Elizabeth joined GGI as a junior consultant in July 2024, following a distinguished 20-year career as an opera singer, performing and recording with most of the leading orchestras and opera houses in the UK, as well as travelling internationally for concert work.
She has performed at venues including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wigmore Hall, the Palace of Versailles and Symphony Hall, Boston, and at festivals including Aldeburgh and the BBC Proms. She has worked extensively with the BBC orchestras and has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3 throughout her career.
Alongside her busy performing career, Elizabeth was also a vocal tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for eight years and has given masterclasses and adjudicated around the UK.
Since April 2024, Elizabeth has been leading the campaign to save Welsh National Opera, where she began her career, following savage funding cuts that jeopardise the future of the company as well as opera more generally. She has been involved in discussions with politicians in both the UK and Welsh governments, parliamentarians within the House of Lords, journalists and unions, as well as appearing in numerous television and radio interviews around the funding issues besetting the opera sector and the arts more widely.
Elizabeth has masters degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, as well as a PGCE from the Institute of Education, University of London. Since beginning work at GGI, she has enjoyed working on a range of projects across health, education, arm’s-length bodies and the arts and is keen to commit her energy and determination to making a tangible difference to the governance of public-purpose organisations. She currently sits as a member on the Cross Party Group for Music in the Senedd.
Elizabeth has a garden she loves and, in her dreams, imagines she might have time to read, go to the theatre and travel for leisure—all of which might become possible once her children have grown up.
