Luci Briginshaw is a high lyric soprano who sings a wide range of operatic, choral and concert repertoire. She holds the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music with distinction and a BMus from King's College London. She is also a pianist who can be hired as accompanist or piano vocalist.
Recent concert solo appearances include Belinda in Dido & Aeneas, Brahms' Requiem, Haydn Nelson Mass, J S Bach Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew Passion, Vivaldi Gloria, Mozart C Minor Mass and extracts from Die Zauberflote with the Medici Singers and Brandenburg Sinfonia, all in Central London.
Luci has given a series of London recitals, the most recent at St Anne's Gresham Street, where she performed an hour-long programme of music by Verdi, Britten, Mozart, Elgar, Faure and Grieg, extracts of which can be heard on the Soprano page. She has also performed an evening of voice/violin duets with the acclaimed violinist Lorna Geller, including works by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Handel, and an evening of German lieder at St Mary le Strand featuring music by Schumann and Wolf.
Luci also works as a choral singer. She has recently performed The Lord of the Rings at the Royal Albert Hall with London Voices with whom she also featured at the Lucerne Summer Festival, in a performance of Ligeti's Requiem . She has sung with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, and toured Greece to perform Mozart's Requiem with Sir Neville Marriner. She is also a member of the renowned chamber choir, The Elysian Singers, and has made a number of recordings with them. She also featured in a recording of Medici conductor John Baird's music with members of the ENO Chorus at Westminster Abbey. In addition, Luci is on the deputy list for several London church choirs including: The Tower of London, St Brides, Brompton Oratory, St Mary's Bourne St, Farm St Mayfair, The Guard's Chapel and St Etheldreda's. Before moving to London in 2000, Luci was a regular soprano with the Oxford Oratory for five years.
Luci graduated with honours from King's College London in 2003, where she studied singing with Janet Price and was a prize winner for earning the highest recital mark in her year. She was a choral scholar with the chapel choir, featuring in two critically acclaimed CDs of Renaissance polyphony for the Naxos label, and helping them win third prize at the Internazionale Festivale Polifonica 2001. Whilst at King's, Luci gave several solo recitals including works by Bellini, Donizetti, Delius and Britten. She featured as soloist with the college choir and orchestra in performances of Mozart's Requiem and C Minor Mass and Bach's Magnificat.
Luci also works as a private singing and piano teacher. Please contact her to hire her for concerts or weddings, or if you need a teacher or accompanist.