AMY LYDDON (Mezzo soprano) A ‘warmly expressive’ (The
Guardian) and ‘exquisite’ singer (BBC Radio 3), Amy Lyddon
studied at the Royal College of Music with Rosa Mannion. A
former chorister at Bath Abbey, Amy read Linguistics with
French and Spanish at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she
was a Choral Scholar, and graduated with first-class honours.Previous concert engagements have included Bach's St Matthew Passion for the Academy of Ancient Music and also for Florilegium, Handel's Messiah for the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Vivaldi's Gloria with the London Mozart Players, and Bach's Magnificat for Oxford Baroque at St John's Smith Square. Amy is alto soloist on the Gramophone Award-winning recording of Howells' Requiem by Trinity College Choir and features in the Gramophone Award-winning two per part recording of Mozart's Requiem with The Dunedin Consort.
Operatic roles to date include Nancy Albert Herring at Opera Holland Park and on UK tour for Shadwell Opera, Nicklausse (cover) The Tales of Hoffmann for English Touring Opera, Hermia A Midsummer Night's Dream, Angelo Custode Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro for CUOS, Gertrud Hänsel und Gretel and Mrs Herring Albert Herring for the Royal College of Music International Opera School and Octavian Der Rosenkavalier, Dorabella Così fan tutte, Isolier Le Comte Ory and Idamante Idomeneo for RCM Opera Scenes.
Recent song engagements have included a performance of Brahms' Liebeslieder-Walzer at the RCM in collaboration with the Wigmore Hall and Ravel's Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé with chamber orchestra. Amy is very grateful for previous support from the H R Taylor Trust, The Kathleen Trust, The Mario Lanza Educational Foundation, and The Josephine Baker Trust.