BIOGRAPHY

Daisy Livesey is a soprano living and studying in London. She is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, with recent solo engagements including Handel Messiah (Jonathan Willcocks, Chichester Cathedral, 2025), Bach St John Passion (Tom Hammond-Davies, Oxford Bach Soloists, Edington Priory, 2024), Bach Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Max Barley, St John’s Church, Spencer Hill, Wimbledon International Music Festival, 2024), Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (Luke Fitzgerald, Coventry Cathedral, 2024), and Mendelssohn Elijah (Max Barley, Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, 2024). Daisy was a soloist and chorus member in Hampstead Garden Opera’s sold-out production of Purcell The Fairy Queen in April 2024.

Daisy’s choral experience includes Handel L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato HWV 55 with Arcangelo at St George’s Hanover Square (2025) and Bach B Minor Mass under Vaclav Luks with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (2023). Daisy has also recently debuted as a member of the Monteverdi Choir for their tour, Bach and Charpentier: A Baroque Christmas in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

Daisy is in her final year as an undergraduate soprano at the Royal Academy of Music and is taught by Alex Ashworth and Iain Ledingham. She has been a regular contributor to the Bach series and Resounding Shores concerts at RAM working with John Butt, Elizabeth Kenny, and Philippe Herreweghe as a choir member and soloist. Recently she appeared as a soloist alongside Nicholas Mulroy in the Academy’s first ever viol consort performance directed by Jonathan Manson. During the Academy’s Bicentenary in 2022, Daisy was a soprano soloist in Purcell The Fairy Queen directed by Laurence Cummings. She is proud to be the Jennifer Vyvyan Scholar for this academic year (2024-25). In January 2025, her group won First Prize in RAM’s Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize adjudicated by Robert Hollingworth with a programme of Buxtehude soprano cantatas.

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