Siona Stockel
Siona Stockel was awarded her Postgraduate Diploma in vocal performance from the Royal College of Music, London in 2004, where she studied with Nancy Argenta and Ashley Stafford. Siona had previously graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a Distinction in her Masters Degree in Vocal Performance in 2002. She has been fortunate enough to win a number of awards for her singing including a Laura Ashley Foundation Scholarship for postgraduate study, the Elias Vocal Scholarship for Sopranos and the R A Redman prize for Song Interpretation. She was also supported in her studies by a number of charities including the 42 Foundation and the Tillett Trust. Siona appears regularly as a concert soloist with many choirs and orchestras throughout the country. Her voice is particularly suited to performing Baroque and classical repertoire, in which she specialised at the Royal College, and this has resulted in her working as a soloist with many professional ensembles including the London Mozart Players, I Fagiolini and Sonnerie. On the concert platform, highlights include performing Handel’s solo cantatas Alpestre Monte and Delirio Amoroso in the London Handel Festival, touring with Baroque trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins and the Welsh Baroque Orchestra performing Bach’s cantata Jauchzet Gott and performing Handel cantatas with the Paddock Company and Baroque Violinist Monica Huggett.
Operatic appearances include the roles of ‘Galatea’ in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, and ‘Calliope’ in Handel’s Alceste in the Aestas Musica Festival in Varazdin, Croatia with Laurence Cummings, ‘Dafne’ in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne at St Martin’s in the field, London, with Maggie Faultless and ‘Belinda’ in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in the Corsley Festival. Future engagements include various oratorio performances around the country including Haydn's Nelson Mass, Purcell's King Arthur, Bach's Mass in B minor and Mozart's Mass in C Minor. Later this year Siona and her husband, Counter-tenor Stephen Harvey, are to tour with performances of their duet programme 'Songs of Passion'.
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