Mae Heydorn, mezzo soprano, is the 2010 winner of the Making Music Award. In the same year she won first prize at the British Schubert Society’s Lied Competition and sang her first season with Glyndebourne Festival Opera. She sang Britten’s Phaedra with the Southbank Sinfonia and gave recitals for French Cantabile at the Théâtre le Ranelagh and Hôtel la Marine Paris.

2009 saw her graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with a first class degree as well as debuting in Clonter Opera’s production of Rigoletto. She entered the prestigious Wigmore Hall Song Competition and debuted with a Messiah performance at Cadogen Hall some months after.

Mae sings for Live Music Now! working throughout the country to bring live music to the UK’s welfare, educational, justice and health sectors. With her duo partner, she was awarded a scholarship to study with eminent tenor Christoph Prégardien and has performed at the Internationales Musikfest in Stuttgart. These talented young musicians were finalists at the International Lied Student Duo Competition in the Netherlands in 2009.

Future projects and concerts are listed in the diary above.