"There is little doubt that one day, Durham will be dazzling us with vocal fireworks in the manner of Ann Hallenberg or Vivica Genaux" (Jacques Duffourg, Baroquiades)

Winner of the First Prize at the 10th Pietro Antonio Cesti Competition for Baroque Opera, and the Grand Prix of the 2019 Concours international d’interprétation de la Mélodie Française de Toulouse, Grace Durham was born in London. She began her studies as a linguist, graduating with a First-Class Honours Degree in French and Italian from Clare College, Cambridge, and continued her training as a singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Opera Studio.

Grace's engagements in 2021/22 include Mercédès Carmen at the Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, as well as recital débuts at the Opéra de Lille, Opéra national de Bordeaux and London's Wigmore Hall. Concert engagements this season include Chausson Poème de l'amour et de la mer  (Festival Murten Classics) and Ravel Shéhérazade  (Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra). With Les Talens Lyriques, she toured the recital programme Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment to the Staatsoper Berlin and Festival AntiquaBZ (Bolzano) and sang Job's Wife in Werner Job (Haydneum Festival, Budapest), and with Collectif Lovemusic she appeared in Talking Music, the première of Philip Venables' Numbers 81-85 and Numbers 96-100 (Festival Musica, Strasbourg; Festival d'Automne, Paris). Summer 2021 saw the release of her first CD, Aimer à loisir, singing songs by Chausson, Fauré and Ravel with Edward Liddall on B Records.

From 2017 to 2019, Grace was a member of the Junges Ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden, where her roles included Mercédès Carmen, Lucienne Die tote Stadt, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro, Second Lady Die Zauberflöte, Flora Bervoix La traviata and Clare in the German première of Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis. Further engagements have included covering the title role in Ariodante with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia for Lyric Opera, Dublin, Second Maid Elektra at the Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, and the recital programme From Purcell with Love with Les Talens Lyriques at the 2020 Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik.

Future engagements include Giovanna Rigoletto (Opernhaus Zürich), Kitchen Boy Rusalka (Garsington Opera at Wormsley), Nerone Agrippina (Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow), and recitals at the Musée d'Orsay and Opéra de Montpellier.