Marjorie MURAY
Dramatic Soprano
Marjorie joined Radio France at the age of 10 and sang with the choirs on the Châtelet stage with Jessye NORMAN, then took her singing lessons with Inva MULA, as well as Molière ATHALYS who organized concerts for her in Europe very early.
After a literary baccalaureate, she returned to the Assas/Paris Sorbonne Faculty of Law and to the CNSM in the class of Isabelle GUILLAUD. Marjorie works in masterclass with Jory VINICOURT, Riccardo MUTI, Mirella FRENI, Grace BUMBRY and with the conductors Simone FEJARD, Vincenzo SCALERA, takes classes with Isabelle Garcisanz and prepares her roles with Pierre VALLET, vocal coach and conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Marjorie gives major events concerts for many personalities such as King Mohamed VI of Morocco, Prince Albert I at the Opera de Monaco and is chosen from among many candidates to represent France and her art in China, in Shanghai and Beijing. Large companies, such as BNP and BOUCHERON, decide to support the young and promising artist, who joins the Bayerischestaatsoper in Munick, under the aegis of Kent NAGANO.
At the age of 24, she was chosen on international competition to play the leading female role, Isabella, in WAGNER’s Le Liebesverbot (La Défense d'aimer), at the Bayreuth festival. She then sings at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées Pulchinella of STRAVINSKI under the direction of Thierry FISCHER and the soprano I of the Lobesgesang de MENDELSSOHN under the direction of John NELSON.
Soon after, Marjorie performs Elena’s Midsummer night’s dream of Britten at the Opéra de Nancy, in a new production by Jean-Louis MARTINOTY, then at the Theaters of Toulon and Caen, while performing in concerts and recitals (Théâtre de Versailles, for Simone VEIL and Eve RUGGIERI, with Pierre CARDIN at the Lacoste Castle, VERDI concert series at the Cagliari Theatre in Sardinia, Gala recitals at the Cercle de l'Union Interalliée with pianist Jay GOTTLIEB, GLÜCK recital at the Radio House for the band Audiens, Puccini concert at the Ranelagh Theatre, followed by two consecutive years at the Young Talent Festival).
The Open Air Operas choose to entrust her with the title role of Aïda de VERDI directed by Jacques BLANC, and that of Debora WALDMANN, in a direction by Elie CHOURAQUI. Assoluta, she also plays the role of Micaëla in Carmen of BIZET on a tour in France, and is a Tosca of PUCCINI noticed, in a tour in Germany, then in France, whose first date is at the Casino of Enghien-les-bains.
With her lifelong friend, the talented pianist José-Abel GONZALEZ-RODRIGUEZ, Marjorie travels throughout Spain and Italy, giving a series of recitals with prima themes, and giving operas by these two illustrious composers, before performing Mimi, in La Bohème by PUCCINI. She played the role of the singer, in Paris, in the creation of the play Récital pour trio désaccordé by Maxime MOTTE.
After the birth of her third child, Marjorie participated in numerous recitals, with the no less talented pianist Georges DUME at the Tunis festival, for a series of concerts and master classes and notably shared the stage with the baritone Edwin CROSSLEY, still accompanied by Georges DUME at the piano, as part of the Nîmes Autumn Festival.
The soprano is also keen to participate in charity concerts, at the Cercle de l'Union Interalliée, at the Rotary Club, at the GODF; For the past seven years she has participated in the recitals given by the ARTC Béarn for the benefit of research against the brain tumor and is the sponsor of the Fas Artium association which fights against the precariousness of musicians and children of musicians in the World.
Marjorie MURAY-MOTTE is the winner of several competitions in Canari, Corsica, whose President is Mr Gabriel BACQUIER, of Liepetsk, with a special prize from the Jury “Talents hors normes” in Russia, whose president is Madame GHIERGHIEVA, and won the prize for the best interpretation of an air in French in 2015 at the International Competition of Belcanto Vincenzo BELLINI, placed under the aegis of Maestro Marco GUIDARINI - President of the jury: of Alain LANCERON, President of WARNER Music Group/ ERATO.