The
Three Graces met in 2000 while they were studying at Edinburgh University,
and have continued their training together as a vocal ensemble at
Trinity College of Music, London.
The
Three Graces became well known in Scotland for singing at corporate
events and parties. Most notably they have performed as entertainment
at the Glasgow academy of Modern Art for the European conference of
Anaesthetists and most recently in the Queen's House, Greenwich, for
the Friends of the National Maritime Museum. The Three Graces regularly
give public recitals, collaborating with other musicians, most frequently
with piano accompanist, Vicky Savage.
The
trio perform a wide range of repertoire including operatic trios, sacred
songs, contemporary compositions, jazz and numbers from musical theatre.
They are well known for entertaining guests at drinks parties dressed
as waitresses and surprising the guests by bursting into song while
pouring drinks. They then serenade the guests with numbers from Cabaret,
My Fair Lady and works by Mozart and Puccini and many others. They feel
that it is important to achieve the right balance between entertaining
the guests and supplying background music.
Laetitia
Havers was a music scholar at Francis Holland School. Whilst
studying for her music degree at Edinburgh University she studied singing
with Irene Drummond and was one of the Edinburgh University Singers,
often singing the solos. She was the soloist in Mozart's Requiem and
Exsultate Jubilate with the Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra and a member
of the Edinburgh Studio Opera which saw her as the 'deranged baby' in
Poulenc's The Breasts of Tiresias and performing chorus parts in Die
Fleidermaus, Dido and Aeneas, and Acis and Galatea.
Laetitia
was the finalist in Edinburgh's prestigious Tovey Competition in the
years 2000-2004, and was awarded the Gwen Clutterbuck Scholarship, which
enabled her to take part in the Académie Internationale d’Eté
de Nice Summer school in which she had masterclasses with Lorraine Nubar
and Robin Bowman.
Laetitia
is a founding member of The Three Graces and a member of the chamber
choir at Holy Trinity Brompton, Knightsbridge. She has just completed
a Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal Performance at Trinity College of Music,
where she studies with Laureen Livingston. She recently played the part
of the Mother in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at The People’s Show
Theatre in Bethnal Green with the Runaway Opera Company.
Emilia
Pountney currently
studies with John Wakefield at Trinity College of Music on the Postgradute
Diploma Course. While studying Music at Edinburgh University and singing
with Irene Drummond, she became involved with Edinburgh Studio Opera
and performed as a member of the chorus as well as playing Ida in Die
Fledermaus and 1st Witch in Dido and Aeneas. Emilia continued her choral
singing whilst living in Scotland with the University Singers, Edinburgh
Symphony Baroque and Edinburgh Camerata singing solos in Mozart's Requiem,
Leighton's Crucifixus Pro Nobis and Purcell's King Arthur.
Emilia
was a finalist in the Tovey Prize in Edinburgh in 2002 & 2004 and
was the winner of the Marianne Richardson Cup in 2001 and the lieder
prize in 2004, both in the Edinburgh Festival Competition.
Emily
Ward is currently studying singing with Linda Hirst at Trinity
College of Music, London. She performs as a regular soloist for Gravesham
Choral Society, most recently singing Haydn's Creation. She also sings
as soloist for the Plaxtol Players, performing alongside Robin Bowman.
Whilst
at Edinburgh University, Emily was a regular soloist with the Edinburgh
Studio Opera company, playing Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Galatea (Acis
and Galatea) and Prince Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus). While at Sevenoaks
School, Emily sang as the Youth (Elijah) and as Sarah Brown (Guys and
Dolls). She sings with the Early Music Ensemble at Trinity College of
Music under Philip Thorby, and while living in Edinburgh, she sang with
Edinburgh Symphony Baroque, Edinburgh Camerata and the Edinburgh University
Singers under John Kitchen.
