<div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="640" bgcolor="#999999"> <tr> <td align="center"><font face="Arial"><img border="0" src="images/juliettepochin.gif" width="386" height="100" alt="Juliette Pochin - Venezia"></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CC1F1F"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Arial"><b>B I O G R A P H Y</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Arial">An outstanding talent, Juliette Pochin is being recognised as one of the most talented young mezzo sopranos to be emerging from the UK at this time.<br> Juliette combines a busy career as a mezzo-soprano with her work as a record producer, composer and orchestrator. The release of Venezia marks her solo debut album.<br> <br> Juliette began her musical education at just six years old, studying the violin. She went on to train at the Junior Royal Academy of Music at the age of eleven before attending the government funded specialist music school at Wells Cathedral. Whilst there, she performed concertos and recitals both in this country, at the Purcell Room and Bath Georgian Festivals, and on tour in the Far East. She was then awarded a choral scholarship to read music at Cambridge on a choral scholarship. It was there whilst singing every day that her voice began to develop and she was first invited to sing on the operatic stage in Janaceks The Cunning Little Vixen. The day after the first night, her picture appeared on the front cover of Varsity and her fate was sealed. She went on to be awarded a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from which she graduated with distinction and the highest mark of her year. <br> <br> She has a busy operatic and concert career, performing at many of Europes premier venues most recently in a UK and European tour of the world premiere of the opera The Birds. Her operatic roles include Tisbe La Cenerentola (Grange Park), Madelon Il Fortunio (Grange Park), Dorabella Cosi, Olga Onegin (Pimlico Opera), Annina Traviata (European Chamber Opera) and the Sorceress Dido (Purcell Room /English Chamber Opera). Recent concert work includes Brighton Dome/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Messiah), Janaceks Glagolitic Mass at last years Brighton Festival (Philharmonia /Thierry Fischer), Mozart C minor Mass (St Johns Smith Square), Peterborough Cathedral (Monteverdi Vespers), Bristol Cathedral (Verdi Requiem), St. Andrews Hall, Norwich (Elgar, The Kingdom), and Jonathan Harveys Passion and Resurrection (Brighton Festival). She gave the world premiere of Sofia Gubaidulainas Canticle of the Sun at the Barbican (recorded by EMI). <br> <br> As a recitalist Juliette has sung in the Purcell Room, Adrian Boult Hall and appeared in a series of recitals with Graham Johnson at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr. She can also be heard on the soundtracks to Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars- the Phantom Menace.<br> <br> Juliettes voice is instantly recognisable for its rich, and rounded mezzo quality yet with a directness and clarity of tone which aims straight for the heart????? It has been described as everything from chocolaty (The Times) , vibrant (Evening Standard) to simplysublime (Musical Opinion).<br> <br> Alongside her outstanding singing talents, Juliette is the kind of rounded musician that used to exist before this century. In addition to her singing, she composes and produces for a wide variety of musical ventures. As part of the composing partnership Morgan Pochin, TV credits include the EMMY/BAFTA award-winning Kumars at no.42 and According to Bex (BBC1). Their compositions and arrangements have been broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and 3, Classic FM and on BBC and ITV television, and performed by The Philharmonia, RPO and English Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. She wrote, arranged and produced Katherine Jenkins No.1 gold-selling album Premiere, which was nominated for a Classical Brit and is still in the charts nearly two years after its release. As a producer she has worked with artists as diverse as Julian Lloyd Webber (with whom she duets with on her debut album) and Elton John. Morgan Pochins song Sweetest Love is included on the platinum- selling album The No.1 Classical Album 2004. Morgan Pochin also work as orchestrators, most recently orchestrating John Lunns new opera Tangier Tattoo for Glyndebourne.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CC1F1F"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Arial"><b>V E N E Z I A</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Arial">Juliettes debut album, Venezia, will be released this April, 2006. Inspired by the great musical tradition of Venice, the album will feature a new vocal suite of Vivaldis hugely popular Four Seasons, along with other music either linked to or inspired by Venice. She is delighted to be recording her composition Ave Maria with the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber; the album will also feature the guitarist Craig Ogden, best known for his recording of the music for Captain Corellis Mandolin. With her partner James Morgan, Juliette has written, arranged and produced the album.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CC1F1F"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Arial">R E V I E W S</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="Arial"><i>best of all was Juliette Pochins chocolaty, rounded and flighty Dorabella</i> <b> The Times</b><br> <br> <i> a treat</i> <b> The Independent</b><br> <br> <i> rich sounding, vibrant, impressively, vital</i> <b> Evening Standard</b><br> <br> <i> charming mezzogalvanized the plot and delighted the eye</i> <b> The Independent</b><br> <br> <i> Juliette Pochins mezzo is sublime.</i> <b> Musical Opinion</b><br> <br> <i> Juliette Pochin, one of operas up-and-coming stars</i> <b> Financial Times</b></font></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div>
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