Fflur Wyn
Soprano
Having already gained wide acclaim for her performances on the operatic stage as well as the concert platform, Welsh soprano Fflur Wyn is quickly establishing herself as one of the country’s foremost young singers. She was recently elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the music profession so far.
Her operatic performances include Jemmy Guillaume Tell, Iphis Jephtha, Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando (WNO); Pamina The Magic Flute, Alice Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and the title role in Lakmé (Opera Holland Park); Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro, La Plus Jeune Fille Au Monde (La Monnaie); Giannetta L’elisir d’amore,SophieWerther, Marzelline Fidelio, Blue Fairy The Adventures of Pinocchio, Servilia La Clemenza di Tito, Woodbird Siegfried (Opera North); Mimi in Offenbach’s Vert Vert (Garsington Opera); Governess The Turn of the Screw (Mexico City); Blonde Woman Thanks to my Eyes (Aix en Provence, La Monnaie, Paris); Daughter The Lion’s Face (The Opera Group, ROH); and Girl How the Whale Became (Royal Opera House).
Fflur has worked with many great conductors and orchestras including Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Richard Armstrong, Harry Bicket and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Gabrieli Consort and The English Concert. Recent recitals include performances at Kings Place, St John’s Smith Square, Wilton’s Music Hall and The Howard Assembly Room.
Recent and future performances include the role of Fire/Nightingale/Princess L’enfant et les Sortileges, Trio Soprano Trouble in Tahiti, and Sophie Der Rosenkavalier for Opera North; Cunegonde Candide for West Green House Opera; Celia Lucio Silla for Buxton Opera; a revival of her critically acclaimed performance of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with Opera Holland Park; the title role in Handel’s Theodora with the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin; Pleasure The Choice of Hercules with the Göttingen International Handel Festival; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra; Orff’s Carmina Buranawith the CBSO; Fauré Requiem with BBCNOW; and the New Year Viennese Gala concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Rowan Pierce
Soprano
Yorkshire-born Rowan Pierce is a former Rising Star of the OAE and a Harewood Artist at ENO.
She appears regularly with ensembles including AAM, Gabrieli Consort, SCO, BBC Scottish Symphony, OAE, City of Birmingham Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Les Arts Florissants and Florilegium and has appeared at the Wigmore Hall on many occasions both in recital and with chamber ensembles.
Operatic roles include Tiny / Paul Bunyan and Papagena / The Magic Flute (ENO and Covent Garden), Dede / A Quiet Place (Linbury at Covent Garden) Barbarina / Le Nozze di Figaro (Nevill Holt Opera, Grange Festival, ENO), Papiria / Lucio Papirio Dittatore (Buxton), Oberto / Alcina (Glyndebourne and the Staatstheater Stuttgart) and Quivera and Orazia / The Indian Queen (Opéras de Lille, Luxembourg and Caen and Antwerp Opera) all under Emmanuelle Haïm.
Recent and future festival appearances include the Ryedale, Oxford Lieder, Bath, Cheltenham, BBC Proms, Lammermuir, Edinburgh, Oregon Bach, Leeds Lieder and Chiltern Arts Festivals.
Recordings include a solo disc of Purcell songs, Vaughan Williams’ Ninth Symphony with the RLPO, the award-winning King Arthur and The Fairy Queen with the Gabrieli Consort, a disc of Schubert Songs and a disc of songs by Roderick Williams both with Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn.
Rowan Pierce studied at the Royal College of Music where she won various awards. She subsequently won both the Song Prize and First Prize at the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition. She is a Samling Artist and was generously supported by the Countess of Munster Award and Midori Nishiura at the RCM.
Anna Dennis
Soprano
Described by the Times as a “delectable soprano and a serene, ever-sentient presence”, Anna studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Noelle Barker. Notable concert performances have included Britten’s War Requiem at the Berlin Philharmonie, a programme of Russian operatic arias with Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco, Thomas Adès’ Life Story accompanied by the composer at the Lincoln Centre’s White Light Festival in New York, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney Opera House and with Concerto Copenhagen in Amsterdam, and Haydn’s Schöpfung with Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan. Her BBC Proms appearances include performances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Britten Sinfonia and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Recent operatic roles include: Paride/Gluck’s Paride ed Elena (Nuremberg Opera House), Katherine Dee/Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee (English National Opera), Emira/Handel’s Siroe (with Laurence Cummings, Göttingen Händel Festspiele), Bersi/Andrea Chenier (Opera North), Ilia/Mozart’s Idomeneo directed by Graham Vick (Birmingham Opera Company), Pamina/The Magic Flute (Lichfield Festival) and Strawberry Seller & Strolling Player/Britten’s Death in Venice (La Scala, Milan). A keen interpreter of contemporary music, Anna has created roles in premieres of Francisco Coll’s Café Kafka (Royal Opera House/Opera North/Aldeburgh), Jonathan Dove’s The Walk From The Garden (Salisbury Festival) and The Enchanted Pig (Young Vic), Edward Rushton’s The Shops (Bregenz Festspiele/Royal Opera House), Will Tuckett’s Pleasure’s Progress (Royal Opera House), and Yannis Kyriakides’ An Ocean of Rain (Aldeburgh Festival/Amsterdam Muziekgebouw).
