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Libby started her training at Cambridge where she sang in Clare Chapel Choir. She has since enjoyed a varied career, ranging from musicals in London’s West End to performances with many Early Music groups including The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars and Polyphony. Tours with these groups have taken her all over the world, including Japan, New Zealand, The USA and Brazil.
Libby has already made solo recordings, notably for Decca and Hyperion. For her performance of the role of Cupid (John Blow’s Venus and Adonis) with Phil Pickett and the New London Consort, she received an outstanding review in the BBC Music Magazine. She has also sung the part of Angel in Finzi’s In Terra Pax with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the duets from Handel’s Founding Hospital Anthems with Gillian Fisher.
Her involvement with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen has led to many solo recordings, including Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Britten’s Te Deum, Purcell’s Incassum Lesbia and O Dive Custos and Messiaen’s Cinq Rechants. She has also recorded John Danyel Lute Songs with David Miller and Folk arrangements by Percy Grainger.
Solo oratorio performances have included Messiah in Poland, The Fairy Queen in Israel, Bach’s B Minor Mass in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Handel’s Israel in Egypt for Dutch Television with the Brandenburg Consort and Stephen Cleobury. She has worked extensively with Robert King and the King’s Consort performing the role of Quivera in the Indian Queen in the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Dido and Aeneas in Spain and Norway. Other Purcell performances have included the role of Belinda in the Barbican and Symphony Hall Birmingham.
Since living in Scotland for the past 16 years, Libby performs regularly for many choral societies “Handel’s Messiah in Perth Choral Society’s debut performance in Perth Concert Hall, Haydn's Nelson Mass in Dundee Caird Hall, St John's Passion in the Queen's Hall Edinburgh - and has appeared often in The Edinburgh International Festival most notably with Bryn Terfel in Mendelssohn's Elijah which she went on to record for Decca.
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