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| Sarah Blood | July 06 | |
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| Isabelle Brazier Jones info here shortly | October 04 | |
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| Anna Kirby read medicine at Cambridge and whilst there won a
choral scholarship to Christ's College, studying with Felicity Cook. On moving to London, she sang with the Holst
Singers and Pegasus chamber choir, and has sung solos in Handel's Dixit Dominus and Messiah, Brahms' German
Requiem, Faure's Requiem, Haydn's Nelson Mass and Howell's Requiem in venues
including St John's Smith Square, St James' Piccadilly and St Martin's-in-the-Fields.
On the opera stage she has sung with Morley Opera School, performing Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte. She currently studies with Marion Studholme |
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| Katherine Manley | November 05 | |
| Nicola Mills hails from Lancashire. She studied at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Patricia MacMahon and was supported by The Countess of Munster Musical Trust and The
Lawrence Atwell Charity. Nicola broadcasts regularly with the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service Singers, and sings with Ex Cathedra in Birmingham. She has performed in many of the leading venues throughout the UK including The Bridgewater Hall, St Martin in the Fields, The Albert Hall. She also gives concerts as part of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now! scheme both in London and the North West. |
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| Jordene Thomas originally trained in Musical Theatre at the London Studio Centre. She made her professional debut in the musical Showboat
with the Austrian State Opera, following this with productions at the London
Palladium and with Opera North. Jordene toured with the Almeida production of The Secret Garden and also with Pegasus' UK tour of Bizet's Carmen, in which she played Michaela, and which was performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Jordene's operatic roles include, Violetta (Traviata), Lady Macbeth, Fiordiligi (Cosi fan Tutte) and Treemonisha. Her TV credits include the BBC's Cry the Beloved Country, London Tonight, and, to critical acclaim, the South Bank Show.
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| Olivia Robinson info here shortly | October 04 | |
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| Christopher Ainslie | November 05 | |
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| Laura Dollin info here shortly | October 04 | |
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| Patricia Helen Orr was a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music studying with Margaret Kingsley. Patricia had already received a first class Music degree from Napier University and a first class Law and French Language dress from Glasgow University.
Concerts: Britten, The Rape of Lucretia (Bianca) for the Benjamin Britten International Opera School; Bach, Christmas Oratorio, Discantus Singers and Baroque Orchestra, London; Mozart, Requiem and Solemn Vespers with the Edinburgh Singers, Greyfriars' Kirk, Edinburgh; Handel Messiah with the Mosaique ensemble, Hamburg |
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| Lorna Perry info here shortly | December 07 | |
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| Zoe South | December 07 | |
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| Anna Stephany | February 06 | |
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| Joanna Tomlinson | May 08 | |
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| Kaspar von Weber info here shortly | December 06 | |
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| Tenors | ||
| David del Strother info here shortly | December 06 | |
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| Iain Rhodes info here shortly | December 06 | |
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| Ben Thapa | December 07 | |
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| Nathan Vale | December 07 | November 05 |
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| Baritones - Basses | ||
| Håkan Ekenäs | December 06 | |
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| Thomas Guthrie | October 04 | |
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| David Henderson info here shortly | December 06 | |
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| John Mackenzie | December 07 | |
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| Instrumentalists - Conductors | ||
| Meherbah Gillet - Double Bass info here shortly | December 07 | |
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| Sinead Hayes (Conductor) gained a BMus at City
University, London and studies violin with Gerhard Schmidt at the
Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She commenced her conducting studies with Paul Sarcich at Morley College, London, and subsequently studied with Alan Hazeldine and Paul Stark. In June 2005 she participated in the Advanced Professional Conducting Academy in Bacau, Romania. In 2005 she founded the Vitalis Sinfonia, a repertoire and concerto orchestra. Sinead regularly conducts the Maestri orchestra - the conductor's orchestra in London. Other conducting engagements include the Imperial College String Ensemble, Surrey Sinfonietta Repertoire Orchestra, City University Wind Ensemble and City University Symphony Orchestra. |
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| Matthew Quenby - Viola | March 05 | |
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| Tamsin Waley-Cohen | March 07 | |
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