DANNI O’NEILL SOPRANO

Danni is a Masters graduate with distinction from the the Royal Academy of Music on the preparatory opera course with part scholarship. She is taught by Raymond Connell and coached by James Baillieu. Danni was awarded the Michael Head Prize for English Song in her first year, was a soloist for the Bach the European series throughout her studies, including a Solo Cantata BWV202 with Rachel Podger, BW146 with John Butt and worked Iain Leddingham, Masaaki Suzuki and Eamonn Dougan. She was a soloist with Academy Voices and received a DipRAM for an outstanding final recital. Her studies and travel were generously funded by Mr. David Williams and The Streynshams Trust alongside her scholarship.

Danni recently made her Wigmore Hall solo ensemble debut with Solomons Knott, performed on BBC Radio 3 and recorded Der Wald by Ethyl Smyth with the BBC Singers, was Soprano soloist with instruments of Time and Truth, Edward HIgginbottom, and made her professional Opera Chorus debut in Lille and Luxembourg Opera Houses performing Dido and Aeneas by Purcell and Semele by Handel with the Concert D’Astree and Emmanuelle Haïm. She has also recently become a regular in the choir of St. Paul’s Church Knightsbridge.

In 2018 she graduated from Royal Holloway University of London as a choral scholar and won the University Chamber Music Prize. She currently works as a freelance choral and solo singer and before studying for her masters at RAM she was a member of the NYCGB Fellowship 4 and Genesis Sixteen. Since Genesis, Danni has performed with The Sixteen, conducted by Eamonn Dougan and Harry Christophers, in the UK, on tour to Australia and in Singapore. She has performed with La Nuova Musica, Academy of Ancient Music, Polyphony, Southwell Festival Voices, Tredici, Echo, The Carice Singers, The Hanover Band, The Chamber Choir of London, Erebus Ensemble, various projects as a Genesis Alumni including Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Nights Dream with Ryan Wigglesworth and James Macmillan's Symphony in The Barbican. Danni has also recorded music for the Oxford University Press conducted by Bob Chilcott, Classic FM Christmas video broadcasts and performed on various on BBC RADIO 3 In Tune broadcasts. She is also co-founder of Recordare Chamber Choir with Conductor Harry Bradford and Soprano Kirsty O’Neill.

As a soloist, Danni has performed in some prestigious venues such as The Royal Festival Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, Canterbury Cathedral, The Winspear Centre in Edmonton - Canada, Wigmore Hall, Southwell Minster, Kings Place with The Carice Singers and St. Johns Smith Square. Recent engagements include Instruments of Time and truth Handel Dixit Dominus with Edward Higginbottom, Handel’s Messiah in Christ Church Priory, Bach’s St. John Passion in Southwell Minster, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Bradford Festival Chorus, Neville Holt Opera Birthday Event, Haydn’s Little Organ Mass with Reading Choral Society, Sea Scapes by Tim Bowers with Guitarist Sergiu Hudrea, Alma Mahler Lieder with Ed Liebrecht for the University of Surrey, Peasblossom in Royal Academy Opera’s A Midsummer Nights Dream, St Pauls Opera Gala, Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff for the RAO Opera Scenes alongside Liam Bonthrone, Lucette in Cendrillon by Massenet in the VF Opera Scenes with Helen Corlette, Phyllis in Love Opera and Green Opera’s online G&S production of Iolanthe directed by Eleanor Burke and she has recorded many learning tracks over lockdown for Run by Singers and The Self Isolation Choir.

She is looking forward to a variety of performances including Haydn’s Creation in Cadogan Hall as chorus with The Sixteen, St. John Passion with Polyphony in St. John’s Smith Square, Academy of Ancient Music Hail, Bright Cecilia in The Barbican, soloing for Schubert Songs of Miriam, John Rutter’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Faure’s Requiem, Rossini Petite Messe Solonnelle and Come Ye Sons of Art by Purcell.


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