Biography

Anneke Freeland, Mezzo-Soprano, was educated in The Netherlands and Belgium. She first trained at the Conservatoire in Brussels, followed by two years in Rome where she studied with Giannella Borelli of Santa Cecilia and later as a part-time student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Margaret Lenski and privately with Rudolf Piernay and Alison Mary Sutton. She holds a Performance Diploma of Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Teaching Certificate of The Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music.

Anneke has made numerous appearances as a soloist both in the United Kingdom and abroad. She has sung with baroque ensembles and her concert work with orchestra includes performances from requiems to French melodie. Her repertoire extends from sacred works including masses, passions and oratorios to a varied programme of opera arias.

She specialises in song recital ranging from early to 20th Century music. Apart from English song repertoire, she has a love for the French composers but an equally strong affinity with the German Lieder repertoire from Schubert through the Romantic period to Mahler.

Over the years Anneke has also sung for numerous charities in many different places, including large houses and churches; from small country parish churches to St. Bartholomew the Great and the Guards Chapel in London.