Lucy Taylor, mezzo-soprano, read Modern and Medieval languages and was a choral exhibitioner at Clare College, Cambridge, before returning to her Scottish roots as a Caird Scholar on the MMus (Advanced Opera) course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama under Patricia MacMahon. At the RSAMD, Lucy won the Governors’ Recital and John Ireland prizes, performed numerous operatic roles, including Diana (La Calisto), and shadowed Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) at Scottish Opera. Lucy is now based in Cambridge. She studies with Neil Semer and Roberta Cunningham, and combines a busy performing career with voice teaching at Robinson and Pembroke colleges and the King’s School, Ely. In 2008 she made her solo debuts in Handel's Belshazzar at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, and at the Aix-en-Provence and Innsbruck festivals. She has also performed Arsamene (Serse) and Andronico (Tamerlano) for Cambridge Handel Opera Group, and Cherubino in the Cambridge University Opera Society’s gala production of Figaro. Oratorio appearances include Mozart’s C Minor Mass for the Cambridge Music Festival in King’s Chapel, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in the Markgraefliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth, the Bach Magnificat with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and a programme of Bach cantatas under Andreas Scholl. Plans include Don Giovanni and Alceste in the 2010 Aix festival.