
of Handel and Purcell achieved widespread critical acclaim. Recent
recordings include: Haydn's Stabat Mater with
Christ Church Cathedral Choir. Her
stage roles have included The Guardian
of the Threshold Die Frau ohne Schatten, Heavenly
Voice Palestrina , Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro and
Blumenmädchen Parsifal for the Royal Opera
House; Amor Orpheo and Eurydice for
ENO and WNO; La Princesse L'Enfant et les
Sortilèges for Opera North; Jano Jenufa for
GFO; Susanna The Marriage of Figaro for
ETO and Opera North; Christa The
Makropoulos Case for Scottish Opera Go Round; the title role Deidamia and
Sigismondo Arminio for
the London Handel Festival, Atalanta Serse for
the Early Opera Company, Elissa Tolomeo, Narcissa Philemon und Baucis (Haydn),
Dalinda Ariodante in
the Covent Garden Festival;
Adina L'Elisir d'Amore in
Cambridge. Recent engagements: Gretel
Hansel and Gretel (in
concert) for Opera North, Mabel The
Pirates of Penzance , Yum-Yum The Mikado and
Sophie Rosenkavalier at
ENO, Musetta La Bohème and
Oscar Un Ballo in Maschera for
Opera Zuid, Teutile Motezuma (Vivaldi
) in de Doelen, Rotterdam, and a recording of Edward Joseph Collins Hymn to the Earth with
the RSNO.
most recently Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus in de Doelen, Rotterdam;
Cunegonde/Paquette Candide for
the Théâtre du Châtelet . She stepped in at the eleventh hour to sing
Zdenka Arabella at
the Théâtre du Châtelet to great critical acclaim and has just returned
from her La Scala Milan debut.
Jeni is married to West End Singer Loren Geeting and has two children.
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