At A Glance

Photo by Adrienne Battistella

Biographical Info

• Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, on May 22, 1985
• Raised in West Yorkshire, England
• Alumna of Cambridge University (BA History 1:1) and New England Conservatory (MM Vocal Performance)
• Has just moved to New Orleans with her two children and her husband, conductor Joshua Anand Slater

Career Highlights

• World premiere of Holy Ground at Glimmerglass Festival
• This Be Her Verse named one of 10 Best Classical Records of 2022 by The Times
• Co-hosted the International Tchaikovsky Competition in St. Petersburg for Medici TV
• Dead Equal was the first artistic collaboration with women serving in the British Army
• Jewel Merchants brought healthcare providers and patients together to create art
• Serves on the selection panel for the National Opera Association’s Dominick Argento Fellowship for Opera Composition

Anecdotes

• Walked the Camino Santiago de Compostela – and sang Schubert’s Ave Maria for a convent of nuns along the way
• Spent childhood summers polishing chrome at vintage motorcycle races with her father, a leading expert in British pre-war motorcycles
• Held a series of quirky assistant jobs, including one for a portrait photographer who specialized in capturing minor royalty – which led to a behind-the-scenes tour of 10 Downing Street
• Met a wolf in a library at age 7 and has been obsessed with both wolves and libraries ever since
• Passionate about design, clothing, and interiors
• Bookshelves are dominated by poetry and YA novels from her time as a book editor
• Fives years into being a librettist, found out that her great-grandmother wrote libretti for Milhaud(!)