Adrian trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, both as an undergraduate and postgraduate on the Opera Course. A winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Singers Prize, in 2007 he was selected for representation by Young Concert Artist Trust. During this time he was an Independent Opera Fellowship Award winner, a Susan Chilcott Scholar and a finalist in both the Richard Tauber and Kathleen Ferrier competitions.

Winner of the Emmy Destinn Award for Young Singers and a graduate of Durham University, Michael Bracegirdle first qualified as a Chartered Accountant and went on to work as a Finance Director in industry.  In 2003 he gave up his business career to further his vocal studies at the Royal Northern College of Music.

As a prize winner at the Opera Competition and Festival with Mezzo Television, Hungary, he made his New York opera début as Judge Danforth in The Crucible with Dicapo Opera Theatre, a performance he repeated at the National Theatre, Szeged.

Born in Liverpool, Nicholas Mulroy read Modern Languages at Clare College Cambridge and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He has since sung at many of the world’s great concert halls and festivals, including the Sydney Opera House, Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, the BBC Proms, and the Salzburg Festival. In November 2020, he was also appointed Associate Director of the Dunedin Consort, the first in the group’s history.

Nicholas Hurndall Smith studied music whilst organ scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, before training as a singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under David Pollard, supported by The Leverhulme Trust.

Bradley graduated from St John’s College, Cambridge, and obtained his Masters with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music where he then continued his studies with Ryland Davies and Audrey Hyland on their prestigious opera course for two further years. While at the Academy he was a
prize-winning finalist in the Joan Chissel Prize for Schumann Lieder, winner of the Blythe-Buesst Aria Prize, winner of the Tom Hammond Opera Prize, and he was awarded a dipRAM
for his Final Recital.

Born in West Sussex, Nick Pritchard sang in the choir of New College, Oxford, and studied singing at The Royal College of Music International Opera School, London.

Nathan Vale studied with Ryland Davies at the Royal College of Music and Benjamin Britten International Opera School. He was awarded an Independent Opera Vocal Scholarship to the National Opera Studio, and is a former winner of the London Handel Singing Competition where he was also awarded the Audience Prize. He continues his studies with David Pollard.

Benjamin Clark is a tenor and conductor. He studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire where he was the Morag Noble scholar, and was previously the Leverhulme Arts Scholar and the Linda Pilgrim Charitable Trust Scholar. He previously studied music and German in Durham, Vienna and at King’s College, London.

Born in Carmarthen, West Wales, Andrew Rees gained a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and completed his studies on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He was a Jerwood Young Artist at English National Opera and later became a principal tenor at the company.

Born in Essex, Alexander James Edwards began singing as a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, continuing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, later joining the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.