Jennie hails from West Sussex and lives in London. She graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with a First Class (hons) bachelor of music degree under the tutelage of Professor Susan McCulloch. Whilst at the Guildhall she has had the privilege of working with internationally acclaimed coaches and singers including Sarah Walker, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Adrian Thompson, Andrew Watts and Sally Burgess. Now studying with Sarah Pring, she is returning to the Guildhall and continuing her studies, working towards a Masters degree in performance.
During the 2011/12 season, 23 year old Jennie made her U.K. role début as Ortlinde in Die Walküre conducted by Martyn Brabbins at the St. Endillion Festival, where she also performed a recital of French song with Iain Burnside. Further performances in the 11/12 season include Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi for Fulham Opera, Anna 1 in Kurt Weil’s Die Sieben Todsünden at the GSMD, ensemble in Opera North’s Carousel and her début as an actress playing Marion Scott A Soldier and a Maker at the Barbican. In the 2012/13 season Jennie made her début with Wexford Festival Opera as Page in Chabrier’s Le Roi Malgré Lui, understudied the soprano solo in the UK tour of ‘One Night in Vienna’ with the Johann Strauss Orchestra for Raymond Gubbay Ltd., sang Fleury in La Rondine for Opera di Peroni and also joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera for Rameu’sHippolyte et Aricie.
Active in both concert and recital, Jennie’s repertoire encompasses a wide range of genres, recent performances include Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel at St. Martin in the Fields with Graham Johnson, The Royal Celebration Banquet at the Guildhall Town Hall, London, Ravel’s Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques, Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, the première of Peter Foggitt’s ‘Genesis’, Handel’s Messiah and Samson, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Requiem’s by Brahms, Fauré and Mozart.
Roles in staged excerpts include Countess Le Nozze di Figaro, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, First Lady Die Zauberflöte, Mimi La Boheme, Alice The Merry Wives of Windsor and Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia. Jennie is a keen proponent of new music, and performed in the premiere of Peter Foggitt’s ‘Genesis’ and recently premiered Chris Gough's 'You're just like me'. Chorus experience includes: Rake’s Progress, Cosi Fan Tutte, Nabbucco, Carmen, Our Town and La Traviata, which were all GSMD productions.
Jennie appears regularly on the oratorio and concert platform both as a soloist and as a consort singer. As a soloist, oratorios include Messiah (Handel), Gloria (Vivaldi), Requiem (Brahms), The Armed man (Jenkins), Requiem (Mozart), Samson (Handel), St John's Passion (Bach) An Eternal Light (Goodall) and Requiem (Fauré) amongst others. One of her most relished experiences, she sung soprano chorus in a fully staged production of Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the National Theatre directed by Sir Jonathan Miller with the Southbank Sinfonia.
As a member of the Guildhall Symphony Chorus, Jennie has performed in the Barbican Hall along with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in a number of choral works including Mahler 2 conducted by James Gaffigan, Belshazzar’s Feast conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Verdi Requiem conducted by Paolo Olmi.
As well as developing a career on the classical concert platform and the operatic stage, Jennie is a keen supporter of the charity, Help for Heroes and performs the war time classics with Her Majesty’s Royal Marine band to help fundraising.