BIOGRAPHY
Daisy Livesey is a soprano living and studying in London, with a passion for early music. Daisy is an experienced oratorio singer, supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, with recent solo engagements including Bach St Matthew Passion (under Jonathan Willcocks with Canzona as part of Leith Hill Music Festival), Bach St John Passion (under Tom Hammond-Davies with Oxford Bach Soloists at Edington Priory) and Mendelssohn’s Elijah (under Max Barley at Holy Trinity, Sloane Square).
Daisy was a soloist and chorus member of Hampstead Garden Opera’s sold-out production of The Fairy Queen in April 2024.
Daisy is in her third year as an undergraduate soprano at the Royal Academy of Music and is taught by Alex Ashworth and Iain Ledingham. Highlights of her studies at the Academy include working with John Butt, Eamonn Dougan, Iain Ledingham and Philippe Herreweghe as a choir member and soloist in the Bach series concerts. During the Academy’s Bicentenary, Daisy was a soprano soloist in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen directed by Laurence Cummings.
Daisy looks forward to taking part in the Royal Academy’s new Resounding Shores concert series, as a soloist in both ‘Songs, Scenes and Dialogues’ in June directed by Elizabeth Kenny, and ‘Ye Sacred Muses’, alongside Nicholas Mulroy, directed by Jonathan Manson.
Daisy has benefitted from masterclasses with John Mark Ainsley, Nick Pritchard, Susan Manoff and Emma Kirkby.
PROFILES AND REVIEWS
Hampstead Garden Opera
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “HGO with a talented cast, a tight orchestra and superb direction put on a spectacle in praise of love, joy and a little bit of kinky experimentation.” The Reviews Hub
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The ensemble company of fourteen young opera singers work tirelessly well together, invested and focused throughout, creating lovely classical tableaux, with each performer getting their chance to shine and sing Purcell’s glorious songs…a vibrant and, yes, charming production.” The Spy in the Stalls
Oxford Bach Soloists
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