Miranda Ostler completed her Masters in Vocal Performance with Distinction at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in June 2024. She studied under Sophie Grimmer and Robert Bottriell, and was the Kathleen Roberts Vocal Scholar. She also won the 2022 Paul Simm Opera Prize for the most promising student in opera. For Trinity Laban Opera, she has played Fenena in Verdi Nabucco (scenes, April 2024); Female Chorus in Britten The Rape of Lucretia (scenes, April 2023); the lead role (Barbara herself!) in Strozzi!, Jennifer Hamilton’s jukebox opera of works by Barbara Strozzi at Blackheath Halls (July 2022); and created the role of Kael in Edward Jessen’s new operatic sonic theatre work, Syllable (January 2022). Other recent operatic appearances include a role in the premiere production of Luciana Perc’s Film Performance at the Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival; Third Shepherd in Blow Venus & Adonis with Blackheath Halls Opera, Chérubin in scenes from Massenet Chérubin and Comtesse in Milhaud La mère coupable, and Cherubino in Puzzle Piece Opera’s online production of Mozart The Marriage of Figaro.

Miranda greatly relishes working with composers: Miranda was the vocal soloist on Julian Marshall’s multi-laurelled dance-film Yearning, and provides backing vocals as part of The Rupa Ensemble on his The Angel in the Forest disc with James Gilchrist and cellists from the Philharmonia Orchestra. She sing and speaks in multiple languages on Rebecca Galian Castello’s album The Undernetting, and has enjoyed varied session work (including with the Eric Whitacre Singers and the London Contemporary Orchestra) at Abbey Road, Air and Strongroom Studios, London. Miranda has recorded several recent discs with the London Choral Sinfonia and Michael Waldron, and sings with the BBC Singers on an ad-hoc basis, most recently at Sedburgh Music Festival under David Hill. She is a member of The Ruffians, a new music collective and upper voice vocal trio, specialising in improvisation and unaccompanied music by composers of marginalised identities. The Ruffians were recently highly commended at the 2023 Gladys Puttick Memorial Improvisation Competition, and performed at Nozstock Festival in July 2024.

Her recent concert soloist work has had a very baroque flavour: the annual sell-out Handel Messiah at Smith Square Hall with Platinum Consort, Platinum 415 and Scott Inglis-Kidger; Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium for the German Choir of London and Barbara Höfling; and Bach St John Passion and numerous cantatas for the Oxford Bach Soloists and Tom Hammond-Davies, with whom she was an inaugural choral scholar (2018-19). She also formed one of the six voices of Platinum Consort for a concert of Victoria’s Requiem 1605 at St James’s Piccadilly (March 2023). Miranda has performed Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore for Eynsham Choral Society and Stuart Dunlop; Handel Dixit Dominus with The Iona Consort and Benedict Lewis-Smith; multiple performances of a one-voice-per-part Bach St Matthew Passion and Monteverdi Vespers for The Bishop’s Consort and David Stancliffe; and Filia in Carissimi Jepthe for Musica Antica Rotherhithe and Oliver Doyle. Miranda also deputises at churches around London, including Royal Hospital Chelsea, St Stephen’s Gloucester Road, and St Magnus the Martyr London Bridge. Miranda holds an undergraduate honours degree in Music from University College, Durham in 2015, where she was a choral scholar.

Miranda is also Assistant Director of Platinum Consort, and works as a freelance graphic designer.