About Maggie
Maggie Vaz Neto is a Portuguese soprano from Santa Maria da Feira based in London, England. She is in love with contemporary and modern music, but still saves a special place in her heart for Romantic opera.
She performs a wide range of repertoire, as a solo performer, a choral scholar, a cantor and a member of the Philharmonia Chorus and of the New London Chamber Choir. Maggie is currently the cantor in St Mary of the Angels Church, in Bayswater.
Maggie also gives private singing and piano lessons.
Maggie is an alumna from the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied under the tutelage of Nuccia Focile and graduated with First Class Honours. She takes singing lessons with Nuccia Focile and Claire Booth.
With the Philharmonia Chorus, she has performed in the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Bold Tendencies and St James’s Church, in Sussex Gardens, among other places.
Maggie regularly collaborates with composers. Recently, she has co-founded the new music focused New Contemporalis Ensemble with the composer Margarida Gonçalves. This ensemble aims to collaborate with other musicians and artists in search of creating concerts that aim to be approachable experiences of new music for first-time audiences, while keeping the essence and intensity in the music.
In opera, she has recently worked with Virtually opera in the immersive and interactive The Uncanny Things Trilogy, as a Cover and Assistant director
Maggie co-founded Coffee and Improv, a musical ensemble that blends classical music with improvisation, offering a unique concert experience. Their performances intertwine written compositions, improvised moments and live enactments of dramatic text excerpts.
Duo Kalura is a dynamic classical music duo formed by soprano Maggie Vaz Neto and pianist Antonio Morabito. Their shared Mediterranean heritage – Maggie from Portugal and Antonio from Italy – brought them together in London, where a deep musical connection blossomed into both a professional collaboration and a lasting friendship.
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