Lisa Swayne

Lisa has finished her undergraduate and Post Graduate Opera Studies at the RSAMD and she is now living in London.

Lisa has performed the soprano solo for Handel’s Messiah in Newcastle, Carlisle and London, Faure’s Requiem in Edinburgh, Bach’s St John Passion in Edinburgh and Dunblane, Brahm’s Deutches Requiem in Newcastle, Handel’s Samson with the Ulverston Bach Choir in Cumbria and Carl Orff's Camina Burana with a choral society in her home county of West Sussex. Last year Lisa was the soprano in the operatic quartet for the premier of “The Island of the Bird Men” composed by David P. Graham and Jean Paul Dessi in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis and she was in the chorus for a touring non-staged production of Mozart’s Idomeneo with Kate Royal, Ian Bostridge and Europa Galante which visited Amsterdam, Lisbon and London. She also sang the female solos for Video Games Live with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and chorus in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall. Lisa has won recital prizes in the Edinburgh Competition Festival and while at the RSAMD she won the Margaret Dick award for singing and has appeared in masterclasses with Malcolme Martineau and Mhairi Lawson.

Recent solo performances have included the title role in Handel Semele, Handel Xerxes (Romilda) and Saint-Saens Oratorio de Noel in Edinburgh; Bach Wachet auf and St Matthew Passion in Edinburgh and Orkney, and contemporary vocal music with Scottish Voices in the Glasgow West End Festival. Recently performed choral works include Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium with Ludus Baroque in Edinburgh; Britten A Ceremony of Carols and Holst Hymns from the Rig Veda with Cappella Nova in Edinburgh, Glasgow and at Scone Palace, and settings of the Song of Songs with Laudibus in London and Aldeburgh. In the summer of 2007 Lisa performed in a private performance at the request of Her Majesty The Queen at Balmoral as part of the chamber choir Laudibus.

In the upcoming year Lisa will be performing at the International Computer Music Festival in Belfast and at the Mostly Mozart Music Festival in the Barbican in London. www.lisaswayne.com.