Biography
Lauren Joyanne is an alumna of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio, having completed her Master of Vocal Performance (Distinction) at the Royal College of Music, London. Whilst at the Royal College of Music, Lauren Joyanne studied with Tim Evans-Jones and was a Fishmongers’ Company Beckwith Scholar, supported by The Douglas and Hilda Simmonds Scholarship, The Josephine Baker Trust and The John Clemence Charitable Trust.
Lauren Joyanne began her vocal studies at the Junior Birmingham Conservatoire and in 2012 she graduated from the University of Birmingham with a first-class honours degree in Music and English Literature. Subsequently, she went on to gain a Distinction in her Master of Music at the same institution, with a full Bramall Music Scholarship.
Performance highlights include singing Soeur Martha in Dialogues des Carmélites for Glyndebourne, Proserpina in Orfeo for Garsington Opera, Alcina in La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina for Longborough Festival Opera, covering Lorca in Ainadamar for Scottish Opera and covering Mezzo Angel in It’s a Wonderful Life for English National Opera. Lauren Joyanne has also had the pleasure of covering Handmaid 2 and Econowife in The Handmaid’s Tale for English National Opera, Speranza in Orfeo, Isolier in Le Comte Ory and Zerlina in Don Giovanni for Garsington Opera, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel for Waterperry Opera, and Johanna in Sweeney Todd for Welsh National Opera.
For the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio, Lauren Joyanne performed Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (under the direction of Sir Thomas Allen), Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe, Susan Wheeler in In the Locked Room, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fox (cover), Grasshopper, Dog and Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen and Childerico in Faramondo, under the musical direction of Lawrence Cummings, in association with The London Handel Festival.
Concert experience includes performing selections of music by Stephen Sondheim at Cadogan Hall, performing the role of Johanna in Sweeney Todd alongside Bryn Terfel at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, and, singing in a performance of Serenade to Music at Buckingham Palace for HRH King Charles III, under the baton of John Wilson.
Lauren Joyanne was named as the only UK semi-finalist at the 2021 International Lotte Lenya Competition, New York.
"Lauren Joyanne sings lusciously and fervently as a spunky Zerlina"
— THE TIMES