‘A name to watch’ (The Times), Jess Dandy was nominated for a 2021 Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the category of Young Artist. She opened the First Night of the BBC Proms under Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra to critical acclaim. Career highlights include performing with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Roman que at Carnegie Hall, New York and Palau de la Musicà, Barcelona, as well as numerous appearances in recital at Wigmore Hall and on BBC Radio 3. Jess is a long-time duo partner of Dylan Perez, with whom she won the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform in 2018. She is also the co-founder of SongPath, a mental health initiative which helps participants creatively connect to nature on musical walking trails in her native Cumbria and beyond.