Janet Price
Janet Price studied music at University
College Cardiff, where she graduated with a Fist Class BMus Honours
and MMus. More recently she was made an associate of the Royal
Academy of Music and a fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama. She studied singing primarily with Olive Groves and made
a special study of French vocal music with Nadia Boulanger.
Winning the Welsh Art Council’s first
Young Welsh Singers’ Competition in June 1964 launched her
on a distinguished singing career that took her all over Western
Europe, to Canada and the USA, with music ranging from Monteverdi
to Tippett. She sang with all the leading British and European
orchestras, working with such conductors as Haitink, Dorati, and
Rozhdestvensky. She sag opera at Glyndebourne and with the Welsh
National Opera, Opera Rara and Kent Opera.
Janet Price made over 300 broadcasts and
premiered numerous works, including Jonathan Harvey’s Ludus
Amoris, and in the Belgian premiere of Tippett’s Third
Symphony. She recorded for EMI, Argo, Philips, Decca and Opera
Rara, including – in addition to all her Bel Canto roles in operas
by Donizetti, Meyerbeer, etc, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
with Haitink and the Concertgebouw Chorus and Orchestra. Janet
Price taught singing at the RAM (1997 – 2007) and at the RWCMD
(1962 – 66 and 1984 – 2004), returning to the latter as an Emeritus
Teaching Fellow in 2006. She has adjudicated at such prestigious
competitions as the Arts Council’s Young Welsh Singers’
Competition, RTE’s Musician of the Future Competition
in Dublin, and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.