ARTISTROSTER
SOPRANO
Jeni Bern
Llio Evans
Susanna Fairbairn
Nazan Fikret
Gweneth Ann Rand
Sarah Redgwick
Linda Richardson
Camilla Roberts
Claire Wild
Binny-Supin Yang
MEZZO-SOPRANO
Felicity Buckland
Joanna Harries
Alison Kettlewell
Samantha Price
Olivia Ray
Tichina Vaughn
Lauren Young
CONTRALTO
Rhonda Browne
TENOR
Robyn Lyn Evans
Jonah Halton
Monwabisi Lindi
Harry Nicoll
Ronald Samm
Philip Sheffield
BARITONE
Neil Balfour
Felix Kemp
Mark Nathan
Timothy Nelson
Samuel Pantcheff
Philip Smith
BASS BARITONE
Wonsick Oh
Wyn Pencarreg
BASS
Trevor Eliot Bowes
Simon Wilding
FEATUREDARTISTS
Nazan Fikret
SOPRANO
Nazan Fikret was born in the UK to Turkish and Irish parents. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Penelope Mackay and later Yvonne Kenny. Nazan is a 2015 Making Music AYCA Winner, Concordia Foundation Artist, a Britten Pears Young Artist and a recipient of an International Opera Awards Bursary
Among her recent highlights are Queen of the Night DieZauberflöte(Opera North, Opera Poznań, Glyndebourne, Opera på Skäret, Garsington Opera, Nevill Holt Festival); First Lady TheMagicFlute(Welsh National Opera); Madame Herz TheImpresario(Buxton International Festival); Anne Trulove TheRake’s Progress, Teofane Ottone, Blonde TheAbductionfromtheSeraglio, Clorinda La Cenerentola (English Touring Opera) and Aristea L’Olimpiade (Vache Baroque).
Binny-Supin Yang
SOPRANO
Korean soprano Binny-Supin Yang is a recent graduate of the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Mary Nelson and Jonathan Papp. She is generously supported by the Academy Bicentenary Scholarship and Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Arts & Culture Foundation and is currently based in the UK.
On the operatic stage she has appeared as Königin der Nacht DieZauberflöte under the baton of Olivia Clarke, Gretel HänselundGretelunder the baton of Johann Stuckenbruck, Emmie Albert Herring under the baton of Geoffrey Paterson; Dalinda Ariodante under the baton of David Bates, and scenes as Madame Herz DerSchauspieldirektor and Blonde DieEntführungausdem Serail, under the baton of Peter Robinson – all while at the Royal Academy of Music.
FEATUREDARTISTS
Lauren Young MEZZO SOPRANO
Scottish mezzo soprano Lauren Young is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) Alexander Gibson Opera School and an inaugural studio artist at the Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence. She is also a Britten Pears Young Artist and recipient of an Independent Opera Voice Scholarship and Fellowship. Earlier this year she was a semi-finalist in the 42nd Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.
Among her recent highlights are Rosina IlbarbierediSiviglia(Longborough Festival Opera); Baba the Turk TheRake’sProgress, Tisbe LaCenerentola, Mathilde Ottone(English Touring Opera); Daughter 6 Akhnaten(English National Opera); Mezzo TheF*ggotsandTheirFriendsBetweenRevolutions (Ruhrtriennale Festival); Vanamaka Zonnendanz Donizetti’s VivalaDiva (Buxton International Festival); and Witch HanselandGretel(British Youth Opera/Silent Opera).
Monwabisi Lindi TENOR
Monwabisi Lindi Monwabisi Lindi was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa where he studied with Pierre du Toit at the Tshwane University of Technology, he is also a recent graduate of the National Opera Studio. During the covid-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020 he was awarded a tenor prize in the VoicesofSouthAfrica singing competition.
During the 2023/24 season he was an Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera, where he performed Zweiter Schäfer Daphne and Gastone La traviata He also covered Count Almaviva, performing the role in Access performances of The BarberofSeville
Other engagements include Charles Edward, covering the title role Candide (Scottish Opera); Lord Chamberlain The Spectre Knight (Wexford Festival Opera); and Vitellozzo LucreziaBorgia (English Touring Opera). He has also covered Chevalier Belfiore IlviaggioaReims(English Touring Opera); Elvino Lasonnambula(Buxton International Festival); and Policeman/Congregant 2 Blue(English National Opera).
FEATUREDARTISTS
Felix Kemp BARITONE
British baritone Felix Kemp is a former Britten Pears Young Artist, Momentum Emerging Artist, finalist at the 2021 London Handel International Singing Competition, and in the 2022/23 season made his debut at the Royal Ballet & Opera in DonCarlo
Among his recent highlights are his Italian debut as Maximilian Candide(Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Comunale di Bologna); Belcore L’elisir d’amore (Celebrate Voice); and Strephon Iolanthe, Florian PrincessIda(National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company). In concert he performed Zelenka Lamentationsof Jeremiah (Ensemble Diderot – Chapelle Corneille, Kölner Philharmonie); and Vaughan Williams SerenadetoMusic(Outcry Ensemble – Sinfonia Smith Square).
Trevor Eliot Bowes
BASS
Lyric bass Trevor Eliot Bowes was born in Victoria, Canada and studied at the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He is also an alumnus of Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium Young Artist programme.
Among his recent highlights are Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia (Longborough Festival Opera); Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro (The Mozartists); Alidoro La Cenerentola(Nevill Holt Opera); Polifemo Aci,GalateaePolifemo(OAE/Valletta Baroque Festival, Early Music Society of the Islands); Seneca TheCoronationof Poppea, Father Trulove The Rake’s Progress, Colline La bohème (English Touring Opera); Mozart Requiem (Hallé); and Haydn Missa in tempore belli (Jurowski/London Philharmonic Orchestra).
ARTISTROSTER
Jeni Bern Llio Evans
Susanna Fairbairn Nazan Fikret Gweneth Ann Rand Sarah Redgwick
Linda Richardson Camilla Roberts
Claire Wild Binny-Supin Yang
MEZZO SOPRANO & CONTRALTO
Rhonda Browne Felicity Buckland
Joanna Harries Alison Kettlewell Samantha Price Olivia Ray
Tichina Vaughn Lauren Young
ARTISTROSTER
TENOR
BARITONE, BASS BARITONE & BASS
Robyn Lyn Evans Jonah Halton
Monwabisi Lindi Harry Nicoll Ronald Samm Philip Sheffield
Neil Balfour Trevor Eliot Bowes
Felix Kemp
Mark Nathan Timothy Nelson Wonsick Oh
Samuel Pantcheff Wyn Pencarreg Philip Smith Simon Wilding