Slovene soprano Suzana Ograjenšek is rapidly establishing herself on both concert and opera platforms. Educated at University of Ljubljana and Cambridge University, she currently studies singing with Diane Forlano in London and has worked extensively in Baroque repertoire. In 2008 she sang at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in Purcell's The Fairy Queen conducted by William Christie, and in the season 2009-2010 she made her operatic debut as Angel in Handel's Jephtha at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg with Ivor Bolton and the Freiburger Barockorchester. In 2009-10 she was Valletto in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with William Christie at Teatro Real in Madrid, and she reprised her role of Angel in Jephtha at the Opéra National du Bordeaux with Jane Glover.
     Other operatic roles include Romilda in Handel's Xerxes, Messaggiera in Monteverdi's Orfeo (both for the Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera), and the title role in Domenico Scarlatti's La Dirindina. Concert engagements have featured work with Christopher Hogwood (Purcell odes) and Ivor Bolton (Handel's L'Allegro at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music) as well as regular appearances with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, most recently in a concert of Mozart's operatic arias. Recent concert work includes Bach's B-Minor Mass, Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem, Ode for St Cecilia's Day and Salve Regina, Vivaldi's Gloria and motetto Nulla in mondo pax sincera, Haydn's Nelson Mass, Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and Dona nobis pacem, and Faure's Requiem.
     Suzana has founded and performs regularly with the Baroque Ensemble La Falsirena. Their performances with the programme of Handel's Arcadian continuo cantatas at the Brežice Festival in 2007 were highly acclaimed by the press and audience. This concert tour also took them the Handel House in London and other UK venues. In 2008, the Ensemble took part in the ‘Handel and the Divas' exhibition at the Handel House in London with the programme of arias written for Handel's diva Francesca Cuzzoni. In 2009 the trio performed at the London Handel Festival. Suzana's chamber repertoire also features collaboration with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, with whom she has performed both classical and contemporary repertoire. Notable is their appearance at the Brežice Festival in 2009 with a programme of Haydn's English songs and Lieder in arrangements for soprano and string quartet.
     Discography includes the release of J.K. Dolar's Miserere with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra on the RTV Slovenia record label, and Festival Brežice 2009 Highlights with The Fitzwilliam String Quartet featuring their live performance. Recording credits further include Arte TV France (Strasbourg ‘Jephtha'), Radio France (Aix The Fairy Queen, ‘L'incoronazione di Poppea with Les Arts Florissants at Salle Pleyel), Radio Spain (Madrid L'incoronazione di Poppea); Radio Slovenia (concerts with the Radio Slovenia Symphony Orchestra), Television Slovenia (concerts with the Radio Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and a programme on Handel's Italian cantatas with La Falsirena). Suzana is a winner of the Williamson Prize for Musical Performance in Cambridge.
     This season’s engagements include Ninfa and Proserpina in Monteverdi’s Orfeo conducted by Ivor Bolton at Theater an der Wien, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for Maribor – European Capital of Culture 2012.