Her recordings include Rameau’s Anacreon of 1754 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Handel’s Siroe and Joshua with Laurence Cummings and Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, and a CD of Russian composer Elena Langer’s chamber works, Landscape with Three People on the Harmonia Mundi label.
Performances in the 2016/17 season include major roles in all three Monteverdi operas in John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi 450 anniversary international tour of the trilogy, Lepido/Handel’s Silla for Göttingen Händel Festspiele under Dorothee Oberlinger, Schoenberg’s 2nd String Quartet at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Masaaki Suzuki, and Queen of the Night/The Magic Flute in performances with Clarion Music Society in New York.
Jess Dandy
Contralto
Jess Dandy studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she held a fellowship and graduated with distinction. She was the winner of the London Bach Society Singers Prize 2017 and Oxford Lieder Young Artist 2018. She currently studies with Gary Coward. A Britten-Pears Young Artist and Heidelberger Frühling Scholar, she has performed at 22 Mansfield Street, Holywell Music Room, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal and Heidelberg Stadthalle.
Jess is also co-founder with mezzo-soprano, Joanna Harries of Song Path, a walking concert series, founded to promote walking and music-making in the context of mental health and raising funds for Mind UK. To this end, she is the recipient of the Royal Overseas League Roderick Lakin Memorial Scholarship.
Opera highlights include two Royal Opera House workshops on new works by Datta/Glynn Maxwell and Philip Venables 4.48 Psychosis. Jess also covered the role of the Messenger and was a member of the ensemble in the Royal Opera House/Roundhouse production of Monteverdi Orfeo with director Michael Boyd and conductor Christopher Moulds and played the multi-part contralto role in Jack Furness’ production of Into the Little Hill for Shadwell Opera with Finnegan Downie Dear conducting. On the concert platform appearances include Mozart Requiem at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Berlioz Roméo et Juliette at the Barbican and Salle Pleyel with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, Andriessen De Staat at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Simon Wills and Reich Music for the BBC Proms Multi-Story with Christopher Stark. Jess is also an experienced ensemble singer with the Monteverdi Choir, The King’s Consort, Le Concert d’Astrée, Polyphony, the Gabrieli Consort and Philharmonia Voices.
Future engagements include alto solos in the St John Passion with Stephen Layton with the Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and a recording of Handel’s Samson (Micah) with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort. She will also appear with the Dunedin Consort as alto soloist in performances of Bach’s B Minor Mass at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh and Wigmore Hall. Upcoming recitals include the Oxford Lieder Festival with Dylan Perez, Ulverston Music Festival with Anthony Hewitt and 22 Mansfield Street with Keval Shah.
Miriam Allan
Soprano
Gramophone describes Miriam Allan’s singing as “enchanting” and “impressive” with audiences around the world engaged by her honesty and “depictions of sublime hope” in places of darkness and sorrow. She has been fortunate to work with many of the finest directors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, William Christie, Laurence Cummings, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Nicholas Collon and Roy Goodman. Her engagements with the Monteverdi Choir, Les Violons du Roy, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Concerto Copenhagen, Auckland Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Kammerchor, Israel Camerata and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have seen her in concerts of Mozart, Monteverdi, Rameau, Bach, Handel and Haydn to mention but a few. On the opera stage Miriam has appeared in productions for the Opéra Comique, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Pinchgut Opera and for Les Arts Florissants featuring Purcell, Cavalli, Handel, Vivaldi and Rameau. Equally at home in contemporary repertoire, Miriam has enjoyed working with Sinfonia Australis and more recently with the outstanding Aurora Orchestra in London. An award-winning Monteverdi project with Les Arts Florissants under Paul Agnew’s direction featured every madrigal Monteverdi wrote and a staged production of Orfeo in 2017 now moves to the music of Gesualdo from the autumn of 2018. Recently Miriam made her debut with the Academy of Ancient Music in a concert performance of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea in Venice; with Dunedin Consort for concerts of Bach and Handel. She returns to Pinchgut Opera in Sydney to sing Josabeth in Athalia in May 2018.
