Staff A-Z

Aside from eight years experience in an opera orchestra, memorable concerts include Bruckner’s 7th Symphony with the Philharmonia at the BBC Proms, Wagner’s Ring Cycle with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Strauss’ Don Juan with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Verdi’s Falstaff at the Royal Opera House. Away from music, Joe can be found playing or watching cricket, trail running, climbing or kayaking in Surrey or Dorset.

He has done much recording work for the BBC, most recently including several broadcasts for Radio 3’s Voices programme with Sophie Daneman, Sarah Connolly, Christine Rice, Stephan Loges and Rebecca Evans. Other engagements have included recitals with Dame Felicity Lott, Alison Buchanan, Sophie Daneman, Rebecca Evans, Susan Gritton, Stephan Loges and James Rutherford, including live broadcasts from Wigmore Hall, the Waterfront Hall in Belfast,  Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and at New York’s Weill Recital Hall and Lincoln Center.

Eugene Asti studied at the Mannes College of Music, New York with Jeannette Haien where he earned his BMus and MA.

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.

Clare has produced and toured her own work for the last 10 years and has also received a number of international commissions. These include She Has Fallen and Now She is Awake for The First Physical Theatre Company, South Africa: Between The Corridors, a large scale site-specific work set in an old turbine hall in Copenhagen for The European City of Culture, and Flock for SMD Denmark. She has danced with numerous companies including the Rosemary Butcher Dance Company, the Gregory Nash Group, The Cholmondeleys, Oracle Dance Company, Fin Walker, and Emily Burns.

Previously, Tom led the Widening Participation and Outreach provision at Guildford School of Acting, where he developed a funded outreach project. This nationwide inclusion initiative, run in association with the Federation of Drama Schools and Get Into Theatre, was designed to support and inspire young people from backgrounds currently underrepresented in the creative industries.

Tom trained at Guildford School of Acting, graduating with a first-class BA honours degree, and subsequently on the MA Actor Training and Coaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he was the recipient of the Embassy Scholarship.

David was Course Tutor for the MA in Instrumental Teaching at the University of Reading, where he supervised the practitioner research of instrumental and singing teachers and also MA dissertations on various areas of music pedagogy. He has also been Lucy Green’s Research Officer for the Ear Playing Project at the University College London Institute of Education; this was an Esmée Fairbairn Foundation venture that grew from Musical Futures. At UCL, David was Honorary Senior Research Associate and Principal Investigator for an Arts and Humanities Research Council project entitled ‘Visually-impaired musicians’ lives’, again working with Lucy. This has led to pedagogical training for students from the Royal Academy of Music in partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People, and also opportunities to lecture in the UK, USA, Australia and Norway. David is currently programme leader of the MA in Music Education at the UCL Institute of Education.

David’s research interests are: musicians’ life histories, visual impairment and music-making, music service provision, conceptions of musical ability in the primary school, pedagogical training in the conservatoire, and playing by ear. He has published articles in the British Journal of Music Education, the International Journal of Music Education and Research Studies in Music Education. He has also contributed chapters to the Ashgate book, Developing the Musician, the new Oxford Handbook of Community Music and also coauthored a book with Lucy Green on visually-impaired musicians, Insights in Sound: Visually Impaired Musicians’ Lives and Learning.

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.

A passionate advocate for live classical improvisation, Baldocci’s eclectic personality made him develop innovative events where he tastefully breaks boundaries of genres and styles. Among his successful recordings, a live recital in duo with Martha Argerich, Nino Rota’s complete works for piano and violin and piano and viola with Marco Fornaciari, Chopin’s Complete Ballades and Impromptus. His latest recording, Sheer Piano Attack, rapidly became a best-seller after being promoted by the rock band Queen on all their media outlets. His performances are regularly broadcasted on TV and radios internationally and he was featured in a very successful documentary produced by Sky Classica.

A child prodigy of the piano, he started giving public concerts at the age of nine, and he maintained a successful career since then, winning prizes in numerous piano competitions such as the The Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition in Italy and the Martha Argerich Competition in Buenos Aires. After his studies at Imola with Franco Scala, he studied at the prestigious International Lake Como Piano Academy with William Grant Naboré, Lèon Fleisher, Alicia De Larrocha, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts’Ong, Charles Rosen, Andreas Staier and Claude Frank. He completed his studies at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome with Sergio Perticaroli.

A very active educator, he is a professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and of The Purcell School. He is also the founder of the London Piano Centre and of the Milton Keynes Music Academy and he is often invited to give masterclasses at some of the most important universities and academies worldwide.

Lyndsay’s credits include: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Mayflower Theatre); Betwixt! (Trafalgar Studios); Venus and Adonis (Turner Sims Concert Hall); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre); Godspell (Hanger Farm Arts Centre); TheThreepenny Opera (BADA); Alice in Wonderland (Queen’s Theatre); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Network Theatre); Hello Again (George Cecil Wood Theatre); The Threepenny Opera (Nuffield Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Bournemouth Rep); Liar (Nuffield Youth Theatre), and Much Ado About Nothing (National Theatre).

Liz is currently a specialist performing arts physio with Trinity Labanand works on ‘Matida The Musical’ in the West End. She was the head physio for Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ for 3 years. Outside of dance, she has worked with Middlesbrough Football club, players from the UAE Pro League, and the National Basketball Association in the USA. Her special interests are the foot and ankle, injury reduction, stretching and flexibility, and return-to-sport/dance rehabilitation. She teaches various ‘Foot and Ankle’ programmes, including courses on foot strength, and dance-specific foot and ankle injuries. These courses now run internationally.

Liz has worked in private sports injury clinics, falls prevention services, and is a qualified DMA Clinical Pilates instructor. She has written articles on dance injury prevention for ‘The Stage’ and has been a guest with many different podcasts and conferences, talking about her work with performers, and feet! Liz also visits dance companies and schools as a consultant physio, seeing their more complex foot and ankle injuries, having worked with both Elmhurst, and the English National Ballet in this capacity. She has also diagnosed and rehabilitated injuries in world champion Irish Dancers (often over Zoom), returning them to competition level.

Stephen trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and began his professional career before graduation, working with Lloyd Newson, David Massingham and co-founding Triptych Dance Company as a choreographer.

After graduation, he began an apprenticeship with Rambert Dance Company before joining Diversions (now National Dance Company Wales).

Stephen began a long relationship with Mark Bruce Company, who he has worked with on many productions, as well as David Massingham Dance, Random Dance Co. (now Company Wayne McGregor,), Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, V-Tol, Red Rain, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, English National Ballet and opera productions for ENO, ROH, Glyndebourne and Opera Glass Works.

Stephen has worked with many choreographers including Christopher Bruce, Matthew Hawkins, Richard Alston, Darren Ellis, Jo Fong, Seeta Patel, Etta Murfitt, Arthur Pita, Michael Keegan Dolan, Gaby Agis, Kate Flatt, Anthony van Laast and Alexandra Reynolds.

Theatre directors include Howard Davies (National Theatre), Stephen Pimlott (Apollo Theatre), Braham Murray and David Threlfall (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Robert La Page and Atom Egoyan.

Stephen was a dancer and principal understudy for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams (original cast) and has also worked in theatre, film and TV as both actor and dancer.

In 2005, Stephen studied professional photography at London School of Communication and worked at Amberroom Studios before turning freelance. He continues to work as a photographer specialising in arts and creative editorial.

Before joining Trinity-Laban Stephen taught at Rambert School, Northern School of Contemporary Dance and London Studio Centre, as well as providing classes and workshops for professional companies to this day.