Sara Wallander-Ross, soprano
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Curriculum Vitae
Musical Education
Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary;
Postgraduate studies  (Professor Erika Sziklay)   
Birmingham Conservatoire, England;
Bachelor of Music (Honours, 1st class)                             
Kapellsbergs Musikskola, Härnösand, Sweden
Voice

Voice  
Voice, violin, piano
2000-2002

1996-2000
1994-1996  
Opera Roles
Second Norn / Wellgunde
Waltraute (cover)
Kostelnička                         
Michaela                                                                                      
Judit

Freia / Wellgunde            
The Governess

Fiordiligi          
Lady Billows
Countess                                                                       
The Witch      
Ida                                      
Pallas Athena      
Papagena    
Dorabella                               
Berta                                 
2nd Wood Nymph
Zweite Dame                            
2nd Witch / Woman        
Barbarina                            
Sylviane / Lolo                
Zweiter Knabe                    
(before change of fach)   
Giulio Cesare                       
Florence Pike                     
Athamas
Götterdämmerung
Die Walküre
Jenůfa           
Carmen    
A Kékszakállu herceg vára (Bluebeard's Castle)
Das Rheingold
The Turn of the Screw  

Così fan tutte 
Albert Herring
Le nozze di Figaro
Hansel and Gretel
Die Fledermaus
The Judgment of Paris
The Magic Flute
Così fan tutte
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Rusalka
Die Zauberflöte
Dido and Aeneas
Le nozze di Figaro
Die lustige Witwe
Die Zauberflöte
     
Giulio Cesare 
Albert Herring        
Semele
Longborough Festival Opera
Midsummer Opera
Huddersfield Youth Opera
Warriner Choral Society
Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Hungary
Orchestra of Oxford
Oxford Opera Company
Oxford City Opera
Oxford Opera Company Operamus
Millennium Opera        
Operamus                                Opera Box 
The Cannon Scholars 
Opera at Bearwood                   Lambeth Orchestra           
Opera Brava         
The Opera School, Wales     Oxford Opera                        Hertford College, Oxford
Opernstudio der Region Nürnberg, Germany               Kapellsbergs Musikskola, Härnösand, Sweden   
Birmingham Conservatoire Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham Conservatoire
2012
2012
2011
2011
2009

2009
2008
2004
2006-08
2006       
2006
2006
2006
2006/08
2005
2004
2004/05
2004
2003
2003
2002
2002
1995

2000
2000
1999
Opera excerpts/substantial arias include:
The Consul
Antony and Cleopatra
Lohengrin
Tristan und Isolde         
Die Walküre                

Lohengrin                   
Tannhäuser                       
Pagliacci                    
Tosca                           
Don Carlos                

Don Giovanni    
Peter Grimes  
Les Carmélites          
Eugene Onegin    
To This We've Come
Bring Me My Robe
Act 3 Scene 2
Liebestod                 
Der Männer Sippe/
Du bist der Lenz 
Einsam in trüben Tagen 
Dich teure Halle            
Act 1                  
Act 1/Vissi d’arte   
Elisabetta - Giustizia/Quartett, Act 4 
Donna Elvira
Glitter of Waves/Duet
Duet Act 2               
Letter Scene/Final Scene
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Oxford Wagner Society
Oxford Wagner Society
Sidcup SO / Niš SO, Serbia      

Sidcup SO  
Sidcup SO/Sri Lanka SO 
Oxford Opera Company         Scheggino, Italy



Bahrain Tour                             David Syrus Master Class
Hertford Bruckner SO
Haslemere SO
2012
2012
2011
2011
2009/10
2009
2009/10
2008
2008
2007
2007


2006
2005/06
2010
2008
Languages
Swedish
English
German
Italian
Native
Native
Fluent
Good
French
Russian
Czech
Hungarian
Good
Sung
Sung
Sung
Prizes and Competitions
Semi-final Armel Opera Competition and Festival    
Reached third stage of BBC 2 Opera Competition ’Kiri Prize’
Chosen as finalist in the Bayreuth Bursary, Wagner Society
St John’s Solo Singing Competiton (Art Song Class) 
Great Elm Vocal Awards (finalist)
John Ireland Prize       
Reginald Vincent Lieder Prize
Birmingham Midland Institute Vocal Prize  
Gordon Clinton English Song Prize (Second Prize) 
2011
2010
2009
2005
2004
1998
1999
1998
1998
Directing
Britten
Mozart 
Mozart
Leoncavallo 

The Turn of the Screw  
Così fan tutte  
Le nozze di Figaro Act 2   Pagliacci Act 1

