Welsh soprano Grace Hope-Gill is in her first year of Royal Academy Opera as a Bicentenary Scholar 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. Recently, Grace gained her Master of Arts in Performance with Distinction. She is 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 Freddie De Tommaso, Angelika Kirchschlager, John Mark Ainsley, Susan Bullock MBE and Ailish Tynan.

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’.