British Soprano Caroline Blair is a member of Royal Academy Opera (London) where she studies with Kate Paterson and Christopher Hopkins. She is grateful to have received support from the Munster Trust, Wayne Sleep Foundation, Josephine Baker Trust and the Leverhulme Centenary Trust throughout the course of her studies.

 Caroline’s recent engagements include Amore/2nd Woman, Orfeo ed Eurydice - Gluck and Dido and Aeneas - Purcell (The Grange Festival) Galatea, Acis and Galatea - Handel (Ryedale Festival), Kate Warner in The Agency for Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival, Frantìk, The Cunning Little Vixen (Hampstead Garden Opera). Recent roles at the Academy include Dew Fairy - Hänsel und Gretel and Pamina - Die Zauberflöte and Cis – Albert Herring.

In concert, she has appeared with Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn as part of York song recitals and recently performed Vivier’s Bouchara with Barbara Hannigan and the Academy Chamber Orchestra. Aside from this she has also appeared as a Young Artist in several UK festivals: Ryedale Festival, Waterperry Opera Festival and Vache Baroque.

 In her time at the Academy, she has been awarded numerous prizes such as First Prize in the Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Prize, the Dame Patricia Routledge and Norman Ayrton Award, the Edlee award for outstanding studentship and 2nd Prize Isabel Jay Opera Competition.

Caroline has worked with conductors Barbara Hannigan, Harry Christophers, Geoffrey Patterson, Olivia Clarke, John Butt and Philipe Herrewhege.

 Aside from classical singing, Caroline has been featured as a solo backing singer on Mercury Award Winning C Duncan’s Album Health and recent releases by the producer SAULT.