Eve McGrath is a versatile soprano with experience in choral, classical, and folk singing.
Specialising as a choral soloist with a high voice and pure tone, Eve is regularly in demand to sing Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus, and will perform this well-known piece liturgically or in concert up to 7 or 8 times each year.
Eve has also sung one of the most dramatically and vocally demanding roles in the operatic repertoire, The Queen of the Night. Singing in Bedfordshire Youth Opera’s 2013 production of The Magic Flute, audiences said:
Specialising as a choral soloist with a high voice and pure tone, Eve is regularly in demand to sing Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus, and will perform this well-known piece liturgically or in concert up to 7 or 8 times each year.
Eve has also sung one of the most dramatically and vocally demanding roles in the operatic repertoire, The Queen of the Night. Singing in Bedfordshire Youth Opera’s 2013 production of The Magic Flute, audiences said:
"Eve McGrath was wonderful as the Queen of the Night -
a privilege to hear her!!"
"I've never heard the Queen of the Night sung so well."
a privilege to hear her!!"
"I've never heard the Queen of the Night sung so well."
Other solo engagements include: Orff’s Carmina Burana (John Lyon School Choir), Handel’s Messiah and Fauré’s Requiem (Trinity Festival Chorus, Sutton), Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Mozart’s Requiem (St. Martin’s Voices), Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music (Southend Choral Society), Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise and Vaughan Williams’ Pastoral Symphony (Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra), Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Bach’s Peasant Cantata (Bedford Sinfonia), and Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man (Danesborough Chorus/Bedford Choral Society, Milton Keynes Theatre).
"One might think this work [The Armed Man]
was written for her voice as her beautiful tone was
an absolutely perfect match”
was written for her voice as her beautiful tone was
an absolutely perfect match”
Eve has given recitals as a soloist and chamber musician, and particularly enjoys performing Roger Quilter’s English songs and folk-tune arrangements.
As an experienced consort singer, Eve has sung with Siglo de Oro, The Templar Scholars, Armonico Consort, Gaude, Echoris, Convivium Singers, The Rose Singers, David Guest WMC, London Contemporary Orchestra, Festival Voices, St. Martin’s Voices, and Copenhagen-based Mogens Dahl Kammerkor. Eve has appeared in two episodes of BBC’s Songs of Praise with The Templar Scholars. She has also been on multiple live broadcasts including Radio 3’s In Tune with Siglo de Oro and The Rose Singers, and The Daily Service, Sunday Worship, and Choral Evensong with St. Martin’s Voices.
In addition, Eve sings regularly with professional church choirs throughout London, and is a past member of the competitive Choral Scholarship scheme at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She is part of the professional octet at St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate. In 2018, the choir released Soul’s Desire, a CD of pieces sung through the liturgical calendar, including Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus.
Eve received first class grades for both her final recital and Baroque performance module from the University of Birmingham. While studying, Eve sang in the CBSO Chorus under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, and spent 2 years as a Choral Scholar at the Birmingham Oratory.
As part of Irish folk group Inis Éire, Eve sings and plays the fiddle. The trio performs folk, trad, and pop covers at ceremonies and gigs in and around Bedfordshire.
Eve is a skilled orchestrator and arranger, and enjoys performing her arrangements with a capella singing groups. She also plays and teaches the steel pan, is violinist with and manager of Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra, and is currently learning the viola.
As an experienced consort singer, Eve has sung with Siglo de Oro, The Templar Scholars, Armonico Consort, Gaude, Echoris, Convivium Singers, The Rose Singers, David Guest WMC, London Contemporary Orchestra, Festival Voices, St. Martin’s Voices, and Copenhagen-based Mogens Dahl Kammerkor. Eve has appeared in two episodes of BBC’s Songs of Praise with The Templar Scholars. She has also been on multiple live broadcasts including Radio 3’s In Tune with Siglo de Oro and The Rose Singers, and The Daily Service, Sunday Worship, and Choral Evensong with St. Martin’s Voices.
In addition, Eve sings regularly with professional church choirs throughout London, and is a past member of the competitive Choral Scholarship scheme at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She is part of the professional octet at St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate. In 2018, the choir released Soul’s Desire, a CD of pieces sung through the liturgical calendar, including Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus.
Eve received first class grades for both her final recital and Baroque performance module from the University of Birmingham. While studying, Eve sang in the CBSO Chorus under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, and spent 2 years as a Choral Scholar at the Birmingham Oratory.
As part of Irish folk group Inis Éire, Eve sings and plays the fiddle. The trio performs folk, trad, and pop covers at ceremonies and gigs in and around Bedfordshire.
Eve is a skilled orchestrator and arranger, and enjoys performing her arrangements with a capella singing groups. She also plays and teaches the steel pan, is violinist with and manager of Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra, and is currently learning the viola.