Hugo Hymas
Tenor
Hugo Hymas leads a freelance career as both a soloist and ensemble musician. In 2016 toured J.S. Bach‘s St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) (Arias) with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Monteverdi Choir, performing in Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Paris (Philharmonie) and London (Barbican). He will be touring the piece with Mark Padmore and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He is also a frequent and keen performer of J.S. Bach‘s Evangelist roles, performing them recently in Nidarosdomen (Trondheim), Ely Cathedral and in the Varaždin Baroque Evenings festival, Croatia.
Hugo Hymas has a recording of J.S. Bach‘s cantatas with Sigiswald Kuijken and Trondheim Barokk, available under Chemins du Baroque label, and has performed Cantata solos recently in Snape Maltings (Britten-Pears), London (London Bach Society), and Newcastle (Newcastle Bach Choir), returning to the North East next season for J.S. Bach‘s St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) (Arias) in the Sage Gateshead.
Oratorio repertoire includes Berlioz’ L’enfance du Christ (Narrator), Haydn’s Creation (Uriel), W.A. Mozart‘s Requiem(tenor), Montiverdi’s Vespro Della Beata Vergine (tenor), and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater (tenor). Lead operatic roles areGeorge Frideric Handel‘s Acis and Galatea (Acis), Semele (Jupiter), Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Orfeo), W.A. Mozart‘s The Magic Flute (Tamino), The Marriage of Figaro (Basilo/Don Curzio), and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas).
Hugo Hymas is a Britten-Pears young artist and was recently in The Red House (Aldeburgh) performing Benjamin Britten‘s Canticle I. He also works frequently with London based consorts I Fagiolini (Director: Robert Hollingworth),Tenebrae (Director: Nigel Short), Gabrieli Consort (Director: Paul McCreesh) and Monteverdi Choir (Director: John Eliot Gardiner).
Joshua Ellicott
Tenor
Tenor Joshua Ellicott was born in Manchester and read Music at York University before continuing his vocal studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Highlights in his 2014/15 season include Evangelist in Bach’s Matthäus Passion (Handel & Haydn Society/Christophers), the Mass in B Minor (The English Concert/Bicket), and Handel’s Messiah (The King’s Consort/King) and Solomon (Wrocław Baroque Orchestra/McCreesh).
Other notable appearances have included the Johannes Passion at the BBC Proms (Zurich Chamber Orchestra/Norrington), Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the Styriarte Festival Graz (Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt), Monteverdi’s Vespers on tour (Le Concert d`Astrée/Haïm), Schubert’s Mass in E flat at the Festival de Saint-Denis (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Harding) and concert performances of Wozzeck and Tristan and Isolde(Philharmonia Orchestra/Salonen), Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Wagner’s Parsifal (Hallé Orchestra/Elder), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (OAE/Labadie) and Handel’s Theodora(Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Montgomery).
On the opera stage, he appears regularly with Opera North where his roles have included Jaquino Fidelio, Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Richard Dauntless Ruddigore and Sergei in Shostakovich’s Paradise Moscow.
Mary Bevan
Soprano
In the 2017/18 season, Bevan debuts at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Rose Maurrant in Weill’s Street Scene, and sings the title role in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera Coraline for the Royal Opera House at the Barbican Theatre. In concert, Bevan will join the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as Mary in Sally Beamish’s The Judas Passion in the UK and on tour in the United States; sing Bach Christmas Oratorio on tour in Australia with the Choir of London and Australian Chamber Orchestra; and Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music.
Bevan recently garnered praise for her return to the English National Opera as Zerlina in Richard Jones’ new production of Don Giovanni under Mark Wigglesworth, as well as for her debut as Merab in Barrie Kosky’s production of Handel Saul for the Adelaide Festival. She made her Royal Opera House debut creating the role of Lila in David Bruce’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, (world premiere and co-commission with The Opera Group and Opera North) in the Linbury Studio Theatre in 2013, and has since returned to The Royal Opera as Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro on the main stage, Euridice Orfeo at the Roundhouse and the title role in Rossi’s Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe. Other operatic highlights include her critically acclaimed Susanna The Marriage of Figaro, Despina Così fan tutte and Yum-Yum The Mikado at English National Opera, Elvira in Rossini L’italiana in Algeri for Garsington Opera, and Belinda Dido and Aeneas with Harry Bicket and The English Concert.
