Elizabeth Leaver

Recently transitioned Mezzo Soprano, Elizabeth Leaver, was born in London and raised in Essex. Throughout her life, Elizabeth has gained multiple music scholarships in her education including The Donald Gosling Foundation of Music bursary awarded to her at Westminster Cathedral. Elizabeth has sung internationally including chapels within South Africa, Serbia, Turkey and the Vatican City in Rome. She also gained choral experience in The National Youth Choir of Great Britain and decided to peruse her passion for classical singing. She is currently based in Birmingham in her final year of undergraduate study at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a scholarship under the tuition of Amanda Roocroft. Elizabeth works as a freelance singer and enjoys a busy performance career. When she is not singing she enjoys teaching. She has recently been working with the Music Services for Education within Birmingham’s top nursery, primary and secondary schools. Elizabeth is a versatile singer who loves to explore musical theatre repertoire as well as music in many languages including Turkish, Latvian, Polish, Russian, German, French and Italian. Elizabeth has appeared in Royal Birmingham Conservatoires staged operatic productions as the chorus in Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovani. Elizabeth has also performed in professional companies outside of Birmingham including Winterbourne Opera’s production of Die Fledermaus as Ida.