PERFORMANCES
Concerts, recordings, workshops… here are the highlights!
Jooksing
12th NOVEMBER - EAT THE SUNSHINE DOWN THE SUN
Lydia Walquist and I will be collaborating in a 10-minute set of sassiness, weirdness and nonsense.
Don’t forget to come - good laughs guaranteed.
As two people that equally enjoying experimental, new and improvised music, we are tentatively calling our duo Psychotic Jellyfish. This is the first of many performances that will allow us to research, try out and collect ideas for a future concert we have been planning.
More info about timings and tickets soon.
Past projects and performances
SATURDAY 3rd OCTOBER 2026 - NLCC and LSO at St Luke’s
FThe New London Chamber Choir and the London Symphony Orchestra united forces to bring to life a programme of nostalgia and the liveliness of places, with a world premiere by Euchar Gravina.
SUNDAY 27th SEPTEMBER 2026 - NLCC at Northend Concert Series
From Gibbons to Berio, a well-humoured concert that entertained not only the humans in the venue, but also Bungalow, the bull resting right outside.
FRIDAY 17th JUNE - Sample Library
Avalon Cafe
This concert brought classical performance and music production into the same room. It was such a nicely organised show and I’m so happy that an album of its recording will be coming out in early 2027!
Gorgeous gorgeous photos by Kit McCarthy.
THURSDAY 7th MAY 2026 - New London Chamber Choir and Riot Ensemble
in the Royal Academy of Music
The NLCC premiered works by RAM’s student-composers alongside Feldman’s Rothko Chapel. It was the thrid time I sang this piece and honestly… each time I find something new and precious in it!
SATURDAY 21st MARCH 2026 - Eavesdropping.London
Festival Forum
Margarida Gonçalves and Sara Lai joined me for a short set in Vortex Jazz Club.
This was a narrative based on my own personal experience, taking the audience through the pressure of leaving high education, attempting to fit the mould of what classical music “should be” and the mental health problems that one might have to deal with in an industry that often doesn’t care for its freelance workers.
Knibbs & Howard Present:
Ethel Smyth, The Stormy Petrel
After recording an informal performance of Chloe Knibbs’s Stormy Petrel, an opera based on Ethel Smyth’s life, Chloe and Teresa have been taking Ethel’s story to as many places as they can possibly think of! Would you like to help them go further? Get in touch with Teresa on Instagram.
While there’s light, by Sarah Sarhandi
Sarah Sarhandi has been recording her long term project While there’s light and I got to be one of the characters in this opera - more particularly, the Procuress. Waiting for the recording to come out any day now…
WEDNESDAY 10th DECEMBER 2025 - Fundraising concert for Ukraine
The Lihtar Orchestra invited me to sing with them, in a concert fundraising money for Ukraine Action Heroes. Together, we performed Alban Berg’s Lied der Lulu and Richard Wagner’s Liebestod.
SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER 2025 - Bach’s Christmas Magnificat
I joined the lovely Steven Devine, The Devine Musick, and the Decimus Ensemble for their annual Baroque Christmas concert.
SATURDAY 3RD MAY 2025 - Singing Recital and Wine and Cheese Night
An evening of fine classical music to listen to the most beautiful arias ever written in the history of music, from Puccini to Donizzetti to Wolf performed by two extraordinary musicians: the Portuguese soprano Maggie Vaz Neto and the Italian pianist Antonio Morabito.
At the end of the evening, a refreshment with wine and cheese to crown the evening!
FRIDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2025 - Path to Tragedy
This was a concert that follows the narrative of a heroine that faces the trials and tribulations of life, but confronts the obstacles with courage and faith and comes out victorious. This is the debut of the Kalura Duo, a collaboration between Maggie and the internationally recognised pianist Antonio Morabito.
You can find a review by Christopher Axworthy here.
WEDNESDAY 15TH JANUARY 2025 - Dialogues: from Beckett to Berio
Voice and two violins navigate the complex emotion and intrapersonal relationships of Beckett’s seminal play Waiting for Godot.
The performers explore these relationships in real time through Berio’s violin duets and live improvisation, which weaves throughout the programme.
TUESDAY, 14th JANUARY 2025 - Colours of Femininity
Colours of Femininity is an interdisciplinary celebration of womanhood, discovered through music, dance and the spoken word. New music and poetry will be brought to life on stage, expressed through dance and lighting.
SUNDAY, 10th NOVEMBER 2024 - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem – A German Requiem
In a performance conducted by Gavin Carr, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Magna Sinfonia join forces to perform Brahms’ largest choral work, the powerful Ein Deutsches Requiem – A German Requiem. Maggie performed as a soloist alongside Lawrence Gillians, in Lighthouse, in Poole, Bournemouth.
WEDNESDAY, 25th SEPTEMBER 2024 - The Acts of Brízida Vaz
“The Acts of Brízida Vaz”, a short opera by Margarida Gonçalves. Maggie premiered the main role in the piece inspired by the 16th-century Portuguese play “Auto da Barca do Inferno” (“Act of the Vessel from Hell”) in the Tête-à-tête Contemporary Opera Festival, in the Cockpit Theatre.
SUNDAY, 16 JUNE - Summer Concert
“Summer Concert”, the last in a series of concerts organised by The Musicians of London, with the presence of Raymond Holden.
THURSDAY, 25 APRIL - Carte Blanche & The persistence of memory: story-telling
Collaboration projects with the Composition Department of the Royal Academy of Music.
THURSDAY, 11 APRIL - Philharmonia Chorus: Bells, Choral Symphony
Choral performance of “Bells”, a choral symphony by S. Rachmaninoff. With the Philharmonia Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra, lead by Vasily Petrenko, in the Royal Albert Hall.
14, 15, 16 & 17 MARCH - Philharmonia Chorus: Live Projection of Lord of the Rings
Choral performance of “Lord of the Rings - Return of the King”, a soundtrack by H. Shore, with the Philharmonia Chorus.
WEDNESDAY, 17 JANUARY - Satyrs
Maggie created the role of Dion in an exciting premiere of this new opera, composed by Toby Andersen and libretto written by Sam Woof.
WEDNESDAY, 17 JANUARY - Words Unsaid
A collaborative project between students from the Royal Academy of Music, a professional dancer and the New Contemporalis Ensemble, in the Students Create Festival.
SUNDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2023 - NLCC: Christmas Concert
A come back for the New London Chamber Choir, the Christmas themed concert was a success!
WEDNESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2023 - Tenderness
A mono-opera by Vitaliy Hubarenko exploring the longing for a loved one. Between memory and fantasy, the audience is invited to join this emotional journey with the sublime harmonies from the orchestra.
Lihtar Orchestra, lead by Max Levytskyi
Stage direction by Sophie Daneman
21, 22 & 23 SEPTEMBER 2023 - Philharmonia Chorus: Lord of the Rings
Choral performance of “Lord of the Rings - Two Towers”, a soundtrack by H. Shore, with the Philharmonia Chorus.
THURSDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2023 - Show Home
Maggie created the role of Kay in an exciting premiere of this new opera, composed by Will Harmer and libretto written by Jaisal Marmion. This was a second show of the work - previously premiered in the Royal Academy of Music - now in the Tête-à-tête Contemporary Opera Festival, in the Cockpit Theatre.
