Georgios Papaefstratiou

Greek bass Georgios Papaefstratiou is originally from Athens, where he began his training as a chemical engineer by graduating from the National Technical University with a Chemical Engineering degree in 2005.  Whilst completing his first degree he studied piano, receiving a diploma, also in 2005.  Georgios has recently graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is currently in his first year of a Master’s in Singing degree, studying with Laura Sarti and Russell Smythe.

Alan Ewing

Irish bass Alan Ewing has sung at the Berliner Staatsoper, the Opernhaus Zürich, the Maggio Musicale Florence, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Netherlands Opera, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. He has sung in concert at the Salzburger Pfingsten Festspiel, the Lucerne Festival, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Barbican, the Salle Pleyel, and the Concertgebouw with a great range of conductors including Sir Colin Davis, Philippe Jordan, Richard Hickox, Daniel Oren, Sir Charles Mackerras, Ivor Bolton, David Stern and Paul McCreesh. 

Toby Stafford-Allen

Toby Stafford-Allen studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, with whom he made his international debut singing Guglielmo (Così fan Tutte) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. He then joined English National Opera, where his major roles included Guglielmo, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Schaunard (La Bohème), and Pish-Tush (The Mikado)

Giles Underwood

Giles Underwood is a versatile singer, particularly specialising in baroque and contemporary repertoire. He was a chorister at Westminster Abbey and an academical clerk at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Biology. He went on to study on the postgraduate and opera courses at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD), where he now holds the post of Vocal Studies Lecturer. 

Brian McAlea

Born in Northern Ireland, Brian McAlea graduated from Oxford University in 2015 where he read Music and sang with the Choir of New College under both Professor Edward Higginbottom and Professor Robert Quinney. He is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in Vocal Studies with Robert Dean at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama for which he is kindly supported by The Peter Nutting Charitable Trust, The George Heim Memorial Trust, The John S Cohen Foundation, The Michael James Music Trust and The John Wates Charitable Trust. 

Michael Craddock

Michael Craddock is a London-based freelance singer, who started his musical education with the choir of Trinity College Cambridge, with whom he sang for four years. Whilst studying Mathematics, he found himself in many university productions, including Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona (Uberto), Milhaud Le Pauvre Matelot (L’Ami) and Bernstein Trouble in Tahiti (Sam), and was invited back to the University in 2014 to sing the title role in Don Giovanni