Country Matters

Born
Grimsby

Awards
Best Production, 2005 Dublin International Theatre Festival, and 2006 Fringe First Award for Knots – CoisCeim Dance Theatre.
Herald Angel Award for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement, 2004 Edinburgh International Festival for Strictly Dandia – Tamasha Theatre Company
TMA Award – Best Production, for Tom’s Midnight Garden – Library Theatre, Manchester

Theatre and Dance
Liam is Artistic Director of Stan Won’t Dance, for whom he has created four pieces: Sinner; Revelations; Skylon Spirits and Off The Wall. Freelance directorial and choreographic work includes commissions from the Lyric Hammersmith, 4 productions for Frantic Assembly; Bare Bones Dance Co; the RSC; Northampton Theatre Royal; Cirque du Soleil; Nottingham Playhouse; BAC; Birmingham Rep; Contact Theatre, Manchester; Graeae Theatre Co; the Royal National Theatre; and 5 productions for the Library Theatre, Manchester.

Born
Hampshire

Training
Bristol University

Opera
Assistant and Revival Director: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Tosca (London Opera Players); Director: Viennese Operetta Evening (London Opera Players); Assistant Director: Country Matters (ETO); work for Teatro Technis and Richmond Theatre.

Born
Lancaster

Awards
Conductor Fellowship with the BBC Singers

Training
King’s College, Cambridge

Opera
Venus and Adonis; The Elixir of Love; Hansel and Gretel; Cosi fan tutte; The Marriage of Figaro; The Rescue from the Seraglio; Dido and Aeneas; Die Fledermaus (All Eastern Opera); Orpheus and Eurydice (Ryedale Festival); Carmen (Swaledale Festival)

Other
Justin is currently Musical Director of Essex Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Opera, the King´s Camerata, Da Chiesa baroque orchestra and Artistic Director of Ryedale Festival and other recent engagements include the Orchestra of Opera North, Northern Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Born
London

Training
RCM; TCM

Awards
Margot Hamilton Recital Prize; Knights of the Round Table Prize (RCM)

Opera
Basilio Camacho’s Wedding (UCL Opera); Pinkerton Il Tempo Del Postino (Manchester Intl. Festival); Don Ramiro Cenerentola (Opera South East); Pedro Betrothal in a Monastery (GFO); Ernesto Don Pasquale (Opera South East)

Concerts
Verdi Requiem (Barbican); Rossini Stabat Mater (Norwegian Radio); Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra)

Recordings
A Masque at Kenilworth (Symposium); The Maid of Artois (Campion Cameo)

Born
Brackley

Training
BC, RCM, NOS

Opera
Dancairo Carmen (CBSO); English Clerk Death in Venice (ENO); Angelotti Tosca and Nachtigall Die Meistersinger (ROH); Faber The Knot Garden (Montepulciano Festival); Noye Noyes Fludde (Nuremberg Festival); Papageno Zauberflöte (ETO and Lyrique-en-Mer), Quain Thwaite and Elephant The Cricket Recovers (Almeida/Aldeburgh); Giant Gentle Giant (ROH2); Nanni Country Matters (ETO)

Concerts
Handel Messiah (The Sixteen’s Tour of Spain), Mozart Requiem (Mostly Mozart Festival, Barbican) Shostakovich Symphony No. 14 (City of London Sinfonia)

Recordings

Brahms Volkslieder (Crear Classics); Lalande Music for the Sun King (Hyperion); Spicer Easter Oratorio (Birmingham Bach Choir)

Radio
The Proms: Friday Night is Music Night (BBC)

Future
English Clerk Death in Venice (La Monnaie, Brussels), Abn-Hakia Iolanta (Opera Holland Park)

Tenor

Born
London

Training
King’s College, Cambridge, RCM

Opera
Jacquino Fidelio (Royal Opera House); Aret Philemon und Baucis (Haydn Festival, Eisenstadt); Haliate Sosarme (RCM and London Handel Festival); Ferrando Cosi fan Tutte (RCM); Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (London Mozart Players)

Concerts
Mozart C-Minor Mass and Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri (Swedish Radio); Beethoven Mass in C and Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Mozart Requiem (Scottish Chamber Orchestra)

Future
First Armed Man Die Zauberflöte (Royal Opera House); Tamino Die Zauberflöte (Opera Holland Park) Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri (OAE with Sir Simon Rattle); Britten Billy Budd (LSO with Daniel Harding)

Born
Australia

Training
National Opera Studio; Australian National University

Awards
Covent Garden National Opera Studio Scholarship, Robert & Betty Salzer
Prize (Opera Foundation Australia); Australian National Aria winner

Opera
Blonde The Seraglio (ETO); Norina Don Pasquale (New Zealand Opera);
Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor (Ilford Arts); Giulia La Scala di
Seta (Independent Opera); Fiakermilli Arabella (Garsington Opera); Susan
A Dinner Engagement, Alison The Wandering Scholar (both Opera East)

Concert
New Year’s Eve, Barbican (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra); Wallace Gala
(Australia House, Richard Bonynge); Mozart Don Giovanni (London Mozart
Players); Viennese Gala (Royal Festival Hall)

Recordings
Australian recital broadcasts (ABC Classic FM, 3MBS FM)

Other
Full time principal artist, Opera Australia (2008)