ARTIST PROFILE:
Aimee Banks

Aimee Banks is a 22 year old Soprano from Galway, Ireland.

She graduated with honours first class in her Bachelor of Music Performance under the tutelage of Kathleen Tynan, Head of Opera and Vocal Studies and répétiteur Dearbhla Collins at RIAM, Dublin.

She is the winner of the Junior Class of the Charles Wood International Song competition 2023, The Irene Sandford Award and Bursary 2022, The Birr Lions Club Bursary at Birr Festival of Music 2022. Aimee was also a finalist in the Veronica Dunne Bursary for Young Irish Singers 2023

Aimee has performed in prestigious venues from Carnegie Hall New York to the National Concert Hall and was invited to perform at Ann Murray’s Lifetime Achievement Award Gala Concert, as  well as a recital for Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 'Classics at Christmas' 23’.

Aimee debuted as the young Giordano Bruno in Roger Doyle’s Opera, 'Heresy', where she received commendation from Opera World, The Irish Times and Opera Today. She played the roles of Amore and Damigella in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Damigella in RIAM Opera’s production of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina. She was a member of the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Chorus 2023 in Macbeth.

In 2024 she played the titular role of Cendrillion by Viardot and is also one of the UCH Limerick Rising Stars for 2024.