SINGING
Training
Mezzo - Soprano
Born in Zimbabwe, Kim was trained by Lorna Kelly. She performed in many musicals and plays at Reps Theatre, and gave numerous concerts and recitals throughout the country, including the National Students’ Tour, and with the Harare Male Voice Choir. She also performed with the tenor Daniel van Tonder on a national tour before moving to London in. Since then, Kim has sung frequently in recital throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.
Kim returned to Zimbabwe for two concert appearances as part of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), at which she won the Munn Media Prize for Music.
Notable engagements have included going on a tour of the Amazon with five other international singers. Kim, with Rodolfo Cavero and Jean Bernard Marie, went on to give a recital at the opera house in Havana, Cuba, which was filmed by the BBC. She performed Schumann’s “Frauenliebe und –Leben”, and “A Spanish Affair” in London with Manuel Bagorro, concerts in the Isle of Man, Frankfurt, Florence and Paris; a concert in front of the Governor of Gibraltar, broadcast on Christmas Day, and an open air opera gala in Zimbabwe attended by over 4000 people. She sang the role of Dido in “Dido and Aeneas” with the Chelsea Consort in London’s Holy Trinity Church, and has given recitals at Somerset House and The National Portrait Gallery in London. She was recently invited by the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe to give a charity open air concert, “Glyndebourne in Harare”, with Manuel Bagorro at the residence in Harare, and also performed in ‘Let’s do Sondheim!’ at the Erin Art’s Centre in the Isle of Man. She’s has also given concerts at Puerto Calero and in the Green Caves of Lanzarote with the Royal Opera’s John Morgan. In addition, she has frequently been engaged to perform Classical recitals on Fred Olsen Cruise Lines. Kim has studied with Jeffrey Talbot in London, Claudia Friedlander in New York, and Daniël van Tonder in Brighton.
Due to illness which caused vocal problems, she is not performing at the moment, Just while she undergoes vocal rehabilitation. Kim hopes to soon be singing again...
