About

Soprano Lisa Moffat is an experienced opera singer and recitalist, described as “a real acting singer”, who loves to perform music from baroque oratorio to premiering new music.

Born and brought up in Scotland, Lisa played the piano and trumpet in orchestras, wind band, jazz band, and sang in junior choirs before making her operatic debut at 16 years old singing Barbarina in a touring production of The Marriage of Figaro (English Pocket Opera), and the Ryedale Festival.

She graduated from Huddersfield University with a BMus(Hons) in performance and musicology, and began teaching singing privately and at Gordonstoun School, rehearsing choirs, and continued to perform as a soloist.

She won an entrance scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music to study for a Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal and Operatic Studies with Barbara Robotham. There she won an Eva Turner Scholarship, the Marjorie Squires Bursary, sang in the Mozart and Schubert Festivals, and was a finalist in the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the singing of Strauss.

Concert highlights include performing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ensemble 10:10 premiering Small Tales, tall tales Kenneth Hesketh, and Really? Judith Weir, conducted by Clark Rundell, Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Exeter Symphony Orchestra.

Opera roles in staged productions include Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice, Juliet The Capulets and the Montagues, The Plaintiff Trial by Jury, Lola Cavalleria Rusticana, Peep-Bo Mikado, Varvara Katya Kabanova and Le Feu L’enfant et les Sortileges, Ida Die Fledermaus, Michaela and Frasquita Carmen.

She has enjoyed many oratorio appearences working with choral societies on works including Messiah Handel, Gloria, Beatus Vir, and Domine Deus Vivaldi, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Schubert Mass in G and Mass in A, Mozart Mass in C, Missa Brevis, and Vesperae Solennes, Haydn Nelson Mass and Maria Teresa, Beethoven Mass in C, and Serenade to Music by Vaughan Williams.

Her performance work has included fund raising for charity including Ukraine Volunteers, SSAFA, RBL, and the RNRMC, often performing The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines.

Lisa has taught singing for 20 years, privately and in schools and colleges, teaching beginners to professional singers. This has included teaching pupils for auditions, ABRSM Diploma exams, choral singers, and working for Pimlico Opera’s Primary Robins charity teaching whole class singing.

For a more comprehensive list of works performed, please read the Repertoire page:

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