Grace Davidson was born on 29 November 1977 and is an English soprano from London who specialises in the performance of historically informed music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
17 Facts About Grace Davidson
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Grace Davidson has recorded for prominent contemporary composers such as Max Richter, Eric Whitacre, Michael Price, and Paul Mealor, and has performed on over 140 soundtracks to date.
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Grace Davidson started singing at the Youth Music Centre in Hampstead Garden Suburb, before studying singing at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Mollie Petrie.
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Grace Davidson graduated with a BMus degree in 2004, and was later awarded an Associate membership of the Academy in 2016.
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Grace Davidson began her professional career singing in choirs and consorts specialising in Early music.
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Grace Davidson has worked extensively with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in recordings and concerts, featuring as a soloist on their Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 and Handel's Jeptha.
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Grace Davidson currently appears as a soloist with Collegium Vocale Gent, and on tour with Max Richter, and regularly sings vocals on film soundtracks and commercial recordings in Abbey Road Studios and AIR Studios.
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In 2015 Max Richter chose Grace Davidson to be the singer on his epic venture, Sleep, a piece lasting eight hours that premiered live overnight on BBC Radio 3 from the Wellcome Collection on Euston Road, London on 17 September 2015.
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Grace Davidson recorded her lullaby, heard at hourly intervals throughout the night, and vocal parts at AIR Studios and the recording was released on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
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Grace Davidson has taken part in all 22 live performances of Sleep around the world.
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Grace Davidson is a featured voice on Richter's album Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works on Deutsche Grammophon, VOICES and VOICES 2, both on the Decca label.
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Since 2007, Grace Davidson has worked in partnership with composer and saxophonist Christian Forshaw, as the soprano soloist for the albums Renouncement, Midwinter and Songs of Solace.
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In 2016, Grace Davidson met composer Rodrigo Ruiz while recording some of his early songs for An Everlasting Dawn, after which the soprano commissioned a new song cycle from him.
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Grace Davidson is married to Nigel Short, the founder and conductor of Tenebrae Choir.
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In duet with the oboe, in 'As when the dove,' Grace Davidson's lightness wove magic.
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Grace Davidson's tone was warm and pure and her gently beseeching delivery was just right.
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Grace Davidson, who made Pie Jesu the simplest and most precious of gifts.