Staff A-Z

Henrietta has a 25 year dance artist practice, most significantly as founder member of collective Dog Kennel Hill Project (DKHP) since 2004. DKHP produce performance research work across theatre, gallery, screen and unusual sites, within a range of producing partnerships such as Whitechapel Gallery, Dance Umbrella, and Brighton CCA.  

Roles as a dancer/collaborator from late 90s onwards include Ricochet Dance Productions and Rosemary Lee projects and movement direction with visual artists. She has taught regularly in higher education undergraduate contexts, significantly Trinity Laban (2002 – 2013). 

In London his roles include Ravenal (Showboat) at the London Palladium in the Olivier award winning RSC/Opera North production; Harry Easter (Street Scene also forBBC TV) Novice’s Friend and understudy of Billy Budd (Billy Budd) for English National Opera; Diener, (Capriccio) Paris, (Romeo et Juliette) (also on video) understudy of The Traveller (Death in Venice) and Agravain (Gawain) all for the Royal Opera; The title role and Monsieur Andre in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre; Count Danilo (The Merry Widow) for English Touring Opera at New Sadler’s Wells; Macheath (The Beggar’s Opera) in The Great Hall, Lincoln’s Inn; Mercury/Littore in David Alden’s award winning production of Poppea for WNOat The Shaftesbury Theatre (as seen on BBC2); The title role (The Emperor of Atlantis) QEH; Max (Betly), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Silvio (Pagliacci) and Silvano (Ballo in Maschera) all at the Holland Park Open Air Theatre; Jean (Miss Julie) and Barabashkin in Shostakovich’s musical Cheryomushki at  The Lyric Hammersmith; The Shrink (Terminatrix) for The RNT; Vox (Bad Times) and Marcello (Exposition of a Picture) both at The Young Vic and Holofernes in the World Premiere of Ian McQueen’s Line of Terror at the Almeida Festival.

Outside London Richard has sung Danny in Girl Crazy, Papageno (Magic Flute), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), Counsel (Trial by Jury) and the title role in Eugene Onegin all for Scottish Opera; Jason in Gavin Bryar’s Medea with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at The Tramway; Marcello (La Boheme) and Mercury (Poppea) both for Welsh National Opera; Schaunard (La Boheme) Welko (Arabella) both for Glyndebourne; the title role in Don Giovanni at Aldeburgh; Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Sid (Albert Herring), Perrucchetto (La Fedelta Premiata) and Guglielmo (Cosi) all for Garsington Festival Opera; Tony in West Side Story at the Derngate Theatre, Northampton and finally, Fritz (plus 6 other characters) in Stephen Oliver’s A Man of Feeling (which he also co-directed) and The White Voice in Akin Euba’s Chaka both for The City of Birmingham Touring Opera.

He has recorded the soundtrack for Fakers, a film by Richard Janes music by Kevin Sargent; Inspector Morse for Virgin Records; Collections of Broadway songs and Gilbert and Sullivan arias and duets for Pickwick; The Mill on the Floss for BBCTV; Chaka for MRI Records, The Phantom of the Opera for Warner Bros/Really Useful Films/Sony; The Brothers Grimm, a filmby Terry Gilliam and most recently ‘Writing on Water’ a collaboration by celebrated American composer David Lang and film director Peter Greenaway with the London Sinfonietta at the Q.E.H and Concertegebouw, Bruges(also on DVD).

As an educator, Richard has had experience working with undergraduate and post-graduate students at Guildford School of Acting, Arts Educational Schools and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He also has the ongoing pleasure of teaching industry professionals, many of whom are in current West-End shows. He directs choirs, musicals, workshops and summer schools alongside the esteemed vocal coach, Julie Gossage. Together, they are proud to represent Vocal Balance UK, an exciting clutter-free vocal pedagogy that, according to their students’ testimonials, is “creating waves” within the vocal arts industry!

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.

As a choreographer Matthew Harding has received awards for the work, he has produced both independently and with Urban Interface Dance UK. These productions have taken place at theatres throughout the UK and venues such as , Sadlers Wells, Royal Albert Hall, The Place, Brighton Fringe and Internationally.

Matthew Harding is also the founder and director for Wolfpack Dance Collective UK.

Matthew Harding is a well-respected international Judge for Hip Hop International Judging at competitions within Europe and Internationally.

