Myrna Tennant is a Dutch/British mezzo-soprano, she graduated with Distinction from the Artist Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of Yvonne Kenny, and before that studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating with a Bachelor with Honours of the First Class, under the tutelage of Helen Lawson and Wilma MacDougall.
Described as ‘outstanding and extraordinarily expressive’ (Ham and High), Myrna’s opera highlights include the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Hampstead Garden Opera, 2nd Witch in Dido and Aeneas with Longborough Festival Opera, and Una Conversa in a filmed version of Suor Angelica with Grange Park Opera, with whom Myrna also performed the role of Employee alongside being a chorus member for Gods of the Game, a newly commissioned work for Sky Arts.
Upcoming engagements include creating the role of Diana in the world premiere of To Die For, a new comic opera by Elena Langer with de Nederlandse Reisopera, mezzo soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the National Symphony Orchestra, and Hélène in a newly translated and adapted for film production of Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène.
Myrna was a Britten Pears Young Artist for their 2023-24 English Song programme, and a BYO Serena Fenwick Young Artist for 2024, where she had the privilege of receiving mentorship from industry leading professionals.
She has been a finalist and prize winner in competitions including the Bampton Classical Opera ‘Young Singers Competition’, Hurn Court Opera’s ‘Singer of the Year’, and the London Choral Sinfonia ‘Leach Award for Singing’.
As an ensemble singer, Myrna performed as part of the Grange Park Opera chorus (2021-24). She is a member of Scottish Voices, with whom she has done several recording projects and performed in concerts around Scotland, as well as the USA and Portugal, and was previously a member of RCS Voices, with whom she has recorded for the RSNO and has performed in the festivals throughout Scotland, including the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney.
Myrna was proud to be selected for the Genesis Sixteen 2017/18 programme with Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan.
During her studies, Myrna was enormously grateful to be generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Kathleen Trust, the Mario Lanza Educational Foundation, the Clemence Charitable Trust, and the Dewar Arts Awards, as well as a Guildhall School Financial Award scholarship.
