Marie Vassiliou studied Singing and Viola at the Royal College of Music, where she won numerous prizes and the Tagore Gold Medal, as outstanding student of her year.
Marie has performed widely in the UK, including all the major London concert venues, and at such leading festivals as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the BBC Proms.
Known for her versatility she has recently returned from triumphant début recitals in Zurich & the Far East and has broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 4 & Radio France and made several recordings.
In opera she has worked in Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia and the USA, in a wide range of major roles from the baroque to the present day, including: Anne Trulove, Belinda, La Calisto, Gilda, Governess, Ilia, Micaela, Mimi, Nedda, Pamina, Poppea, Tatyana, Theodora, Violetta; as well as Belisa (Holt's Nightingale's to Blame, Austrian premiere) and Mathilda (Westbrook's Cape Gloss, world premiere, one-woman opera written for Marie). Conductors with whom she has worked include: Martyn Brabbins, Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Vernon Handley, Nicholas Kok, Wayne Marshall & Sir David Willcocks.
She has particularly established herself as an interpreter of Baroque & Contemporary music and has performed as a soloist with Janiculum, Purcell Quartet, Composers' Ensemble, Contemporary Consort, Continuum, Endymion and the Philharmonia, giving many premières.
Premieres include works by Dutilleux, Tippett and Judith Weir, as well as works written especially for her by Richard Chew, Anthony Gilbert and Kenneth Hesketh. Engagements have included: Tippett's 'The Heart's Assurance' (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; also Poland premiere at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival), Julian Anderson's 'Seadrift' (BBC Proms season), Anthony Gilbert's 'Beastly Jingles' (RFH with the Philharmonia), Gilbert's 'Long White Moonlight' (Purcell Room with Endymion), Arlene Sierra's 3 Descriptions (ROH Crush Room), Stumbling Over Infinity (opera by Harvey Brough, Linbury Studio, ROH).
She is also a member of the Guildhall School of Music senior vocal coaching staff.