Commissions include works for Duo Antongirolami-Selva, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Séverine Ballon, Christopher Redgate and Cikada Ensemble, ELISION Ensemble, Duo Galeano-Javaid, Mieko Kanno, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Mosaik, Duo Öhman-Kordzaia, Frode Haltli and Oslo Sinfonietta, Quatuor Diotima, RepertorioZero, Mats Scheidegger and Steamboat Switzerland, performed at festivals including Ars Musica (Brussels), BBC Proms (London), Música Contemporánea Fundación BBVA (Bilbao), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Festival Images Sonores (Liège), London Ear Festival, MaerzMusik (Berlin), Musik im 21. Jahrhundert (Saarbrücken), Spitalfields Winter Festival, Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich), Ultima Festival (Oslo) and Warsaw Autumn.

Amelia is a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at Trinity Laban. She specialises in performing arts injury and rehabilitation. She works both in the NHS and private practice, as well as is working as a dance science educator for several dance organisations, including the Centre for Advanced Training and the Royal Academy of Dance.

Amelia originally trained as a ballet dancer at The Royal Ballet School and went on to graduate from the King’s College London with MSc in Physiotherapy in 2018. She has also completed MSc in Dance Science at Trinity Laban.

She is a clinical Pilates instructor delivering weekly classes to staff and students at Trinity Laban and also manages an NHS clinical Pilates service.

Colette is a dance specialist physiotherapist at Trinity Laban. Through her work she has treated pre-professional and professional dancers from a variety of genres, West-End artists and musicians. She has worked with elite GB and international athletes, as well as football clubs. Colette has extensive understanding of injury prevention and rehabilitation and believes in a holistic approach to the care of patients. This is reflected in her interest in health and performance psychology and how these principles influence injury and rehabilitation.

Bruno is a frequent host of the Ronnie Scott’s Late Late show, and has performed in venues and festivals including Southbank Centre, the Shanghai World Music Festival, the London Jazz Festival, Malta International Arts Festival, the Rest Is Noise Festival, Cadogan Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. He has had his music played on BBC Radio 3, Jazz LineUp, Late Junction, BBC6 Music, BBC Scotland, in Austria, Canada, and the USA, as well as giving live broadcasts and interviews for the BBC and Rai 3 Italy.

He was taught by the late John Taylor and Pete Saberton, and has just been awarded an AHRC-funded practice-based PhD from the Royal Northern College of Music with the title ‘Counterpoint in jazz piano with specific relation to the solo work of Fred Hersch‘. As part of his research, he received funding to travel to New York City to interview and work with Hersch in 2016.

As a composer, Bruno has written for groups ranging from sextet to two pianos and percussion (for a project with Pete Saberton), and from big band to classical string ensemble (for a commission in 2017 from the Camerata Alma Viva). In 2009, Bruno was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Composers Award.

He recently held the piano chair for two performances of Bernstein’s Wonderful Town at the Barbican Centre with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Bruno has a longstanding musical partnership with the outstanding Palestinian singer, composer and broadcaster Reem Kelani.

In the freelance field he has played with all of the UK’s major symphony, opera and chamber orchestras working with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Sir Georg Solti, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev and Sir Simon Rattle, as well as performing on many film scores, particularly those of Jerry Goldsmith and John Barry. He was a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for 25 years, enjoying many Prom seasons and worldwide concert tours with leading soloists and conductors/ composers such as Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen and Witold Lutosławski. He has been a professor of Trumpet at Trinity Laban since 2004.

She is also in demand as a woodwind performer in London’s West End Shows and has played in Phantom of the Opera, Legally Blonde, A Little Night Music and Cats to name but a few.

Melanie is a Professor of Saxophone and Associated Doubling Skills at Trinity Laban. As well as delivering principal study lessons, she coaches chamber music and lectures on two academic modules ; Artist as Citizen and Artist as Educator. Melanie is a music faculty representative on the Learning and Teaching Board at Trinity Laban and she also examines and adjudicates for other London music conservatoires.

Melanie is a key member of the City of London Sinfonia outreach team which involves delivering workshops and interactive concerts in hospitals and community venues. These include GOSH, Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Headway East.
As a saxophone syllabus selector for the ABRSM, Melanie collaborates with many renowned music educators and composers and has recently recorded pieces from grade six, seven and eight of the new syllabus. She was also part of the team responsible for developing the new scales and sight-reading requirements. Melanie’s contribution to music was honoured by the Royal Academy of Music when she was awarded an ARAM.

As a session musician Johnny has performed with Mica Paris, Hamish Stuart, Errol Brown, Tito Jackson, Gary Barlow, While/Matthews, Fred Wesley, Eric Marienthal, Donny Osmond, Pat Lewis and JD73 amongst many others.

Current musical output includes being a member of original band ‘The Deccan Traps’, working with Grammy award winning composer Eliot Kennedy, and freelance recording / touring work.

Johnny is also a Performance tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music.