Miranda Wright

Miranda Wright has over two decades of experience teaching young and maturing voices. Her pupils have gone on to professional careers and successful study across the UK and abroad. Former students have won multiple scholarships at leading Conservatoires and have since gone on to young artist programmes at international opera companies. 

Miranda has established a reputation as a specialist in healthy singing and performance. She is passionate about supporting students as they build foundations for a successful career. She is especially interested in how an emotional connection with text informs students’ own individual vocal development, rooting their work in a good understanding of the body in their singing. 

Miranda’s work with Samling Institute for Young Artists in North-East England has seen a flourishing of classical singing in the region and she has led masterclasses for Samling Academy for many years.  She has directed opera productions for Samling Academy including Ravel L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Britten Albert Herring, and Blow Venus and Adonis (with the Dunedin Consort and John Butt). With accompanists Ian Tindale, Jo Ramadan and Leo Nicholson, she has staged programmes of art-song and spoken word for Samling Academy, as well as putting on concerts for her own private pupils, including at Ryedale Festival. Miranda is Head of Classical Voice at Newcastle University and teaches at Durham University.

After early study with Ann Lampard, Miranda went on to be a Peter Moores Scholar and multiple prize-winner at the RNCM, including the Joaninha Prize for students from all the British Conservatoires. She studied with Caroline Crawshaw and subsequently Paul Farrington. She appeared on Jonathan Miller’s BBC2 ‘Opera Works’ and her professional roles included Governess (Turn of the Screw), Countess (Figaro), Romilda (Xerxes), and Lucia (Rape of Lucretia). 

Faculties / departments: Vocal Studies

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