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Introduction
It’s time to step to the front. Our vocal studies department is geared towards helping you define your artistic voice and forge your future.
The possibilities of where you can take your voice are endless and our courses in vocal studies reflect that. We will nurture your individual talent, ensuring everything you do is underpinned by strong, reliable technique. You will have weekly classes including phonetics-based language classes, song classes, stagecraft, workshops, opera and performance tutorials, in addition to your individual vocal studies.
Whether your focus is opera, song or choral repertoire, we have the expertise to prepare you for your professional journey. We work with you, the developing artist, ensuring you enter the professional world confident in your own strengths and abilities.
Jennifer Hamilton, Head of Vocal Studies

Auditions
Our audition process is designed to help us find out about your performance or composition style, interests, and personality. We want to assess whether you have the potential to benefit from our approach, and we aim to provide a positive and friendly atmosphere, allowing you to enjoy yourself.
Courses
Undergraduate Courses
Join our community of global arts collaborators and creators for your undergraduate study. From classical to jazz and popular music, our wide selection of courses seek to redefine musical and performing excellence.
Postgraduate Courses
Lead the arts beyond convention with our postgraduate music courses, with pioneering master’s and diplomas allowing you to challenge musical convention and direct the spotlight.
Teaching & Performance Opportunities
Alongside working with our teachers, who have extensive international performance experience, you will regularly receive coaching from visiting artists through masterclasses and competitions. Recent guests include James Bowman CBE, Barbara Hannigan, James Gilchrist, Susan Bullock, Roger Vignoles, Patricia Bardon, Gidon Saks, Dame Felicity Palmer, Ubaldo Fabbri, Robert Alderson and Christopher Underwood, Nicky Spence and our current International Artist in Voice, Ailish Tynan. We also have an exciting scheme of masterclasses and performances in conjunction with the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme and are working with Welsh National Opera personnel in our Side-by-Side series.
Performance opportunities are numerous. You are encouraged to give solo recitals, take part in internal and external competitions, sing in our many ensembles, and explore opera. Performance venues regularly available to you include the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, St Alfege Church in Greenwich, and Blackheath Halls.
Opera
Each year, we present one opera production, along with three series of opera scenes. As we believe that opera performance skills are core for a range of genres, we offer classes and masterclasses to all vocal students in stagecraft, speech, diction and dialogue, physical expression, combat techniques and stylistic awareness. Our repertoire is wide-ranging and current. Recent productions have included Errollyn Wallen’s ‘Dido’s Ghost’ and Libby Larsen’s ‘Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus’.
Ensembles
Performing in our many ensembles will ensure you develop an understanding of musical styles from Renaissance and Baroque to contemporary music.
Our opera and music theatre productions provide exceptional ensemble experience, and our Chamber Choir, Chorus and specialist vocal ensemble Rubythroat provide outstanding training for the profession. You will also be encouraged to develop your own ensembles, collaborate with our keyboard students, and to work alongside small ensembles of instrumentalists from across our programmes of study.
Find out more about Music Performance Opportunities.
Chapel Choir
We are the world’s only specialist conservatoire with a collegiate chapel choir. The Old Royal Naval College Chapel and its Director of Music, Dr Ralph Allwood MBE, provide an ideal springboard if you wish to work in the UK’s cathedral or church choirs, or indeed follow other choral pathways.
We offer twelve Choral Scholarships annually in conjunction with the Dame Susan Morden Trust and the trustees of the Old Royal Naval College Chapel.

Open Days
Discover your future in Music, Dance, and Musical Theatre at one of our upcoming open days.
We’ll show you how studying at Trinity Laban equips you with the tools to develop your career, build a network and become the artist you want to be.
Staff
Lead Faculty

Jennifer Hamilton
Head of Vocal Studies
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Jennifer Hamilton
Jennifer Hamilton comes from the north of Scotland and trained as a singer at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where she subsequently returned as a Senior Lecturer in the Vocal and Opera Department.
Before returning to the UK to take up her current post of Head of Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban in 2017, she had been acting Head of Vocal, Opera and Drama Department at the TU Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama, having previously been a full-time member of the vocal teaching staff. During her time in Dublin, she was also Programme Leader for both the BMus and BA in Drama programmes.
Biography
She has also been a member of staff at the Royal College of Music London, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Manchester University.
As a performer and director, she has enjoyed the privilege of working with several 20th Century composers including Gian-Carlo Menotti and Hans Werner Henze, and has also directed works, in consultation with the composers, by James MacMillan and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
She is also Artistic Director and Trustee for the Yorke Trust Opera Courses in Norfolk, UK for whom she has directed annual productions of Baroque opera over the last twenty five years.
For Trinity Laban, she has directed many opera scenes as well as full productions of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Thea Musgrave’s A Christmas Carol and Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba. Jennifer’s most recent production for Trinity Laban was Strozzi! – a theatrical piece she devised about the eventful life of composer Barbara Strozzi, incorporating Strozzi’s music with a script written by JH.

Ralph Allwood MBE
Head of ORNC Chapel
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Ralph Allwood MBE
Ralph Allwood MBE DMus was Director of Music at Eton College for 26 years and is now a freelance choral director. He is the Director of the Eton (now Rodolfus) Choral Courses, which he founded in 1980. 9000 8 to 21 year olds have been students on courses over the last 42 years. He co-founded the Junior Choral Courses in 2012, and in recent years has launched courses in Texas, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The Rodolfus choir, made up of the best singers from the courses, has produced over 20 CDs since he founded it in 1982.
Ralph is co-founder and conductor of Inner Voices, a choir made up of singers from state schools in London. He is also Director of Chapel Music and an academic supervisor at Queens’ College Chapel, Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of University College, Durham.
Biography
BA (Dunelm) DMus (Aberdeen)
Hon ARAM, Hon FRSCM, Hon FNMSM
Ralph has conducted choirs for 40 live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, is a judge for the Llangollen Eisteddfod and has written much music heard worldwide on radio and television. He also teaches at his old school, Tiffin.
In 2015 he co-founded the Pimlico Musical Foundation to enable children from Pimlico Primary Schools to sing in choirs, particularly at St Gabriel’s Church. Since then, in addition to their own choirs, Pimlico’s five primary schools have produced a Pimlico Children’s Choir and, since September 2018, a Foundation Choir which sings regular Evensongs in St Gabriel‘s Church.
