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Jonathan is from Liverpool and studied at Exeter University and GSMD. Roles include Tolomeo/ Tolomeo (ETO), Bertarido/ Rodelinda (GFO); Amadigi/ Amadigi (Ireland, Paris, NYork); Nireno/ Giulio Cesare (ROH); Les Oiseax de passage (Teatro communale, Bologna); Trinculo/ The Tempest (Strasbourg); Orfeo/ L’Orfeo (Osaka). In concert Jonathan has performed with AAM, OAE, RLPO, RSNO, EBS, Gabrieli Consort, Ulster Orchestra under such conductors as Gardiner, Hickox, Parry, Fischer, Glover, Parrott, Mortensen, Bolton, Bicket. Recordings include Mattheus-Passion (Miller/ Goodwin); Agrippina, (Gardiner); Buxtehude Cantatas (Immerseel); La conversione di Clodoveo (Gester); Israel in Babylon (Fontaine).
Jonathan is baroque specialist at BBIOS. Conducting appearances include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for artist Dorothy Cross/ OTC Dublin; Teseo (ETO). Plans include Orfeo (Akademie fur Alte Musik im Saarland) and Flavio (Lucca).

James is General Director of ETO and has written original libretti for two operas and translations for three others, as well as several works of fiction.

James has directed a range of operas for ETO – including, most recently, the critically-acclaimed Il tabarro (Puccini) and Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. In 2010, he directed the world premiere of Alexander Goehr’s opera, Promised End. His production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (performed by ETO in 2004 and revived in 2010) was nominated for an RPS Award.

Other operatic work includes Katya Kabanova, Rusalka, Susannah, Eugene Onegin, Orfeo, Jenufa, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, as well as Teseo and Alcina (ETO); Ariodante, Erismena, Flavio, The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO and OTC); The Marriage of Figaro (RCM and ETO); Tolomeo (London Handel Festival/ ETO); Tamerlano, Amadigi, Rodelinda, L’elisir d’amore, Katya Kabanova and The Rake’s Progress (OTC); Cinderella (De Vlaamse Opera/ Transparant); Don Giovanni (Canadian Opera Company); La Voix humaine (Teatro Nacional São João, Oporto); staging of Kurt Weill songs (Culturgest, Lisbon); La Spinalba (Casa da Musica, Porto), The Cunning Little Vixen (Moravian National Theatre, Brno).

Designs for theatre, opera and dance. Joanna’s opera engagements include The Rape of Lucretia (RCM); Eugene Onegin, Falstaff, Alcina, Le nozze di Figaro, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Cunning Little Vixen (ETO). She has also worked with the ROH, SO, OTC Dublin. Joanna’s designs for theatre include The Young Vic, Hampstead Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Salisbury Playhouse and The Lyric Hammersmith. She designed The Noise of Time for Theatre de Complicité at the Lincoln Centre NY, Barbican Centre London and European Festivals. Dance designs include Cholmondeleys, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company and London Contemporary Dance Theatre. She is Senior Lecturer in Scenography at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Kevin’s designs include The Shawshank Redemption (Wyndhams Theatre, West End); The Nose (The Performance Corporation – winner for Best Lighting Design, Irish Times Theatre Awards for 2008); Dr. Ledbetter’s Experiment (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Kilkenny Festival); The Yokohama Delegation (Kilkenny Festival); Drive-By (Dublin Fringe Festival and Canterbury Festival); This is our Youth (Bedrock Productions); Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Hänsel und Gretel, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Il viaggio a Reims, Pagliacci, The Medium and Suor Angelica (Wexford Festival Opera 2002-2008); La Tragédie de Carmen (WFO and ETO – nominated Best Opera, Irish Times Theatre Awards 2007); The Little Magic Flute (ETO and OTC); The Kiss, Hänsel und Gretel, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Xerxes (OTC).

Countertenor Jake Arditti graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Andrew Watts. He is currently at the Royal College of Music continuing his post-graduate studies with Russell Smythe on the prestigious Royal College of Music International Opera School. He is the recipient of the Joseph Clover Award and a Countess of Munster Musical Trust Award. As a treble he performed with the English National Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Concert works include Carmina Burana at Snape Maltings and Fairfield Halls. For the Heidelberg International Quartet Festival he performed Respighi’s Il Tramonto and Hilda Paredes’ Canciones Lunaticas, a work for countertenor and string quartet which had its UK premiere this year at the Wigmore Hall. At the National Theatre Jake sang and performed in The Revenger’s Tragedy and Dido Queen of Cathage. Other theatre work includes Laurie Sansom’s critically acclaimed production of The Duchess of Malfi for The Royal and Durngate, Northampton. Jake covered the role of Arcane Teseo for English Touring Opera’s 2009 Handelfest, sang the role of Apollo Terpsicore/Il Pastor Fido and Unulfo Rodelinda for the London Handel Festival. Recently, Jake has been working with Christian Curnyn on Iford Arts Festival’s production of Rodelinda. Other engagements for 2011 have included Canciones Lunaticas at the Herrenhaus Edenkoben in Germany, with future performances at the Wien Modern in Vienna and the Festival d’Automne à Paris.

