Juliette Pochin

Mezzo-soprano

"...stole our hearts with her gorgeous voice."
(Verdi Requiem - South Chiltern Choral Society - March 2003)

Juliette began her musical education at just six years old, studying the violin and went on to train at the Junior Royal Academy of Music at the age of eleven. She was awarded a choral scholarship to read music at Cambridge and went on to be awarded a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from which she graduated with distinction and the highest mark of her year. The release of Venezia on May 8th marks her solo debut album which she performed, produced and composed/arranged.

Her operatic and concert career has led her to perform with many orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, and London Festival Orchestra, and at many of Europe’s premier venues including the Berlin Philharmonie under Sir Simon Rattle, the Lincoln Center, New York, under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the South Bank, the Barbican, the Brighton Festival, Fairfield Halls and St John’s Smith Square. Her operatic roles include Tisbe La Cenerentola, Madelon Il Fortunio, Dorabella Cosi, Olga Onegin, Annina Traviata and the Sorceress Dido. She most recently created the role of ‘Flamingo Rock Star’ in the world premiere of the opera The Birds which toured the UK and Spain last year.

As a recitalist Juliette has sung in the Purcell Room, Adrian Boult Hall and appeared in a series of recitals with Graham Johnson at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr in Germany. She can also be heard on the soundtracks to Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars- the Phantom Menace.

In addition to her singing, Juliette composes and produces as one half of the partnership Morgan Pochin. TV credits include the EMMY/BAFTA award-winning Kumars at No.42 and According to Bex (BBC1). Their compositions have been broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and 3, and Classic FM and their song Sweetest Love was included on the platinum- selling album The No.1 Classical Album 2004. She wrote and produced Katherine Jenkins’ No.1 album Premiere, which was nominated for a Classical Brit and has worked with artists as diverse as Julian Lloyd Webber (with whom she duets on her album) and Elton John.

Juliette’s debut album, Venezia is on general release on the Sony BMG label from May 8th.