In 2012 Ralph was awarded a Doctorate of Music by Aberdeen University. He was made MBE in the 2012 New Year’s Honours list. In 2017, the Archbishop of Canterbury presented him with the Thomas Cranmer Award for Music and Worship. – 2012 Ralph Doctorate of Music by Aberdeen University.

Kelvin Lim
Musical Director: Opera Scenes (Postgraduate)
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Kelvin Lim
Kelvin Lim trained at the Royal College of Music and has worked for companies including: the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera Holland Park, Grange Park Opera, English Touring Opera, Longborough Festival, Northern Ireland Opera, Neville Holt, Iford Arts and British Youth Opera. He is Co-Director of Postgraduate Opera (since 2008) and Vocal Coach at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and has coached for ROH Jette Parker and was Senior Vocal Coach for Morley College. He was also conductor for Vox Integra’s Opera Course Italy 2018.
Biography
He has gained recognition in the Wagner repertoire, is official accompanist for the Wagner Competition, recipient of the Bayreuth Bursary Prize and has worked with Anthony Negus on all Wagner operas at Longborough since 2008. Kelvin has accompanied both Sir Thomas Allen and Sir John Tomlinson in recital, and accompanied Sir John Tomlinson and Stuart Skelton on Radio 3’s “In Tune”. He has accompanied masterclasses given by Sir Antonio Pappano, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Dame Josephine Barstow, Nelly Miricioiu and performed at the Wigmore Hall, St Johns Smiths Square, and the Royal Festival Hall Clore Ballroom (as musical director for Opera Forge for the Wagner 200 celebrations in 2013).
He has conducted: Carmen (ROH Education /English Pocket Opera at the Olympic Copperbox Arena) Samson et Dalila, The Turn of the Screw, Norma, Otello, La Fille du Regiment and Acis and Galatea, La Boheme, Così Fan Tutte, Amahl and The Night Visitors, and assisted on: Der Fliegende Holländer (Longborough) Don Giovanni, Un Ballo in Maschera, Albert Herring (Steuart Bedford) Rape of Lucretia (Grimeborn) A Christmas Carol (Musgrave-Trinity Laban).
He was Chorus Master for: Opera Holland Park 2012, Chelsea Opera Group, The Mastersingers and Dorset Opera.

Robert Bottriell
Co-Director: Opera Scenes (Postgraduate)
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Robert Bottriell

Linda Hirst
Academic Staff
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Linda Hirst
Linda Hirst was born and grew up in Huddersfield, and studied flute and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her career began during the early music revival of the early seventies, with Roger Norrington, John Eliot Gardiner and David Munrow. From 1974-78 she was a Swingle Singer, she then co-founded Electric Phoenix. With both groups she travelled the world, leading to work with many living composers, and a solo career of international renown, in particular for her performances and recordings of contemporary music.
Biography
Her operatic roles have included Handel with Nicholas Kraemer, Berlioz with Roger Norrington, Ligeti for La Monnaie, Osborne and Knussen for Glyndebourne, Schoenberg for the Royal Opera House and La Fenice, and in 2013 an improvised opera with Bruce McLean, and Lucie Treacher’s The Fisherman’s Brides for Tête-à-Tête. She has worked extensively with London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherché and Ensemble Intercontemporain, singing Ligeti, Berio, Henze, Knussen, Holt, Weir, Muldowney, Lachenmann among many European and American composers. She has sung at the Edinburgh, Paris, Metz, Holland, Ars Musica festivals and at the BBC Proms and has performed with conductors including Gielen, Nagano, Rattle, Howarth, Masson, Metzmacher and Harding.
Linda’s many recordings include Atom Heart Mother with Pink Floyd, Globokar’s Les Emigrés and Privilege with Ivor Cutler, as well as the solo album Songs Cathy Sang with Diego Masson, early music with Fretwork and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with Richard Hickox, and a recent release by Non-Classical of a live improv night with the Mercury Quartet.
She has been Head of Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban for 20 years; is President of the Kathleen Ferrier Society, a trustee of the Hinrichsen Foundation, a Fellow of Dartington College of Arts and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from Huddersfield University.
Professorial Staff
- Austin Gunn
Austin Gunn
Voice
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Austin Gunn
Austin Gunn made his professional operatic debut as Vorsinger Zaide with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras in the Edinburgh International Festival. Other notable EIF performances include 1st Tenor Soloist Curlew River and Zweite Lehrbube Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Biography
His Scottish Opera debut was covering Don Ottavio Don Giovanni directed by Sir Thomas Allen and conducted by Speranza Scapucci and he performed the role in the unwrap performances throughout Scotland.
His English National Opera debut was Guest John Cage Dinner Party for ENO MusiCircus, and he has returned to ENO many times since. ENO performances include Pliable/Superstition/Celestial Voice cover A Pilgrim’s Progress, Dantine cover The Perfect American, in preproduction workshops and showcases between ENO, The Barbican and the Young Vic as Gizmo 3 The Way Back Home and Security Guard Between Worlds, an ENO Late Shift Recital at the National Portrait Gallery, and he is core tenor for ENO Baylis Know the Show events as Tamino Magic Flute and Alfredo La Traviata, a member of ENO Opera Squad 2015, 2016 & 2017 singing Nanki-Poo The Mikado, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni and Don Basilio Le Nozze di Figaro in schools performances and has appeared as guest soloist with the ENO Community Choir.
Austin made his Portuguese debut in 2017 as Martin in the premiere staging of Hummus by Zad Moultaka and Manager in The Waiter’s Revenge by Stephen Oliver at the Musica Na Fabrica Festival, Lisbon directed by Max Hoehn and his Swiss debut in 2018 as the Spectre in Dvorak’s The Spectre’s Bride in Zürich conducted by Philipp Mestrinel.
Other operatic roles for comapnies including Longborough Festival Opera, Berwick Festival Opera, Tete a Tete Festival, Opera Anywhere, InterOpera, include Don Jose Carmen, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Beppe Rita, Aubrey Der Vampyr, Dormont La Scala di Seta,Bobby The Fisherman’s Brides, Manager The Waiter’s Revenge, Frederick Pirates of Penzance, Nanki-Poo The Mikado, Ralph Rackstraw HMS Pinafore, Martin Hummus, Bardolfo Falstaff, Middle Son The Vanishing Bridegroom and Goffredo Rinaldo.
Austin appears regularly throughout the UK and in France, Sweden and Italy in concert in a vast array of repertoire. As a recitalist he has performed ‘Tennyson’s Lyricism and the Composer’s Response’ at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle, and ‘Languorous Ecstasy’, a selection of works by Libertine poets, at Hull University and a selection of Victorian and Edwardian medicinal song for the VIP relaunch of The Wellcome Collection in London. He is currently preparing a recital of American art song and a recital of 21st Century music.
