Elizabeth Sillo, a member of the BBC National Chorus of Wales studied singing in the Franz Liszt Conservatoire, in Budapest. After obtaining her musical degree, she joined as a singer the Budapest National Opera and later the Szeged National Opera.
Thanks to the flourishing operatic tradition of Central-Europe, she has performed in several opera houses, including Aida, Nabucco and Tosca in Austria, Italy, France and Germany. As a devotee of the Austro-Hungarian operetta, she has sung in Lehar’s Merry Widow, in Emerich Kalman’s Csardas Queen and Countess Marica. In the UK she has participated in various oratorios with the Royal Academy of Music in London, and with the Keele Bach Choir in the North of England.
As a former member of the City of Manchester Opera, she performed with great success in the Buxton Fringe in 2014. She has been a member of the Saturday Voice Academy in Cardiff and has taken part in their productions.
Over the last 2 years she has sung in several concerts with the Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Chorus of Wales, including the BBC tour in Brittany and the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London.
She is a concert organiser as well. Last summer she organised Master Classes for singers with a French conductor, Vincent Monteil from the Strasbourg Opera and has been the co-organiser of the Welsh – Hungarian concert series. She was the main singer of the Bards of Wales ( Karl Jenkins) project supported by the University of South Wales last year and she has organised four Welsh – Hungarian concerts so far. The first two took place in Cardiff in the URDD Centre ( Wales Millennium Centre) and two other concerts were held in Hungary.
She is the International PR Manager of the Simandy Singing Competition and in December she is going to sing with Adam Diegel, American tenor from the New York Metropolitan.
Elisabeth will be performing with Dorothy Singh. Dorothy studied violin and piano performance at the RNCM, in Manchester.
After
playing as a freelance violinist with BBC and other orchestras, Dorothy
was awarded a British Council scholarship to specialise in chamber
music and accompaniment at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in
Budapest. There she became an accompanist in the vocal faculty and at
the International Kodaly Institute where she was the first UK student to
be awarded the diploma. She gave regular recitals around Hungary and
abroad with the Hungarian tenor, Boldizsar Keonch.
Settling in Wales
she was appointed senior violin and piano tutor at the University of
Trinity Saint David in Carmarthen. She is very active as a teacher and
accompanist and founded the charitable Kodaly Violin school, in
collaboration with the Welsh/ Hungarian society and specialists in
Hungary, improving music education from the early years in schools and
music centres.
