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Soprano.

Robyn Allegra Parton read Music at Worcester College, Oxford, continuing her studies in London, at the Royal College of Music, then in Cardiff at the International Academy of Voice.

She was a finalist in the 2012 Kathleen Ferrier Awards (London) and a semi-finalist in the Das Lied Competition (Berlin). Other awards include the Helen Clarke Award (Garsington), the Lieder Festival Prize (Oxford), Youth Prize Grandi Voci competition (Salzburg) and youth prize in Les Azuriales. She was also a member of ENO's Opera Works course and the Monteverdi Choir's apprenticeship scheme.

Opera performances include the Royal Opera (Barbarina in Figaro and Peg in The Virtues of Things by Matt Rogers); Glyndebourne (Agnes in the youth opera Nothing by David Bruce); Paris Opéra Comique (Mercédès Carmen); Munich Bavarian State Opera (Soloist L'Orfeo); Aldeburgh Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme (Belinda Dido and Aeneas) and Istanbul Music Festival (Narrator in The Sea-Crossed Fisherman by Michael Ellison).

She has appeared in concert in London with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Philharmonic, and Royal Philharmonic. Other appearances include the Mahler Chamber and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras.

Source - Programme Note 2016)