Amy Carson - Soprano

Born in Bristol, Amy was the youngest of the first girl choristers at Salisbury Cathedral. Since graduating from Trinity College Cambridge, Amy went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music. She has appeared as a soloist in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Versailles, and the Concertgebouw (Monteverdi Choir), Champs Élysées and Wigmore Hall (Early Opera Company), the Barbican (Bach’s Matthew Passion), and St John’s Smith Square (La Nuova Musica and Gabrieli Consort).  She features on recordings with Solomon’s Knot (Sony), London Mozart Players (Convivium), and on Nick Cave’s album Carnage.

Highlights of Amy’s career include: Pamina (in a film of Mozart’s The Magic Flute directed by Kenneth Branagh); Title Role in The Cumnor Affair (Tête à Tête Opera); Musetta in La Boheme (conducted by Nick Collon); The Spirit in Dido and Aeneas (alongside Magdalena Kožená); and Newspaper Seller and Strolling Girl in Death in Venice (The Queen Elizabeth Hall conducted by Richard Hickox).

Amy enjoys performing throughout the South West and has recently established a vocal ensemble The Echoing Air in her home town Bruton. With The Echoing Air, Amy has performed the title roles and co-directed Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Purcell’s Fairy Queen. She recently appeared as Second Woman in Somerset Opera’s production of Dido and Aeneas in Taunton Museum and as soloist in Matthew Coleridge’s Requiem in Gloucester Cathedral.