Jessica Dandy

Jess Dandy studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she held a fellowship and graduated with distinction.  She was the winner of the London Bach Society Singers Prize 2017 and the 2018 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, and is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and Heidelberger Frühling Scholar.

Jess is co-founder with mezzo-soprano, Joanna Harries, of SongPath, an initiative founded to promote walking and music-making in the context of mental health, by exploring the routes and roots of the local landscape. To this end, she is the recipient of the Royal Overseas League Roderick Lakin Memorial Scholarship.

Recent highlights include solo recitals at the Oxford Lieder festival, Charles Villiers Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix and Handel Messiah with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Mozart Requiem with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, further Messiah performances with the Hallé orchestra and at Hereford Cathedral, Berlioz Les Nuits d’été with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Douglas Boyd, and St John Passion with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants on tour in Europe.

Engagements later this season include Mass in B Minor in Leipzig and St Matthew Passion at the Boston Early Music Festival, both with the Dunedin Consort, Handel Israel in Egypt at the Three Choirs Festival, and her debut in the title role of Dido and Aeneas at the Ryedale Festival. Future highlights include Beethoven Missa Solemnis at Queen Elizabeth Hall with Crouch End Festival Chorus, Beethoven Symphony No.9 with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and Eudige in Handel’s Rodelinda with the Harry Bicket and the English Concert.