On the concert platform, Bevan recently headlined a tour of Asia with The English Concert and Harry Bicket, and subsequently made her Carnegie Hall debut with the ensemble in spring 2017 as Dalinda in Handel Ariodante as part of a tour of the United States and Europe, including performances at the Kennedy Center, Theater an der Wien, Elbphilharmonie, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and at the Barbican. Bevan has performed Richard Ayres’ In the Alps with Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra, Silandra in Cesti Orontea with La Nuova Musica, a Handel Residency week with Emmanuelle Haïm at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Bach Magnificat with the Britten Sinfonia, Mozart Requiem with the English Chamber Orchestra, Fauré Requiem with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Orquestra Sinfonica de Sevilla, and Mozart Coronation Mass with Southbank Sinfonia. In recital Bevan has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, Danube Music Festival, St John’s Smith Square, Musée d’Orsay Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Rhinegold LIVE.
Bevan can be heard in such recent recordings as Handel in Italy with London Early Opera (Signum), Handel The Triumph of Time and Truth and Ode for St Cecilia’s Day with Ludus Baroque (Delphian), Ludwig Thuille songs with Joseph Middleton, and Mendelssohn complete songs with Malcolm Martineau (Champs Hill). Her solo disc with pianist Joseph Middleton is due for release in 2017.
Bevan trained at the Royal Academy Opera, and read Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic at Trinity College, Cambridge. She is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
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Thomas Hobbs
Tenor
Thomas Hobbs is in demand with many leading baroque and early music ensembles, appearing throughout Europe and the US as a soloist in key works from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Hobbs works frequently with, among others, Philippe Herreweghe and his acclaimed ensemble Collegium Vocale Gent and Raphaël Pichon and his Ensemble Pygmalion.
Recent concert performances include Evangelist in the Bach St Matthew Passion and St John Passion with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Le Concert Lorrain and Ensemble Pygmalion, arias in the Passions with the Academy of Ancient Music, CVG and Ex Cathedra, Bach B minor Mass with CVG, Le Concert Lorrain, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bach Akademie Stuttgart and the Freiburg Bachchar, Bach Magnificant with De Nederlandse Bachverenigning, Bach Ascension Oratorio with CVG, Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, title role in Handel Joshua with the Akademie für Alte Musik and RIAS Kammerchor, Handel Israel in Egyptwith
the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Handel Messiah Le Concert Lorrain, Mozart Requiem with Dunedin Consort and Beethoven Mass in C with Stuttgart Kammerchor. Hobbs has aIso made debuts with the Northern Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National and Bournemouth Symphony orchestras and with renowned period ensemble Accademia Bizantina under Ottavio Dantone.
Hobbs’s operatic roles include a critically acclaimed Telemachus The Retum of Ulysses in a new production for English National Opera conducted by Jonathan, Apollo and Shepherd in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in semi-staged performances with Richard Egarr and the AAM, the title role in Albert Herring and Ferrando Cosifan tutte. A keen recita list, highlights include Brett Dean Winter Sangs at the Cheltenham Festival, Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge with the Edinburgh Ouartet, Schubert Oie Schone Müllerin and Schumann Liederkreis Op.39, a recital of Mozart sangs at London’s Kings Place, a recital of English song and German lieder for the Festival Accademia delle Crete Senesi in Tuscany, and, most recently, Wolf sangs at the Oxford Lieder Festival and a recital at the Ryedale Festival with Christopher Glynn.
Hobbs’ ever-expanding discography includes Bach B minor Mass with CVG and Dunedin Consort, Bach Motets, Leipzig cantatas and Christmas Oratorio with CVG, Handel Acis et Galatea and Esther with Dunedin Consort and Beethoven Mass in C with Stuttgart Kammerchor. His most recent recordings of Handel Chandos Anthems with Stephen Layton and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mozart Requiem with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort have been universally praised, with the latter receiving the 2014 Gramophone Award for best Choral recording.
Current and future engagements include further tours with Collegium Vocale; Damon Acis and Galatea with Dunedin Consort, Bach cantatas with De Nederlandse Bachverenigning and Ensemble Pygmalion, Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederé Österreich, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and Le Concert Lorrain.
Born in Exeter, Thomas Hobbs studied at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Neil Mackie, where he was awarded the RCM Peter Pears and Mason scholar ships, and at the Royal Academy of Music under Ryland Davies, where he held a Kohn Bach Scholarship in addition to a full entrance scholarship. He was also awarded a Susan Chilcott Scholarship, has been made a Royal Philharmonie Society Young Artist and was an Associate Artist of the Classical Opera Company. He was also a member of the prestigious Académie at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, where he performed in concert with Louis Langrée and the Camerata Salzburg.
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