BIOGRAPHY
Maisie is an experienced soprano based in London, UK, and performs as a soloist and chorister across the country and internationally.
Maisie is in demand as a soprano across London with a number of internationally acclaimed ensembles, including with the BBC Singers, London Choral Sinfonia, and the Choir of the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London. She is a regular soprano with St Marttin's Voices, the flagship professional ensemble at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and at St George's Cathedral Southwark under Jonathan Schranz. Maisie is also an experienced session singer, working on soundtracks for programmes such as the highly acclaimed BBC comedy Fleabag, as well as recordings with Cellar Door Sounds and London Contemporary Voices. She studies with Julie Kennard.
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Maisie was a member of the Genesis Sixteen scheme in 2017-18, and a Choral Scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields 2018-19. Prior to this she studied at the Royal College of Music and went on to Christ's College Cambridge, where she studied Music and was a choral and academic scholar. She has performed at numerous high-profile events, including as the Anthem Singer at the Varsity Rugby Match in Twickenham in 2015, and at the funeral of Professor Stephen Hawking in 2018. Maisie is a soprano with close harmony group the Chetwynd Consort and has performed with ensembles such as the Armonico Consort, the Sixteen, SANSARA, the Carice Singers, Vox Luna and as a soprano soloist for Stanmore Choral Society. Maisie performs regular solo recitals around London.
Maisie won a number of prizes at university including the Charles Blackham Memorial Competition 2017 for a vocal recital of Schumann, Chausson and Holst, the Sir Ian McFarlane Award for Excellence for academic, personal and extracurricular achievements, and the Canon Greville Cooke Prize for First Class Results in Music. Maisie continued her studies to MPhil level, graduating with Distinction in 2018 and singing with the choir of Gonville and Caius College under Dr Geoffrey Webber. Maisie has toured extensively, including to Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, America, Canada and the US.
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Maisie has achieved significant success as an academic musician. An abridged version of her undergraduate dissertation won the Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize in 2018, exploring Lauryn Hill's 'Doo Wop (That Thing)'; you can find out more about the prize and read Maisie's winning essay here. Her MPhil research focused primarily on British female rap and hip-hop, and her additional work explored the presentation of gender through music in film, klezmer music in post-war Europe, and the music of Bob Dylan during the Cold War. Continuing her interest in research and writing, Maisie combines her busy singing career with running the charity she co-founded, Sing Inside, and as a policy consultant and associate for charities including ACEVO and Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse among others.
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