Lizzie Estrada & Thomas Scott
Vocal/Piano Duo
About the musicians
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Lizzie Estrada
Lizzie Bett Estrada is a Filipino soprano. Recently, she took part as one of the young artists in Leeds Song Festival’s Young Artist Program where she performed and had masterclasses with Elly Ameling, Thomas Allen, and Anna Tilbrook. In Summer, she will be in Toronto Summer Music Festival as part of their Emerging Artist Program. She was a prize winner for several vocal competitions, including 1st prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers Competition 2023, 1st prize in the National Music Competitions for Young Artist 2020 – Junior Voice Category, and 2nd prize in Odin International Competition 2021. This year, she was awarded 3rd Prize at Royal Academy of Music’s Schumann Lieder Prize and 3rd prize at the Basel International Lieder/Song Vocal Competition in Tokyo.
Lizzie’s performing experiences include solo lunchtime concerts and song recitals around the UK such as St. James’s Church Piccadilly, Halifax Philharmonic Club, St. Clement Danes Church RAF, and St. Michael’s Church, Sittingbourne. Lizzie has sung few times as a soprano soloist at the United Reformed Church, Caterham, performing works like Haydn’s Nelson
Mass and Fauré’s Requiem. She has participated in masterclasses with Susan Manoff, Hartmut Höll, and Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel.Lizzie is a scholar of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Rustan’s Corporation, and generously supported by Ms. Margarita Moran-Floirendo, Ms. Irene Marcos-Araneta, and Ms. Lyca Balita. She is currently studying BMus (Hons) – Vocal Studies on a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Professor Susan Waters and Chad Vindin.
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Thomas Scott
Tom Scott has a BMus first class honours degree from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he studied with Robin Green. He is now pursuing a post-graduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music under Michael Dussek and John Reid.
Since being at RWCMD and RAM, Tom has immersed himself in the music world, taking on numerous solo, ensemble and choral works. Collaborating with singers and instrumentalists, he has had the opportunity to work closely with renowned musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Peter Donohoe, Elly Ameling, Sir Thomas Allen, Roderick Williams, Susan Manoff, James Baillieu, Malcolm Martineau, Joseph Middleton, Yvonne Kenny, Natalie Clein, Simon Lepper, Jayson Gillham, Andrew West, Alice Neary, Robert Plane and Jams Coleman.
Tom has had the privilege to perform at many concert venues; including a charity concert to raise money in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, the Howard Assembly Rooms, the Clothworker’s Centenary Hall, Bob Boas’ House, the Penarth Chamber Music Festival, Italian Cultural Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum and the Halifax Philharmonic Club.
Tom has been awarded the Geoffrey Buckley Memorial Prize and for two consecutive years won the Bryan Davies Memorial Prize. He is the winner of the 2023 John Ireland competition. Tom also won the Trevor Pugsley Prize and has been nominated for the Musicians’ Company Carnwath Piano Scholarship. This January, he won third prize in the Rex Stephens Prize. Last April, Tom was part of the Leeds Lieder Festival as one of their Young Artists.
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