Mezzo-soprano Lucy Hayes Davis is pleased to call Halifax home. Lucy returned to Nova Scotia in 2007 after pursuing intensive voice pedagogy studies with Dr. Scott McCoy and Marvin Keenze at Westminster Choir College, where she completed a Masters degree. Lucy went on to further operatic studies at the Hartt School joining the voice faculty there in 2001. In addition to maintaining a large voice studio, she taught all of the diction courses and a voice class for students majoring in Music Education.
In Nova Scotia Lucy has taught voice at Dalhousie and Acadia Universities as well as Lyric Diction, Voice Pedagogy and Voice Clinics for students in the Dalhousie acting program. She acts as music director for several programs offered through the Maritime Conservatory including the Elementary and Junior Broadway Company Players. Lucy will return for her fifth tenure as vocal coach for the Halifax Summer Opera Festival where she will help prepare the cast of A Midsummer Nights Dream.
This summer, Lucy will also be returning as vocal coach for the seventh consecutive season of Opera from Scratch. Lucy is also an active adjudicator and clinician. Her operatic roles include Dorabella in Mozarts Cosi fan tutte, the Witch from Humperdincks Hnsel und Gretal, Zita from Puccinis Gianni Schicchi, Marcellina from Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro, the Old Lady from Bernsteins Candide, and the Mother from Menottis Amahl and the Night Visitors. In spring 2013 she sang the role of Frederica in Verdis Luisa Miller for Opera Nova Scotia. Lucy and her husband, Jason Davis were Musicians in Residence for the St. Cecilia Series 2013/14 season.