| Name:
| Heather Mair Thomas
| | Skills:
| singer, teacher, writer
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| | Heather studied at Guildhall School of Music & Drama . She graduated and became a fellow of Trinity College of Music London where she studied with John Wakefield.
A truly versatile performer Heather is well known in the jazz and pop worlds as well as classical, winning the title of Wavendon Allmusician of the year at the Stables. The contest is run by John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, and awarded for cross-pollination of genres by a panel of distinguished international musicians. She performs and records extensively, exploding the myth that classical singers don't cross over!
Heather is a founder member of Opera Mosaic and the Mozaic network, sheis also a prolific songwriter and teacher of vocal technique.
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| Name:
| Caroleve Thompson-Fonseka
| | Skills:
| Singer (Operatic Soprano)
| | Phone:
| +1 905 824 5050
| | Fax:
| +1 905 824 3909
| | Address:
| 3419 Forrestdale Circle, Mississauga, Ontario L5N 6V2, Canada
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| | Caroleve is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) with ARCT Degrees in Performance and Teaching.
She has an extensive operatic background having performed the title roles in Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Manon by Massenet, Lucia di Lammermoore by Donizetti, Suor Angelica by Puccini and the roles of Elvira in I Puritani by Bellini, Mimi in La Boheme by Puccini, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutti by Mozart, Violetta in La Traviata by Verdi, Amina in La Sonnambula by Bellini and Marguerite in Faust by Gounod.
Caroleve has also been the Soprano Soloist in The Seven Last Words of Christ by Dubois and Stabat Mater by Rossini, has performed many solo operatic recitals, has been the Guest Soloist with symphony orchestras and performed on CBC television.
Together with her husband, Tenor Nihal Fonseka, they have given four joint operatic recitals, produced a CD called A Treasury of Christmas Jewels and recently performed at Toronto's prestigious Roy Thomson Hall.
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| Name:
| Phillip Tolley
| | Skills:
| singer (Tenor)
| | Address:
| 10 South Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire GU12 5AJ, United Kingdom
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| | PHILLIP TOLLEY (Tenor) began his professional vocal career as Alfred in Strauss' 'Die Fledermaus. Since then he has appeared across the United Kingdom, from the Scilly Isles to Buxton, in Operatic roles and on the Oratorio stage. More recently he has appeared internationally in Cyprus and Germany. He studied privately with Antony Benskin for 12 years and while in Cyprus, from 1994-1997, with former Royal Opera Covent Garden member Linda Humphries.
Operatic roles include Mozart's Tamino (Magic Flute), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), and Don Basilio (Marriage of Figaro), Donizetti's Nemorino (Elixir of Love) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale). In 1988 he appeared in the British Premiere of Donizetti's 'Torquato Tasso', under Carlo Rizzi and also understudied the role of Clotarco in the Premiere of Haydn's 'Armide' at the Buxton International Festival. In 1989 he took the role of Hlestakov in the World Premier of Peter Dawes' 'The Government Inspector'. UK based companies include Buxton Festival, Opera South West, Opera South, Opera Inside Out, Lyric Opera, Somerset Opera Group and Hillside Opera.
Choral Works include the standard repertoire of Handel and Mendelssohn Oratorios, the masses of Haydn and Mozart and the canticles of Benjamin Britten.
In addition to the 1988 Torquato Tasso Buxton Opera performance which was broadcast on Radio 3 he has appeared on Television in walk-on roles. He has been a member of British Actors Equity since 1989.
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| Name:
| John P. Tracy
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher, Writer
| | Phone:
| +1 250 475 1860
| | Address:
| 860 Short St.,, Victoria v8x-2v5, Canada
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| | I was born in Toronto, Canada in 1954. I have NO formal musical training. I learned to play the "rock & roll" instruments (guitars, keyboards and percusion) by ear as well as teaching myself to read scores.After many "bands" formed then fell apart before the 2nd gig, I turned to songwriting as a means to put forth my feelings However, not everyone was comfortable with my "feelings" and I put my talent on hold while I "got a life". Well, one or two lives later and thanx to the computer age and midi I'm able once again to get my compositions down and also heard by the unsuspecting e-world!
