

Raycroft wrote a novel and an on-line “Diction for Kids” course which will be coming out in January of 2022.īorn and raised in Australia, Naomi began lessons at age 3 with the Suzuki method and has been performing and teaching the violin for over 25 years. She maintains an active and full studio at MacEwan’s Alberta College Conservatory of Music and is also on the faculty of The King's University College where she teaches voice, diction and vocal pedagogy. Her students consistently excel at local, provincial and national festivals. Many of her students have performed with the Edmonton Youth Orchestra, in local, provincial and national musical theatre productions, with the Edmonton Opera, Opera Pacific and in national and international opera houses. She regularly shares her experience and knowledge in masterclasses, workshops and through adjudicating festivals throughout Western Canada. She is an avid performer of new music and recently performed the World Premiere of “Four Songs, Op.15” by Joseph Lai. Raycroft performed in the Edmonton Fringe megahit “ Propylene Glycol, Maltodextrin, Retinol Palmitate and Other Words I don't Understand Like Love ”, which also toured throughout Alberta in June and July 2015 and in 2019 performed the role of Signora Naccarelli in Walterdale Theatre’s “The Light in the Piazza”. For three years, she performed the role of Mother with “edmonton coOPERAtive’ during their Christmas performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors. She has worked with world renowned conductors and directors. She has performed with Edmonton Opera and many local symphony orchestras.


Elizabeth Raycroft, soprano, trained in Edmonton, Houston and in Vienna.
