Ruby Brown
2021
Year of graduation: 2025
Mezzo-soprano Poppy Damazer gained a MMus at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she won The Dorothy Davies Ingram Award and The Harlequin Agency Prize.
Recent engagements: Hermia A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RWCMD), Zita Gianni Schicchi (RWMCD), Dido Dido and Aeneas (UEA Opera), Chorus Agreed (Glyndebourne), Jeunes filles La Belle Hélène (New Sussex Opera); Carmen, Baba the Turk The Rake's Progress and Florence Albert Herring (RWCMD Opera Scenes). Future engagements include Extra Chorus Peter Grimes (WNO).
Poppy’s studies are generously supported by The Eileen Price McWilliam Scholarship in memory of her sons, Alastair and David McWilliam, The RathUnderwood Scholarship and The Girdlers’ Company Charitable Trust Scholarship.