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Imogen Garner was born and raised in Cheshire. She read Economics at Sheffield University and followed her graduation with a year’s teacher training at Manchester University. Between 1998-2001 Imogen studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Honor Sheppard. She sang the role of Zweite Dame in the College production of Die Zauberfloete and later in 2000 was invited to sing Despina in Cosi fan tutte for Opera Garden, a new and very successful project led by the singer Gidon Saks.
In 2001 Imogen sang the key roles of La Renomee and Junon in the UK’s first staged performance of Lully’s Isis conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore.
Since finishing her postgraduate diploma at the RNCM Imogen has sung the title role in Dido and Aeneas at the Lowry Centre, Salford, and has toured nationally with Opera Box and Swansea City Opera. She is presently singing Dorabella and Mercedes in Cosi fan tutte and Carmen. For the Opera School Wales Imogen has performed Mallika, Rose and Ottone in productions of Lakme and The Coronation of Poppea.
As part of the Buxton Opera Festival 2003 Imogen covered Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. She has sung supporting roles for Simply Opera, Opera Femina, and Mananan Opera.
Imogen had the pleasure of singing at the first performances of the newly created Northern England Chorale in Finland 2003. She has since repeated the programme of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Vivaldi’s Gloria for the Lindow Singers, Nantwich and Sale Choral Societies.
To date Imogen has enjoyed a diverse concert repertoire. She has sung the standard works such as Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and some more unususal material, Ramirez’s Misa Criolla, Brusa’s Missa pro Defunctis and Scarlatti’s Miserere performed with the Manchester Camerata, Sheffield Bach Choir and Ulverston Choral Society.
Imogen is a very keen recitalist and with her accompanist the pianist and composer Stephen Reynolds performs songs by Brahms, Faure, Grieg, Dvorak, Strauss, Britten and Gershwin to audiences throughout the North West.
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