Elizabeth (Tilly) Green is a second-year postgraduate at The Royal Academy of Music studying under Kate Paterson. Here, she holds the position of being a Josephine Baker Trust Scholar. Having started her singing career as a chorister at both Canterbury and Rochester Cathedral, Elizabeth has performed on commercial recordings for Regent Records and Decca Records, the latter of which was both as part of the choir and as a soloist.
Irish mezzo-soprano Margaret Bridge’s repertoire ranges from early baroque through classical and romantic, right up to contemporary music.
After completing a degree in Music, followed by a year of post-graduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Jan began to focus on her two passions: teaching music, specialising in early years and primary teaching, and singing.
She currently works as a primary school teacher in London, teaching a Year 4 class and leading the school choir. Jan has also worked as an Advisory Teacher for the Voices Foundation, which aims to raise the profile and quality of music education in schools through training programmes for class teachers.
Hannah has just finished playing Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto at Opera Holland Park. She recently played the title role in Bizet’s Carmen in a highlights production in Seville and has previously performed the complete role in productions in Dublin, London and Oxford as well as many concert performances. She also recorded Elina Firsova’s Night Songs with the Marsyas Trio for Meridian Records and made her US debut singing Mozart’s Requiem with Harry Christophers and the Boston Handel and Haydn Society.
Amy Lyddon studied at the Royal College of Music as an RCM Award Holder and H R Taylor Trust Scholar. A former chorister of Bath Abbey and pupil of the Junior Royal Academy of Music, she graduated with first-class honours in Linguistics with French and Spanish from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was a Choral Scholar.
Born in Liverpool, Jennifer Johnston read Law at Cambridge and practised as a barrister before graduating with Distinction from the Royal College of Music’s Opera Course. She was a member of both the National Opera Studio, where she was sponsored by Opera North, and the Britten Pears Young Artists Programme, and continues to study with Lillian Watson.
Pamela Helen Stephen studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, at the Opera Theater Center at Aspen, Colorado with Herta Glaz, and in Toronto with Patricia Kern.
Described in The Sunday Times as ‘a lustrous mezzo soprano’ and now specialising in contemporary song, lieder and oratorio, Susan regularly broadcasts on radio and has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St. John’s, Smith Square and opera galas at St. James’s Palace and British Embassies in Moscow, Copenhagen, Lisbon and Stockholm.
Jeanette Ager was awarded an Exhibition to study at the Royal Academy of Music and has won the Gold Medal in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, the Richard Tauber Prize and an award from the Tillett Trust’s Young Artist Platform.