Biography

Pauline Graham (soprano) studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. She later studied at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, specialising in early music; her teachers included Marius van Altena, Jill Feldman and Rita Dams.

Pauline’s operatic roles include Susanna and Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Eleonora in Salieri’s Prima la musica, poi le parole, Grilletta in Haydn’s Lo speziale, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Lieschen in a staged version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata. She played Despina in a production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte at Birmingham’s CBSO Centre.

Pauline has performed as a soloist in Bach’s B minor Mass and Monteverdi’s Selva morale e spirituale with Ton Koopman. She took part in several European tours and made recordings with the Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Her particular interest in early vocal repertoire has led to solo performances across the continent, including venues in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. She was a soloist at the Utrecht Early Music Festival in 2004 with Musica ad Rhenum, directed by Jed Wentz, with whom she also recorded a CD.

Since moving to Ireland in 2004, Pauline has featured as a soloist at the Galway Early Music Festival, St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, and the National Concert Hall, Dublin; she also made a recording for the Irish Opera Theatre Company. She took part in a staged version of Bach’s cantata, Christ lag in Todesbanden with the early music ensmble eX. Pauline taught a masterclass on Monteverdi’s Orfeo for undergraduate singing students at the Dublin Institute of Technology’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and gave a workshop on Baroque performance practice for the Dublin Bach Singers.

Pauline recently co-founded The Crow Street Consort, a period instrument ensemble which made its inaugural appearance performing Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri in Dublin (March 2007). Future plans include a programme of early English songs with viol consort, and recitals in The Netherlands.