Mary-Jess Leaverland

About Mary-Jess: • Winner of the Chinese ‘X Factor’, a TV singing contest with a live viewing audience of over 70 million people. • Mary-Jess has toured with Russell Watson and G4 as their special guest soprano and has performed with Sir Tim Rice, Rhydian, Mike Christie, Blake, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Don Black. • Was invited to sing to royalty in Windsor Castle and sang with music royalty in the Royal Albert Hall for the Songs of Praise Big Sing for the BBC. • Appeared on numerous national TV programs both in the UK and in China including BBC 1, BBC2 and BBC4, ITV, the JSBC Variety Channel and Sky. • Official Downton Abbey songstress featured on the Official Soundtrack albums. • Performed ‘Abide with Me’ at the FA Cup Final in Wembley Stadium in front of a live audience of 90,000 people and a worldwide television audience of 300 million people. • Featured on 12 albums, not including her four solo releases. These include ‘Now That’s What I Call Classical’, the Official Downton Abbey Soundtrack albums, the Rugby World Cup ‘World in Union’ album and ‘Summon the Heroes’ by The Band of H. M. Royal Marines. • Representative of The GREAT Britain Campaign in 144 countries as appointed by No. 10 Downing Street. • 'Leading Light' of the Generation UK China Network, an initiative set up by the British Council and the Foreign Office to encourage links between the UK and China.