BIOGRAPHY
Welsh soprano Grace Hope-Gill is studying for her master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music, London under the tutelage of Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mary Nelson and Anna Tilbrook. After completing her undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in July 2022, Grace graduated with a First-Class Honours degree and was awarded the Eldee scholarship for outstanding studentship. She is currently on the preparatory opera course and a member of the Academy Song Circle and is generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust. Grace’s recent successes include, winning the John Fussell Award for Young Musicians, the Major Van Someran-Godfrey prize and Elena Gerhardt prize and coming second in the Isabel Jay Memorial Prize, Flora Nielsen prize and Marjorie Thomas Art of Song prize.
Her versatility and innovative nature has led to an array of performance opportunities, from performing cantatas under Eamonn Dougan, Margaret Faultless and John Butt in the Academy’s ‘Bach in Leipzig’ series, premiering new compositional works both as a soloist and within an ensemble, to singing on the CBeebies channel. Grace recently travelled to Munich having been awarded the Elton John Global Exchange scholarship where she was coached at the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Theaterakademie with the trip concluding in her international recital debut with renowned baritone Christian Gerhaher. She has also sung in a number of masterclasses with leading singers such as John Mark Ainsley, Susan Bullock MBE and Ailish Tynan which was part of the Cardiff Singer of the World Series.
Other recent engagements include, performing the role of ‘Cis’ in the Royal Academy Opera’s production of Britten’s ‘Albert Herring’, singing Adina (L’Elisir D’amore), Musetta (La Boheme), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herrring), in the Royal Academy Vocal Faculty opera scenes, performing Mahler’s third symphony under the baton of Semyon Bychkov at the Royal Festival Hall and singing in the chorus of the Royal Academy Opera’s production of Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’. In September, Grace will be joining Royal Academy Opera as a Bicentenary Scholar.