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Rebecca Clarke Song Competition - Applications

Shanali Jalota

SINGER

Shanali Jalota

NATIONALITY:

British

PIANIST

Jack Redman

PIANIST TO BE CONSIDERED FOR PRIZE?

Yes

SINGER BIOGRAPHY:

British-American soprano Shafali Jalota has been praised for her “stunning vocal technique and poised stage presence” (Opera Today). She was a 2023/24 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio and Britten Pears Young Artist. Shafali has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Eastbourne International Singing Competition, the Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Competition, and the Camille Coloratura Awards. She has performed internationally with companies including the Royal Ballet & Opera, Glyndebourne, English Touring Opera, Longborough Opera, Opera Neo and Chautauqua Opera. Recent highlights include Zerlina (cover) Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne), Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia (Longborough Opera), Argene L’Olimpiade (Vache Baroque), Anne Trulove (cover) Rake’s Progress (English Touring Opera) and Romilda Serse (Opera Neo). Shafali earned her Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master of Music Degree from the Maryland Opera Studio.

APPLICATION VIDEO 1:

Impetuous Heart, Be Still (Maconchy), 24 November 2025

APPLICATION VIDEO 2:

I Cannot Lose Thee for a Day (Herbert), 24 November 2025

SEMI-FINAL AND FINAL PROGRAMME PROPOSED:

SEMI - 11’30

Rebecca Clarke - Cloths of Heaven 2’
Sally Beamish - The Nightingale 3'30
Muriel Herbert - from Children’s Songs The Tadpole 0.42 & The Bunny 0.26 1”
Rebecca Clarke - The Tiger 4’
SEMI - 10’30
Clarke, Rebecca “The Cloths of Heaven” (William Butler Yeats), 2’
Beamish, Sally “The Nightingale” (Jila Peacock, from Hafez) from Four Songs from Hafez, 3’30
Herbert, Muriel “The Tadpole” (Ada Harrison) from Six Children’s Songs 0’45
Herbert, Muriel “The Bunny” (Ada Harrison) from Six Children’s Songs 0’30
Clarke, Rebecca “Tiger, Tiger” (William Blake) 4’

FINAL - 17
Clarke, Rebecca “The Cloths of Heaven” (William Butler Yeats), 2’
Beamish, Sally “The Nightingale” (Jila Peacock, from Hafez) from Four Songs from Hafez, 3’30
Clarke, Rebecca “June Twilight” (John Masefield), 3’
Trimble, Joan “Girls Song” (Wilfred Wilson Gibson) 2’
Maconchy, Elizabeth “Ophelia’s Song” (William Shakespeare) 2’30
Clarke, Rebecca “Tiger, Tiger” (William Blake) 4’

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