Julia Gooding has been described as a soprano with “a perfect voice… a timbre of burnished antique gold" with a “blend of passion, subtlety, technical control and perfect diction" whose “rare gifts add up to a complete singer”. Particularly renowned for her interpretation of Baroque music, she enjoys an international career combining both concert and staged performances with recordings for major labels, television and radio.
Along with Julia’s extensive work with the Academy of Ancient Music (Christopher Hogwood/Paul Goodwin), the New London Consort (Philip Pickett), the Gabrieli Consort (Paul McCreesh), London Baroque and Florilegium, she has been a guest with many other specialist orchestras and conductors including Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert, Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque, Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ivor Bolton and St James Baroque, Marcus Creed and Freiburg Baroque, Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale and Gustav Leonhardt and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She has performed Scarlatti Cantatas with Gerard Lesne and Il Seminario Musicale in France, Purcell Songs with the Purcell Quartet in Istanbul, Slovenia and Japan and songs by Byrd through to Elvis Costello with the viol consorts Fretwork and Concordia in Austria, Ireland and Slovenia.
Julia’s operatic work has included the role of Romilda in Handel's Xerxes for the Opernhaus Halle, Minerve, Amore and Giunone in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria with Philippe Pierlot in a joint production with La Monnaie and the Kunsten Festival des Arts in Amsterdam, Salome in Stradella's San Giovanni Battista at the Innsbruck Festival, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in the Cervantes Festival, Mexico, and the title role of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with the Purcell Quartet on tour in Japan.
Included in Julia's discography of more than twenty recordings are Bach's Magnificat and St Matthew Passion with the Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh for Deutsche Grammophon, Euridice in Monteverdi's Orfeo and Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus with the New London Consort/Pickett for L'Oiseau-Lyre, John Taverner's Sappho with the Academy of Ancient Music/Goodwin for Harmonia Mundi, Handel's Teseoin which she sang the role of Agilea with Les Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski for Erato, Purcell's Odes for Queen Mary with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Leonhardt for Virgin Classics, Linley and Boyce cantatas with the Parley of Instruments/Holman for Hyperion, and Music from the time of Vermeer, songs by Constantijn Huygens and his musical circle with Chris Wilson and Carole Cerasi for Metronome.
Current plans include Dido in Paris, and Messaggiera in Jonathan Miller’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Pickett/New London Consort in Spain, Luxembourg and Los Angeles, concerts in San Diego and Mexico of Italian and German Christmas music with cornettists Jeremy West and Jamie Savan, and London performances of "A Profound Secret" based on the letters of Edward Burne-Jones, with the harpsichordist Maggie Cole and actor John Rowe. She will record Purcell's Faery Queen for Televisione Svizzera with I Barrochisti and Diego Fasolis. www.juliagooding.com |
Programmes
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Music from 17th century Italy for two cornetts, soprano and keyboard
Julia Gooding (soprano), Jeremy West and Jamie Savan (cornetts) and Gary Cooper or Roger Hamilton (organ and harpsichord continuo)
(also in a Christmas version)
Julia Gooding and Mhairi Lawson (sopranos), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Gary Cooper (harpsichord continuo)
Charpentier's Leçons de Ténèbres and operatic airs and dances by Lully and Charpentier
Julia Gooding and Mhairi Lawson (sopranos), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Gary Cooper (harpsichord continuo)
An evening of words and music about Edward Burne-Jones
Julia Gooding (soprano), Maggie Cole (harpsichord and/or piano) and John Rowe as the voice of Edward Burne-Jones, introduced by Josceline Dimbleby
Inspired by the book A Profound Secret by Josceline Dimbleby: the story of the secret relationships between Edward Burne-Jones, May Gaskell and her daughter Amy, with music by Haydn, Bach, Schubert, Scarlatti, Mendelssohn, Schumann and others. Original words by Edward Burne-Jones.
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