Elizabeth Drury

Elizabeth Drury is a Scholar at the Royal College of Music, supported by a Jane Melber award, studying saxophone and voice. In 2004 she performed in the televised woodwind final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year. She has given many concerts with Bacchanale, including an Opera Gala concert and the première of Brendan Ashe’s oratorio, The Light. She now sings with the Birmingham-based professional choir Ex Cathedra, which recently toured Spain for the Salamanca festival. Elizabeth has been a soprano soloist for the Somerset Singers, Dartington Community Choir, Wendover Choral Society and the Sheldon Singers, and has also performed Bach’s B Minor Mass in St John’s Smith’s Square with the RCM Chamber Choir, and Peter Schreier. In May this year she performed Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Well’s Cathedral with the Somerset Singers. In summer 2004, she attended Dartington Summer School with a Scholarship from the Heathcoat Trust, taking part in Masterclasses with Emma Kirkby and also performing as a soloist with Bob Chilcott and the Dartington Summer School Choir.

Future concerts include Carmina Burana with Ex Cathedra in February and the Ashe Magnificat in May