Jemma Brown
Jemma is a vocal and piano instructor for Glasgow City Council and co-leads their City wide choirs. She is also Director of Music at Paisley North Church and is currently studying on the MEd in Learning and Teaching in the Arts at RCS.
Jemma began her musical life as a chorister at Dunfermline Abbey and a music scholar at St Leonard’s School, St Andrews. She studied voice with Patricia McMahon while completing a BMus (hons) at the University of Glasgow and then a PgDip, MMus, MMus Opera and MOpera at RCS with Kathleen McKellar Ferguson. She was supported by Donald Dewar Arts Awards and the Fenton Arts Trust and won the Russian Song and John Ireland prizes.
Operatic Roles include Lady Billows (Britten/Albert Herring), Filipjevna (Tchaikovsky/Eugene Onegin), Gertrude (Humperdinck/Hansel & Gretel), Waltraute (Wagner/Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung), Erda (Wagner/Das Rheingold, Siegfried), Second Norn (Wagner/Götterdämmerung), Fricka (Wagner/Das Rheingold) Marcellina (Mozart/Figaro) and Meg Page (Verdi/Falstaff).
She made her Proms debut in 2010 with the BBCSSO and Donald Runnicles and was a Britten Pears Young Artist in 2011 in their production of Albert Herring. She performed Janice Kerbel’s Doug at the 2016 Turner Prize, and Cally Spooner’s Damning Evidence at British Art Show 8 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
With pianist Maryam Sherhan she is a proud Live Music Now Alumna. They have performed recitals at the NMS, NGS, Music at Paxton, Shetland Arts, Westbourne Music concert series, Usher Hall and EIF.
Jemma is a vocal and piano instructor for Glasgow City Council and co-leads their City wide choirs. She is also Director of Music at Paisley North Church and is currently studying on the MEd in Learning and Teaching in the Arts at RCS.