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In October of each year, we audition prize-winners from all the major vocal competitions and music colleges, to provide the soloists for the coming season’s performances. Many successful solo performers have been selected to appear in Messiah from Scratch® and other concerts early in their careers, including Anne Sophie von Otter, Kathryn Wyn-Rogers, Edmund Barham and David Wilson-Johnson. We are delighted to present below the soloists chosen for our recent and forthcoming performances.

Sean Clayton (tenor) Rome 2007 Sean Clayton began his studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire and recently graduated from The Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with Dr Neil Mackie. His operatic roles have included Apollo< ...more
Sarah Redgwick (soprano) Messiah 2007 Born in Wakefield, Sarah Redgwick graduated with first class honours from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and completed her studies in the postgraduate Opera course. The winner of the GSMD Gold Medal for singers, s ...more
Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano) Messiah 2007 Irish mezzo-soprano Carolyn Dobbin trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and on the Young Artist Programme of OTC, Dublin. She has taken part in many courses including the prestigious Samling Foundation, ...more
Eamonn Mulhall (tenor) Messiah 2007 Eamonn Mulhall was born in Wexford and read Music and French at University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin before continuing his studies at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio in London. His s ...more
Derek Welton (baritone) Messiah 2007 Described as ‘a star in the making’ (The Age, 28 September 2004), Australian baritone Derek Welton is 25 years old and is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, holding a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Germa ...more
Lucy Crowe (soprano) Cape Town 2007 Lucy was born in Staffordshire and studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where her teachers included Beatrice Unsworth and Clara Taylor. She received the Royal Overseas Gold Medal in 2002, won the Second Prize at last y ...more
William Berger (baritone) Cape Town 2007 William Berger (‘...one of the best of our younger baritones’. Gramophone magazine), an Associate and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, is currently a member of ENO’s Young Singers Programme where his roles have inc ...more
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor) Cape Town 2007 Richard Edgar-Wilson has collaborated with conductors Martin Andre, Steuart Bedford, Ivor Bolton, Martyn Brabbins, Nicholas Cleobury, Lionel Friend, Jane Glover, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Nicholas Kraemer, Sir ...more
George Humphreys (bass-baritone) Madeira 2008 George Humphreys was born in Oxford, and was educated at Christ Church Cathedral School, Wellington College, and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read music and studied with David Lowe. His Operatic work has included ...more
Mary Bevan (soprano) Madeira 2008 Mary Bevan is currently in her first year of the Postgraduate Diploma course at the Royal Academy of Music where she studies with Lillian Watson and Audrey Hyland. She was previously educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, ...more
Martene Grimson (soprano) Mozart Festival 2008 Martene Grimson graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2000 before moving to London where she received the Diploma of Advanced Opera at the Royal College of Music’s Benjamin Britten Opera School in 200 ...more
Stephanie Lewis (mezzo-soprano) Mozart Festival 2008 Suffolk-born Stephanie Lewis is currently studying as the Derek Butler Opera Scholar for an artist diploma in the Benjamin Britten International Opera School, at the Royal College of Music, having completed her firs ...more
John-Colyn Gyeantey (tenor) Mozart Festival 2008 Winner of Glyndebourne’s Erich Vietheer Memorial Award 2007, John-Colyn Gyeantey studied at the Royal College of Music and received coaching at the National Opera Studio as a Peter Moores Foundation Scholar. He has ...more
Samuel Evans (bass-baritone) Mozart Festival, 2008 A finalist in the 2007 Kathleen Ferrier Award, Samuel studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and the Royal Academy of Music with Philip Doghan. Whilst there, he was generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust ...more