Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and formally a member of the internationally renowned
a cappella group The Swingle Singers, Heather has performed at La Scala Milan, The Village Gate Jazz Club, New York, toured with the Jacques Loussier trio, appeared on network television at the Wolftrap Festival with Dizzie Gillespie and sung with Stephane Grappelli at Carnegie Hall, New York to name but a few!

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Heather performs regularly as a soloist with many of the world's leading ensembles, ranging from Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony in Tokyo through to Steve Reich and Musicians at the Lincoln Centre, New York. In 2006 she appeared at Carnegie Hall again and throughout Europe as part of Steve Reich's 70th birthday Tour.

 

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In addition to fifteen recordings for The Swingle Singers, Heather was a soloist for Karl Jenkins' Imagined Oceans and sang on his music for the Cheltenham & Gloucester TV advertisement.
Much in demand as a recording artist, solo film sessions include The Talented Mr. Ripley and Sleepy Hollow. Just a few of her many other film credits include: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Moulin Rouge, Shrek, Wallace and Grommitt, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Da Vinci Code

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Heather is an accomplished Big Band singer and has fronted the European Glenn Miller Orchestra, the John Miller Orchestra and currently sings with the Sounds of Swing Orchestra in the UK.

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She recently co-wrote her own one-woman jazz musical Hello Life! with Michelle Magorian and Alexander L'Estrange, which won the Greenwich Musical Futures Festival. It was performed at both the Buxton and Brighton Festivals and won rave reviews and the Outstanding Contribution Prize.

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