Hannah Badbury, soprano
49th IVC 2012
NTR Media Prize
Hannah Bradbury – soprano – England
€ 2.500 (handed out by the press jury)
British soprano Hannah Bradbury is a member of the Dutch National Opera Academy having graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelors degree and a Masters degree with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, London. Masterclasses include Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Barbara Bonney, Angelika Kirschlager, Florian Boesch, Ann Murray and she is a Britten-Pears Young Artist.
Hannah was the winner of the International Mozart Competition 2009. Other successes include 3rd Prize in the Great Elm Vocal Awards 2009, 2nd prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary and she was a finalist in the 2010 BBC ‘Kiri Prize’ performing with the BBC Concert Orchestra. In 2011, Hannah won the Miriam Licette Scholarship held at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Recent performances include guest soloist at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the roles of Max in Knussen’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and Sandrina in Mozart’s ‘La finta giardiniera’ with the DNOA.