Grace Oliver

Grace Oliver is a 24-year-old soprano currently studying for a Master’s degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she is a Guildhall Scholar. She enjoys a wide-ranging repertoire spanning early choral music, contemporary song and operatic works.

Grace began singing at the age of eight as a chorister at Middlesbrough Cathedral under the direction of Tim Harrison. During her time there, she was appointed Head Chorister and later Soprano Scholar. During her undergraduate studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Grace was selected to represent the institution at the Junior Kathleen Ferrier Award. In February 2024, she
premiered Timothy Mays’s contemporary operetta The Fragments of a Dahlia, singing the lead role of Cahdla. In summer 2025, she performed with Opéra de Baugé, appearing as Flora in Orphée aux enfers, Orphan in Der Rosenkavalier, and in the ensemble of Don Giovanni.

Grace is an active recitalist and regularly performs in song duos with pianists. She has reached the finals of the Elizabeth Schumann Lieder Duo Competition, Trinity Laban’s English Song Competition and the Somerset Song Prize. Alongside her solo work, she is the soprano of the New Eden Consort, a London-based vocal quartet who were finalists in the Philip Carne Chamber Music Competition.

Her upcoming engagements include participation in the Song Guild led by Graham Johnson; the title role in Handel’s Deidamia as part of Guildhall’s opera scenes; soloist for Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with Eltham Choral Society; and soloist for Bach’s St John Passion at Boxgrove Priory.