Recording and film credits to date include Montague John Cage Dinner Party, Maxwell Davies Solstice of Light, 1st Tenor Soloist Curlew River, Zweite Lehrbube Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg all for BBC Radio 3, a recital of song for American television network PBS, and as the singing voice of a German soldier in the television series ‘Band of Brothers’ directed by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. - Eamonn Mulhall
Eamonn Mulhall
Voice
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Eamonn Mulhall
Irish tenor Eamonn Mulhall enjoys a sustained performing and teaching career. He has sung at some of Europe’s most prestigious opera houses, festivals and concert stages, including La Fenice Venice, Edinburgh Festival, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, Wexford Festival, National Theatre Prague, English National Opera, Opera Rara Kraków, Royal Ballet and Opera Linbury, Irish National Opera and National Theatre London. He trained at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio.
Biography
Widely sought-after as a teacher, his students benefit from his keen interest in voice pedagogy, vocal function and science as a means to facilitate each singer’s wide gamut of vocal colours and expressive possibilities where story-telling through text and music are compelling. Former undergraduate students have gone onto the Juilliard New York and the Guildhall London while postgraduate students have gained employment at Opéra national de Paris and Bayreuth Festspiele. He teaches at Trinity Laban, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and acts as external examiner at TU Dublin.
- Harry Sever
Harry Sever
Voice
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Harry Sever
British conductor and composer Harry Sever studied at Oxford University and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music.
Recent and upcoming engagements include Carmen (Opera North), Fantasio (Garsington), La Traviata (Opera Holland Park), Cendrillon (Bampton Classical Opera), The Nutcracker (Peter Schaufuss Ballet), as well as concerts with Welsh National Opera and projects with The Royal Danish Opera, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and British Youth Opera.
Biography
This season he takes up the position of Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow at Longborough Festival Opera, conducting performances of Siegfried, and working towards their Ring Cycle in 2024. A finalist in both the LSO’s Donatella Flick and Athens International Conducting Competitions, he has worked on the music staff at ENO, Den Jyske Opera, and the Grange Festival, collaborating with orchestras including the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symfoniorkester, and the Britten Sinfonia, and has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and the Barbican.
Harry’s recent composition highlights include commissions for the Oxford Lieder Festival and the Wigmore Hall, and his musicals James and the Giant Peach, Guess How Much I Love You, and Mr. Men & Little Miss have toured internationally with Sell-A-Door Productions. Other theatre scores include The Kreutzer Sonata (Arcola Theatre), Sleeping Beauty and My Mother Said I Never Should (The Theatre Chipping Norton), King Lear, As You Like It, and Love’s Labours Lost (The Minack Theatre). For the screen, credits include Stalker (CBS), and Rossum’s Universal Robots for BBC Radio 4 .
- Joan Rodgers
Joan Rodgers
Voice
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Joan Rodgers
Internationally renowned, Joan Rodgers is equally established in opera, concert, and as a recitalist. She has appeared in concert with conductors including Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Charles Mackerras, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Simon Rattle and is a regular guest at the BBC Proms. Operatic engagements have included engagements at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Opera North and Glyndebourne in Britain, Paris, Munich, Brussels, Amsterdam and Vienna in Europe, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Joan Rodgers has also appeared in recital throughout Europe and the USA including London, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Moscow and New York. Joan Rodgers’ recordings include Mozart’s Da Ponte trilogy with Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic, The Turn of the Screw (Virgin), solo discs of Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Wolf (Hyperion), The Creation (Philips), Rachmaninov songs with Howard Shelley (Chandos) and Shostakovich’s Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok with the Beaux Arts Trio (Warner Classics) and most recently a recording of songs by Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich and Britten (Hyperion).
Biography
Engagements have included the world premiere of Xavier Dayer’s Mémoires d’une jeune fille triste in Geneva, Gianni Schicchi for Covent Garden with Richard Jones and Antonio Pappano, and Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin for English National Opera. She has also given various recitals and concerts across the UK and Europe including performances with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Goldsmiths Choral Union, as well as at a number of festivals: the Edinburgh International Festival; Derry City of Song Festival; St Magnus; Oxford Lieder; and Brighton, Ryedale, Carlisle, Norfolk and Norwich and Buxton Festivals. Other performances have taken place at Chichester Festivities, Kings Place, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, King’s College, Cambridge, Dartington International Summer School and in Paris, Vienna, Aarhus, Moscow, Barbados and Ohio.
Joan Rodgers received the Royal Philharmonic Society award as Singer of the Year for 1997, the 1997 Evening Standard Award for outstanding performance in opera for her performance as The Governess in the Royal Opera’s production of The Turn of the Screw and an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Liverpool University in July 2005. Joan Rodgers was awarded the CBE in the 2001 New Year’s Honours List.
- Lynton Atkinson
Lynton Atkinson
Voice
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Lynton Atkinson
In opera, Lynton made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in Fidelio and having created the role of Sir Ywain in Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Gawain, became a contract principal artist. Since then he has sung the principal roles in L’elisir d’amore, La traviata, The Pearl Fishers, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and The Merry Widow, throughout the UK, Europe, including Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Turin, Trieste, Dublin, and Berlin. Lynton’s concert career has taken him to many major centres and european festivals including performances with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, the Hallé and Ulster Orchestras, the Göttingen Festival and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in the Musikverein Vienna, with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Milan, and Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers in venues such as Westminster Abbey, Winchester and Norwich Cathedrals, Cologne’s Philharmonie, Berlin’s Neues Schauspielhaus, Disney Hall in Los Angeles and at the Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals. In the USA he sang the title roles in Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Boston Baroque to critical acclaim. He sang Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and The Apostles with the Bonn Symphony Orchestra and Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons in the Stresa Festival. With René Jacobs, Lynton performed the St. Matthew Passion and sang Benjamin Britten’s St Nicholas to acclaim in Berlin’s Konzerthaus. Having sung twice at the Three Choirs Festival, Lynton has performed Elijah both with Willard White and also with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Biography
Lynton received his early musical training under George Guest in the choir of St. John’s College Cambridge. Having graduated in Music, he continued his vocal studies with David Mason and Gita Denise.
Lynton teaches singing at Winchester College and Trinity Laban in addition to his busy private teaching practice.
