Virginia Stone

Singing

GGSM, Opera Advanced Studies, Vocal

Born in Surrey, Virginia made her debut as an oratorio soloist at the age of seventeen in what is now Croydon Minster; she went on to become a prize-winning student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in the City of London. Virginia was formerly well known as a soprano. Concert engagements have taken her throughout the U.K. and to France, Germany and Singapore. Her oratorio repertoire covers a wide range of musical styles and she has performed in most of the celebrated choral works. She gave the world premiere performance of Timothy Sutton’s “Mourning Songs” in Spring 2018. Other contemporary pieces include Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”, Tippett’s “Third Symphony” and Carl Jenkins “The Armed Man”. Notable operatic appearances are : First Lady in Mozart’s “Magic Flute”, Mrs Ford in Nicolai’s “Merry Wives of Windsor” and Climene in Cavalli’s “L’Egisto”. Virginia was involved for many years in church music singing first in Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory Roman Catholic Church, Warwick Street and later in St. Cuthbert’s, Earls Court. She has a thriving music teaching practice based at her home in Purley where she teaches singing, piano and music theory. Since the recent pandemic she has concentrated her efforts on teaching including online tuition. This has given her the opportunity to teach students as faraway as Shanghai. Closer to home, teaching at The Cedars continues be both enjoyable and rewarding.