‘Jenni Harper brought shining clarity to Vénus’ Yehuda Shapiro, Opera Magazine (2022)

‘Characterfully sung’ Richard Morrison, The Times and The Sunday Times (2019)

‘Harper’s sweet-toned Euridice an engaging contrast.’ https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/17756318.review-york-early-music-festival-fagiolini-monteverdi-s-orfeo/ (2019)

‘Jenni Harper sang with fine focus and strong dramatic presence, characterising her various impersonations vividly.’ Claire Seymour, Opera Today (2019)

'Euridice was also beautifully delivered by Jenni Harper while manipulating her alter-ego puppet together with a puppeteer’ Agnes Kory, Seen and Heard International (2019)

‘An appealing Drusilla, sung with elegant freshness’ Bachtrack (2017)

‘Euridice’s simplicity and beauty came across with the tone perfect diction and polished singing of Jenni Harper.’ http://gscene.com/ (2017)

‘His clean cut Drusilla was Jenni Harper, a sweet next door type, who warmed with alarming alacrity to the idea of murdering the emperor’s bit of stuff.’ https://theidlewoman.net (2017)

Tenor Carver and sweet-sounding soprano Jenni Harper, also a delight as Musica, made a charming Orfeo and Euridice. http://www.chichester.co.uk/whats-on/music/review-orfeo-1-8238479 (2017)

Jenni Harper completed the Artist Masters course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2015, for which she was awarded a Distinction. She holds a First Class degree in Music from the University of Birmingham and is a Britten-Pears Young Artist. She studies singing with Kate Paterson.

Jenni recently performed the roles of Vénus , Ombre and Suivante in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux for The Rameau Project, directed by Guido Martin Brandis. She also recently stepped up to sing the role of Daughter in James Redwood’s The Moon Hares with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She sang the role of Euridice for I Fagiolini and Music and Theatre For All’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo. She also performed the roles of Euridice, La Musica and Speranza for Brighton Early Music Festival’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, directed by Thomas Guthrie.

Concert highlights include singing solos for Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore with the London Mozart Players; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with Potters Bar Choral Society; Bach’s B Minor Mass with East Grinstead Choral Society; Handel’s Messiah with Dover Choral Society; Mozart’s Vesperae de Dominica and Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the London Pro Arte Choir and Bach’s Weinachts Oratorium with the Croydon Bach Choir and Eclectic Voices. Jenni has also performed solo recitals of music by Strauss, Fauré and Hahn with Martin Ford (piano) at The Guards Chapel, St Bride’s Church and St Stephen Walbrook.

She recorded a solo CD 'The Mystery of Christmas: Greek Kalanda' with newly composed music by the Greek-Cypriot composer Cilia Petridou, which was released in November 2018. She is a soloist on the St Albans Cathedral Girls Choir CD of music by Michael Haydn, released in December 2020.
Other solo experience includes Bach’s Jauchzet Gott and Ich Habe Genug, Mozart’s C Minor Mass and Coronation Mass, Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Purcell's Ode to St Cecilia.

Jenni is a founder member of the ensemble Ceruleo, with whom she performs solos and duets interwoven with spoken texts to create innovative dramatic performances. Ceruleo were selected for the Young Artist Scheme at the Brighton Early Music Festival 2015-16 and have performed as part of the London Festival of Baroque Music at St John's Smith Square as well as singing live on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune'. They created an immersive operatic experience, ‘The Rival Queens’ with Thomas Guthrie for Handel and Hendrix in London, which they premiered in July 2017. Their latest project is the Arts Council funded Burying the Dead, a newly commissioned show about the composer Henry Purcell, which toured around several UK festivals in 2018-20 including the Buxton International Festival and Baroque at the Edge at LSO St Luke’s. Their first CD, 'Love Restor'd', featuring music by Purcell and his contemporaries and recorded in partnership with Resonus Classics, will be released in December 2022.

Jenni is very grateful for the support of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, the Katy Choules Memorial Trust and The Guildhall Trust.

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