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| Name:
| Joanna (Jo) Treasure
| | Skills:
| Composer, Player, Singer
| | Phone:
| 07939 127889
| | Fax:
| 01257 464320
| | Address:
| 4 New Acres, Newburgh, Lancs. WN8 7TU, United Kingdom
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| | Joanna Treasure was born in 1961, the youngest of nine children, and was surrounded by music-making from infancy. She studied piano, French horn and singing, both solo and a capella. Her compositional talent was recognised in 1975 at Cheltenham Ladies’ College when she won first prize for her SATB setting of Solomon Grundy. She went on to study medicine at Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital and has continued to juggle her musical development with a demanding career in Pathology. She is a regular participant in the Canford Composers’ Workshop, where she studies with Malcolm Singer, and is a composer/performer member of COMA (Contemporary Music-Making for Amateurs). Jo’s music is essentially melodic and expressive. Her vocal writing shows great sensitivity to text, whether it is a setting of Latin or her own words. Pieces often grow from the need to return to and explore the experience of quite transient moments. Her music can savour a sense of stillness, rigorously analyse a recurring pattern, or unfold a glimpse of ecstasy. Jo is married with two sons and lives in Lancashire, UK.
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| Name:
| Panos Tsikos
| | Skills:
| Composer, Singer, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +353 868 445 431
| | Address:
| Cork, Ireland
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| | Panos Tsikos was born in Greece. He studied French Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessalonica and music at the State Conservatoire of Thessalonika. He sang with Opera Thessalonikis (Il Campanello di Notte and Orfeo ed Euridice)before moving to London to gain a MMus and study Voice at the Trinity College of Music with Peter Knapp and Roger Vignoles as mentor. He has taken part in master classes by Opera 2005 in Cork, by Mary MacSweenny , by Eugene Asti, Simon Young, Will Hancox and Dolores Ziegler. Following his graduation, Panos studies with Robert Dean. He took part in several productions at Trinity performing major roles such as, Conte Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Emilio in Nino Rotas Il Cappello di Paglie di Firenze (UK premier).
In 2004 he made his professional debut and has sung amongst others, Rodrigo in Don Carlos the Count in Marriage of Figaro and Figaro from Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In 2005 he was engaged to sing comprimario roles for the Holland Park Opera including, Domestico in Macbeth and ensemble in Andrea Chènier and Eugene Onegin. For Vox Lirica he sang Marquis d’ Obigny in La Traviata and Alidoro in La Cenerentola. He has sung concerts in the UK, Ireland and Greece and his repertoire includes Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes De Domenica, and the Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Charpentier’s Te Deum.Other engagements include Soloist for the Thursford Christmas Spectacular (2004 and 2005) and film credits include Alexander directed by Oliver Stone, The Brief and Love and other Disasters.
Recently he sang in Cork Danillo from The Merry Widow and Mr Peachum from The Threepenny Opera, with Opera 2005 and in a concert tribute to Mozart with Cara O ‘Sullivan and Mary Hegarty to critical acclaim. In concert, on spring and summer 2006 he performed works of a modern composer inspired by ancient Greek music at the 20th Century theatre as part of the Inspirational Arts Festival of London as well as at the Athens Festival.
Future Engagements include: Singing Masetto from Don Giovani this autumn at the Cork Opera House. He has recently sung with the Opera of Mainz State Theatre in Germany. In November 2006 he also covered Figaro and sung Ambrogio from the Barber of Seville at the Cork Opera House with numerous concert apperances in Ireland, Greece and the UK. Panos is fluent in Greek, English, French, Italian, German (intermediate) and Russian (reading) and has worked with many choreographers in the past in a number of diverse productions. Last Updated Aug 2007
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| Name:
| Sarah Kay Tyler
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 8785 3581
| | Fax:
| +44 (0)20 8785 7688
| | Address:
| 71 Innes Gardens, London SW15 3AD, United Kingdom
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| | Sarah Tyler is a lyric mezzo-soprano with wide experience of opera, operetta, oratorio, musical theatre, and concert works. She read Theology at King's College, London, whilst beginning singing training with Peter Harrison and Dorothy Richardson at the GSMD, and has subsequently studied with the late Elizabeth Ritchie and Meribeth Dayme. She now works with David Coussell and sings widely across London and the UK.
In recent seasons Sarah’s roles have included Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Idamante (Idomeneo), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte), Nicklaus/The Muse (The Tales of Hoffmann), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), the title roles in Cenerentola and Carmen, Preziosilla (The Force of Destiny), Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Giorgetta in Il Tabarro and The Beggar Woman (Sweeney Todd).
Sarah works in special collaboration with composer and condutor David Hoyland, under the banner of Porcupine Productions, for whom she created the role of the Narrator in Hoyland's The Christmas Story - A Nativity Opera in performance and recording in 2002/03 and premiered Night, a work for voice and clarinet in Southwark Cathedral in 2003.
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| Name:
| Mark van Ments
| | Skills:
| Singer (Tenor)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)7770 372277
| | Address:
| London, United Kingdom
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| | Mark is a jugendhelden and heavy character tenor performing mainly in London and the South of England.
Roles include: Radames (Aida), Macduff (Macbeth), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Goro (Madame Butterfly)
Mark also performs as soloist in a wide variety of concert repertoire.
