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Jonathan Lemalu is "one of the most distinguished basses of his generation."
Jonathan Lemalu is a New Zealand-born Samoan who holds a Bachelor of Laws (Otago University) and an Artists Diploma from the Royal College of Music where he won the Tagore Gold Medal. Jonathan has sung at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, English National Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, Oper Frankfurt, Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric, San Francisco Opera, as well as the Salzburg, Baden-Baden, and Edinburgh Festivals.
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Roles include Osmin Il seraglio, Rocco Fidelio, Leporello Don Giovanni, Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Nick Shadow The rake’s progress, Hunding Die Walküre, Bottom A midsummer night’s dream, Colline La bohème, Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore and Veit Pogner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
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Recent and upcoming operatic highlights include Mayor Jenůfa at the ROH, Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro for Opera North, Doctor La traviata, as well as Sarastro and Speaker Magic flute for ENO. Concert performances include Brander La Damnation de Faust with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome cond. Dutoit, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cond. Kazuki Yamada and LPO cond. Edward Gardner; The seasons with the Academy of Ancient Music and Handel’s Samson for the BBC Proms both cond. Laurence Cummings.
In 2022, Jonathan was made an RCM Honorary Fellow, a patron of New Zealand Opera and an ONZM in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours for services to opera.​
As a soloist, Kathryn Mosley has appeared with orchestras in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Her work has covered a wide range of repertoire, from early songs to newly commissioned works, and she is the dedicatee of three works by New Zealand composers, Prelude by Nigel Keay, and Lull and School of velocity by Warwick Blair. Kathryn’s recording of the Sonata for piano and cello by Walter Macfarren with British cellist Joseph Spooner on Dutton Epoch attracted warm critical attention, with her playing being singled out for its vivacity (Gramophone), vigour and conviction (International Record Review), and great sensitivity and skill (My Reviewer).
In 2022 Kathryn returned to New Zealand as Head of Collaborative Piano at the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria, University of Wellington. In this wide-ranging role Kathryn supports students and staff through performance and teaching, and has the privilege of working with a number of visiting artists and in 2025 this brought about the first and very happy collaboration with Jonathan Lemalu.
