Rosemary Hardy, actor and singer, is particularly active as a member of the “family” of actors surrounding the highly acclaimed Swiss theatre director, Christoph Marthaler. Her performances with him have included “The Unanswered Question” and “20 Century Blues”, both at the Basel Theatre. “Die Schone Mullerin”, for the Zurich City Theatre was performed over 70 times all over Europe, as were “Winch Only” for the Kunstenfestival in Brussels, and “Maeterlinck” (originally for the National Theatres of Ghent and Amsterdam). In 2011 she took part in +-0, a new production created by Christoph Marthaler after two months’ inspiring living and working in Greenland. This production is now on tour all over the world.

Rosemary Hardy has also worked in the theatre with Anna Viebrock, (“Wozuwozuwozu at the Schauspielhaus Cologne, and with Karin Beier in the much acclaimed Jelinek Trilogy, “Das Werk, Buss, Sturz” in Cologne, a production which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen and given the accolade, Production of the Year within the German language theatre.

Her singing career has been long and varied, ranging from early music to pioneering new works of our own time. She was deeply involved in the Early Music revival of the 70’s, working with musicians such as Sir Roger Norrington, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and David Munrow, and performing all over the world with Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort.

Rosemary Hardy has first and foremost become known for her performances of the music of our own time, being particularly associated with composers such as Oliver Knussen and Gyorgy Kurtag. She was “Max” in Oliver Knussen’s “Where the Wild Things Are” at the National Theatre, London and at Glyndebourne Opera. She also recorded this role and that of “Rhoda” in “Higglety Pigglety Pop!”, the companion piece to “Where the Wild Things Are”.

She has been one of very few exponents of Gyorgy Kurtag’s “The Messages of the late R.V.Troussova” and his virtuoso “ The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza”, a “concerto” for voice and piano which she performed together w