Posts in DEBUT Interview / Feature
Alternative Classical Feature & Gallery: DEBUT Christmas at Thames Tunnel Shaft, Brunel Museum

Check out the great feature by Alternative Classical on our upcoming DEBUT Christmas Concert at the amazing Thames Tunnel Shaft, Brunel Museum. We also spent the day getting some footage ahead of the concert, take a look!

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Watch Now: Behind the Horizon Project - Live Chat

DEBUT’s founder soprano Lizzie Holmes and mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries chat about how it was co-producing DEBUT's largest project to date! - our first project specifically for film! From putting the project together in just three weeks and on a shoe-string budget, to juggling both producer and performer hats simultaneously, to our musical highlights and the the challenges (and bonuses!) of a live performance specifically for film!

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In Conversation with Lizzie Holmes, DEBUT's Founder — Interview with the Royal College of Music

For Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, the Royal College of Music chatted to alumni Lizzie Holmes, soprano and founder of DEBUT about how she juggles running a company alongside a full time performing career, what she has learnt since founding the company in 2015 and her top tips for current students who are looking to starting their own companies.

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Watch Now — A Day in the Life: Shoreditch Treehouse feature by Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons UK came to the Shoreditch Treehouse to discover how this magical space came about. Some great footage of our DEBUT concert that evening too! Featuring pianists Simone Tavoni, Varvara Tarasova and Sam Pena, guitarist Michael Christian Durrant, soprano Nicola Said and our founder soprano Lizzie Holmes.

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Q&A with soprano Natasha Day — Producing DEBUT's 'Conquests of Love' at Old Bayham Abbey

This Saturday, 3 August 2019, DEBUT comes to the Lamberhurst Music Festival. We are really excited about performing a new opera, Conquests of Love, which features highlights from Carmen to La bohème, Don Giovanni to Die Fledermaus. Ahead of this weekend’s performance, we caught up with soprano Natasha Day about Conquests of Love, which she has written and produced.

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Shoreditch Secrets: Concert in a Shoreditch Treehouse — Feature with The Stage LDN

Original article in The Stage Shoreditch by Cari Thomas “A penthouse treehouse… located in the middle of Shoreditch... containing a Steinway concert grand piano. A series of increasingly implausible statements. There’s another: this is the location of a monthly opera and classical music concert known as DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse.

You’ll find the treehouse just off Shoreditch’s busy Great Eastern Street. It is in fact a bohemian loft space on the top floor of an apartment building. However, step inside and it feels every bit a treehouse: an expanse of space, polished wooden floors, wooden ceilings, thick beams adorned with fairylights and brightly coloured Nepalese prayer flags, eclectic furniture and ornaments from around-the-world travels, green foliage and a large indoor olive tree. Throw in a hammock chair and a swing and you have been transported to the treetops of distant and magical woods.

I met with its owner Ross Elder to find out how…

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Close Encounters & Pop-up Concerts — Feature with Opera Now

Original article in Opera Now by Coriander Stuttard “In an age of ‘pop-ups’, when restaurants, fashion and experiences spring up and then disappear, leaving yo wanting more, it’s not surprising that classical music has joined the trend. But for two classical music pop-up ventures, DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse and Classical Pop-Ups, there is much more behind them that a short-lived gimmick. And through ticketing partnerships with Airbnb they are finding they can suddenly reach out to new audiences who, in pop-up style, are left with open minds and a thirst for discovering more.

Lizzie Holmes, a 28-year-old soprano, founded DEBUT in 2015, inspired and helped by Philip Carne, founder of the Carne Trust, which supports young talent in the performing arts. Holmes wanted to showcase emerging singers…

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Loft Party meets Musical Soirée — Arthur's Seat Interview

DEBUT has been on our radars for over a year, and is definitely a company worth keeping an eye on. A platform for the UK’s finest fresh-faced opera talent, they aim to bridge the worlds of opera and events – as well as hosting monthly nights in Shoreditch (DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse) designed to redefine notions of the artform. Felicity caught up with its founder, former Phantom of the Opera performer Lizzie Holmes, to find out more…

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