Hong-Kong soprano Waimay Yau studied at East Sussex Academy of Music in Lewes and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was awarded First Prize at the Louis Watt Competition in London (2014). She also won the 13th Hungarian Music Competition in Bucharest (2017) in which she was awarded a recital-appearance at the Collegium Hungaricum in Vienna in December 2017.
She has performed multiple roles in operas by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Offenbach, Puccini and Wagner. In 2019, she performed as Wellgunde in “Das Rheingold, Act I Scene I” by Wagner and as Marcellina in "Le Nozze di Figaro" by Mozart as part of Trinity Laban Opera Scenes. In 2018, she performed as Esther in "Esther (1718)" by Handel in London, and as Norina in "Don Pasquale" by Donizetti as part of Royal Academy Opera Scenes. In 2016, she performed the role Messagiera in Monteverdi’s "L’Orfeo" with the Guildford Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Waimay appeared as a soprano soloist at Coventry Cathedral in "Ein Deutsches Requiem" by Brahms (2018), "Mass in Ab" by Schubert (2017) and in "Requiem in D minor” by Mozart in Lewes (2013).
She has performed in many prestigious venues such as Royal Festival Hall, Glyndebourne Opera House, Coventry Cathedral, Hackney Empire, Wigmore Hall, The Duke's Hall Royal Academy of Music, Neresheim Abbey, Cantacuzino Palace in Bucharest, Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels and China Exchange London. She has also performed in Austria, France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Romania, Germany, Hungary and Hong Kong.
She has performed multiple roles in operas by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Offenbach, Puccini and Wagner. In 2019, she performed as Wellgunde in “Das Rheingold, Act I Scene I” by Wagner and as Marcellina in "Le Nozze di Figaro" by Mozart as part of Trinity Laban Opera Scenes. In 2018, she performed as Esther in "Esther (1718)" by Handel in London, and as Norina in "Don Pasquale" by Donizetti as part of Royal Academy Opera Scenes. In 2016, she performed the role Messagiera in Monteverdi’s "L’Orfeo" with the Guildford Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Waimay appeared as a soprano soloist at Coventry Cathedral in "Ein Deutsches Requiem" by Brahms (2018), "Mass in Ab" by Schubert (2017) and in "Requiem in D minor” by Mozart in Lewes (2013).
She has performed in many prestigious venues such as Royal Festival Hall, Glyndebourne Opera House, Coventry Cathedral, Hackney Empire, Wigmore Hall, The Duke's Hall Royal Academy of Music, Neresheim Abbey, Cantacuzino Palace in Bucharest, Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels and China Exchange London. She has also performed in Austria, France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Romania, Germany, Hungary and Hong Kong.
