Vocal Studies

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. 
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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.
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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.

His opera and theatre engagements include Peter Grimes at La Fenice in Venice, Amadeus at the National Theatre, Salomé and La cenerentola for Wexford Festival Opera, Dorian Gray at Slovak National Theatre, Il barbiere di Siviglia and a staged Messiah for English National Opera, the world première of James MacMillan’s Clemency at ROH2 Covent Garden and for Scottish Opera at the Edinburgh Festival, Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie for Capella Cracoviensis in Kraków, After Dido at The Young Vic, Tristan und Isolde; Der Kaiser von Atlantis; Acis & Galatea; Fidelio; Eithne; Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny; Madama Butterfly; Carmen and Werther for Irish National Opera.

His concert and festival appearances include the Prague International Spring Festival, Royal Albert Hall, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Bach Festival in Lausanne, Switzerland, Festivale Musicale sull’acqua in Lago di Como, Italy as well with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Ulster Orchestra.

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 .

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 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.

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 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 (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.

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 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.

Initially, Anna undertook German to English translation work in the legal and financial fields, and became a teacher 20 years ago. Since then, Anna has taught German to students from many varied backgrounds and in a variety of contexts both in industry and at educational establishments including Waltham Forest College of Further and Higher Education, Westminster College and for the past 8 years, at the University of Westminster. She has been a key figure in setting up the University’s ‘Opening the Door to Language Learning’ project in partnership with Lingua. When Anna was asked in 1996 to design a course specifically for undergraduate singers at Trinity College of Music, she saw this as a great opportunity to pass on her passion for the German language. She has found the experience of teaching both under and postgraduate students a truly enriching and satisfying experience. Anna is constantly striving to take the ‘Angst’ out of language learning and believes that a fun but disciplined approach achieves the right results for her students.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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).

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.