Choral Director Vocal Coach Singer Selected Career Highlights

Choral director Vocal coach Singer

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Selected career highlights:

Choral director Monster in the Maze The Grange Festival Royal Festival Hall, 2020 Composer: Jonathan Dove; Librettist: Alasdair Southbank Centre Middleton; Director: Thomas Guthrie; Designer: Ruth Paton; Conductor: Alice Farnham

Vocal leader for Symphony No. 9 – an ode to joy for our Southbank Centre Royal Festival Hall, 2020 Voicelab Choirs; times Southbank Centre coach for treble Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven; conductor: soloists Marin Alsop

Designer and Opera Holland Park Opera Holland Park London primary and 2019 - facilitator Workshops for OHP’s schools’ matinee secondary schools present performance of Tchaikovsky’s Onegin (2020) and Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (2019). Director: Hazel Gould

Designer and Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra Monteverdi Choir and Alexandra Palace 2019 facilitator Secondary schools’ workshops in connection Orchestra Theatre, London with music and themes from Handel’s Semele

Vocal leader for Mass Southbank Centre Royal Festival Hall, 2018 Voicelab Choirs; Composer: Leonard Bernstein; conductor: Southbank Centre coach for treble Marin Alsop soloists

Mentor Music for Youth National Festival Music for Youth Symphony Hall, CBSO 2018 - Vocal specialist Centre and other venues present

Visiting artist and English National Opera Baylis Programme English National Opera London Coliseum and 2017- vocal consultant Lilian Baylis House present

Vocal director Silver Birch Garsington Opera at Wormsley Estate, 2017 Composer: Roxanna Panufnik; Librettist: Wormsley Stokenchurch Jessica Duchen; Director: Karen Gillingham; choreographer: Natasha Khamjani; Conductor: Douglas Boyd

Vocal director Garsington Youth Opera Company Garsington Opera at Various at Wormsley 2015 - Artistic director: Karen Gillingham Wormsley Estate, Stokenchurch present

Co-artistic director ROH Youth Opera Company Royal Opera House Various, including ROH 2009 - Joint artistic director: Karen Gillingham main stage, ROH 2017 Linbury Theatre, ROH Clore Studio

Lead artist ROH Create and Sing Carmen programme Royal Opera House 2015 - Digital programme designed for in-school use 2017

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Vocal director The Freedom Game Surrey Arts Royal Albert Hall 2015 Composer: Hannah Conway; Librettist: Richard Stilgoe; Director: Karen Gillingham; Conductor: Tim Murray

Residency Various projects and performances Muziekcentrum van de Concertgebouw in 2009- devising Composers collaborated with include: James Omroep Amsterdam and Tivoli 2015 and leading vocal MacMillan, John Barber, Fraser Trainer and (Netherlands Vredenburg in Utrecht projects Dominic Harlan, and conductors include: Gijs Broadcasting Music Leenaars, David Lawrence and Manoj Kamps Centre)

Choral director War Requiem Southbank Centre Royal Festival Hall, 2014 and conductor of Composer: Benjamin Britten; Conductor: Marin Southbank Centre Voicelab Alsop This project won a RPS award in the Children’s Choir category of learning and participation in 2015

Vocal leader / Sing to the Flags – a Festival of Southbank Centre Site-wide at Southbank 2013 conductor Neighbourhood Centre Artist: Bob and Roberta Smith; Directors: Polly Bennett and Darragh O’Leary; musical team included: Tim Sutton, Laka D, Lea Cornthwaite

Vocal director for A Nightingale Sang – a community cantata Southbank Centre Royal Festival Hall 2010 Voicelab SATB Composer: John Browne; Conductor: Howard choir Moody

Vocal director On the Rim of the World Royal Opera House ROH main stage, 2009 Composer: Orlando Gough; librettist: Jehane Covent Garden Markham; director: Karen Gillingham; conductor: Stuart Stratford

Conductor Bloom Southbank Centre Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2006 Composer: Rufus Wainwright; Stephen Southbank Centre and Petronio Dance Company 2008

Vocal director The Last Genie Royal Opera House ROH’s Linbury Theatre, 2008 Composers: John Barber, Mikey Asante; writer and Inua Ellams; Director: Karen Gillingham; Stratford Circus Arts designer: Emma Wee; choreographers Rob Centre Hylton and Natasha Khamjani

Vocal director for Requiem for the Earth Southbank Centre Royal Festival Hall 2007 Voicelab Composer: Paco Peña; Conductor: Howard Children’s Choir Moody

Companies worked for in a similar capacity include:

Companies worked for in a similar capacity include Royal Philharmonic Society, City of London Sinfonia, Glyndebourne Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park, Spitalfields Music Festival (including the RPS award winning On Spital Fields by Jonathan Dove), London Symphony Orchestra, Opera North, English Touring Opera, Metropolitan Opera Guild (New York) - internship

Training:

Trinity College of Music, post graduate vocal diploma – (holder of postgraduate scholarship) 2002 - 2003

The Knack, one year course run by ENO Baylis Programme 2000 – 2001

University of Manchester, BMus (hons): 2,1 1993 – 1996

Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama (holder of music scholarship for Junior Guildhall and City of London 1991 – 1993 School for Girls)