In his solo recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Virgin Classics, Meridian, Telarc, BBC TV and Radio, Channel 4 and Classic FM he has appeared with artists such as Dame Janet Baker, José Carreras, Richard Bonynge, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Edward Downes, Richard Hickox, René Jacobs, and the King’s Consort. He has recorded works by composers including Respighi, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Strauss, Verdi, and Lehár. Lynton has been a regular guest soloist in broadcasts with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
With Sir Charles Mackerras he recorded Entführung, a production by Elijah Moshinsky filmed in Istanbul and available on a BBC DVD.
Lynton won the Richard Tauber Competition, which enabled him to study in Vienna with Anton Dermota, and was a prizewinner in the Alfredo Kraus International Singing Competition.
- Mary Wiegold
Mary Wiegold
Voice
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Mary Wiegold
Mary Wiegold is known for her committed performances of new music and has given over two hundred premieres. She has had many works written for her and in 1989 she started collecting a songbook of works by composers ranging from Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Milton Babbitt to Elvis Costello and Keith Tippett. She has sung in the festivals at Aldeburgh, the Almeida, Bratislava, Brighton, Cheltenham, Glasgow Musica Nova, Huddersfield, Montepulciano and many others.
Biography
Opera appearances include the Royal Opera House’s Garden Venture and the first performances of Birtwistle’s opera Yan Tan Tethera with Opera Factory/London Sinfonietta. In 1989 she founded the Composers Ensemble with the composer John Woolrich. With them she has given concerts throughout Britain and overseas (including an Arts Council Contemporary Music Network Tour of her Songbook), set up and led numerous creative education project and made many recordings.
Throughout her career she has been deeply involved in educational work in Britain and abroad. Her work with Gemini in the 1980’s included major projects in Merseyside, East Anglia, for the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network and the Regional Contemporary Network. She has also worked for many other major organisations including Kent Opera, English National Opera’s Baylis Programme, the English Sinfonia and La Caixa Summer School in Barcelona as well as many visits to Dartington International Summer School.
- Neil Baker
Neil Baker
Voice
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Neil Baker
Neil Baker studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he was the recipient of all the major song prizes. He continued his studies in London at the Royal College of Music and subsequently with Margreet Honig in Amsterdam.
Neil began his professional singing career in the Glyndebourne Festival chorus and went on to make his international operatic debut with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre in the role of Harald in Wagner’s Die Feen at the Châtelet Theatre, Paris. Other performances with Maestro Minkowski include Le nozze di Figaro at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Baden Baden and Tokyo. His many operatic roles include Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Araspe (Tolomeo), Melisso (Alcina), Escamillo (Carmen), Marco (Gianni Schicchi) and Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro).
Biography
Neil continued his collaboration with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, appearing in major venues around Europe including the Salle Pleyel (Paris), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), the Barbican (London), and Grenoble as a soloist in Purcell’s Hail Bright Cecilia, which culminated in a critically acclaimed performance at the Salzburg Festival. An accomplished concert performer, Neil’s notable appearances include Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Britten’s Cantata Misericordium at St John’s Smith Square, London, Mozart’s Requiem, which was performed throughout Portugal under the direction of Jaap ter Linden, and recitals at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Alongside his performing career, in 2003 Neil began teaching fellow singers who sought his advice. He has since enjoyed a successful career as both a singer and a voice teacher, but his reputation as a voice teacher has grown so rapidly that he now devotes his time primarily to his teaching. Neil has acquired a formidable and important list of students both from the UK and abroad many of whom can be found performing on the world’s greatest stages: the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London), The Metropolitan Opera (New York), La Scala, (Milan), Chicago Lyric Opera, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Opera Australia, Polish National Opera (Warsaw), La Monnaie (Brussels), Opera National de Paris, Opéra de Lille, the Staatsoper Berlin and the Bregenz Festival. While Neil enjoys his work with established and experienced singers, he also felt a desire to work with young singers at the beginning of their studies when the development of a strong technique is absolutely vital. In light of this, Neil became a member of the professorial staff at Trinity Laban in 2013.
- Panaretos Kyriatzidis
Panaretos Kyriatzidis
Voice
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Panaretos Kyriatzidis
Panaretos Kyriatzidis is increasingly sought after as a collaborative performer, vocal coach and musical director. A Britten Pears young artist, Panaretos has won the Gerald Moore Award, Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, the Emmy Destinn Awards Accompanist prize and the duo prize at the London Song Festival.
Biography
Panaretos (aka Pan) completed his postgraduate studies in piano performance under Martino Tirimo and Eugene Asti at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he was subsequently appointed junior fellow in accompaniment. During this time he was awarded the David Gosling Prize for excellence in accompaniment/collaborative performance and twice the John Thompson Prize for chamber music, and he won first prize in the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Competition, the English Song Competition, The Leonard Smith & Felicity Young Duo Competition, the Il Circolo Solo Piano Competition and The Cavatina Chamber Music Competition. He also accompanied rising stars Nardus Williams and James Newby in their respective wins at the Trinity Laban Gold Medal Award.
Between 2016-2018 Panaretos musically directed four opera productions for the King’s Head Theatre, which garnered high praise from press and audiences alike, an Off-West-End Award/Offie (Tosca), and an Olivier Award nomination for best opera production, following a transfer to the Trafalgar Studios at the West End (La bohéme).
Panaretos has performed in many of the UK’s most prestigious venues and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. He is a member of staff at Trinity Laban and at Morley College, musical director of St Paul’s Opera in Clapham and co-founder of The Opera Makers, a new dynamic collective aspiring to broaden the potential of fringe and studio opera.
A native of the Greek island of Thassos, Panaretos holds a BA in Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is an avid food lover.
- Patricia Rozario
Patricia Rozario
Voice
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Patricia Rozario
Patricia Rozario, OBE is a Bombay-born British soprano.
Born and educated in Bombay, India, she went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
She has performed at the English National Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and the Garsington Opera in England, and has performed on stage across Europe in Aix-en-Provence, Brussels, Frankfurt, Ghent, Innsbruck, Lyon and Stuttgart.
One of her most notable appearances was across Europe in The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by Sir Georg Solti. She has also given concerts in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and as part of The Proms in England, and abroad in Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Halle, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Cologne, Leipzig, Madrid, New York City, Paris, Riga, Rouen, Strasbourg, Vienna, Winterthur and Zürich. She performed in a production of Elvis Costello’s Meltdown.
Rozario has made numerous recordings of the works of composer John Tavener. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2001. Rozario is currently a professor at the Royal College of Music, where she is a member of the Vocal Faculty.
