Born in 1986, Natasha Day studied singing in her hometown of Edinburgh and in Paris. She then won a scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, from where she graduated with First Class Honors, under the tutelage of Kathleen Livingstone. Awarded a further scholarship, she is completing the Postgraduate course at the same institution this year, studying with Janis Kelly.
Natasha has enjoyed taking part in many masterclasses and concerts at the RCM - in particular Bruckner's Te Deum, conducted by Bernard Haitink and Mozart's C Minor Mass, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. She recently gave a recital of opera arias in the Concert Hall for the RCM Friends to celebrate the venue's stunning refurbishment. In the annual Opera Scenes, she played Cleopatra (Handel's Giulio Cesare), Lucia (Britten's Rape of Lucretia), The Governess (Britten’s The Turn of the Screw) andTitania (Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream).
Highlights of external engagements include a new arrangement for soprano of Janacek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Requiem, Coronation Mass and Exultate Jubilate, Faure's Requiem, Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the Classical Opera Company, The Messiah and Bach's B Minor Mass and Magnificat. Operatic roles include Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme for Park Opera, Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea for both Westminster Opera (La Rochelle, France) and Woodhouse Opera, Gabrielle in Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, and bothThe Countess (Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro) and Rosalinde (J. Strauss' Die Fledermaus) in opera scenes at 49 Queens Gate Terrace, London. Natasha has recently returned from Malta with Opera Alive, a full-length production of opera scenes that formed a story of its own.
Recent recitals have included performances at Clarence House for HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, The Oxford Lieder Festival with David Owen Norris, St James's Piccadilly, Louth Concert Society, Cheltenham Town Hall, Regent Hall and St Michael's Chester Square. She also presented a solo act at the 2007 Royal Variety Performance, in front of the Queen, having duetted with singer Seal earlier in the show.
Natasha is a winner of The Most Promising Singer Award at the 2008 Emmy Destinn Competition in Prague, The Ella Lamb Trophy, the Winnifred Crawford Smith Trophy, the Begg Trophy, the Melrose Singing Prize, the Alice Robertson Prize for Singing, and is a Finalist of the 2009 Thelma King Competition. She is generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and was this year awarded The Charles Jacob Scholarship by the Worshipful Company of Cutlers and The Earl of Dalhousie Award by the Honourable Society of The Knights of The Round Table.
Natasha has enjoyed taking part in many masterclasses and concerts at the RCM - in particular Bruckner's Te Deum, conducted by Bernard Haitink and Mozart's C Minor Mass, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. She recently gave a recital of opera arias in the Concert Hall for the RCM Friends to celebrate the venue's stunning refurbishment. In the annual Opera Scenes, she played Cleopatra (Handel's Giulio Cesare), Lucia (Britten's Rape of Lucretia), The Governess (Britten’s The Turn of the Screw) andTitania (Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream).
Highlights of external engagements include a new arrangement for soprano of Janacek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Requiem, Coronation Mass and Exultate Jubilate, Faure's Requiem, Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the Classical Opera Company, The Messiah and Bach's B Minor Mass and Magnificat. Operatic roles include Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme for Park Opera, Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea for both Westminster Opera (La Rochelle, France) and Woodhouse Opera, Gabrielle in Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, and bothThe Countess (Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro) and Rosalinde (J. Strauss' Die Fledermaus) in opera scenes at 49 Queens Gate Terrace, London. Natasha has recently returned from Malta with Opera Alive, a full-length production of opera scenes that formed a story of its own.
Recent recitals have included performances at Clarence House for HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, The Oxford Lieder Festival with David Owen Norris, St James's Piccadilly, Louth Concert Society, Cheltenham Town Hall, Regent Hall and St Michael's Chester Square. She also presented a solo act at the 2007 Royal Variety Performance, in front of the Queen, having duetted with singer Seal earlier in the show.
Natasha is a winner of The Most Promising Singer Award at the 2008 Emmy Destinn Competition in Prague, The Ella Lamb Trophy, the Winnifred Crawford Smith Trophy, the Begg Trophy, the Melrose Singing Prize, the Alice Robertson Prize for Singing, and is a Finalist of the 2009 Thelma King Competition. She is generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and was this year awarded The Charles Jacob Scholarship by the Worshipful Company of Cutlers and The Earl of Dalhousie Award by the Honourable Society of The Knights of The Round Table.