Working as a soloist, and as a chamber and orchestral musician, Poppy performs extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Poppy studied Music at King’s College London, graduating in 2014, followed by a Master’s at the Royal Academy of Music in 2016. In 2021 Poppy released her debut album, Soliloquy, with Ulysses Arts which features her own transcriptions of Bach and Hildegard of Bingen. In late 2022 she recorded a concerto written for her by Matthew Taylor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. This was broadcast on BBC Radio Three in March 2024 and released on disc by Toccata Classics in June. In November 2022 she was a visiting artist at the University of Houston, Texas, where she gave solo recitals, lectures, masterclasses and premièred music commissioned by the university and the Texas New Music Ensemble; she returned to Texas in 2024 for a similar project with the Ensemble. In 2022 she was the Artist in Residence at the Clifton International Music Festival; she is looking forward to repeat engagements there in both 2024 and 2025.
Other upcoming engagements include concerts in London, Cambridge, Bristol, Nottingham, New York and various venues in the South of France. She has a regular programme of concerti: she will perform Malcolm Arnold’s Second Concerto in St John’s Smith Square in November 2024, the Mozart concerto in Milton Keynes in 2025, and premiere a concerto written for her by her former student Franklin Onyeso in Oxford in 2025. She is the Artistic Director of the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival, bringing chamber music to less exposed areas of the county and running workshops for local schools, and recitals in local care homes. She has also run an annual concert series in the South of France since 2012. Poppy works regularly with MishMash Productions, a company which tours concerts targeted at younger audiences; she recently joined them at the Cheltenham Festival and the Nottingham Chamber Music Festival. Poppy teaches at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music and also works extensively with the Academy’s Widening Participation team to make classical music more accessible to all. Poppy was elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2023.