- Teresa Cahill
Teresa Cahill
Voice
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Teresa Cahill
Teresa Cahill’s career began at Glyndebourne with performances of Die Zauberflöte (First Lady) and later Falstaff (Alice Ford). She has sung over 100 performances at Covent Garden including Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) under Carlos Kleiber, Elvira/Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), which she sang at La Scala, Milan. Her many concert appearances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has also worked with Riccardo Chailly to open the 1987 Berlin Festival, with Michael Gielen at the Vienna Festival and with Eliahu Inbal in Frankfurt (recorded by Denon), and performed in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Tennstedt and the London Philharmonic. She also performed in Sir Michael Tippett’s Symphony No. 3 conducted by the composer himself, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and worked with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Gary Bertini. Her recording debut was with Klemperer and her CDs include music by Mozart, Elgar, Strauss, Mahler, Lutyens and Saxton.
Biography
Teresa is regularly on the jury of many national and international voice competitions including the National Mozart Competition, the Kathleen Ferrier, the Royal Overseas League and the International Vocal Concours in S’Hertogenbosch, where she also gives masterclasses. Other masterclasses include the Royal Academy of Music, Oxford University and Dartington Summer School.
- Dominic Ellis-Peckham
Dominic Ellis-Peckham
Visiting Artist in Choral Training
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Dominic Ellis-Peckham
Dominic Ellis-Peckham is a conductor of immense energy and focus, delivering ‘gutsy, raw and exciting performances’. He has received critical acclaim for his dedication to the Renaissance and Baroque era, whilst also passionately championing new works and delivering inspirational collaborations, specialising in choral music.
Praised internationally for his ‘freshness and vitality’ in the direction choral and orchestral performances and recordings, Dominic holds an array of positions, including Guest Conductor for Aldeburgh Music, Music Director of London Oriana Choir, Assistant Music Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Chamber Choir of London, Artistic Director of The Fourth Choir, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford and Guest Chorus Master for The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Biography
Dominic is Chorus Director and Visiting Artist for Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Guest Conductor for The Royal Opera House Big Sing programme and Presenter for The Royal Opera House BP Big Screens and Insight Evenings, interviewing Sir Antonio Pappano, Eva-Marie Westbrook and many others. He conducted The London Mozart Players in a Royal Gala performance for Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th birthday, including a world premiere by Roxanna Panufnik.
Previous positions include: Artistic Director of Ulster Youth Choir; Guest Conductor of the National Youth Training Choir of Scotland; Visiting Conductor for Eton Choral Course; Artistic Director for The Royal Opera House’s Youth Ensemble ‘RM19’; Chorus Master for English National Opera (during which Dominic received critical acclaim from The New York Times for his ‘powerful and accomplished chorus’ and from The Guardian for being ‘superbly prepared’ for the world premiere of Julian Anderson’s Thebans).
Commended by reviewers as ‘a latent star’ Dominic has prepared choristers and choruses for The Bach Choir, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Youth Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He regularly conducts The Meridian Sinfonia and London Mozart Players and performs on leading UK concert stages, including the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Usher Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Wigmore Hall. Forever a collaborator, Dominic has worked alongside Stéphane Denève, Sir Richard Hickox, Bernard Labadie, Edward Gardner OBE, Simon Halsey CBE, David Hill, Robert Ziegler, Christopher Bell, Vassily Sinaisky, Sir David Willcocks CBE, Lorin Maazel, Stefan Bevier and John Rutter CBE.
Internationally renown as a choral specialist and for his pioneering educational work, Dominic appears regularly on TV and radio as a presenter and choral expert, most notably for BBC 2, BBC Radio 3 & 4 and SkyArts. In 2016 he published his first book with Bloomsbury Publishing entitled Inspire Your Choir and released an anthology of his arrangements and compositions in Autumn 2018. Recent appearances and performances have taken him to Kenya, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar, Singapore, Nepal, Bangkok, the Netherlands, Kuala Lumpur, the USA and China. Keen to promote and support new music, Dominic has conducted an array of highly acclaimed world premieres, notably Oliver Searle’s Pride, Poverty and Pianos for BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Toby Young’s Love and Harmony, three premieres by Cheryl Frances-Hoad for London Oriana Choir, Alexander Campkin’s I Watched The Dying Light for London Mozart Players and Kerry Andrew’s Who We Are for the Royal Albert Hall. Dominic works closely with the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors (BASCA) and in 2014 was invited to be Chair of the Choral Category for The British Composer Awards. In 2016 Dominic launched Five15 – a ground-breaking new musical venture, championing women composers’ own choral music, developing a legacy of commissions, workshops and masterclasses, aiming to inspire generations to come.
A talented composer and arranger himself, Dominic’s recent premieres include works for the Globe Theatre, the National Youth Jazz Collective, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, the Royal Albert Hall and Fusionopolis, Singapore.
Recent engagements include the world premiere of Alexander Campkin’s The Ghost of Shadwell Stairs at London’s iconic Brunel Tunnels, The Royal Opera’s La traviata Big Screens, performances of Kingdom Hearts in London, Los Angeles, New York and Singapore, a live broadcast for BBC Music Day 2017, The Seeker for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and guest conductor appearances in Hong Kong and New Zealand.Engagements this season include: Mentor and Guest Conductor for Tenebrae’s Associate Artists, Guest Conductor for The Cathedral Choristers of Britain National Concerts and Workshops, the 2018 Opera Gala for The Rainhill Festival, a Far East tour of Bach and Vivaldi with The Chamber Choir of London, Guest Conductor for St Martin-in-the-Fields Fellows, Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master for La bohème for Stones Opera and Straßenchor, Berlin, EUROTREFF Festival 2019, live broadcasts for BBC Music Day, the world premiere of Rebecca Dale’s Nox Perpetua with London Mozart Players, Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D minor with Meridian Sinfonia, Brahms’ Symphony No. 4, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro for Dartington International Festival and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms at Blackheath Halls. Dominic joins the music staff as Chorus Master of Opera Holland Park in 2019.
Dominic’s acclaimed ensemble Chamber Choir of London have released a series of new singles all available on iTunes, Spotify and other music services.
German Language Coach
- Andrew Matthews-Owen
Andrew Matthews-Owen
Vocal Coach
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Andrew Matthews-Owen
Described as “an immaculate accompanist” (BBC Music Magazine), pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen enjoys a busy career partnering some of the outstanding artists of our time on the concert platform, commercial recordings and broadcasts, and as a coach.
