Biography

Bibi graduated with a First Class degree in Music from the University of East Anglia. After gaining a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, she studied with Graeme Danby and Jonathan Papp, and privately with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. She currently studies with Sena Larard and Barbara Bonney.

Known as an exceptionally compelling performer, Bibi specialises in recitals that bring listeners to the very heart of the music. Bibi and pianist Stephen Barlow formed a recital duo in 2019 and co-founded Song Surgery, now known as Songs that Move; combining classical songs with therapeutic movement for Parkinson’s and other neurological conditions. They recently launched their collaboration with Steinway & Sons with a recital and demo at Steinway Hall.
Bibi also performs with guitarist Amanda Cook, and accordionist Miloš Milivojević and has given recitals for Opera North, Festival of Chichester, Salisbury Festival, Leeds Lieder, Handel Festival Göttingen, Valladolid Festival Spain, Cardiff Guitar Festival, Ryedale Festival, and the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Maazel: Mahler series at Royal Festival Hall.

Bibi’s concert and oratorio performances include Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Ulster Hall, Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Sage Gateshead, Glasgow City Hall, and Brighton Dome. Orchestras include the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Tercia Realidad, and Europaïsches Barockorchester.
She sang Mendelssohn The Dream for Royal Ballet and Opera at Royal Opera House, Mahler 4th Symphony with Royal Northern Sinfonia, Mahler 2nd Symphony in Huddersfield Town Hall, Goodall Eternal Light for Ballet Rambert at Sadler’s Wells, Mendelssohn Elijah in the Barbican, Opera North’s Monteverdi installation I Am Yours, Yours I Am in the V&A Museum London, Mozart concert arias with Royal Northern Sinfonia, and Haydn Die Schöpfung in Konzerthaus, Berlin.

Bibi’s operatic engagements include Mary Turner in Gershwin Of Thee I Sing and its sequel Let ‘Em Eat Cake, and Masha in Shostakovich Paradise Moscow, all for Opera North and Bregenz Festival, Princess Sofie in the world premiere of Jonathan Dove The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi for Opera O.T. Rotterdam, Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) for Gstaad Festival directed by Barbara Bonney, Handel Saul and Street Child (The Pied Piper) for Opera North, Susanna (Marriage of Figaro) and Gretel (Hansel & Gretel) for Eastern Opera, Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) and Dorinda (Orlando) for Ryedale Festival, Will Tuckett’s Wind in the Willows in the Linbury Theatre and on tour for ROH2, and Gretel (Tansy Davies Elephant and Castle) for Aldeburgh Festival.
Collaborative projects include Kneehigh Theatre, The Opera Group, ENO and Forced Entertainment. Bibi also toured award-winning Early Years operas for Spitalfields Festival / Early Opera Company, sang Monteverdi at Latitude Festival, and performed Cally Spooner’s live installation Damning Evidence for Hayward Gallery / British Art Show 8.