In true Renaissance style, international soprano Gillian Humphreys combines her love of the arts with her admiration for her international audiences and brings her innovative range of performances and lectures to theatres and platforms world-wide. Born in Wales, she studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Dame Eva Turner, and worked in London and in California with Sir Tyrone Guthrie, before becoming principal soprano with the D'Oyle Carte Opera Company.

She sang at major opera houses across the USA and Europe and has performed with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Welsh National Opera. She has also sung at Californian Pops Concerts with Nelson Riddle and appeared in television shows with Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin. Other television appearances include her one-woman show "Home Sweet Home" - the tempestuous life of one of the world's greatest prima donnas, Adelina Patti.

She recorded "Shakespeare and Love, which was performed at The Globe Theatre in London and on an official tour of the famous castles of Romania. There she also gave her young audiences workshops to orphanages and hospitals in Bucharest and had the honour of being invited to meet Mother Teresa in London, who endorsed the importance of the healing power of music.

Since 1995 the Concordia Foundation and its objective of building bridges through music and the arts has become an important aspect of Gillian's international work. Her Concordia Theatre Company regularly presents international gala shows and lectures on the Cunard Seabourn Line and has given gala concerts at major cities around the world. She celebrated the millennium at a gala concert in Malaysia, renewing many old friendships, and recently returned from Vietnam after a highly successful production of Carmen following that of Cavalleria Rusticana the year before which brought together young European and Vietnamese artists for the first time at the newly renovated Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City.