Deborah Miles-Johnson

Deborah Miles-Johnson was made Associate Chorus Master in 1999. As a conductor, she has performed with many chamber choirs and choral societies in the UK, and gives regular vocal and choral masterclasses at a variety of summer schools.

For the Chorus, she has prepared many works including Mahler 2 & 8, Verdi Requiem, Bruckner Mass, Berlioz Requiem, Missa Solemnis, Britten’s War Requiem and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe for various conductors including Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle and Valery Gergiev. She is also a mezzo-soprano of some repute, having worked with most of the world’s leading conductors including Sir Simon Rattle in Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles; Sir Georg Solti in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Germany; Sir Bernard Haitinck in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger and Lorin Maazel in 1984 at the Royal Opera House. She has been included on many commercial recordings including The Beggars Opera and one of the Converse in the EMI recording of Suor Angelica.

A regular performer of the contemporary repertoire, she took the part of Carolina in Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers for a Radio France broadcast in May at 3 days notice and premiered Brian Elias’s Laments with the BBCSO under Tadaaki Otaka at the Cheltenham Festival.