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Ann Lampard was born and educated in the North East of England, studying singing with Betty Middleton. At 21 years old she won many National Festival Awards, including five awards from the Teesside International Eisteddfod, Blackpool Festival Rose Bowl, and Oxford Festival Professional Recital Award, before moving to London to study with Marjorie Thomas. She joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera after winning the Dame Maggie Teyte International Operatic Prize, and went on to sing many roles including The Countess in Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck and the named roles in Handel’s Orlando and Alessandro. She was one of the 6 soloists to win a place in the Summer Voice Masterclasses with the late Geoffrey Parsons, at the Purcell Room, and was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Award. She toured the Far East giving recitals and Masterclasses before she decided to concentrate on teaching. She has been Head of Voice at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, London for 16 years. From 2000 - 2005 she divided her time between her home on the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides, commuting from Inverness Airport to Sussex to teach and adjudicate. She is also voice advisor to the Benedictine Order, regularly giving master classes and lessons to enclosed sisters in Abbeys all over the British Isles. She was awarded her Hon. ARAM, from the Royal Academy of Music at a reception in the David Josefowitz Hall in March 2004. In July 2005 she retired from the JRAM handing on the reins to old pupil Sara Reynolds, and now adjudicates all over the UK, and has a large teaching practice in Skye, she has formed Inner Sound, a vocal group made up of pupils, who, in conjunction with some of Ann’s prior, and now professional pupils perform and tour with a fully staged and costumed Gilbert and Sullivan opera - so much for retirement!
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| Ann Lampard ARCM Hon ARAM 2003 |
| Ann and grandaughter Cecilia, whose godparents are past LE singers, Giles White and Anna Huntley |
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