Alison Bell
Alison is originally from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She began studying singing whilst a student at Cambridge University and subsequently won an entrance scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Yvonne Minton.
Her wide repertoire as an oratorio soloist includes St Matthew Passion, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Messiah, Verdi’s Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem and Elgar’s The Music Makers and The Dream of Gerontius. She has appeared as soloist at Malvern Festival, Edinburgh Festival, at the Paris Festival D’Automne, Salzburg Festival and with the Danish Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen.
She has performed a wide variety of principal roles in opera and operetta, including Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) and received critical acclaim in the national press for Buttercup in HMS Pinafore and Katisha in The Mikado. Since moving to the Bristol area, she has given a number of song recitals in and around Bristol and appeared as soloist with local choirs, such as the Bristol Cabot Choir.
Her wide repertoire as an oratorio soloist includes St Matthew Passion, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Messiah, Verdi’s Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem and Elgar’s The Music Makers and The Dream of Gerontius. She has appeared as soloist at Malvern Festival, Edinburgh Festival, at the Paris Festival D’Automne, Salzburg Festival and with the Danish Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen.
She has performed a wide variety of principal roles in opera and operetta, including Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) and received critical acclaim in the national press for Buttercup in HMS Pinafore and Katisha in The Mikado. Since moving to the Bristol area, she has given a number of song recitals in and around Bristol and appeared as soloist with local choirs, such as the Bristol Cabot Choir.
