Photograph: David Robinson

Biography

E-mail : mauerica@aol.com

 

Born in Zimbabwe, Kim studied with Lorna Kelly.  She performed in many musicals and plays at Reps Theatre, and gave numerous concerts and recitals throughout the country, including the National Students’ Tour, and with the Harare Male Voice Choir. She also performed with the tenor Daniel van Tonder on a national tour before moving to London in 1994.  Since then, Kim has sung frequently in recital throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.

In April 1999, Kim returned to Zimbabwe for two concert appearances as part of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), at which she won the Munn Media Prize for Music.  In January 2000, she went on a tour of the Amazon with five other international singers.  Kim, with Rodolfo Cavero and Jean Bernard Marie, went on to give a recital at the opera house in Havana, Cuba, which was filmed by the BBC.

 

Recent engagements have included Schumann’s “Frauenliebe und –Leben”, and “A Spanish Affair” in London with Manuel Bagorro; concerts in Frankfurt, Florence and Paris; a concert in front of  the Governor of Gibraltar, broadcast on Christmas Day; and an open air opera gala in Zimbabwe attended by over 4000 people. She sang the role of Dido in “Dido and Aeneas” with the Chelsea Consort in London’s Holy Trinity Church, and given recitals at Somerset House and The National Portrait Gallery in London.  She is also frequently invited to give classical recitals on Fred. Olsen cruise ships.  At present, she is working with  Patricia Cullen exploring Manx music on the Isle of Man, for a CD which will be out in the summer of this year.

 

Kim believes very strongly in the importance of performing new works and is currently working with a number of contemporary composers.  She is coached by Jeffrey Talbot in London.

 

“Brown displayed a touching and believable portrayal of the tragic heroine... effortlessly winning the audience’s rapt attention.....   Brown came into her own with Rusalka’s ‘Song to the Moon’ – a sublime interpretation in which every word and note was weighted with meaning and intense musicality.  She controlled her powerful voice to good effect, producing a delicate and very feminine reading of this challenging aria.”

                                                                                

                                                                                    Rita Grudzien

                                                             

                                                              - Opera,  August 2003

 

 

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Kim Brown