Photography: Benjamin Ealovega
Jess Dandy is the foremost British contralto of her generation. Born in Cumbria, she studied Modern & Medieval Languages at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
An alumna and fellow of Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Jess has performed with many of the world’s leading ensembles and orchestras: among them the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä; The English Concert/Harry Bicket & Kristian Bezuidenhout; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska & Douglas Boyd; BBC Philharmonic/Gemma New, and Dunedin Consort/John Butt & Sir Trevor Pinnock.