Mezzo soprano Leslie Davis is winner of the Adele Leigh Memorial Award and the Lieder Prize at the Richard Tauber Prize at Wigmore Hall.  She is a recipient of an Independent Opera Post Graduate Fellowship, is a Samling scholar and in 2019, was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.  
 

Leslie made her American debut with New York City Opera as Mama/Tzippy in Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are, a role she previously performed as a Vocal Fellow at the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Music Festival.  For The Glyndebourne Festival, roles include Helen/Hallamah in the World Premier of Belongings, Hänsel (cover) Hänsel und Gretel, Magdalene (cover) Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg, Ramiro (cover) La Finta Giardiniera, Dorabella (cover) Cosi fan tutte, Flora (cover) La Traviata, Meg Page (cover) Falstaff, La Bergére/La Chauve Souris (cover) L’enfant et les sortileges, and Kitchen Girl (cover) Rusalka. Further engagements include Dryade and Der Komponist (cover) Ariadne auf Naxos for the Opéra National de Bordeaux, Mrs. TV The Golden Ticket for Wexford Festival Opera, The Fox The Cunning Little Vixen, Sorceress Dido and Aeneas, and Queen Elizabeth I Frobisher for the Banff Festival.  

On the concert platform, she has performed Bach Cantata 170 Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust under John Harbison at the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood Music Festival, Vaughn Williams' Serenade to Music at the Royal Festival Hall under Vladimir Jurowski, Elgar's The Music Maker's​ at the Watford Colosseum, Janacek Zápisník zmizelého for the Wexford Festival, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at the Tonehalle Düsseldorf, Bach's Mass in b minor for Musica Saeculorum, Berg Sieben Frühe Lieder under Henk Guittart, and Britten Phaedra under David Agler for the Banff Festival.

Leslie completed her training on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music (DipRAM), after receiving a Post Graduate Diploma in Voice from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  Further training included three consecutive summers at the Banff Centre for the Arts Opera as Theatre Program, a Vocal Fellow at the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood Music Festival, at the training program Opera Nuova, and as a Young Artist with Pacific Opera Victoria.  

Leslie is the recipient of numerous awards including a Royal Bank Youth Excellence Scholarship, a British Columbia Arts Council Award for Post Graduate Studies and is a laureate at the Ochestre Symphonique de Montréal Standard Life Competition.  Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, she received a Bachelor of Music from Acadia University and a Masters in Music from the University of Victoria. 

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