Biography

Kirsty was educated at Manchester University where she read Music and then at Trinity College of Music in London where she continued her post-graduate vocal training with Linda Hirst and where she won the Elizabeth Schumann Lieder Prize.

As well as her freelance soloist work, Kirsty works regularly as a consort singer with such professional ensembles as The Monteverdi Choir, The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars, BBC Singers, Polyphony, The Gabrieli Consort and Cambridge Singers. Recent engagements include tours to the Far East, USA and all over Europe as well as numerous concerts, recordings, and radio and television appearances in the UK.

Opera roles include Galatea in Handel Acis & Galatea for JEMW, Cupid in Purcell King Arthur for New Chamber Opera, Dido in Purcell Dido and Aeneas for MUSO and Spirit in the same opera for Harry Christophers. Recent concert performances as a soloist include Mozart Requiem, Faure Requiem, Bach Magnificat, Purcell Ode on St Cecilia’s Day, Bach Wachet Auf, Brahms Liebeslieder, Mozart Coronation Mass, Bach St John Passion and Carl Orff Carmina Burana. Kirsty currently studies with Will Hancox.