Anna Goodhew studied singing at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She achieved a BMus (1st class honours) with a Concert Recital Diploma in 2010 and won a scholarship to continue onto the Guildhall Artist Masters the following year. Whilst there, Anna took part in masterclasses taken by Julius Drake, Graham Johnson, Catherine Wyn Rogers, Dame Josephine Barstow, Sally Burgess, Graham Clark and Susan McCollogh.

Anna made her operatic debut at the age of 19, singing the role of Barbarina in Opera Brava’s production of The Marriage of Figaro. Since then she has appeared as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas (Opera Lyrica), Micaela in Carmen (Opera South East), Juliet in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet (Riverside opera), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Euridice in Glück’s Orfeo ed Euridice and the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon (Act 3 only) at Zêzere Arts Festival, Portugal, Blumenmädchen in Parsifal (Fulham Opera) and Chorus in Dialogue des Carmélites (Guildhall School). Roles performed with Guildhall’s Opera Ensemble include Fiordiligi in Cosí Fan Tutte, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Title role in Arabella and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte.

Anna is in high demand for concert work; most recently Anna performed in Jonathan Miller’s staged production of St Matthew Passion at The National Theatre and sang a recital of Mozart song in the Barbican Hall. Other concert work includes Handel’s Theodora, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Michal in Handel’s Saul, Dvorak Mass in D and Lad’s in their Hundreds; a dramatized song performance directed by Iain Burnside which toured in London and to the Ludlow English Song Festival. Anna has sung live several times on BBC radio 3’s In Tune programme.

Awards include the Singer’s Prize at the Gerald Moore Award (2012), 2nd Prize at Guildhall’s English song Prize (2011) and finalist in Guildhall’s Susan Longfield Award (2011).

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