Angela Davis

The German soprano Angela Davis (maiden name: Bic) was born in 1980 into a musical family of Romanian and Chinese descent. She started learning the piano and violin at the age of seven and when she was 18, she had her first singing lesson and subsequently studied from 2002-8 at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany, with Prof. Dorothea Wirtz. As a member of the opera school there she performed various roles in several opera productions and was also very involved with the song department. She has taken part in masterclasses with Elisabeth Glauser, Thomas Hampson, Kai Wessel, Margreet Honig, José Cura and Barbara Bonney and has been a recipient of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes since 2006. Angela studied with Lillian Watson and Jonathan Papp at the opera school of the Royal