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Polly May is an enthusiastic and energetic singer. Her versatile voice is very well-suited to modern music but she does not confine herself to this genre. Polly has a 2:1 in her Music degree from Edinburgh University and a High Distinction in Advanced Postgraduate Diploma from Trinity College of Music. Polly learns with Linda Hirst and regularly performs throughout the UK and abroad. more >> Having had a baby boy in June 2007, Polly is now singing again,
with a varied and exciting diary, including much work with EXAUDI,
singing various dramatic contemporary works, and some large scale
solo work including Mahler and Berlioz. Recently, Polly has worked
with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Philharmonic at the St Magnus
Festival, in the Orkneys, as a soloist for Mozart Requiem.
She has also worked with Brabbins both as Mrs Noye, in Britten
Noye's Fludde, at the Cheltenham International Festival
of Music 2004 and again with the Huddersfield Choral Society as
the Alto soloist in the Rachmaninov Vespers in both England,
France and Cheltenham again in 2005. She performed a Young Artist
Recital at the Cheltenham Festival in 2002. Polly's New Year's
Day Messiah in the Usher Hall, with Edinburgh Choral Union,
won her acclaim in the National Press as "the star on the
day". Opera roles include Sorceress in Purcell Dido and
Aeneas, Assunta in Menotti The Saint of Bleecker Street
and Nerone in Monteverdi L'incoronazione di Poppea. Other
festivals that Polly has also sung at as a soloist include Aldeburgh,
Windsor and Brighton. She also regularly works with the contemporary
vocal ensemble EXAUDI. Polly has released her debut CD ‘Songs from the Exotic’ with Delphian Records (www.delphianrecords.co.uk), which includes song-cycles by Manuel de Falla, Joaquin Rodrigo, Judith Weir and Luciano Berio. more >> Polly is active in her local community (South West London) as a singing coach and teacher both in schools and privately to all age groups. Polly can be contacted about teaching and performing by email. |
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