The Scottish Soprano Electra Lochhead began her musical education at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and as a chorister for four years in St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral where she became head chorister in her last year. Electra continued to focus on her vocal training under Susan Hamilton for a further nine years until October 2015, where she was awarded a place to study at the internationally renowned Mozarteum University in Salsburg, Austria under Professor Elisabeth Wilke.

Electra takes part in a variety of concerts, most notably as a soloist with the Dunedin Consort and is included on their recording of Handel’s ‘Esther’. In 2013 she performed her first operatic role as Papagena in ‘The Magic Flute’ with Opera Camerata. Electra was a finalist in the 2014 Edinburgh Competition Festival concerto class performing Mozart’s ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’ in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh.

Solo engagements include ‘Bachianas Brasileiras No 5’ by Villa Lobos, ‘Dido in Dido and Aeneas’, Handel’s Messiah in Munich, Schumann ’Die Paradies und die Peri’ and Mendelssohn ‘Psalm 42’ and ‘Paulus’.

More recently, in November 2017, Electra sang as a guest soloist with the Munich Bach Choir in the MuPa, Budapest. She sings regularly as a part of BachWerkVocal in Salzberg and recently shone on stage in the role of Maria Magdalena in Handel’s ‘La Resurrezione’ where her voice was described as ‘’Angelic, for which there is no earthy weight, no technical boundaries, not even the need to breathe. The young soprano currently studying at the Mozarteum has a voice you have to remember, a veritable discovery.’’

Closer to home Electra has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the last three years with the Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh. She will be performing at Christ Church in Llanwarne accompanied by Valerie Tomalin and Shirley Coates for an evening of fine music on Saturday, September 8th, 2018 at 7pm in aid of Llanwarne Church Repair Fund. Tickets are £10 (Under 16 £5) to include light refreshments. Tickets are available from Jenny Wrigley (01981 540617) Anne Banks (01981 540825) or Jenny Gregory (01981 540953).

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