Penelope MacKay (AGSM, HonARAM)

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Penelope Mackay was born in Yorkshire and trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. Having spent most of her professional career in opera (Glyndebourne, English National Opera, Covent Garden, Opera North, Flanders, Liège, Graz, New Opera Company, English Opera Group and English Music Theatre), she began her teaching career in 1988, combining it with performances at Covent Garden (Cunning Little Vixen) and Her Majesty’s Theatre (Phantom of the Opera). Penny was responsible for coaching in French Song at the Royal Academy of Music and French diction and phonetics both there and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama until 2008. She was also a professor of singing in both institutions with a wide brief, teaching undergraduates on the classical and the jazz courses at GSMD, and postgraduates in both institutions on the opera courses, music theatre and early music courses. Penny was granted her Primary EVTS Licence by Jo Estill in May 2002. She has recently been involved with the Britten Pears Young Artists programmes at Snape Maltings, coaching on the opera, oratorio and French song and Lieder courses.