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Rachel Little was born in Kendal and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Patricia MacMahon, and at the Royal College of Music with Eiddwen Harrhy. She has won several awards, most notably the Jean Highgate Scholarship, the Jewish Choral Prize and the Hugh Sloane Memorial Award.
Rachel was the soprano soloist for a BBC Radio 3 recording of Haydn’s The Creation, conducted by Sir Philip Ledger, and the soloist for two BAFTA award-winning film sound tracks Transition and American Cousins, both composed by Donald Shaw.
On the concert platform, Rachel has worked with many internationally renowned conductors including Sir David Wilcocks, Sir Philip Ledger, Peter Robinson and Tan Dun. An experienced oratorio singer, she has performed extensively in venues such as St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, The Royal Albert Hall and The Barbican.
Recent performances include Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate conducted by David Chapman, Handel’s Messiah with the Manchester Chamber Choir and the Haydn Harmonie Messe in St Asaph’s Cathedral. Her oratorio repertoire also includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St. John and St. Matthew Passions, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers and Mass in C Minor, Poulenc’s Gloria, the Requiems of Brahms, Fauré, Mozart and Rutter, and Haydn’s Little Organ Mass.
On the operatic stage Rachel has sung for three years with the critically acclaimed Opera Holland Park Chorus and performed in the British premiere of Tan Dun’s opera Marco Polo with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She has given over 200 recitals for the Council for Music in Hospitals and is musical director of the award winning Poco Amabile Girls’ Choir.
Future engagements include a Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society, a recital of Handel Cantatas with John Turner and the Lonsdale Orchestra, an English song recital for the Cumbria Choral Initiative Vaughan Williams Festival and a debut CD to be released in April.
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