About
Tutor in Classical Singing.
Lisa is a professional operatic soprano from Worcestershire. She was both an academic and choral scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, gaining an BA (Hons) and MA in English Literature, before joining the internationally-renowned professional choir The Sixteen and touring most continents of the world.
After a number of years singing professionally with groups such as The BBC Singers and Oxford Camerata, Lisa studied Postgraduate Voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating with an MMus (Voice) and an MMP (Opera).
After this, she spent an intensive year training at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice. She has studied with Susan McCulloch, Rudolf Piernay, Dennis O'Neill MBE and Marie Mclaughlin.
Lisa has since worked for most of the major houses and festivals in the UK (including RBO (ROH), ENO, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Garsington and Buxton Festivals), and toured both in the UK and internationally as an oratorio soloist. Roles include Vitellia, Donna Anna, Mozart's Countess, Fiordiligi, Christine (Intermezzo), Marguerite (Faust), Mimi, Gutrune (Götterdämmerung), Amelia (un ballo in maschera). Alongside her performing career, Lisa has been a singing teacher for over 25 years.
Currently, she teaches the undergraduate and postgraduate choral scholars of Oxford University (particularly Queen's and Hertford Colleges) as well as at Southampton University. In 2021, she was awarded an MA (Distinction) in Vocal Pedagogy (UWTSD and the Voice Study Centre), and her research interests are contextual interference and motor learning, and emotional expression in the singing voice.
Visit lisa-howarth.co.uk for more information.
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