Accompanist David Smith. Recorded at Old Royal Naval College Chapel.

Langue Offeso Mai Riposa - Sesto in Giulio Cesare By Handel

Pianist: David Smith.
Recorded at Old Royal Naval College Chapel

Habenera from Carmen by Bizet

This is the second song from London Portraits by British composer, Leo Geyer (b.1992).

Première recording at Old Royal Naval College Chapel in 2019.

Pianist: David Smith

Underground Kiss from London Portraits by Leo Geyer

Recorded live at St Stephen Walbrook, London in 2020 for Queen's Park Singers' concert in the Brandenburg Choral Festival.

Conductor: Oliver Till
Organist: Hamish Brown

Pie Jesu from Requiem by Duruflé

Broadcast in August 2014. Read more about the opera here: https://www.leogeyer.co.uk/sideshows

The Fireater from Sideshows opera-ballet by Leo Geyer LIVE on BBC Radio 3 In Tune

Featured as the 'choir' choral voices on 'The Legend of Mike Smith' album by jazz saxophonist and MC, Soweto Kinch.

'Epiphany' snippet from 'The Legend of Mike Smith' by Soweto Kinch.

Rachel Maby is a lyric mezzo-soprano and vocal animateur who specialises in opera and classical chamber music. She has a particular affinity with vocal improvisation and has premièred multiple compositions which cross classical and jazz vocal disciplines. 

She holds a Distinction Masters of Music degree in classical vocal performance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and completed her undergraduate studies on the prestigious Joint Course at the Royal Northern College of Music and University of Manchester. 
 
Rachel has premièred six new operas by British composers, which includes Charlotte in The Weekend by Scott Stroman (Bloomsbury Theatre première in September 2021); Mrs Cratchit in the London première of A Christmas Carol by Thea Musgrave (Laban Theatre, 2018) and five opera-ballets by Leo Geyer - Mrs Hickling in BrickRow (Constella OperaBallet Spin a Tale festival); Delilah and Palm Reader in Sideshows (Tête à Tête, Lillian Bayliss Studio, BBC Radio 3 In Tune, Grimeborn Opera Festival); Charlotte in Glasstown (Helios Collective, Arts Theatre); Susan in Canary Boys (National Coal Mining Museum) and Blackbird in Orchestras of Aushwitz (Sadler’s Wells).

 Rachel has also performed a variety of opera roles from baroque to twentieth century works with opera companies such as Blackheath Opera, Constella OperaBallet, Highbury Opera Theatre and Baseless Fabric Theatre. Roles to date includes Prince Oreste in La Belle Hélène by Offenbach (Blackheath Opera, 2019); Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia by Britten (Stratford Circus, 2018); Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro ENO translation (Martin Harris Centre, 2014); JouJou in The Merry Widow by Léhar (Royal Northern College of Music Theatre, 2014); Cupid in Venus and Adonis by Bowe (Martin Harris Centre, 2013). Opera scenes roles include Octavian in Act III of Rosenkavalier by Strauss (2019); Third Maid in Act I of Elektra by Strauss (2018); Enfant in Act I of L’enfant et les sortlièges by Ravel (2017).

Rachel has vast experience performing contemporary classical chamber music and has premièred seven works by British composers, which include London Portraits by Leo Geyer (Old Royal Naval College Chapel, 2019); Sea Garden by Leo Geyer(Chelsea Flower Show, 2018); Songs for a Dying World by Ed Nesbit (Royal College of Music, 2018); The Lost Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci by Camden Reeves (Lancaster Jazz Festival, 2015); Star Songs by Jonathan Woolgar (The Forge, 2015); Fear no more by Tom Harrold (Shakespeare Festival, 2014) and Sunset in Grey by Leo Geyer (Lancaster Jazz Festival, 2014).

As a concert soloist, Rachel has a particular love of French orchestral works and has performed the Lakmé flower duet with Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra (c: Mark Heron); Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques by Ravel with Settle Orchestra (c: Leo Geyer) and soloist in Requiem by Duruflé with Queens Park Singers in 2020 Brandenburg Choral Festival (c: Oliver Till). Other solo concert performances include Second Soprano Soloist in Dixit Dominus by Handel with Genesis Sixteen and Badinerie (c: Harry Christophers); Soloist in Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra family concerts 2015 and 2017 (c: Leo Geyer) and Feel the Spirit by John Rutter with Salford Choral Society (c: Justin Doyle).
 
Rachel is a vocal animateur for Welsh National Opera, leading opera projects with children and adults in a variety of settings, from schools to refugee centres. She also works as a choral conductor for High Holborn Chamber Choir, Christ Church Jazz Choir and Music Education Islington. She has delivered and performer in outreach programmess on behalf of Spitalfields Music, The Orchestra of St John’s, Constella OperaBallet, Baseless Fabric Theatre and HighburyOperaTheatre.

Rachel Maby

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