Our choir Leader

Daisy Higman

Daisy is a choir leader, composer, voice teacher, singer, lecturer, and theatre maker, who has been leading Plymouth Community Choir since 2023, having previously led the Coffee Cup Choir from 2018-2022. She also leads Soapbox Skylarks, a weekly singing and wellbeing group for parents, based at the Soapbox Children’s Theatre. Daisy regularly runs singing, voice and theatre workshops across the Southwest, including sessions for the Theatre Royal Plymouth, the Barbican Theatre, Tulgey Woods CIC, FarFlung, Above Bounds, Exeter Northcott and The Conscious Sisters.

Daisy originally trained as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and holds an MA (Distinction) in Professional Voice Practice from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she developed her skills as a voice teacher by studying vocal anatomy, voice health, singing pedagogy and performance coaching. Since then, she’s lectured in voice at Bristol Old Vic, Plymouth Conservatoire and Falmouth University (AMATA), as well as working as a private voice coach. In 2021 she trained as a Singing for Lung Health Practitioner with The Musical Breath, and completed the Singing Mamas Community Song Leader training course in 2022. After discovering collaborative vocal improvisations and circle singing at a voice camp prior to the pandemic, she undertook advanced training with Briony Greenhill, and in 2023 she started an intensive body-voice music course with Musica do Circulo. That same year, she became Resident Artist at Drake Music and developed a song-cycle about disability that she performed at the LSO St Lukes.

Identifying as a disabled artist, Daisy is dedicated to leading inclusive, accessible spaces where every singer can thrive. Her work has taken her into schools, community centres, universities, drama schools, colleges, theatres, day centres, yoga studios - even aquariums. She has worked with groups to create albums, demos, podcasts, gigs, installations and shows and has run career development programmes and skills-building workshops for young musicians. She serves, part time, as a Music Support Officer for the Royal National Institute of Blind People and as Learning Officer for the Soapbox Children’s Theatre in Devonport Park.

As a composer, Daisy has written music for theatre, film, dance companies, vocal ensembles, community groups, and of course, choirs. Her work includes sound installations on a double-decker bus, a folk musical about cheese-rolling, a welcome message for extra-terrestrials performed at a satellite station, and the opening ceremony of a travelling museum.