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AMY LYDDON

mezzo-soprano

Heralded an 'exquisite' (BBC Radio 3) and 'warmly expressive' singer (The Guardian), British mezzo-soprano Amy Lyddon is a dynamic solo performer of oratorio, song and opera, and an acclaimed choral and recording artist

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Amy enjoys an eclectic career singing everything from baroque to film music. As oratorio soloist, she has performed at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Snape Maltings and St John’s Smith Square with leading orchestras such as the Dunedin Consort, Academy of Ancient Music, Florilegium, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and London Mozart Players. On the operatic stage, she has performed and covered roles for Grange Park Opera, The Grange Festival and English Touring Opera.

Recent solo highlights include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall, Mozart's Requiem and Solemn Vespers for Cantemus in Llandaff Cathedral, Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art for Islington Choral Society, Dvorak's Stabat Mater for Voxcetera and Johann Johannson's Kangaru from 'Arrival' (film soundtrack) at the Barbican Hall.

Recent choral highlights include Bach's St John Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Johanna Soller at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Handel's Donna che in ciel with Kate Lindsey and The English Concert at the Wigmore Hall conducted by Harry Bicket, various works with the Eric Whitacre Singers at Sinfonia Smith Square conducted by Eric Whitacre, a special series of concerts featuring A. R. Rahman, Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa at Royal Albert Hall with London Voices and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and film and TV soundtracks variously for London Voices and London Contemporary Orchestra, most recently 'Hamnet', 'Frankenstein', 'Andor', 'Dune: Part Two', 'Deadpool & Wolverine', 'Trolls Band Together', 'Oppenheimer', ‘The Matrix Resurrections’, 'Stranger Things' and 'Jurassic World: Dominion'.

Amy studied at the Royal College of Music as an RCM Award Holder and H R Taylor Trust Scholar. A former chorister of Bath Abbey and pupil of the Junior Royal Academy of Music, she graduated with first-class honours in Modern & Medieval Languages (Linguistics, French and Spanish) from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was a Choral Scholar.

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