Wiltshire based singer Barbara Gompels graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School London. She moved to the South West and became a G.P. Partner in Market Lavington Surgery. Singing has always been Barbara’s passion and soon after moving she began studying with Geraldine Aylmer-Kelly and more recently with Rosa Mannion.
Barbara now regularly sings Solo for local Opera Groups including White Horse Opera and Opera Piccola as well as Oratorio, Concerts, Cabarets, Weddings, Funerals and Parties either solo or with her friend Paula Boyagis as "Due Voci".
Barbara is cast as Diana in White Horse Opera’s main production for 2011, Orpheus in the Underworld by Offenbach to be performed in October, and as Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay, WHO’s new touring production.
In 2011 she sang the First Soprano solo for a performance of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor "Great Mass" with White Horse Opera and Friends and particularly enjoyed singing "Et Incarnatus Est". Barbara also sang the Soprano solo in Faure’s Requiem for Melksham Choral Society in April.
Opera Piccola’s current concert repertoire includes Dido and Aeneas in which Barbara plays Belinda. Concerts were performed at Winsley Church and at Devizes Town Hall in May 2011.
Barbara has just recorded her second CD having completed the first in 2008, please feel free to have a listen in the audio section!
Barbara has recently retired from Medicine to further her singing and to spend more time with her husband and three children.