Specialising in vocal accompaniment, Andrew has partnered Patricia Bardon, Susan Bickley, Claire Booth, Susan Bullock, Anne Sophie Duprels, Rebecca Evans, Helen Field, Gareth Brynmor John, Natalya Romaniw, Nicky Spence, Elgan Llyr Thomas, Elin Manahan Thomas, Katie Van Kooten and Sir Willard White, at many major venues and festivals, including frequent appearances at Southbank Centre (QEH and Purcell Room) and Wigmore Hall.
Biography
Andrew has also partnered instrumentalists including Richard Watkins (French horn), Joby Burgess (percussionist) and the Allegri and Brodowski String Quartets.
A notable champion of contemporary music, Andrew has commissioned and given first performances of scores by composers including Michael Berkeley, Charlotte Bray, Laurence Crane, Jonathan Dove, Alun Hoddinott, Simon Holt, Hannah Kendall, Joseph Phibbs, Arlene Sierra and Augusta Read Thomas.
Andrew’s critically acclaimed recordings for the Naxos, NMC, BMS, Ty Cerdd and Nimbus labels have been Editor’s Choice (Gramophone), featured in the Classical Charts and are often broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.
Andrew studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was recently elected an honorary associate. His teachers have included Eugene Asti, Christine Croshaw, Roger Vignoles and Andrew West. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including the Sir Henry Richardson Award for Accompanists, Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Prize, John Ireland Trust Prize and the Ryan Davies Memorial Award. Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and received the Outstanding Achievement in Music in Wales award from the Welsh Music Guild.
- Alistair Young
Alistair Young
Vocal Coach
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Alistair Young
Alistair Young was born in London and studied with Geoffrey Parsons and Erich Vietheer. Since 1987 he has played with major symphony and chamber orchestras including; the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (where he has recorded with Sir Simon Rattle). He has toured the USA, South Africa and throughout Europe, performing at many prestigious venues and festivals including Salzburg and the Proms. He has made many film and commercial recordings including Lesley Garrett’s TV show. He is featured regularly on ‘Friday Night is Music Night’ for BBC Radio 2, where he can be heard as soloist and accompanist. He is involved with various vocal groups such as the award-winning Joyful Company of Singers. He has worked closely with many international artists, including; the late Leonard Bernstein, Jose Carreras, Nicolai Gedda, Christa Ludwig, and more recently, Jane Eaglen and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Alistair has also worked with Diana Montague, with whom he has recorded Bach and Handel arias for Chandos.
- Christopher Underwood
Christopher Underwood
Visiting Artist in Voice
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Christopher Underwood
Christopher Underwood’s Professorship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland reflects his seventeen years there as Head of Vocal Studies and his career-long specialism in the study and performance of Mélodies Françaises. His studies in Paris with Pierre Bernac and Camille Maurane and in Switzerland with Hugues Cuenod, followed his previous appointment as Assistant Head of Vocal studies at the RNCM and his being awarded the Prix Mélodies Françaises at the Concours International de Paris. Further successes in the English Song Award, and the prestigious singing competition at Snape Maltings, led to a busy performing career throughout Europe. This took him to the Albert Hall, The Wigmore Hall, the Festival Halls and the Cheltenham Festival. He toured Italy with the Tölzerknabenchor and in France gave a recital in the Salon of the Princesse de Polignac and performed Fauré’s Chansons de Venise for Prince Louis de Polignac in his Chapel in Brittany.
Biography
Meanwhile his reputation as a teacher has taken him to Pesaro, Rostov on Don, Buenos Aires, Melbourne and Wellington. He is in demand for juries of major international compétitions and as External Examiner in major Conservatoires throughout Britain.
He assisted Betty Bannerman whose French Song class at the RNCM was inspired by her years of study with Claire Croiza, a singer who had performed with Honegger, Poulenc and Duparc.
Christopher’s principal as performer and teacher is that learning to sing should have as a priority not only how the voice works, but why we do it at all!
- Deborah Lea
Deborah Lea
Visiting Artist in French Song and Performance Presentation
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Deborah Lea
Deborah Lea is a former professional opera singer, now vocal and language coach, specialising in French repertoire and performance skills.
Biography
Born in Wales, she is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where she studied with Caroline Crawshaw.
In 1983, Deborah was the winner of the Miriam Licette scholarship for French Song, after which she spent time in Paris studying with soprano Christiane Eda-Pierre, where she had the privilege of working in depth on French chanson repertoire and operatic roles.
After studying in Paris and while still a student, she commenced her performance career in Glyndebourne Festival chorus and there she later performed the roles of Cenerentola (title role cover) and Hippolyta (Midsummer Night’s Dream).
Deborah was awarded a scholarship to study at the National Opera Studio in London before embarking on a solo career, during which she performed with many of the UK opera companies as a soloist, including Scottish Opera, Kent Opera, City of Birmingham Opera and also became principal house mezzo-soprano with Welsh National Opera, where her roles included Dorabella, Rosina and the title role in Carmen.
Whilst with WNO, Deborah was honoured to sing the role of Madame Dangeville on a Decca recording of Adriana Lecouvreur, with Dame Joan Sutherland in the title role. Deborah also sang in an arena production of Carmen in Paris with Teresa Berganza, with Der Nederlandse Opera in Holland and performed in recitals across Europe.
Deborah took an early interest in French repertoire and now focuses on making this study enjoyable and more easily accessible for young singers. Having gained considerable performance experience in French repertoire in her career as a working singer, Deborah has now devised her own method of teaching French to English speaking singers and regularly holds classes with UK students from the Royal Northern College of Music and Trinity Laban, and internationally with students from the TU Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama and LED in Delhi, developing an international profile as a French vocal coach.
Deborah also coaches singers at international opera houses, including Hannover, Wiesbaden and at the ERL Festival in Austria. As well as coaching soloists, Deborah enjoys working with choirs and has recently completed a project together with Kantos Chamber choir recording at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. She also translates French opera into English for use in performances.
Deborah is passionate about stage direction and teaching students the art of how to perform and move on stage. She enjoys actively sharing her own performance experience and knowledge and is a published author of a book containing useful information for young singers at the beginning of their careers.
Occasionally, Deborah can still be persuaded to tread the boards on the opera stage – her most recent performances were as the Witch in Hansel and Gretel and the Doctor/Therapist in a new opera by composer Edward Wright on the subject of Alzheimer’s disease, performed in both English and Welsh.