North Wall Arts Centre Ditchley Park
Sheldonian Theatre,
Hertford College Chapel

2008 
2008
2008
2008

Other skills
Violin
Viola
Piano
Church organ
Choral conducting
Glockenspiel/Bells
(military band)
Kickboxing
Ballroom Dance
Master Classes
Sergei Leiferkus                       
John Tomlinson  London
Nelly Miricioiu
Petra Lang   
David Syrus  
Sarah Walker 
Robin Bowman
Nicholas Cleobury  
Nicoletta Conti                          
Julius Drake
Philip Langridge    
Malcolm Martineau    
London Master Classes  
London Master Classes 
London Master Classes
Mahler Society, London 
Opera Master Class
Oxford Lieder Festival/Maldon Festival of Arts 
Opera Course, Scheggino, Italy


London Master Classes       
Symphony Hall, Birmingham

2011
2010
2009
2006                                          2005
2005/09                                            2005                                                                                     2005/09
2005-09                                                                             2004 
2004
1998
Works with Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble
Four Last Songs 
Symphony No.2
Ah, perfido!
Bella mia fiamma  
Psychotic Episode/ Restlessness
Pierrot Lunaire           
Les Nuits d’été  
Wesendonklieder  
Shéhérazade   
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen 
 

Apollo et Hyacintus  
      
R. Strauss             
Mahler
Beethoven
Mozart
Nirmali Fenn

Schoenberg
Berlioz
Wagner
Ravel
Mahler 



Henze
Sidcup SO 
St Albans SO

Sri Lanka SO/Niš SO       Welwyn Ochestra
CD recording RAM

The Proteus Ensemble  Hitchin Symphony Orchestra
Hertford Brucker Orch.
St Albans SO
Lambeth Orchestra  
London Soloists Chamber Orchestra/Hertford Bruckner Orchestra
Birmingham Conservatoire
2010
2010
2010
2008
2007

2008/2006
2006
2006
2005
2003
2004
2009

1999
Song Cycles and Collections with Piano
Op. 2; Op. 10 
An die ferne Geliebte
Seven Early Songs
On this Island  
Chansons de Bilitis  
Le Promenoir des Deux Amants 
Fêtes Galantes 1 and 2
La Bonne Chanson 
Five Elizabethan Songs
Fünf Rückertlieder 
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Tel Jour telle nuit 
Seven Elizabethan Lyrics  
Ellens drei Gesänge
Frauenliebe und Leben
Liederkreis op.39
Efterskörd 
The House of Life      
Les Angélus (with organ)       
Barber
Beethoven
Berg
Britten
Debussy

                                                                                                   Fauré
Gurney
Mahler
 
Poulenc
Quilter
Schubert
Schumann

Stenhammar
Vaughan Williams
Vierne
Oratorio
St John Passion                                                                          
Magnificat  (soprano and mezzo) 
Kantata nr. 29 (ms)
Weinachtsoratorium (sop/ms)
Te Deum 
Spirit of England 
Mass in C        
Requiem     
Messiah (sop/ms)
Solomon
Judas Maccabeus (ms)
Magnificat   
Harmonimesse     
The Seasons
The Creation
Paukenmesse
Kleine Orgelmesse
Elijah                  
Exsultate, jubilate 
Krönungsmesse
Requiem
Missa Brevis in Bb
Stabat Mater (sop/ms) 
Petite Messe Solennelle  (sop/ms)
Requiem 
Dona Nobis Pacem
Gloria (sop/ms)
Bach                                                                                            


Dvořák
Elgar
Beethoven
Fauré
Handel
                                                                                                         
Hovhaness
Haydn




Mendelssohn
Mozart
                                                                                                           
Pergolesi
Rossini
Saint-Saëns                             Vaughan Williams
Vivaldi
Scholarships/Awards include:
(Swedish unless otherwise stated)
Scholar at the Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary, 
courtesy of the Hungarian Ministry of Education
Anna Whitlocks stiftelse; Arvid Brieands stiftelse,
Dagny Ullwarnes fond
Joseph Weingarten Trust fund, Birmingham, England  
(for postgraduate studies at the Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary)
Royal Academy (Stockholm)Youth Scholarship  
Kapellsbergs Musikskola, Härnösand, Sweden (violin)    
Culture award, City council, Örnsköldsvik 
Örnsköldsvik’s parish (organ); Örnsköldsviks Musiksällskap (violin) 
2001-2002

2001

2000-2001


1994, 1995
1995
1994
1993
Opera Chorus
Eugene Onegin
Turandot
Rusalka
Mosé  
Faust
The Pearl Fishers
Tosca
Semele
Dido and Aenas
Die Zauberflöte
Other experience
Organist /Violinist   Sweden /Norway (inc. Carmen-Den Norske Opera/Rana Operaforening, Mo i Rana, 1995)
World Youth Choir/ World Youth Chamber Choir  (Jeunesses Musicales) 1993-1996
Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, CBC Broadcasting Centre, Toronto;  , Belgium      1996

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