Elizabeth Weisberg

Originally from California , Elizabeth Weisberg received her B.A. in Music from Stanford University and graduated in 2004 from the Royal Academy of Music where she received the Dip.RAM, the Academy's highest award for performance, and the Clifton Singing Prize for her final recital. At the RAM she won numerous competitions, including the Major Van Someren-Godfrey Prize for English Song, the Hilda Anderson Dean Prize for Historical Performance, and the Helen Eames Prize for Early Music. Elizabeth has also been educated at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies. She learns with Elizabeth Ritchie and Ashley Stafford.

On the concert platform Elizabeth has appeared in the Winchester , Aldeburgh, and Gloucester Three Choirs Festivals and with conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Emmanuelle Haïm, Trevor Pinnock, Christopher Robinson, and Nicholas Cleobury. Recent engagements include a tour of Charpentier David et Jonathas and Schütz Musikalisches Exequien with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mozart Ch'io mi scordi di te? with Pinnock, Handel Gloria in St. John's, Smith Square, Bach B Minor Mass in Manchester Cathedral, Mozart Requiem in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mozart C Minor Mass in Christ Church Cathedral, Mendelssohn Elijah for Corsley Festival Choir, and the role of Melanto in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria for Snape Proms which subsequently toured to the London Globe Theatre.

Other operatic performances include Belinda ( Dido and Aeneas ), Sandman and Dewfairy ( Hansel and Gretel ), First Lady ( The Magic Flute ), and scenes from L'incoronazione di Poppea , Gluck Orfeo , The Marriage of Figaro , The Rake's Progress , The Turn of the Screw , Don Giovanni and Handel Riccardo Primo .

Elizabeth performs regularly with such ensembles as European Voices, Choir of the Enlightenment, English Voices, The Saraband Consort and Dramma Per Musica.

Forthcoming engagements include Mahler 2 nd Symphony with the RPO and Poulenc Gloria in the Royal Albert Hall as well as performances of Mozart Requiem in Cyprus.