Natalie Montakhab

Natalie Montakhab studies with Judith Howarth at the RSAMD Alexander Gibson Opera School supported by a full scholarship and The Kathleen Trust.

Natalie has been a Britten-Pears Young Artist since 2007 and appeared as a soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion under Masaaki Suzuki last summer.    Natalie recently sang the Britten War Requiem at Dunblane Cathedral and a in a Britten recital with Thomas Allen in Aldeburgh.  She is preparing the Mozart Mass in C Minor and Requiem for concerts in April and the Vaughan William’s Serenade to Music for the Proms this summer.  She is looking forward to playing Susanna/Le Nozze di Figaro in June for RSAMD Opera School.  Previous Operatic roles include Frasquita/Carmen (Aquarian Opera), Amore/Orfeo(Benslow Baroque) , Belinda and Witch One/Dido and Aeneas (EIF and RAM Baroque).  Scenes include Melisande/Pelleas & Melisande, Adina/L/Elisir D’Amore, Giulietta/I Capuletti, Manon(Massenet), Helena/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sophie/Werther and Mademoiselle Silberklang/Der Schauspieldirektor.  Natalie has won a Dewar Arts Award, the  Frank Spedding Lieder Prize 2007 and the ESU scholarship to study at Academie Ravel, France 2006.

Natalie has worked as a soloist under Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, Lawrence Cummings and Stephane Deneve and in ensemble under Richard Egarr and Sir Colin Davis.  She has participated in masterclasses with Barbara Bonney, Felicity Lott, Ann Murray,  Susan Bullock and Malcolm Martineau.