Biography
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.