JAKE IS CURRENTLY STUDYING AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Clint studied at the RCM. He has worked as a soloist with many groups such as the OAE; RPO; The Academy of Ancient Music; The London Handel Orchestra; Le Musiche Nove; Israel Camerata. Clint’s opera roles include Lotario/ Flavio/ Flavio; Dardano/ Amadigi; Judas/ Brockes Passion; In November 2001 he sang the role of Oberon/ A Midsummer Night‘s Dream, which was the launch of the BBIOS, and also performed this role in the ROH in Copenhagen in 2004. Festival engagements include Carmina Burana (Ludwigsburger Schossfestspiele); Halle Händel Festspiele; Cuenca Festival, Spain. In addition, Clint recorded the title role of Francesco Conti’s David with the Lautten Compagney. In December, Clint will tour Handel’s Messiah (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Queensland Orchestra).

Lina was born in Sweden, started her singing studies there and completed them at GSMD. She has recently performed Cherubino/ Le Nozze di Figaro and Dorabella/ Così fan tutte (Théatre des Champs Elysées; Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing) with Jean-Claude Malgoire. Other roles include Arcane/ Teseo (ETO), Second Woman in Katie Mitchell´s After Dido (ENO; The Young Vic); Second Woman in Deborah Warner’s Dido & Aeneas (Les Arts Florissants for Wiener Festwochen; Opéra Comique; The Netherlands Opera); Messaggiera/Ninfa/ L’Orfeo (Drottningholm); Carmen/ La Tragédie de Carmen, Third Sprite/ Rusalka (both Wexford Festival); Doris/Zaide/ L’Europe Galante (Academie Baroque d’Ambronay, cond. William Christie). In concert she has performed the roles of Idamante/ Idomeneo (Chelsea Opera Group), Idamante and Sesto in extracts from Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart Galas, English Baroque Soloists, cond. John Eliot Gardiner). Future plans include Sesto/ Giulio Cesare with Jean-Claude Malgoire (Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing at L’Opéra Royal; Versailles; on tour across France).

Andrew studied at RNCM and St Petersburg Conservatoire. Opera roles include Patsy Love Counts (Almeida Festival); The House of the Gods (Music Theatre Wales); Leporello Don Giovanni (BOC); Falstaff Falstaff (ETO); Ben Selim Dom Sebastien (ROH). Recent concerts include Verdi Requiem (RLPO); Brahms Requiem (RTE Orchestra Dublin); Britten War Requiem (Orchestra de l’Ile de France). Recordings include Michael Berkeley Jane Eyre (Chandos); Stravinsky The Flood (Twentieth Century Classics); Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (BBC TV).

Kitty Whately studied at Chetham’s School of Music and the GSMD. She is currently studying with Tim Evans Jones at the RCMIOS, generously supported by the Aldama Scholarship. She was the winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and the Royal Overseas League Award for Singers in memory of Pamela Faulkner in 2011, and was a finalist in the Les Azuriales Interntional Singing Competition in Nice in 2010. She has played Eduige (Rodelinda) and Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte) at (RCM), and was awarded first prize in both the Ted Moss and Bertha Taylor-Stachlieder prize and the Joan Chissell Schumann competitions. Future plans include playing Rosina (Barber of Seville) with ETO, and singing the Samling 15th anniversary showcase concert at the Wigmore Hall, and several recitals around the UK sponsored by the Kathleen Ferrier Awards.

Mark Wilde studied at the RCM. Roles include Ferrando/ Così fan Tutte (GFO); Frederic/ Pirates of Penzance (ENO); Albert/ Albert Herring (Perth Festival); Il Campanello (Buxton Festival); Ottone/ La Serenissima (BBC Radio 3); Jacquino/ Fidelio (GTO); Seven Deadly Sins (WNO); Cat/ Pinocchio (ON); Ottavio/ Don Giovanni (Mostly Mozart Festival); Male Chorus/ The Rape of Lucretia (European Opera Centre); Giannetto/ La Gazza Ladra, Albafiorita/ Mirandolina (both Garsington); Rudolf/ Euryanthe (Netherlands Opera); Ottavio/ Don Giovanni, Alfredo/ La Traviata, title role in Candide and Idamante/ Idomeneo (all Birmingham Opera Company); Count Almaviva/ Barber of Seville (Savoy Theatre Opera); Adelaide de Borgogna (Edinburgh International Festival); Madwoman/ Curlew River (BBC Proms). Recent engagements include Snout/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bari and Reggio Emilia). Future engagements include further performances of Pinocchio (ON in Ravenna). Previously for ETO, Mark has performed the roles of Tamino/ The Magic Flute, Flute/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Basilio/ Le Nozze di Figaro.