Artists

Biography:

Sally Bruce-Payne was born in London, living first in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, where her father was assistant organist. She began her musical studies as a cellist but after graduating from Bristol University she studied singing as a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music, London, where she won the English Song Prize among other awards. She later won the Lady Nixon Award for study as Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s nominee. Soon after she began a solo career while singing as a member of The Sixteen and The Monteverdi Choir.Gardiner’s nominee. Soon after she began a solo career while singing as a member of The Sixteen and The Monteverdi Choir.

She enjoys a worldwide career working with many of the leading conductors, orchestras and choirs in the world such as Sir Neville Marriner, Sir David Willcocks, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Masur, Philippe Herreweghe and Nicholas McGegan.

Among her recordings are Bach’s arrangement of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with The Bach Players, and Schubert’s Mass in A flat, Haydn’s Theresienmesse and Nelson Mass (Decca) and Boulanger’s Du fond de l’abime (DG), all with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She has performed for broadcast Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Yorkshire Bach Choir, Boulez’s Le Marteau sans maître at the Cheltenham Festival for BBC Radio 3, Handel’s ‘Dixit Dominus’ with The Sixteen and Harry Christophers also for BBC Radio 3, Handel’s Messiah for BBC1 and Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea in Japan for the national Arts Channel.

Operatic appearances include Virtue in Handel’s ‘Choice of Hercules’ at the Göttingen Festival (The Hanover Band with Nicholas McGegan) and Erisane in Handel’s ‘Poro’ at the Halle Handel Festival as well as Medoro in Handel’s Orlando and Prince Edward in Arne’s Alfred, both at the Linbury Theatre in the Royal Opera House, Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina, the title role in

Offenbach’s Dick Whittington at the Covent Garden Festival, Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa, Giustino and Tito Manlio all with La Serenissima for BBC radio. She has recently appeared with La Serenissima in Venice as Marzia in Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica and Elpina in Vivaldi’s La Fida Ninfa, and as Argene in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade in celebration of the Olympic year in 2012 at Buxton, among other festivals.