With a great varied discography for one so young, Daisy has released music with classical crossover vocal group All Angels, a Jazz renditions project (both through Sony)… and now is very much making her way as an independent singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist with some wonderful pop folk songs to her credit.
Daisy Chute (born 7 August 1989)[16] is from Edinburgh. She studied at St Mary’s Music School Edinburgh, where she was a chorister at St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral and Loretto School[3] and began her performing career at the age of nine as the young Cosette in the touring production of Les Misérables. At the age of thirteen she appeared as a young Judy Garland in Stars in Their Eyes Kids, and made her first appearance on the Edinburgh Fringe. At fifteen she recorded her debut album, Simply Jazz after she performed with a trio at a jazz cabaret show at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival and Edinburgh Fringe. A track from her Simply Jazz album was played by Humphrey Lyttelton on his BBC Radio 2 Best of Jazz show making Chute the youngest performer to ever be showcased on his show. Chute finished her secondary schooling at the Purcell School of Music in Bushey, Hertfordshireon full scholarship, where she studied voice, piano and composition and gained 3 A’s at A level examinations.[17] In 2005 she was a joint winner of a Scottish songwriting competition for the music festival Burnsong, with her song, Promises to Keep. All the winning songs were performed professionally and broadcast live on BBC Radio Scotland.[18]
After meeting composer Howard Goodall at the Royal Albert Hall’s School Proms where she was fronting Loretto School ensemble, she was asked to sing on his television show, How Music Works[17] where she performed the Shaker song “’Tis A Gift To Be Simple” with Anastacia Nosobin on guitar on the first programme of the series.[19] Howard Goodall recommended Daisy for inclusion in ALL ANGELS. She also recorded the theme tune for the BBC Radio series What is Melody written by Dr Richard Niles.[citation needed]
In June 2006 she was a “Highly Commended” finalist in the joint BBC Proms and The Guardian newspaper Young Composer Competition.[20]
On 24 September 2006 she performed at Wigmore Hall in London,[21] giving a solo recital of Alec Wilder songs. She was signed to Universal Classics and Jazz (UCJ) on the day she turned seventeen, as part of All Angels.[17] Chute has also had a brief stint presenting the CBBC news programme, Newsround at the Pop Poll Awards and interviewed Ronan Keating, ‘Billie Piper and Westlife.[citation needed] In summer 2008, she was featured in Highland Heartbeat, a Scottish music special filmed by American broadcaster PBS and broadcast throughout the USA in the Spring of 2009.[citation needed] She performed last year touring the music societies as guest vocalist with classical guitarist, Simon Thacker and Camerata Ritmata.
In 2008 Chute won the Scottish Music Centre’s Young Composer’s competition.[citation needed]
She has now received a Bachelor of Music degree at King’s College, University of London.[citation needed]
Daisy Chute has since returned to her American/Scottish roots and spends most of her time songwriting in the Folk/Americana genre and playing sold-out venues and festivals like Glastonbury. When she’s not recording for her own project, you can hear her vocals and orchestrations on countless soundtracks for films, TV shows, games and for bands like Radiohead and Two Door Cinema Club.[22] Working with top orchestras in London (LMO, LCO, LSO) and at top studios (Abbey Road, Air, Angel), she has contributed to soundtracks including The Sims 4, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, The Snowman and the Snowdog, Cleaning Up, David Attenborough’s Alive at the Natural History Museum, and BAFTA-nominated The Informer, Athena, Shaun the Sheep and BAFTA-winning Theeb and Phantom Thread[23] and many more.
She appeared in the Danny Boyle/Richard Curtis feature film Yesterday as an onstage ukulele player at Wembley and vocalist on the soundtrack in 2019.[24]
Daisy is the co-founder of HEARD Collective[25] – an artist collective who promote and support women in music , and the co-writer of COVEN – a gig theatre show about witches set to tour in 2020.
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