Welsh soprano Grace Hope-Gill is in her second year of Royal Academy Opera as a Bicentenary Scholar under the tutelage of Mary Nelson and Anna Tilbrook. In July 2022 Grace graduated her Bachelors degree with a First-Class Honours degree and was awarded the Eldee scholarship for outstanding studentship. In July 2024, Grace recently gained her Master of Arts in Performance with distinction. She is a member of the Academy Song Circle and is generously supported by the Matt Ferrey Opera scholarship and the Josephine Baker Trust. Grace’s recent successes include, winning the John Fussell Award for Young Musicians, the Major Van Someran-Godfrey prize and Elena Gerhardt prize and coming second in the Schumann Lieder Prize, Isabel Jay Memorial Prize, Flora Nielsen prize and Marjorie Thomas Art of Song prize. Her versatility and innovative nature has led to an array of performance opportunities, from performing cantatas under Eamonn Dougan, Margaret Faultless and John Butt in the Academy’s ‘Bach in Leipzig’ series, premiering new compositional works both as a soloist and within an ensemble, to singing on the CBeebies channel. Grace travelled to Munich having been awarded the Elton John Global Exchange scholarship, with the trip concluding in her international recital debut with renowned baritone Christian Gerhaher. Other recent engagements include, performing the role Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Sandmännchen in Humperdink’s Hänsel und Gretel and ‘Cis’ in Britten’s ‘Albert Herring’ with Royal Academy Opera.