Staff A-Z

Kit performs solo pipe organ and solo piano concerts – and also plays in collaborations with saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy Railton, composer Shiva Feshareki and with the band ‘ENEMY’. He is also currently working with violinist Aidan O’Rourke, composer Max de Wardener and in an organ trio with Reinier Baas and Jonas Burgwinkel. He also teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he himself studied and now holds a Fellowship.

“An exceptional soloist” – Wormser Zeitung
“It testifies to his world-class stature” – The Guardian
“One of the finest pianists of his generation” – Jazzwise
“Considerable chops and flowing imagination” – Downbeat

Andrew has worked with orchestras and ensembles on three continents. These have included some of Europe and North America’s renowned ensembles, notably on recordings with orchestras such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductors such as; Nicholas Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, Esa Pekka Saraste, Marin Alsop, Sian Edwards, Krzystof Penderecki, Daniel Harding and Edward Gardner.

While in Canada he performed on radio broadcasts with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, including taking part in a South American tour with Kent Nagano. He was also invited to perform on the ‘Star Noel’ CD with colleagues from Montreal.

Recent solo and conducting performances have included North American premieres, and Luciano Berio’s Sequenza X. Andrew’s own conducting work has involved many world premieres of works for Brass ensemble or Wind Orchestra, having been mentored in the latter by the famous conducting pedagogue Dr Timothy Reynish.

Formerly Chair of Brass and Professor of Trumpet at McGill University – Schulich School of Music – Montreal, Andrew has organised master classes and collaborations with world-class artists in Brass, Wind and Percussion.

Andrew’s research interests cross-pollinate solo performance with performance health and pedagogy. Currently working on a PhD in the STEM faculty at the Open University, Andrew is investigating instrument design and playing physiology in closed end wind instruments. He was awarded an ARAM in May 2013 by the Royal Academy of Music for services to music.

As a strength and conditioning specialist for dancers, Khyle works to provide specific prehabilitation and performance enhancement training strategies to support dancers in training and performance, helping to establish a high athletic capacity to support genre specific technique and reduce physical limitations to creative work. His research looks into the athletic development and competency of dancers.

As a performer, Khyle has performed internationally with numerous makers and companies; working with STREB Extreme Action, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Upswing Aerial, Generating Company, Luca Silvistrini, Arthur Pita, Liam Steel. Khyle is also creative collaborator, maker, choreographer, and rehearsal director in dance theatre and musical theatre genres. He has worked extensively with British Youth Music Theatre; and Rachel Birch-Lawson, touring their work internationally.

Becky also has a choreographic moving image practice, which seeks to deepen the screen application of dance practice. The choreographic concerns of the rhythm, pattern and dynamic flow of movement, are combined with a documentary practice to produce works that are a hybrid of the observed and the constructed. Her short films and installations have been shown at film festivals internationally. She was artist in residence at both Videodanza BA in Argentina and SHOOT Dance for Camera Festival in Sweden. Her feature documentary Turn Your F***ing Head was published by Routledge in 2014.

From 2010 to 2015 Becky worked in collaboration with fellow artist Lucy Cash under the company name of straybird, a platform for co-curated and co-directed projects. straybird developed and produced a number of innovative projects including the curation of the What If… and What Matters festivals at Siobhan Davies Studios, Small Matters and Stray Gifts (to be claimed by whoever shall find) at Dance Umbrella, two films for the Siobhan Davies Space (Seven Ways South and Walker), as well as What Matters, a short documentary for Arts Council England, which was shown as the opening film at SOTA 2012.

Becky teaches screendance and moving image practice at a range of instituions and is an associate artist with Blast Theory.

Composing and arranging work includes: BBC, Born to Perform foundation, Capital Radio, How sweet it is (Motown show), Katy Setterfield & North Star Music amongst many others…

Theatre work: Anything Goes, Chess, Dames at Sea (Monaco), Grease, Joseph, Kingdom of Song, Me & My Girl, Peter Pan, Rocky Horror Show, West Side Story. Musical director for Newpalm Productions including 16 years (1993 – 2007) as their musical director at the Civic Theatre in Chelmsford.

Sam graduated with a First in Jazz and Contemporary music in 1991 from the City of Leeds College of Music.

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.

