Spirit of Vienna

Conductor
Gareth was born in Worcester and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Clare College, Cambridge. Opera conducting includes: Rape of Lucretia (RAM); The Marriage of Figaro (Savoy Opera); The Barber of Seville (Savoy Opera); Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin, Seraglio, Spirit of Vienna (ETO); Madama Butterfly (ON); Misper (Glyndebourne Education) and, as Musical Director, Serenade To Music (St John’s, Smith Square). Recording work includes Kenneth Branagh’s film of The Magic Flute and Alfie Boe (Sony BMG/Classic FM) and Puccini Highlights (Chandos).

Cheryl Enever graduated from Bath Spa University as a cellist before training as a lyric soprano. She has sung for Royal Opera House, creating the lead soprano role of Joanna in the community opera Ludd and Isis; Franzi, Wienerblut, Tatyana, Eugene Onegin, Donna Anna, Don Giovanni and First Lady, Magic Flute (for ETO).

Other roles include Tosca, Tosca, Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte and Pamina, Magic Flute (Opera a la Carte); Countess Almaviva, Le Nozze di Figaro and Donna Anna under Ben Ellin; Countess, Capriccio (The Wagner Society); Eva, Der Meistersinger, The Mastersingers under Anthony Legge at the Linbury Studio Theatre; cover Tamiri, Il Re Pastore for the Classical Opera Company; and Sandrina, L’infedeltà delusa (BCO).

Her concert work has included Verdi Requiem (Cadogan Hall); Brahms Requiem, Mahler Fourth and Eighth Symphonies (BIF); Beethoven Ninth Symphony and Mass in C (Rochester Cathedral); Mozart C Minor Mass, Requiem (St John’s Smith Square, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge), Solemn Vespers and Exsultate Jubilate (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Fanshawe African Sanctus; Handel Messiah with the London Festival Orchestra.

Born Dublin
Training Royal Irish Academy of Music, DIT College of Music, Trinity College Dublin
Awards Finalist Veronica Dunne Irish European Union Singing Competition, resident performer at Malkovich International Composers’ Competition
Opera Governess The Turn of the Screw (OTC), Barena Jen_fa (Opera Ireland)
Concerts Barry The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (NSOI), works by Raymond Deane (The Crash Ensemble), Haflidi Hallgrimsson, James Wilson (Vox 21), soloist and member of Irish National Chamber Choir (1998-2003), Mozart Exultate Jubilate (Orchestra of St.Cecilia, cond. David Agler)
Future Feldman Neither (RTE Living Music Festival), Mozart Die Schuldigkeit des erstens Gebots (NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Germany), Orchestra of St.Cecilia (Mozart Festival)