Fleur de Bray trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Wales International Academy of Voice. Fleur also has a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree and a PhD from Cardiff University. Awards include the Baroness De Turkheim Vocal Scholarship, Eva Turner Award, David Lloyd Vocal Scholarship and Sir Geraint Evans Prize.

British-Canadian soprano Rosanna Harris recently graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with a MMus and PGDip, both with distinction. She currently studies with Gary Coward.

Recent engagements include Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Opera Loki; Bianca/Gabriela cover (La Rondine), Opera Holland Park; Molly Brazen (The Beggar’s Opera) European Opera Centre; Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) RNCM; soprano soloist (Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia) Vienna Tonkünstler-Orchester; chorus/fixer (Raymond & Agnes) Retrospect Opera.

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Llio Evans is a British Youth Opera and Welsh National Youth Opera alumna and a former Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera. Llio has sung roles for English National Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, Garsington Opera, English Touring Opera and Music Theatre Wales.

After winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music Victoria graduated with several singing prizes in the Junior Kathleen Ferrier, The Dame Eva Turner and the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award. She won first prize and the Audience prize in the Wagner Society Singing Competition and was a finalist in the Umberto Giordano International Opera Competition, Foggia Italy.

Jennifer Witton was awarded the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama Gold Medal while studying at the Opera School. She works extensively with a wide variety of companies including Royal Opera, Longborough Festival, Glyndebourne Festival, Opera North, Wexford Festival Opera and The Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Naomi is a soprano from Suffolk with a Master of Music in Performance degree and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Royal Northern College of Music. She has worked with many of the UKs top opera platforms, such as Opera Holland Park, Clonter Opera, BBC1, Opera North, Buxton Opera, and Northern Opera Group.

Last summer was one of Naomi’s most rewarding seasons, making her debut with Opera Holland Park in Adamo's UK premier of 'Little Women', whilst also singing Papagena and Gretel in the Edinburgh International Festival. This was following a month with Clonter Opera House for their premier of Papageno’s Quest. Naomi regularly works with Clonter opera, having just finished their outreach production as Queen Titania in the newly commissioned ‘Puck’s Adventure’ as well as performing as the soprano soloist in their latest opera gala, directed by Lysanne van Overbeek and Clive Timms. This coming season Naomi will be performing one of her ‘bucket list’ roles as Papagena and First Lady in Mozart’s ‘Die Zauberflöte’ with Clonter Opera, which she is extremely excited for. This will be followed on by a collaboration with Opera Holland Park and the English National Ballet in Stravinsky’s ‘Les Noces’, performed at Sadler's Wells in September. Finally, Naomi looks forward to premiering the newly commissioned contemporary opera by Gary Lloyd, playing the lead role and taking it on tour around the North of the UK.

Other past operatic performances include: lead role (Juno) in Oxfordshire Contemporary Opera's '@Emele' (Simmonds), Northern Opera's 'Thomas and Sally' (Dorcas) by Arne, and Pauline Viardot's 'Cinderella' (ugly step-sister Armelinde) which was the winner of the 'Classical Music Digital Awards 2020. She sang a role in Poulenc’s 'Dialogues des carmélites' (Soeur Martha), Vaughan William's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' (Madam Bubble), Puccini’s 'Suor Angelica' (Maestra della Novizie), Offenbach's 'La Vie Parisienne' (Clara), Kurt Weill's 'Street Scene' and Benjamin Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Peaseblossom). Furthermore, she performed at the Buxton's International Opera Festival in the operas 'Georgiana' (multiple composers) covering the role of Grey, and in the chorus of both Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' and Caldara's 'Lucio Papirio Dittatore'. Naomi also premiered the brand new opera 'Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes' by Gary Lloyd, singing the title role at the Dublin 2019 WorldCon, held in the Convention Centre Dublin.

As a regular concert performer, Naomi’s highlights are performing as guest opera singer on BBC1's 'I Can See Your Voice' 2021, as guest soloist at the International Opera Awards 2019 which took place at the Saddler’s Wells Theatre in London and singing Mozart repertoire with the Hallé Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. In 2020, Naomi made her recording debut as soloist in Sullivan Songs alongside Sir David Owen Norris and in last June featured as an artist for La ScenaMusicale, Canada's most respected classical music, opera, jazz and world music magazine and ended 2021 on a high by winning the Sir David Maddison Opera Prize. She now looks forward to a masterclass with Ermolena Jaho (on behalf of the International Opera Awards) as well as the many other concerts and performances programmed for 2023.

Australian/British Soprano Daniella Sicari has built an international reputation as an engaging performer with a warm and sparkling tone. She studied at Royal Northern College of Music and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Recent performance highlights include Young Beth in Little Women (Opera Holland Park), Gianetta in The Elixir of Love (Waterperry Opera Festival), Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music (Buxton International Festival)

Upcoming performances include Poulenc’s Gloria with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Heather Lowe studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio‚ supported by Scottish Opera. She was a Finalist in the Maureen Lehane Competition‚ is a Samling Scholar‚ and is grateful to be the recipient of a Richard Angas Memorial Award.

Recent and future engagements include The Page Salome (Opera North) Dorabella Cosi fan Tutte(Northern Ireland Opera)‚ Rosina The Barber of Seville(Opera North and Welsh National Opera)‚ Hansel Hansel und Gretel and Lel Snowmaiden(Opera North)‚ Tisbe La Cenerentola (Welsh National Opera and Opera Holland Park)‚ Mrs Noye Noye’s Fludde (Nevill Holt)‚ Isolier Le Comte Ory (Chelsea Opera Group and Dorset Opera)‚ Apprentice Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg(Glyndebourne Festival)‚ Orfeo Orfeo ed Euridice‚Penelope Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria(RNCM) and Fidalma The Secret Marriage (British Youth Opera).

