Ann Murray

Ann Murray

:"Not to be confused with Anne Murray, the Canadian singer"

Ann Murray DBE is an Irish mezzo-soprano. She was born on August 27, 1949 in Dublin. She studied with Frederick Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste in 1974. She has since sung at all major opera houses and is highly acclaimed in works by George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Richard Strauss.

Ms. Murray performs mainly at Covent Garden (where she performed as Siphare in Mitridate Rè di Ponto), the English National Opera, and the Bavarian State Opera (where she was made Kammersängerin in 1998). Ms. Murray was the featured singer in volume three of the Hyperion Schubert Edition, Hyperion Records' complete Franz Schubert lieder project, in 1988, led by pianist Graham Johnson.

In 2002, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to music. Not being a citizen of a Commonwealth realm, the award was honorary rather than substantive. This means she can use the postnominal "DBE", but is not known as "Dame" Ann Murray.

She is married to English tenor Philip Langridge and has one son, Jonathan.

External links

* [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Murray-Ann.htm Short biography] at Bach-Cantatas.com
* [http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?name=murray Artist page] at Hyperion Records.
* [http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/green/green/home.nsf/ArtistDetails/Ann%20Murray Artist page] at Askonas Holt Ltd.


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