Welsh soprano Grace Hope-Gill is in her first year of Royal Academy Opera as a Bicentenary Scholar under the tutelage of Catherine Wyn-Roger, Mary Nelson and Anna Tilbrook. In July 2022 Grace graduated her bachelors degree with a First-Class Honours degree and was awarded the Eldee scholarship for outstanding studentship. In July 2024, Grace recently gained her Master of Arts in Performance with distinction. She is a member of the Academy Song Circle and is generously supported by the Matt Ferrey Opera scholarship and 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 Schumann Prize, 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 travelled to Munich having been awarded the Elton John Global Exchange scholarship, with the trip concluding in her international recital debut with renowned baritone Christian Gerhaher. Other recent engagements include, performing the role Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Sandmännchen in Humperdink’s Hänsel und Gretel and ‘Cis’ in Britten’s ‘Albert Herring’ with Royal Academy Opera as well as performing the role of Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly, Puccini), in the Royal Academy Opera Scenes. Grace has also performed the roles of 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 and has performed Mahler’s third symphony under the baton of Semyon Bychkov at the Royal Festival Hall.