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)Salzburg 2008
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 Apo ...more |  |
Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano)Messiah 2008
Irish mezzo-soprano Carolyn Dobbin trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and on the Young Artist Programme of OTC, Dublin. Operatic engagements have included Chloe All That Money Can Buy fo ...more |  |
George Humphreys (bass-baritone)Madeira 2008, Composer's Choice Workshop
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 ...more |  |
Mary Bevan (soprano)Madeira 2008, Rutter Requiem 2009
Mary Bevan is currently in her second year of the Postgraduate Diploma course at the Royal Academy of Music where she studies with Lillian Watson and Audrey Hyland. She graduated from Trinity C ...more |  |
Samuel Evans (bass-baritone)Mozart Festival, 2008, Salzburg 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 Josephi ...more |  |
Catherine Hopper (mezzo-soprano)Salzburg 2008, Dubrovnik 2009
Catherine Hopper studied Music at the University of Leeds and the Franz Liszt Hochschule in Weimar, Germany, graduating with First Class Honours. She is currently in her final year with Royal Academy Opera ...more |  |
Colette Boushell (soprano)Messiah 2008
Irish soprano Colette Boushell is a Rosemary Bugden scholar at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the Royal College of Music where she is a student of Lillian Watson. She holds an honours degree in both the ...more |  |
Adrian Ward (tenor)Messiah 2008
Born in Cambridge in 1983, Adrian Ward studied at the Guildhall School of Music and drama on the Opera course where he was a student of Rudolf Piernay. He is winner of the 2008 Royal Over-Seas League vocal section prize and ...more |  |
Duncan Rock (baritone)Messiah 2008
Scottish-born baritone Duncan Rock recently completed his Masters Degree in vocal performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) under the tuition of Rudolf Piernay. He is now continuing his studies in the ...more |  |
Janis Kelly (soprano)Verdi Requiem 2009
Recent engagements include the filming of Zoë for Channel 4‚ Mrs Naidoo Satyagraha‚ Mrs Nixon Nixon in China‚ Iris The Fairy Queen‚ Yum Yum The Mikado‚ Despin ...more |  |
Vanessa Williamson (mezzo-soprano)Verdi Requiem 2009
Vanessa Williamson studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and won prizes for opera, Lieder, French and English Song. She was also awarded the Curtis Gold Medal. Vanessa remains the only singer ...more |  |
John Hudson (tenor)Verdi Requiem 2009
John Hudson studied at London’s Guildhall before spending a year with the chorus of the Welsh National Opera (WNO), whereupon he was given a contract as a Principal with the English National Opera(ENO), sparking recog ...more |  |
Paul Reeves (bass)Verdi Requiem 2009
Paul Reeves studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Rudolf Piernay. There then followed a year at the National Opera Studio sponsored by the Richard Lewis Award (Glyndebourne), the Sybil Tutton Trust a ...more |  |
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