Kate graduated from the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust. Before working as a Craniosacral Therapist, Kathryn toured as a freelance dancer/choreographer in Europe and America, working for choreographers such as Laurent Chetouane, Christ Haring/Liquid Loft, and William Forsythe. Her career in dance has deeply informed her work as a therapist. Kate holds an MFA in Choreography from the Ohio State University, an MA in Dance Ethnography from Gallatin University /TISCH in New York City and a BA in English from Bowdoin College in Maine, USA.

Alongside her clinic hours Kate continues to work as a dancer, choreographer and teacher combing her two passions through research. Katet’s practice is informed by her career in dance and her own experience of receiving a wide range of treatment within that time, she feels the two practices feed one another and creates further curiosity about the performing artists’ body.

Next followed work with BalletBoyz and Rambert Dance Company, shifting into contemporary dance. He was particularly inspired by the work and technique of Merce Cunningham and also appeared in works by Christopher Bruce, Doug Varone, Mark Baldwin, André Gingras and Aletta Collins. He started choreographing while at Rambert. The first piece What Rainbow? was performed at Resolution (The Place). As a choreographer, his works have been commissioned by English National Ballet, Transitions Dance Company and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

He is currently an associate artist at The Print Room in London, under the Artistic Direction of Anda Winters. Works include Jealousy (2012), and the critically acclaimed Elemental Trilogy, Flow (2012) and Ignis (2013).

She has taught for Trinity Laban, The Royal Ballet School, Urdang, Arts Educational Schools London, London Children’s Ballet, The Academy for Theatre Arts and Darren Ellis Dance.  She received the Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship in 2008 to deliver dance workshops to under privileged children and young people in La Paz, Bolivia. In September 2014, she was awarded a place on Dance UK’s Teacher Mentoring Program. Lucy co-founded her own dance theatre company ‘Anecdotal Evidence’ with William Aitchison in 2013 making work that uses text and movement.  Other choreographic commissions for young people include creating ‘Fair-e-Tale’, a professional work for E.dance that toured schools in the North of England, as well as receiving commissions to create work for young people from U Dance, PrimarySteps and the Unicorn Theatre.

Lucy is currently the Lead Dance Teacher on the CAT Programme at Trinity Laban

Educationally, Helen holds a PhD in Surveillance Performativity/ Immersive Performance from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, where she was a recipient of a Research Bursary under the tutelage of Professor Stephen Farrier. She holds an FHEA through Trinity Laban, an MA Performance Practices and Research, also from RCSSD, and a BA First Class (Hons) Acting from Bretton Hall.

Helen’s directing credits include Amour, The Beggars Opera, Company, Electra, The Dreaming, The Pirates of Penzance, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Anything Goes, Epsom Downs, Zombie Prom, many industry-showcases and various devised and research-related, personal works. As a guest director for The Dot Collective – a theatre company ‘[…] with access needs at its core, reducing isolation for those with additional needs and dementia’ – Helen has, most recently, collaborated in research and development for Project Portmanteau, in addition to co-directing the 2023 tour of Alice’s Adventures in Aerieland.

Helen has several practice-based research avenues, including, Meisner Technique for Neurodivergent Student-Actors, Immersive Performance, and Surveillance Performativity in Public Space, about which she has presented a number of papers at a variety of academic conferences.

Helen continues to work as an actor. Her theatre acting credits include, classical (mostly Shakespeare) and contemporary non-musical and Musical Theatre (the latter, including Les Misérables, Singin’ in the Rain and the UK premiere of Lippa’s John and Jen). Helen’s experience in television – much to the amusement of her students – includes roles in BBC’s BAFTA winning Trapped and the BBC-British Museums collaboration Relic: Guardians of the Museum (also BAFTA winning).

A prize winning graduate of The University of Sheffield, Jonathan joined Trinity Laban and the ORNC having spent four years as Sub-Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Bradford Cathedral. During his time there, he recorded numerous CDs, played for a number of high profile services, radio and television broadcasts, and gained ever increasing popularity as a liturgical and silent film improviser. His community outreach work saw engagement with over 1,000 school children in his popular ‘Peter and the Wolf’ series.

As a theatre organist, Jonathan is resident silent film artist for the Cinema Organ Society Northern District, based at the Victoria Hall, Saltaire. He features regularly at theatre venues throughout the UK as a concert and silent film artist.

As a choral director he became well-known through his work with the Bradford Cathedral Girls’ Choir, and was Master of the Choristers at Willington Prep School. Jonathan continues to work as a freelance choral conductor nationally.