Staff A-Z

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.

Heidi is a choreographer, dancer and curator. Since 2000, she has worked collaboratively as a choreographer and performer duo with Hanna Gillgren operating as H2DANCE, working between Norway, Sweden and the UK. In 2018, H2DANCE set up Fest en Fest, an international festival of expanded choreography.

[Trinity] Laban provided me with a solid foundation from which to launch my career and I am extremely grateful to all the staff, staff who are active industry professionals and pioneers within their fields. I fondly remember my experiences under the directorship of the late Dr Marion North.

Gidon Saks was born in Israel and brought up in South Africa. He began his studies there, then at the Royal Northern College of Music, the University of Toronto and at the International Opera Studio in Zürich.

Gidon was a member of the Ensemble at the Canadian Opera Company, and then in the opera houses of Gelsenkirchen and Bielefeld. He made his British debut with Scottish Opera as Claggart in Billy Budd, an opera he has sung in many productions and recorded both with the Halle (as Mr Flint) and the LSO, winning a Grammy Award.

He has sung every bass role in Wagner’s Ring, and his repertoire includes Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress and the title role in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle. He has sung Kaspar in Weber’s Freischütz in English for ENO, German for the Staatsoper in Berlin, and in Berlioz’s French recitative version at the Opera Comique under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, also performed at the Proms.

Alice Sara graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with a first class BA (Hons) degree and joined 4D (LCDS’s postgraduate performance company, now ‘Edge’) where she danced in work by Wayne McGregor, Richard Alston, Yael Flexer and Stephen Hughes, and went on to complete her MA in 2000. On graduating, she became a core member of ‘seven sisters group’, co-devising and performing in major projects in varied locations, including a forest, Selfridges, the Royal Opera House – Clore Studio, European mainline railway stations, and working as both performer and rehearsal director for Like a Fish Out of Water in seven sisters group’s partnership project with English National Ballet. She has also performed nationally and internationally in works by Deborah Hay, Tom Dale, Maresa Von Stockert, Andreja Rauch, and in film and multimedia projects with Deborah Tiso, including the channel 4/Big Dance film Big Sofa . She currently dances with Lizzi Kew Ross & Co, most recently performing Being There in St Paul’s Cathedral.

Adam has designed and led projects with some of the country’s leading organisations including the National Youth Orchestra, the Southbank Centre and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Adam thrives on large-scale collaborations; his latest musical, ‘Thames Tales’, was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, by a cast of over a thousand. Other recent projects include partnerships with the South African High Commission, the Tower of London and the New Wimbledon Theatre.

As a creative consultant, he has worked on numerous global advertising campaigns. In 2019, he was the musical director for Amazon’s holiday campaign, conducting a choir of workers from an Amazon fulfilment centre outside Paris.

In addition to being leader of the Orchestra of St. John’s, Jan is also Principal Second Violinist of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. He has worked as a guest leader of many orchestras in the UK, including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as well as the Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland. In the last two seasons, Jan has been invited several times to lead the Orchestre de chambre de Paris.

As leader of the Orchestra of St. John’s, Jan’s solo performances have included Bach’s violin concertos, all the Brandenburg concertos, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and Violin Concerto No. 5, Bruch’s Concerto No. 1 and the concertos by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Jan has also given many performances of Vivaldi’s and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons, culminating in a live recording for the OSJ Alive label. Solo performances with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields have included the Schnittke’s Double Concerto at the Barbican Centre and a broadcast for French Radio of duo sonatas with Kenneth Sillito from the Chatelet, Paris.

Barak Schmool studied saxophone and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. At the age of 20, illness prevented Barak from practising saxophone for six months which led to his picking up percussion, eventually specialising in West African drumming and Latin percussion. Since then Barak has worked with Artists such as Bosco De Oliveira, Nana Tsiboe, Robert Mitchell and Hilaire Penda, as well as a long association with Django Bates’ Big Band, Delightful Precipice.

Barak Schmool studied saxophone and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. At the age of 20, illness prevented Barak from practising saxophone for six months which led to his picking up percussion, eventually specialising in West African drumming and Latin percussion. Since then Barak has worked with Artists such as Bosco De Oliveira, Nana Tsiboe, Robert Mitchell and Hilaire Penda, as well as a long association with Django Bates’ Big Band, Delightful Precipice.

Barak has also founded a number of different projects, each with unique stylistic and world influences. These include the Afro-rhythmic groupTimeline, the Cuban batá-fusion of Méta Méta, and the integrated dance performance of Synergy and Roots of Unity. Barak is also the founder of F-IRE (Fellowship for Integrated Rhythmic Expression); part record label and part educational initiative, encompassing a wide variety of genres within and beyond the scope of jazz. F-IRE was awarded the 2004 BBC Jazz Award for Innovation, and all of the musicians nominated in the ‘Rising Stars’ category were members of F-IRE.

Barak is also a regular teacher at the Royal Academy of Music and City University.

Stephanie studied Medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Dance Theatre at Trinity Laban. A recipient of the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award she founded Stephanie Schober & Dance Company in 2002 and became a resident dance artist at Southbank Centre in 2003.

Born in South Africa, Pieter made his solo debut aged 10 with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. He studied with Jack de Wet in South Africa, winning numerous competitions including the 1984 World Youth Concerto Competition in the USA. In 1987 he was offered the Heifetz Chair of Music scholarship to study with Eduard Schmieder in Los Angeles and in 1991 his talent was spotted by Pinchas Zukerman, who recommended that he move to New York to study with Sylvia Rosenberg. In 1994 he became her teaching assistant at Indiana University, Bloomington. Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

Anneke Scott is a leading exponent of historical horn playing. Her work takes her throughout the globe and throughout the centuries of music with a repertoire incorporating music and instruments from the late seventeenth century through to the present day.