Biography
Morag is one of New Zealand's leading young sopranos. She began her studies at the University of Auckland with the late Beatrice Webster MBE and then went on to postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Alison Pearce and Antony Saunders. She is the winner of an ABRSM PG Scholarship and the Madeline Finden Award, a Samling Scholar, the recipient of a Creative NZ grant, finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Competition and a prize winner in the Royal Over-Seas League's International Music Competition.
Operatic roles include First Lady, Magic Flute (NBR NZ Opera); Blumenmädchen, Parsifal (NZSO, International Festival of the Arts); Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni with Sir Colin Davis (London Royal Schools' Opera); Annina, La Traviata (English Touring Opera); La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi (Aspen Festival, USA); La Feu, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Limburgs Symphonie Orkest, The Netherlands).
Concert engagements include Missa Pacifica, Hamilton (World Premier), Carmina Burana, and Haydn's Nelson Mass (Auckland Choral); a Mozart concert with The Orpheus Choir and Wellington Sinfonia; Handel Arias with AK Barok; Brahms Requiem, Matthew Passion & Easter Oratorio (Bach Musica); Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (London & Aspen); Vivaldi Gloria with Sir David Willcocks (Royal Albert Hall and Venice); Mater Gloriosa in Mahler's 8th Symphony (RAH); the world premier of Peter Scholes's Requiem (Auckland Chamber Orchestra) and Christmas Day 2005, she was the soloist in The First Communion broadcast live on TV One from Auckland's Holy Trinity Cathedral. In July Morag sang Beethoven's concert aria Ah Perfido! with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra as part of their Splendour of Beethoven series.