Poppy Shotts graduated with Distinction from the Royal College of Music where she studied with Alison Wells and Caroline Dowdle, and previously the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she studied with Clare Shearer. Her performances at the 2021 Grimeborn Festival awarded her an OFFIE nomination for Best Opera Performance, and a special mention in The Guardian. Passionate about art song, Poppy performed at the Berlin Song Festival with duo partner Marianna Abrahamyan in 2018 and was selected as the winning duo to perform a main stage recital. A 2018 Lies Askonas Finalist, National Mozart Competition and Royal Over-seas League Semi-Finalist, and 2019 Somerset Song Prize Finalist, Poppy was the soprano soloist for the 2020 Naxos recording of Massenet's Visions with the RSNO.

Further solo concert experience includes Peer Gynt with the RPO at the Cadogan Hall, and as recurrent soprano soloist with St. John’s Chamber Orchestra. Poppy returns to perform with St. John’s for a celebration of lieder this autumn. Poppy recently did the voice work for the digital horror opera CROCODILE, which has been picked up for future TV broadcast by Sky Arts. She returned for the production of live immersive performances of the piece last year. Selected to perform for the Queen at the age of eight, Poppy is keen to widen participation and accessibility in the arts and recently performed Pamina in a schools project of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Hull City Hall in collaboration with the Royal Opera House. 

Particularly at home in the baroque, recent performances include a recital of French music with harpsichordist Tiffany Vong and cellist Marina Sanchez Cabello, including repertoire by Élisabeth Jacquett de la Guerre, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and Jean-Phillipe Rameau.

Poppy is the Founder of Showcase Creative Studio, whose mission is to represent character and authenticity in the classical music industry through a modern wave of web design for artists. The Studio fosters a fresh energy that honours and Showcases the individuality of artists, creating space online for what is uniquely them. The Studio has created over 130 Artist websites since Poppy began the project out of lockdown, and it continues to grow to collaborate with orchestras, companies, agencies, and artists worldwide.

Opera credits include Procris Céphale et Procris (Ensemble Orquesta UK premiere 2023) Drusilla L’incoronazione di Poppea (2022 Grimeborn Festival Ensemble OrQuesta) Fiordiligi Così fan tutte (St. Bartholemew’s Chamber Orchestra), L’amour, Zaïde Les Indes Galantes (Ensemble OrQuesta), Oberto Alcina (Ensemble OrQuesta), Madame Goldentrill The Impresario (Pulp Rocket Theatre), Barbarina, Le Nozze di Figaro (RCM Opera School), Susanna The Marriage of Figaro (Matchbox Opera), Dew Fairy Hansel and Gretel (St. Magnus Festival), Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte (2018), and Abigail Williams The Crucible (2019) with Berlin Opera Academy. Poppy joined the chorus of Scottish Opera in 2020, and has since performed in productions of Don Giovanni (2022) and Falstaff (2021) and Carmen (2023). Upcoming performances also include the revival of the 2022 production of L’Incoronazione di Poppea with Ensemble OrQuesta this autumn, where she will perform the role of Drusilla.