Jenny Samuel (mezzo soprano) studied at Birmingham Conservatoire with Margaret Field and on ‘The Knack’ - a performance course for singers run by the Baylis programme at English National Opera, and is currently studying with Mary King.
Jenny has sung with ENO in The John’s Passion, at the Spoleto Festival, Italy in Der Rosenkavalier conducted by Richard Hickox, with Pavilion Opera as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Adalgisa in Norma and with European Chamber Opera as Third Lady/Third Boy in The Magic Flute and as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. She has also sung with Carl Rosa Opera in their productions of The Mikado, Die Fledermaus, Iolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance. Other operatic roles include Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, the title role in Handel's Radamisto, Mrs Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, White Cat in L'Enfant et les Sortileges, Miss Baggott in Britten's The Little Sweep and Pitti-sing in The Mikado.
Oratorio solos include Messiah, Christmas Oratorio, Mozart's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Harmony Mass and Purcell's Hail! Bright Cecilia.
Jenny performs regularly for the Council for Music in Hospitals.