Professional Career
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Elizabeth joined the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company after leaving college, singing in the prestigious chorus, small roles, and covering major understudies, (eg. she was in the vanguard of what would later be the Glyndebourne Touring Company.    
    In a long career Elizabeth sang in many major festivals in Europe, and in America appeared with the Chicago Symphony and the Washington Symphony, and the Boston Opera Company. She and Richard returned to England in 1972.
  Over the next twenty years she taught singing, building a large studio of professional and amateur students, and lectured for Sussex University and adult education on the history of opera.              
In 1983 she formed an international series of concerts in Eastbourne (The Eastbourne Camarata) bringing artists of international repute to the town (Bryn Terfel, Willard White, Emma Johnston, Emma Kirkby, Jack Brymer, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales,  Phillip Langridge, Sir Thomas Allen, The Delme String Quartet with Richard Baker among many others).
  On returning to Britain Elizabeth sang in many European Festivals giving recitals on the BBC, and was known as a fine recitalist. Her accompanists ranged from Paul Hamburger and Geoffrey Parsons to Janet Canetty-Clarke, a close friend, with whom she had a thirty year working relationship. A regular soloist with choral societies, she particularly liked presenting music which illustrated an historical aspect.
       
 

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