Natasha Day was born in Edinburgh in 1986, and, having completed her vocal tuition with Dorcas Owen, moved to Paris to study singing with Renee Haas. She then won a scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, where she currently studies with Kathleen Livingstone. She is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust. Natasha has had a wealth of vocal experience, working with conductors such as Bernard Haitink and Sir Charles Mackerras. Her recent solo performances have included a new arrangement of Janacek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared, Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man, Vaughan Williams' A Song for Thanksgiving, Haydn's Harmonie-messe, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer, Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Requiem, Coronation Mass and Exultate Jubilate, Faure's Requiem, Bach's B Minor Mass and Magnificat and Vivaldi's Gloria. Her lead character roles range from Laurie in Oklahoma! and Gabrielle in La Vie Parisienne, to Betsy Cohen in Giles Howe and Katy Lipson's contemporary piece Turkish Delight the Opera, and the Countess in Ardingly International Music School's production of Le Nozze di Figaro. Recent recitals have included performances at The Oxford Lieder Festival with David Owen Norris, St James's Piccadilly, Canongate Kirk, Louth Concert Society, Cheltenham Town Hall, Regent Hall and St Michael's Chester Square. She also enjoyed presenting a solo act at the 2007 Royal Variety Performance, in front of the Queen, having duetted with singer Seal earlier in the show. This month, she sang to 80,000 people at Twickenham Rugby Stadium. Her vocal prizes have included 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 and the Alice Robertson Prize for Singing. Future performances include Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Inter natos mulierium and Vesperae solennes de Confessore, Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art, Strauss' Four Last Songs, plus various solo recitals throughout the UK . She has been invited to sing the principal role in a contemporary opera film project with the English Chamber Orchestra next season. 'Her talent shone. She has an exquisite purity of tone and an abundance of colour in the lower registers, and is definitely a singer to watch' - The Scotsman