Mhairi Lawson
Mhairi Lawson is a teacher in the Vocal Performance Department at the RCS and also runs a Performance Practice Clinic designed to help students of all abilities and voice types with stylistic aspects of repertoire.
Singer, teacher, researcher, student: currently a PhD candidate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on the subject – The Publications of Domenico Corri (1746-1825): a singer’s method of using Primary Sources
Mhairi’s singing journey started at school in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, then to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne as an undergraduate, followed by postgraduate study in Opera and Historical Performance Practice at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Mhairi became a Professor of Voice and Performance Practice at the Guildhall School in 2000.
Since 1994, Mhairi has made many commercial recordings of the music of Haydn, Purcell and Vivaldi, have travelled the world performing with groups such as Les Arts Florissant, The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, The Gabrieli Consort and Players, The Academy of Ancient Music, The Dunedin Consort, The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, The RSNO and have sung at English National Opera, New York City Opera and The Carmel Bach Festival, California.