Elizabeth Drury
Soprano/saxophone
Elizabeth is a final year Scholar at the Royal College of Music, studying Saxophone and Voice, and supported by a Jane Melber award. With the Saxophone she got through to the televised Woodwind Final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2004. Elizabeth sings with the Birmingham-based choir Ex Cathedra, and has performed as a soloist with them in Spain, Stour music festival and Brighton Early Music Festival. She has also recorded with the King’s Consort and sung with The Sixteen in Exeter Cathedral and St Asaph Cathedral, Wales. Elizabeth is a member of the RCM chamber choir, and is a founder member of the RCM Bach choir, with whom she is also a soloist. In May 2006 Elizabeth performed Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with counter tenor James Armitage and the RCM Bach Consort.
Elizabeth has been a soprano soloist with choirs such as the Somerset Singers, Dartington Community Choir, Wendover Choral Society and Exeter Bach Choir, performing works including Haydn's Creation and Nelson Mass, Handel's Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Bach’s St Matthew Passion. She was also a soloist in the South of France for Mozart’s C Minor Mass last Summer. In the summer of 2004 she attended Dartington International Summer School, supported by the Heathcoat Trust, and had Masterclasses with Emma Kirkby. She was also the soprano soloist with the choir there, singing Monteverdi’s "confitebor tibi Domine III," conducted by Bob Chilcott.
Elizabeth frequently organizes solo recitals, and has even performed in Buckingham Palace. She sings with a group called The Gonzaga Consort, which has performed in venues such as The National Gallery, Lincolns Inn Chapel and Ham House, Richmond. Future concerts include recitals at the National Gallery, Sherborne Abbey and Dartington Great Hall. Future solo engagements for Elizabeth include Mozart’s Requiem in Devon, Vivaldi’s Gloria in Well’s Cathedral, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at the National Gallery and a recital at Budleigh Festival in the Summer.
