Christine Bunning
Christine Bunning has had a sparkling career as a leading soprano that has spanned thirty years. A career that began with backing Souxie and the Banshies has led her to singing Lady Macbeth at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She has sung all over the world and gained enormous insight and experience of differing styles of music.

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Catrin Johnsson
Catrin Johnsson, mezzo soprano, studied at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm with Britta Sundberg, where she gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music. In 2000 she graduated from the London Royal School’s Opera Course (Royal Academy of Music) with a Dip. RAM and LRAM, where she studied with Anne Howells. Her current voice teacher is David Harper.

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Timothy Dawkins
Timothy Dawkins won a foundation scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music. He sang in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen and Geoffrey Parsons, and studied Russian song with Sergei Leiferkus at the Britten-Pears School in Snape, Suffolk. He has sung with Scottish Opera, Opera North, English National Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera where he was awarded the Erich Vietheer Award ‘to a promising young Glyndebourne singer’.

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Heather Exley
Heather Exley, soprano, studied singing with soprano, Margaret Field at Sheffield University where she gained a Bachelor Degree in Music and at the Royal Academy of Music with Mark Wildman.  Further vocal studies have been with David Harper and Jacqueline Bremar.

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Karen Fodor
Karen Fodor began her professional life as a translator and teacher of modern languages. Increasingly sought after as a singer, she left her post in Higher Education to pursue a career in music.  She sings everything from Bach to cabaret songs, but specialises in contemporary music, Spanish repertoire and Jewish music, sometimes managing to combine all three in the same programme.  She is also a skilled stage performer, encompassing a wide range of operatic roles, and an experienced recitalist.

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Deborah Hawksley
Deborah Hawksley is a Mezzo Soprano. She studied at the Royal Northern College and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is a professional opera singer and has sung principal roles for English National Opera, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Castleward Opera in Northern Ireland, Opéra Décentralisé in Geneva, Holland Park, Central Festival Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera.

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Julie Unwin
Julie Unwin is rapidly becoming one of the UK’s most successful rising sopranos. Her recent performances of the Countess Marriage of Figaro, a role she sang for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and in the London Festivals, suggested she was in "absolute control of her considerable vocal resourses" singing the role with " gracious ease"(Opera ). Her performances of Euridice Orpheus e Euridice for English National Opera were described as " strong, full voiced " and "effortlessly in command of the stage" (Opera ).

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Maria Jones
Maria Jones began her training at the Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts and then later went on to study singing at the Royal Northern College of Music. Maria has the rarest of Mezzo voices enabling her to perform specialist Handelian heroines.

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Phillip Slane
Philip began his musical career as a chorister at Winchester Cathedral later studying as a scholar and prize winner at the Guildhall School, and Royal College of Music. He is well established as a concert singer across Europe and further afield, having sung most major oratorios with conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner as soloist in New York, Sydney Opera House, Taipei, in France,Germany and in Englands’ finest cathedrals, with Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Verdi Requiem, Mendelssohn Elijah, Dvorak and Rossini Stabat Mater.

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Susan Waters
Susan Waters graduated with Honours in piano from the Royal Academy of Music, London, before winning a scholarship to study Opera at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. She then went on to work at Glyndebourne, and had a successful freelance concert and oratorio career for several years, singing in all the major London concert venues, before deciding to devote herself to teaching.

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