Gabrielle Sargent

SCHOLAR DESCRIPTION

Gabrielle Sargent is a Maltese soprano and recent Royal Northern College of Music scholarship graduate. During her time at college she was a finalist in the Williams-Howard Competition and was one of 8 singers selected by Opera North to take part in the Chorus Mentor Scheme. In 2020 she graduated from the Edinburgh Napier University with a First Class Honours in Music and was awarded the University Medal.
 
Gabrielle made her opera debut in 2016 as Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. She has since performed solo roles as Nannetta Falstaff, Tatyana Eugene Onegin, La Comtesse Cherubin, Elisetta Il Matrimonio Segreto, Despina Cosi Fan Tutte, Béatrice Béatrice et Bénédict, Belinda Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen and Fairy Spirit Cendrillon.

In 2024, she is looking forward to joining the Easingwold Singers as the soprano soloist for Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle. Selected performance highlights include singing alongside Joseph Calleja, premiering ‘for Notre-Dame du Haut’ by tree burton in Ronchamp, France, and joining the Chorus for Madama Butterfly at the Bridgewater Hall with Sir Mark Elder. She was a Clonter Opera Emerging Artist and a soloist with Simon Wright and the York Guildhall Orchestra.

She is passionate about bringing music to a wider audience and has been performing with Opera Holland Park as part of Inspire and Grange Park’s Primary Robins. 

Gabrielle is incredibly grateful for the generous support from the Foundation throughout her studies.