The soprano Amy Wood was born in Yorkshire. She began singing as a chorister in the Sheffield Cathedral Girls’ Choir, before going on to study psychology at the University of Manchester.
Her recent choral engagements include Bach’s Mass in B minor and Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato at Carnegie Hall, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on a European tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Masaaki Suzuki, Berlioz’s Les Troyens at the Salzburg Festival and the BBC Proms and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. She also performed at the Coronation of King Charles III.
In the 2023/24 season Amy Wood’s singing engagements include Bach’s Mass in B minor, Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres, Handel’s Messiah, motets by Bach in Leipzig and London, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang under the direction of András Schiff and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
She appears regularly in many of the UK’s best professional choirs, among them the Monteverdi Choir, the BBC Singers, the Eric Whitacre Singers, La Nuova Musica and the Choir of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and is a member of the Choir of the London Oratory.
As a soloist and choral singer she has appeared on numerous recordings for film and television soundtracks, including Jurassic World and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. She also sang as a soloist in the opening credits of Paul Verhoeven’s film Benedetta, released in 2021, and in the BBC series Black Narcissus (2020).
Amy Wood is a qualified psychotherapist and maintains a thriving private practice alongside her singing career.
Current as of May 2024
