Daisy is a 22 year old mezzo-soprano from Staffordshire Moorlands, currently studying with Amanda Roocroft. Daisy graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a First Class degree, where she studied with Mary Nelson and Joseph Middleton. Whilst at the Academy, Daisy received the Arthur Burcher Memorial prize for receiving the highest mark in her first-year recital. She was delighted to be a finalist in the Charles Wood Song Competition 2022, and to join the Josephine Baker Trusts’ list of approved singers. Daisy made her professional operatic debut with The Grange Festival 2021, playing a Fairy in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other roles include Emmie in Britten’s Albert Herring with Royal Academy Opera, the Shepherdess in Blow’s Venus and Adonis under the direction of Michael Chance, Susanna in the Academy’s Le Nozze di Figaro opera scenes and chorus parts in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen (RAO). Daisy frequently performed in the Academy’s Bach concert series, as well as with Academy Voices in song recitals. In July 2022, Daisy attended the Brel Song Academy where she took part in a week of intensive coaching with Joseph Middleton and Amanda Roocroft. She also attended the Dartington Summer Music Festival, where she performed Josabeth from Handel’s Athalia conducted by Laurence Cummings and received coaching on song repertoire from Carolyn Sampson.

Since graduating from the Academy, Daisy has begun working as a boarding house assistant at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, where she was educated herself throughout her Sixth Form years. Whilst a student at Chetham’s, Daisy gave frequent recitals in and around Greater Manchester. She also travelled to Ischia for song recitals with the William Walton Foundation and worked with the charity The Commonwealth Resounds in Kampala, Uganda, bringing outreach workshops to schools and children’s refuges around the city.

Daisy is excited to be joining the Waterperry Opera Festival as one of five 2023 Young Artists, where she will join the opera chorus as well as performing in their Opera Gala whilst receiving coaching and workshops from the music staff at Waterperry.

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