Sophia Brumfitt

Soprano

Sophia Brumfitt received her Postgraduate Diploma in Performance - Early Music in Summer 2000 from the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Lillian Watson and Margaret Cable, and was joint winner of the Century Early Music Prize. The versatility of Sophia Brumfitt's voice has enabled her to work in areas which span the entire early music spectrum, ranging from Medieval to Early Classical. She has taken on oratorio solo work, as well as Celtic and Sephardic song. She now studies with Mary King and Nigel Rogers, and has participated in masterclasses with Emma Kirkby, Gabriel Garrido, Eric Mentzel and Michael Chance in Britain, Germany, France and Sweden.

In July last year, with lutenist Rosemary Hodgson, Sophia founded Rosa Mundi, a duo devoted to seventeenth-century and Renaissance music for plucked strings and voice. Sophia also sings with the medieval ensemble Tintagel, which has performed to sell-out audiences at theYork Early Music Festival, St David's Festival and Wingfield Arts. Upon Sophia's return to the UK, Tintagel will launch its debut CD. In March 2001 Sophia researched, presented, promoted and performed a concert of songs performed in the 1690s on the London stage by the singer Mary Hodgson and most recently, she has presented a series of concerts of Early Tudor music with the Dolmetsch Ensemble.

Sophia records and tours regularly throughout Europe with the chorus of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Gabriel Garrido's Coro Madrigalia. Concerts with Coro Madrigalia and Elyma have included semi-chorus and solo work and visits to the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Geneva, Vigo, the Ambronay Early Music Festival, and the Lyon Opera House.