Born in South Wales, Joshua Owen Mills is recognised as one of the country's most promising tenors. He has worked extensively in European opera houses, appearing as a tenor soloist at Glyndebourne, The Bavarian State Opera, and most recently, the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan, Hannover Stare Opera and Theater Aachen.

Richard studied at the Royal Academy of Music after acquiring a chemistry PhD. He regularly sings

with Wild Arts and sings Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute this summer.

He’s been a mainstay for ETO, from Bach to Britten, a children’s puppet opera and recently in

Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims.

Welsh tenor Rhodri Prys Jones is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. His recent engagements include Steva in Janáček’s Jenůfa for Welsh National Opera. He made his professional début with WNO in autumn 2018 singing Fyodor and Ivanov in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, subsequently singing the roles in WNO’s production revival at the Royal Opera House in London. He made his company début for Opera North in 2019 singing Michelis in Martinů’s The Greek Passion and his other roles include include Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. Roles he has covered include Dhahab, Overseer and High Oracle in Mohammed Fairouz’s Al Wasl Opera (a WNO collaboration in Dubai), Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Ernesto in Don Pasquale (WNO), and Triquet and Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Opra Cymru). Rhodri is a popular concert artist and highlights include performing as guest soloist at the 2019 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod Saints and Singers: The Music of Wales concert, his Royal Albert Hall début as guest soloist at the London Welsh Festival of Male Choirs and a Gala Dinner performance for HRH Prince Charles.

UK baritone Rodney Earl Clarke, as seen in Les Misérables in London’s West End and featuring on the new anthem ‘We thank you’ for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, is hailed by Gramophone Magazine as a “singer to be watched”.

Rodney Earl Clarke is recognised for his versatility in performance. Born in South-East London, Rodney enjoyed performing at an early age. Encouraged by his Jamaican parents and surrounded by three brothers and a sister, Rodney knew from early on that his singing voice was to be a huge part of his life.

From his days as a choirboy at St. George’s Cathedral in Southwark to being a baritone at home with the music of 1930-1960 Broadway, Rodney has appeared in many shows including Carmen Jones at the Royal Festival Hall, Jude Kelly’s award-winning production of Bernstein’s On The Town, Kenneth Branagh’s epic film version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Sondheim’s 80th Birthday Celebration Prom, The Broadway Sound BBC Prom with the John Wilson Orchestra, Jake in Porgy and Bess under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle and Crown in Porgy and Bess under the direction of John Doyle with the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.

He starred in Raymond Gubbay’s popular show Crazy for Gershwin, which regularly toured the UK, and also performed many times on BBC Radio 2 Friday Night Is Music Night, most notably in the David Jacobs Tribute Concert alongside Michael Ball, Gary Williams and Hannah Waddingham.

Having overcome the challenges of having a stutter, Rodney also devotes his time to helping others who face challenges in their communication and speech, using the power of singing to guide them towards greater fluency and confidence in his online platform ‘Singing Speaking’.

Steffan Lloyd Owen is a Baritone from the Isle of Anglesey who studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. In 2015, Steffan won the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary. Steffan has performed on stages nationally and internationally and has had the honour of performing alongside Sir Bryn Terfel in a production of Tosca, playing Sciarrone.

Richard Immerglück most recently sang the role of Felix in Tom Coult’s critically acclaimed opera, Violet, commissioned by Music Theatre Wales and Britten-Pears Arts. He is currently working at Welsh National Opera with whom he has performed a number of roles including Malý Vězeň in Janáček’s opera From the House of the Dead at the JanáčekFestival in Brno, Czech Republic. Other roles include Robert Paradies in The Intelligence Park by Gerald Barry with the Royal Opera House, Dr Malatesta Don Pasquale, Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Papagano die Zauberflöte, Belcore l’Elisir d’Amore, Schaunard La Bohème and Leporello Don Giovanni at opera houses around the UK and Europe

Thomas Humphreys studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed as at many of the leading opera houses in the UK and many of the most prestigious concert halls across Europe, recently making his debut at the Philharmonie de Paris and Calouste Gulbenkian Hall in Lisbon with the world renowned pianist Maria João Pires.

Timothy Nelson gained a degree in Physiology from Cardiff University before studying at the Royal College of Music International Opera School. He was a Jerwood Young Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival and has performed with many of the UK’s leading companies, including Opera North, English National Opera, English Touring Opera, English Touring Opera, Diva Opera and The Grange Festival.

Baritone Tim Bagley is a graduate of The Royal Northern College of Music. His professional highlights include 2nd Prisoner in Fidelio (BBC Proms), Oroveso in Norma (Midland Opera) and High Priest of Baal in Nabucco (Dorset Opera). He has also sung with Grange Park Opera for two seasons, and with the Edvard Grieg Kor in Bergen, Norway.

Welsh baritone John Ieuan Jones studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and has since worked with Welsh National Opera, Grange Park Opera and National Theatre London. As a concert soloist, he’s sung internationally in iconic venues such as The Royal Albert Hall and the Perelman Theatre Philadelphia. In 2020, he released his debut album with record label SAIN.

Duncan trained at Trinity Laban, Conservatoire of Music and Dance. His theatre credits include Carousel with Opera North (The Barbican, London); South Pacific (Kilworth House Theatre); ‘Escamillo’ in Carmen (Buxton Opera House); ‘Private Willis’ in Sasha Regan’s Iolanthe (UK Tour) and ‘Sergeant of Police’ in Sasha Regan’s Pirates of Penzance (Wilton’s Music Hall).