“The University Lieder Scheme was a vital first step down a path of music making that now forms a significant part of my career. In a university full of musical opportunities of all shapes and sizes it managed to provide me with something that was missing: time and space for exploration in the amazing world that is song. Joseph’s guidance and the teaching from visiting performers remains in my mind to this day, as do the partnerships I made with other performers on scheme (just last year I gave concerts with Keval Shah who was my duo partner on the scheme). I knew that song needed to be an inherent part of me as a performer, and I am so grateful that the scheme was there to help me begin to find my way”.

“I discovered the world of song when I started at Cambridge, and by the start of my second year, I was devoting a lot of my time to studying repertoire and getting to know as much as I could about this corner of the musical universe. It was incredible, then, to be able to take part in the University Lieder Scheme at this early stage in my training, and benefit from tuition from such prominent figures in the profession so early on. It offered me so many insights into different ways of listening and thinking about song repertoire, and got me aiming for a really high level from the very beginning. The Lieder Scheme set me up so well for my postgraduate study in London, and I look back on my time on the Scheme as the first crucial step in the path that has led me to where I am today”.