- Dylan Perez
Dylan Perez
Vocal Coach
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Dylan Perez
Pianist Dylan Perez is a recitalist, chamber musician and coach specialising in vocal repertoire who is highly in demand across the UK. He graduated in 2018 with Distinction with an Artist Diploma and in 2016 with Distinction with an Artist Masters from the Guildhall School where he studied with Eugene Asti, Andrew West, Iain Burnside, Julius Drake, and Pamela Lidiard. He was also the Lord and Lady Lurgan Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Royal College of Music, London from 2019-2020. Prior to relocating to London, he studied at the University of Michigan with Louis Nagel and Martin Katz.
Biography
He has been awarded the Gerald Moore Prize for accompanists and the Paul Hamburger Prize for Accompaniment in association with a performance of Die schöne Müllerin, directed by Graham Johnson. He has also won the Accompanist’s Prize at the Bampton Young Singers Competition. He has participated in many international competitions including Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Wigmore Hall/International Opera Competition, and the Das Lied International Competition.
Dylan has been an Oxford Lieder Young Artist (with contralto Jess Dandy) and has performed at the festival in subsequent years. He is an alumnus of the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria, where he performed in masterclasses for Julius Drake, Rudolf Jansen, Helmut Deutsch, and Elly Ameling. Dylan is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and studied there with Christoph Pregardien, Julius Drake, and Richard Stokes. He is a laureate of the Académie Royaumont in association with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Together with mezzo Ema Nikolovska, Dylan gave his debut recital at Wigmore Hall in May 2019. He has performed in recital at other venues in London such as the Barbican, Milton Court Concert Hall, St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Cadogan Hall, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dylan can be heard frequently on BBC Radio 3, whether it is for a Proms Extra concert, a Total Immersion performance, or live on InTune.
Dylan has attended SongFest on the Martin Katz Fellowship and the Aspen Music Festival as a student of Ann Schein. He was a participant in The Song Continues masterclass series at Carnegie Hall with Marilyn Horne, Jessye Norman, and Dalton Baldwin, and was subsequently invited to be a pianist for their residency in Paris.
Dylan has also played in masterclasses with Renee Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Dame Felicity Lott, and with Roger Vignoles, Brigitte Fassbaender, and Christian Gerhaher at Wigmore Hall.
Dylan is the founder of re-sung, a London based song recital series that focuses on the connection between text and music, with special interest on creating new interpretations of masterworks and championing contemporary songs.
Dylan was recently appointed to the Vocal Coach faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London. He has also recently recorded the complete songs of Samuel Barber for Resonus label.
- Paul Chilvers
Paul Chilvers
Accompanist and Repetiteur
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Paul Chilvers
After obtaining a BMus at Birmingham University, Paul Chilvers studied Piano Accompaniment at Trinity College of Music with David Newbold and Antony Linsay. A varied career has seen him as resident pianist at the Players Theatre and Radio 5’s Popcall, rehearsal pianist for the Royal Choral Society under Meredith Davies, and as pianist and MD for many fringe and West End shows, including Van Dyke and Company’s A Kurt Weill Cabaret and the original production of Shrubshall and Free’s Yee-Haw!!
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Vocal Coach
- Ricardo Gosalbo
Ricardo Gosalbo
Vocal Coach
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Ricardo Gosalbo
Ricardo Gosalbo is a Spanish-French collaborative pianist. After training at Trinity Laban and Guildhall School, he won several prizes including the ‘Prix de Lied’ at the Concours International de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger. He performs regularly with singers and has appeared at prestigious venues across Europe. He has also been featured on Spanish national broadcasters and BBC Radio 3 ‘InTune’.
Aside from his duties at Trinity Laban, Ricardo works at Guildhall School and City Lit, where he also teaches piano and harmony. A devoted champion of Spanish and Hispano-American music, Ricardo is currently conducting doctoral research on Spanish Art Song while serving as director of the Hispanic Music Series.
- Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson
Visiting Artist in Lieder
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Richard Jackson
The Cornish-born baritone Richard Jackson is renowned as a concert artist and a performer of new operas. He was a founder member of The Songmakers’ Almanac, visiting the USA, Hong Kong and the festivals of Edinburgh, Bath, Aldeburgh and Bergen with the group, and taking part in their series of recordings for Hyperion. Early operatic successes included Gian Carlo Menotti’s Maria Golovin, directed by the composer at the Camden Festival, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas opposite Dame Janet Baker, Strauss’s Capriccio for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, and Eugene Onegin at Aldeburgh under Mstislav Rostropovich. He also collaborated with Pierre Audi in the British premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz at London’s Almeida Festival and returned for the 1992 Festival in Stephen Oliver’s Mario and the Magician. Other opera projects have included Laurent in Thérèse Raquin, a new opera by Finnissy for The Garden Venture, Paul Barker’s La Malinche in Mexico City, Mozart’s La finta giardinera for Opera North, Finnissy’s Vaudeville for the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Evangelistitesto in Monteverdi/Weir’s Missa e Combattimento for Ensemble Interculturel at La Monnaie in Brussels, Nicola LeFanu’s The Wildman at the 1995 Aldeburgh Festival and Aeneas in Syria.
Biography
Richard has also undertaken extensive concert work, including appearances with conductors Sir David Willcocks, Sir Neville Marriner, Gary Bertini, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Richard Hickox. He has performed Handel’s Belshazzar at the Bath Festival, Christus in Jonathan Miller’s dramatisation of Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Festival d’Ambronay in France, Britain and Spain, Britten’s War Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall and St Matthew Passion with the City of London Sinfonia at the Barbican.
After singing in the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, for three years, Richard attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and worked privately with Pierre Bernac.
Richard has taught both German and French song at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and is in demand as leader of masterclasses.
- Sarah Pring
Sarah Pring
Classical Singing
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Sarah Pring
Sarah Pring FHEA AGSMD has taught singing at Trinity Laban college for the last 8 years. She is also a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Sarah regularly coaches students and runs classes in several other conservatoires and is on exam panels at the Royal College of Music.
Biography
Sarah has had an international singing career as a mezzo soprano and continues to perform, going to Copenhagen in the summer, for example, to perform La Frugola in Il Tabarro by Puccini.
Sarah is one of the mentors in the upcoming Sky Arts series- ‘Anyone can Sing.’
She is also a voice coach on the Comic Relief team.
Having partly trained in Florence, Sarah is particularly interested in working with the Bel Canto style of singing, and looking at healthy ways for young singers to train.
