Scottish mezzo-soprano Fiona Joice, is currently studying on the masters programme at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under the tutelage of Elizabeth Ritchie and Audrey Hyland. Recently Fiona sang as a soloist in the RAM/Kohn foundation Bach Cantata series and was commended in the Isobel Jay opera prize at the Academy. In addition, she is a regular oratorio soloist with the Josephine Baker Trust performing all over the UK.

Fiona graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a First Class honours degree in music, where she studied with Kathleen McKellar Ferguson and Margaret Izatt. In 2015 she won the prestigious Governors Recital Prize at the Conservatoire. She was also highly commended in the Jean Highgate Scholarship for singing and a finalist in the Norma Greig French song prize.

Fiona has participated in master classes with Carole Farley, Anne-Liis Poll, Anto Pett and Pat McMahon.

Fiona’s operatic experience includes; the role of Rosina in Rossini’s Barber of Seville (Leadingham Italy tour), Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (RAM opera scenes), L’innocente in Cilea’s L’arlesiana, Virtu and Venere in Royal Academy Opera’s performance of L’incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi (cover), 2nd Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (RAM opera scenes), Meg in Verdi’s Falstaff (RCS opera scenes), Frau Reich in Nicolai’s Die lustigen weiber von Windsor (RCS Opera school – cover), Hippolyta in Britten’s Midsummer nights dream (RCS Opera school/Scottish Opera – cover). She also has extensive chorus experience appearing in Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night (RAM), Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito (RCS), Puccini’s La Rondine (RCS), Nicolai’s die lustigen weiber von Windsor (RCS) and Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery (RCS/Scottish Opera).

Fiona was an alto choral scholar at Glasgow Cathedral for 2 years under Andrew Forbes’ leadership. There she sang as a soloist in regular services, concert and recitals.

On the concert platform Fiona has performed as a soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (Abbey Consort, Kelso), Bach’s B Minor Mass and St Johns Passion (Josephine Baker Trust). She also performed in a concert performance of Stravinsky’s The Rakes Progress, conducted by Sir Andrew Davies at the Edinburgh International Festival. She made her soloist debut at the Edinburgh

International Festival singing Debussy’s Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen. Other notable conductors Fiona has worked with include: Jane Glover, Francesco Corti, Gareth Hancock, Frikki Walker, Guido Rumstadt and Timothy Dean.

Future performances include; a performance of Handel’s Messiah in Halifax (November), a lunchtime concert in the Merchant City Halls as part of Westbourne Music Festival (November), a Christmas recital in Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Music Room in the House for an Art Lover in Glasgow (December), a performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass by Bach in Oxford in February. She also looks forward to summer 2017 where she will be touring Italy with opera company Raucous Rossini singing the role of Ernesitina in L’occasione fa il ladro by Rossini.

Fiona is immensely grateful to the Royal Academy of Music Scholarship Trust, the Robertson Trust, the James Caird travelling scholarship trust, the Cross trust and the Baird Educational Trust. Without their continued support, masters education wouldn’t have been feasible.