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Harriet Goodwin read English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford before embarking upon postgraduate vocal training at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she studied with Nicholas Powell and received an award from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. As a student Harriet also studied at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies and sang with The Sixteen, The Monteverdi Choir and Ex Cathedra. During this period she also worked as a chorister for Opera North.
A solo artist of broad and varied repertoire, Harriet has performed at numerous venues throughout the country, including St Martin-in-the-Fields (Haydn’s Nelson Mass), the Barbican (Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Richard Hickox), St John’s, Smith Square (Monteverdi’s Vespers with The Corydon Singers), Birmingham Cathedral (Daniel-Lezur’s Le Cantique des Cantiques with Ex Cathedra), Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (Mozart’s Requiem with Oxford Philomusica), Lichfield Cathedral (Mozart’s Litaniae Lauretanae) and Beverley Minster (Handel’s Messiah). She appeared at the 2003 English Haydn Festival, singing Mozart’s Litaniae Lauretanae and Haydn’s St Nicholas Mass and has recently performed Handel’s Messiah in Worcester Cathedral with Worcester Festival Chorus.
Whilst at the RNCM, Harriet participated in several productions: Cosi fan tutte (Dorabella), The Rape of Lucretia (Female Chorus) and Semele (Juno). She was also a Rhinemaiden in excerpt performances of Das Rheingold. During this time she also sang Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) for British Youth Opera. Subsequently Harriet undertook a further period of operatic training on the DPS (pre-professional) course at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Harriet has worked as a principal with New Chamber Opera, Opera Restor’d, Shrewsbury Festival Opera and at the Buxton Festival. Other operatic engagements include Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Dido and Aeneas (Dido) and The Magic Flute (Second Lady), both for Staffordshire Opera.
Harriet’s recital work has taken her to the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, Oxford’s Holywell Music Room, the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh and St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. She is equally at home singing with piano and with orchestra, performing such song cycles as Berlioz’ Les nuits d’ete, Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Wagner’s Wesendonk Lieder and Britten’s The Poet’s Echo.
Harriet was nominated for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2003. Future concert engagements include Mozart’s Credo Mass with Worcester Festival Chorus, Handel’s Messiah, the Magnificats of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach and J.C.Bach, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor in St Asaph Cathedral, Mozart’s Requiem in Lincoln Cathedral and Mozart’s arrangement of Handel’s Messiah with Birmingham Festival Chorus in The Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham.
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