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Conductor and Artistic Director - Elizabeth de Lacey
	Elizabeth de Lacey was a full-time pupil at the Royal Ballet School from the age of nine, where she also studied the piano. At the age of eighteen she graduated into the Royal Ballet Company, where she danced solo roles whilst still a member of the corps de ballet.
	Her career as a dancer was cut short by injury, but she was awarded a place at the Royal College of Music, where she completed a three year performing course in piano and singing.
	Choral singing has always been a great love, and Elizabeth was until recently a regular singer with Holst Singers, also acting, for a time, as Artistic Producer for the group, in which capacity she was instrumental in organising a series of concerts of Russian choral music which culminated in the disc IKON.
A relative newcomer to conducting, Elizabeth has studied with Paul Sarcich at Morley College, and more recently, with Alan Hazeldine, Head of Conducting Studies at Guildhall School of Music. She has recently returned from Moscow where she took part in master classes with Vladimir Ponkin and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.
She is Conductor and Musical Director of Skolia, which she formed in 2003. Elizabeth is also Assistant to the Musical Director of W11 Children’s Opera.
Photograph: © Robert Carpenter Turner