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Ghislaine Morgan is in much demand as a soprano, choral director and coach, singing teacher,
adjudicator and lecturer. She has performed throughout Europe, India, Japan, and the USA.
Ghislaine read music at Oxford University where she continued her studies in piano and violin before
going on to train in music education, and then as a singer at the Royal College of Music.
There she was awarded the Sacher scholarship: "An exquisite soprano"
.. the recital was "lifted into ecstasy". (Musical Times)
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Ghislaine sang regularly with many renowned groups such as The Monteverdi Choir, The Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen,
as well as with the King’s Consort, The Richard Hickox Singers and opera choruses including The Aix-en-Provence Festival Opera,
The Bath Festival Opera and Opera de Lyon. She has appeared as soloist on recordings for the Arte Nova, Decca, EMI, Gimell, Naxos,
Richmond and Regent labels. She was a member of the choir of St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street for 17 years but lately has pursued
her own individual career encompassing a wide variety of musical styles.
Solo engagements include a tour of South Africa singing Mahler’s Das Knaben Wunderhorn; recording the title role of Handel’s Deborah for German radio;
concerts for the Mathieson Music School Calcutta International Festival, the Tel Aviv Festival for Vocal music, and the Sligo Festival of
Baroque Music; and collaborations with Ballet du Nord. Ghislaine’s repertoire list embraces Monteverdi’s Vespers to Finzi’s Dies Natalis,
Mozart’s Mass in C Minor to Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne. According to demand she has appeared as a washing machine, impersonated a caveman,
sung opera from under a tablecloth and tongue trilled in an Indian garden!
Ghislaine’s educational work is inspired by a passion for encouraging others to be expressive with confidence,
and a desire to demystify vocal technique in order to make it both fun and simple to learn. For many years she trained trebles for the
national opera houses, and now works with choral scholars at Cambridge University. She has private teaching practices in London and Amsterdam
and gives workshops at Morley College.
Ghislaine is engaged as a coach for choirs throughout Britain and Europe and has directed workshops in Britain, France, Germany, Iceland,
India, Indonesia, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. She is an active member of the British Voice Association and is
on the faculty of the Corso Internazionale Corale di Rimini and the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. Ghislaine is the founder/director
of the Sintra International Singing and Choral Conducting Course, and the director of the Casole International Renaissance Polyphony School.
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