Bernice Chitiul, a soprano taught by Suzanne Murphy and coached by Michael Pollock, is a recent graduate of a Masters Degree in Opera Performance Course at RWCMD, Cardiff where she was a holder of a Leverhulme scholarship.

   She has sung roles as varied as Magda in Puccini’s La Rondine, Marie in Donizetti’s La fille du Regiment, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte (directed by Donald Maxwell in 2017), Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld (director Anna Poole, conducted by Gareth Jones, 2018) Queen of Night in Mozart’s Magic Flute  (director Martin Constantine, conducted by Gareth Jones, July 2018)  and culminating with roles of Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Counegonde (Candide) and H?ro (B?atrice et B?n?dict) in the Opera Gala taken place on October 27th 2018 (director Alma Sheehan, conducted by James Southall).

   She gave her first recital at the Wigmore Hall in 2013, followed in other venues such as St. Mary’s Perivale, at Queen Elisabeth Hall in 2015 and the Clothworkers’ Hall in 2016. Among other prizes she has won Best Female Voice Award in “The Emmy Destinn Young Singers Awards” competition, the “Ann Lampard Trophy” and “The Geraldine Wensley Trophy” at the Godalming Music Festival, all in 2015.  Teachers Tom Marandola, Margaret Humphrey Clark, John Evans and Suzanne Murphy assisted and influenced her up until she joined RWCMD.

   Since 2014 she has coordinated her own chamber ensemble Berliozya and in addition to studio compositions she composes vocal and instrumental music. Her vocal compositions have been performed by the EXHAUDI vocal ensemble in two consecutive years at the City Summer Festival, London: Crashing Waves, in 2016 and Trust is All We Need, in 2017. She reached the final live rounds of X Factor Romania in 2012 and participated in the final Romanian Eurovision National Selections in 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2019.