Alice Halstead : Soprano
BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year 2008
Alice Halstead, now 18 years old, won the coveted title of BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year 2008 in front of an audience of over 1,000 people in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, in October 2008.
Her year of being BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year 2008 was full of amazing experiences and incredible opportunities. She appeared several times on BBC One Songs of Praise and featured in many national radio broadcasts.
Alice is reading Geography at Girton College, Cambridge. She is singing Soprano in the renowned choir at Clare College, Cambridge, one of the leading university choral groups in the world.
Her first recording experience was on Karl Jenkins' album Stella Natalis for EMI Classics, which was Number 1 for four weeks in the Specialist Classical Chart.
Alice attended King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. She studied singing, cello and piano at the Birmingham Junior Conservatoire and sang for ten years in the choir of St Alphege Church, Solihull. She is a member of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
In the last two years she has sung the soprano solos in Mahler's 4th Symphony and in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana for the opening of the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre. She has performed the role of Cosette in Les Miserables, Cinderella in Into The Woods and Ariel Moore in Footloose.
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