for the outstanding quality and scope of the performances and work in any context of an individual singer in the UK between January 2018 and June 2019.

• Carolyn Sampson, soprano
  
• Elaine Mitchener, vocalist
  
• Nina Stemme, soprano

This year's shortlist for Singer was decided by an independent panel drawn from across the music profession comprising:

• Anna Picard, writer
• James Clutton, Director of Opera, Opera Holland Park
• Joseph Middleton, pianist / Director, Leeds Lieder
• Sara Mohr-Pietsch, broadcaster, writer and curator
• Toby Spence, tenor

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