Dhilan Gnanadurai - Baritone

Summary of Qualifications / Awards 

• MMus Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Distinction) -
  Supported by the Guildhall School Trust
• BMus (Hons) Guildhall School of Music & Drama (2:1)
• GSMD Wyburd Trust Award for best Lieder recital (2007)
• Bass Choral Scholarship - All Saints Church, Fulham (2003 - 2007)
• Finalist at the Croydon Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition 2007
• Winner of the Oratorio, Lieder & Most Outstanding Male Singer prizes
   at the North London Music Festival 2006
• Finalist at the Kathleen Ferrier Young Singer’s Bursary Award 2004
• 1st runner-up at the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka Concerto
   Competiton 2002
• Associate of the Trinity College of Music London (ATCL) in Piano
   (1999), Violin (2000) & Singing (2001)

Concert 

Experience
Soloist in major oratorio works of Bach and Mozart, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, Faure’s Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Durufle’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Stainer’s Crucifixion and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs performed around England, Canada, India & Sri Lanka 

Orchestras have included  Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, Amsterdam & Bombay Chamber Orchestras, Guildford, Epsom & Croydon Symphony Orchestras 

Recitals of English Song, Lieder and Mélodie with a repertoire ranging from Bach to Barber around England, Austria and Sri lanka with Caroline Jaya-Ratnam
 

 Operatic Experience 

• Programmes of Opera Galas consisting of staged Opera Scenes (from
  Handel to Puccini) performed in venues around England for Curtain Call
  Productions, directed by Robin Martin-Oliver
• Chorus (Le nozze di Figaro) - Guildhall School Opera (March 2007)
• Masetto (Don Giovanni) - Hampstead Garden Opera (April 2007)
• Onegin (Eugene Onegin) - Hampstead Garden Opera (Nov 2007)

Other Musical Experiences 

• Recorded for Universal Classics & Jazz  on the Choir Boys
   Christmas Album 2007
• Offered a place in the Garsington Opera Chorus for summer 2009
• Chosen for the Weinberg Summer School for a week of Masterclasses
  with Roger Vignoles on Brahms’ Lieder in 2006 and Wolf Mörike Lieder
  in 2007
• Attended the Adingly International Music School on the 1968 Scholarship
  to work with Jonathan Hinden & Hans-Peter Blochwitz (2006)
• Was a member of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka (2nd Violin)
• Choral Conducting elective at the GSMD
• Creative Voices elective at the GSMD, specializing in Contemporary
  Music with Sarah Walker
• Masterclasses with Sir.Thomas Allen, Sarah Walker, Meribeth Bunch,
  Walter Moore and Richard Jackson at the GSMD
• Vocal Coaches - Robin Bowman, Eugene Asti, Andrew West,
  Liz Marcus, Richard Pearce, Stephen Rose and Mark Packwood