Gillian Webster has had a varied and diverse career since first coming to prominence as principle soprano with the Royal Opera Covent Garden where highlights included Euridice, Pamina, Katya Kabanova, La Contessa, Michaela and Mimi, roles she has repeated in houses throughout Europe. 

A versatile artist, her repertoire ranges from Vivaldi to Mozart, Mahler and Wagner. She has sung in many of Europe’s Opera Houses and Concert Halls including La Bastille, Le Chatelet,  Komische Oper Berlin,  L’opera Nancy, Aix-en-Provence and Orange Festivals and in concert at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, De Doelen and Vienna Konzerthaus with conducters such as Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davies, Paul McCreesh, and Marc Minkowski. She made her Australian debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

Her real passion is music of the baroque period and in recent years much of her work has been from this period, having sung very many Handel oratorios and cantatas under the baton of Paul McCreesh, as well as Handel’s  Agrippina and Gismonda in Ottone with ETO, and Ginevra with Marc Minkowski. Her most recent recording of Handel’s L’Allegro was nominated for a Grammy. 

In recent years she has further diversified into a study of MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) having experienced it personally as a practical and important tool in a musician’s toolbox. She has recently begun working with young musicians, singers and actors, helping them develop greater bodily awareness, and a deeper understanding of performance nerves and anxiety, via courses tailored to the specific needs of the performing arts and artists.