- Sebastian Wybrew
Sebastian Wybrew
Vocal Coach
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Sebastian Wybrew
Sebastian regularly performs with many of the UKs most eminent singers including Dame Felictiy Lott, Christopher Maltman and Iestyn Davies and has given recitals at Wigmore hall with Sophie Bevan, Het Concertgebouw with Ian Bostridge and major festivals throughout Europe and the UK.
Biography
He regularly teaches and coaches at the Royal College of Music and Trinity Music Academy and works with Felicity Lott and François Le Roux for the Wigmore Hall’s French Song Exchange. He has given masterclasses for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Edward Said Conservatory, Palestine and the Fondation Royaumont, France.
He has been broadcast live on BBC radio and television and recordings include Songs of Vain Glory with Sophie Bevan for Wigmore Live, Robert Franz Osterwald Leider and An English Trumpeter with Simon Cheney.
With a firm belief that high quality music making should be accessible to all, Sebastian was a founder member of Painting Music, is the accompanist for Music Masters and regularly works with community choirs, young people and schools.
- Sophie Grimmer
Sophie Grimmer
Voice
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Sophie Grimmer
Sophie Grimmer graduated with a first class honours degree from the University of York and studied singing at the Royal College of Music (Countess of Munster/London Sinfonietta Education scholarships) winning the Concerto Prize (Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi), Great Elm Vocal Competition and Miriam Licette Overseas Award to study French song with Régine Crespin. She then continued her operatic training with a full scholarship on the Dramatic Integration Programme (now Opera as Theatre) at Banff Arts Centre, Canada.
Her solo career, here and abroad, has involved work in opera and on the concert platform. She has performed leading roles including Mimi and Minerva in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, the title role in Bizet’s Carmen, Hannah in Birtwistle’s Yan Tan Tethera and Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at venues such as English National Opera, Aldeburgh Festival, Banff Arts Centre (Canada), Covent Garden Festival, Riverside Studios and Shakespeare’s Globe. She was worked under directors such as David Freeman, Stephen Pimlott, Stephen Langridge, Tim Carroll, Carlos Wagner, Loveday Ingram and Simon Callow.
In concert, she has performed with ensembles such as the Brodsky Quartet (CD), the Lindsay String Quartet, Sinfonia ViVa, Richard Alston Dance Company and L’Ensemble 2e2m (France) at venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, London Handel Festival, Festival Musica Strasbourg and Festival Agora (IRCAM, Paris). Sophie has performed several world premieres including works by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Judith Weir, Daryl Runswick and Colin Riley. Sophie also performs lead singing roles in theatre and film. These include Complicite’s Out of a House Walked a Man (Royal National Theatre, dir. Simon McBurney) and Strange Poetry (Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA Philharmonic, dir. Simon McBurney, cond. Esa-Pekka Salonen); Oedipus Plays (Royal National Theatre/Epidaurus Theatre, Greece, dir. Sir Peter Hall); and Do I Love You? (National Film Theatre/Channel 4).
Biography
Informed by her solo performing, Sophie works extensively in music/voice education. She is vocal professor/coach at Trinity Laban; visiting director of devised voice-work for BMus/MA productions at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and the Drama Centre (Central St. Martins College of Art and Design); and director/soloist for creative music education projects, here and abroad (including Spitalfields Festival, Glyndebourne, ENO Baylis, Norwich Theatre Royal, Oxford Lieder Festival, Sinfonia ViVa).
Sophie is presently funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) to research classical voice pedagogy at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Solo recordings include Complicite’s Out of a House Walked a Man, Brodsky Quartet’s Moodswings, Bernard Cavanna’s Messe, un jour ordinaire (Ensemble Ars Nova, France).
Solo broadcasts include Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (ENO/BBC), Jonathan Harvey’s Song Offerings (Radio France), Sophocles’ Oedipus Plays (directed by Sir Peter Hall, music by Judith Weir/BBC), Bettina Skrzypczak’s Miroirs (Radio France), Lisa Gornick’s Do I love you? (Film/Channel 4).
Research outputs include several journal articles (voice pedagogy/performance) and a recent contribution to the publication Learning, Teaching and Musical Identity: Voices across Culture (May 2011, ed. Lucy Green, Indiana University Press).
- Susan Bullock CBE
Susan Bullock CBE
Visiting Artist in Voice
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Susan Bullock CBE
Susan Bullock’s unique position as one of the world’s most sought-after dramatic sopranos was recognised by the award of a CBE in June 2014. Of her most distinctive roles, Wagner’s Brünnhilde has garnered outstanding praise leading Susan Bullock to become the first ever soprano to sing four consecutive cycles of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Royal Opera House under Sir Antonio Pappano. Appearances as Richard Strauss’ Elektra have brought her equal international acclaim and collaborations with some of the world’s leading conductors including Fabio Luisi, Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Mark Elder and Edo de Waart. In recent seasons, Susan has begun to explore new repertoire making debuts as Klytaemnestra (Elektra) for the Canadian Opera Company under Johannes Debus, the role of Liz Stride in the world premiere of Iain Bell’s Jack the Ripper for ENO; and her acclaimed portrayal of Mother for Scottish Opera in Mark Anthony-Turnage’s Greek at BAM which she debuted at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Biography
Further debuts include in the role of Kostelnička (Jenůfa) for Grange Park Opera, both Gertrude and The Witch (Hänsel und Gretel) for Opera North and Grange Park Opera, Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd) for Houston Grand Opera, her debut as Mother in the European premier of Missy Mazzoli’s award winning Breaking the Waves for Scottish Opera also at the Edinburgh International Festival, and a welcome return to the role of Mrs Lovett with Bergen National Opera. New roles in the 2019/20 season include in special virtual projects Feast in the Time of Plague and her debut as an actor in Keith Warner’s unique staging of King Lear in which she plays Goneril at The Grange Festival. Susan’s vast and diverse concert work has included the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra and with Zubin Mehta and the orchestra of the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Popular appearances have included the Last Night of the Proms in 2011 and a special appearance at the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony. Last season Susan returned to Wigmore Hall in their Late Night series with pianist Richard Sisson in an eclectic programme —Songs my father taught me—which ranged from Sondheim to Noel Coward and Burt Bacharach. This season she joins theRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall for a gala concert in celebration of Raymond Gubbay. Susan Bullock’s substantial discography includes Der Ring des Nibelungen with Oper Frankfurt under Sebastian Weigle on Oehms Classics (also available on DVD), and the title role in Salome with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras for Chandos.

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