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| Name:
| Barton Viar
| | Skills:
| Composer, Singer, Soloist
| | Address:
| United States
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| | Well composed with outstanding time and care, Barton's music is classically centered, rooted in Memphis blues and is bright and airy with attractive complex melodies of extraordinary depth. The artist indeed combines extremely accurate guitar playing with wonderful keyboards and lush non-lyrical heavenly sensual female and male vocals provided either by Mimi and/or Barton.
All his influences are captured, from eastern spiritual, blues, southern rock, metal, rock-a-billy, blue-grass, Celtic and even hip-hop, using modern electric and ancient acoustic sting instruments. From the first note of his work, I was captivated by the simplicity and beauty of an extraordinary musician. Naturally roused tones are used to create a sound that is unique, otherworldly, and elegant. The resulting whole is an opulent, sensually arousing tapestry.
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| Name:
| Carlos Vicente
| | Skills:
| Singer (Tenor)
| | Address:
| Fort Worth, TX, United States
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| | Mr. Vicente was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the age of five he started his piano and music theory studies. At the age of eight, he entered the Brazilian Conservatory of Music (BCM) having the highest score in the access examinations.
In 1987 he graduated from the BCM and became a pupil of Linda Bustani, celebrated Brazilian pianist and graduate of the Moscow Conservatory. During this time he was also a major prizewinner in the "Jose Mandelli National Piano Competition" in São Paulo.
After five years of a successful career as a private piano teacher in Rio de Janeiro, he realized that his true calling was opera, and started taking lessons with the renowned Brazilian soprano and vocal pedagogue Eliane Sampaio.
In 1998 Mr. Vicente moved to Fort Worth, TX to further pursue his vocal studies under the guidance of Richard Estes, Raymond Bazemore and most recently Dr. Sheila Allen. During his studies at Texas Christian University he was the recipient of many prestigious prizes and scholarships and sang several leading roles with the TCU Opera Theater, including Rafael in the Zarzuella La Dolorosa by José Serrano, and The Witch in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel,
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| Name:
| Victor Victorino
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Conductor, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +1-209-320-5717
| | Address:
| 10445 Tyke Dr., Stockton, California 95209, United States
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| | Masters in Church Music, Ecumenical Institute for Church Music, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany Employment Records: Organist, Cantor - St. Elizabeth Parish, Berlin, Germany 1994-2001 Director of Music and Liturgy - St. Elizabeth Parish, Rockville, Maryland, USA 2001-2002 Director of Music, Diocese of Kilmore, Ireland 2002-2007 Director of Music, Church of the Presentation of the BVM 2007- present
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| Name:
| Amaranta Viera
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist (Soprano)
| | Phone:
| +1 917 848 1185
| | Fax:
| +01 212 883 1314
| | Address:
| New York, NY, United States
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| | Noted for her unusual musical versatility, warm vocal color and compelling stage presence, soprano Amaranta Viera is frequently heard on the concert stages of New York, exciting her audiences with her passion for early and Baroque music. Most recently, she appeared in the first New York Early Music Celebration singing the works of G. F. Sances and Francesca Caccini with the New York Continuo Collective, and also with Ensemble Les Goûts-Réunis, where she was a featured soloist in works by M.A. Charpentier and Paolo Lorenzani. In August, she was featured on a recital of French and Italian Baroque music under the direction of Paul O'Dette and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt at the Teatro Municipal in Vila Real, Portugal.
Ms. Viera’s repertoire reflects a wide spectrum of genres. Equally at home in early and Baroque music, Classical operatic repertoire, and twentieth-century works, her repertoire includes Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Adele in Die Fledermaus and First Fairy in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She has also been featured in Monteverdi's Il Ballo delle ingrate, and in Torrejón y Velasco's La Púrpura de la Rosa. Ms. Viera is a favorite with such ensembles as One World Symphony and Les Goûts Réunits, has performed at the Amherst Early Music Festival under the direction of Andrew Lawrence-King, and toured as a featured soloist with Piffaro, the Renaissance Band.
Ms. Viera’s studies of early repertorire have been complimented by extensive training in various areas of performance practice, including Baroque gesture, early notation, and ornamentation. She is a native of New York City, holds a degree in English literature from Williams College, and has begun studies on the Baroque guitar.
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| Name:
| Emma Therese Watkinson
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)1747 870 905
| | Address:
| 8 Springfield Road SP3 6QN, United Kingdom
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| | Emma graduated with a 2:1 music degree from City University in may 06 with vocal tuition from the guildhall. As a rich mezzo soprano with supreme colour, emma has performed many solo recitals along with oratorio concerts. Her repertoire includes oratorio, opera, lieder, french, italian, english song and contemporary song. She has performed with both New Youth Opera and British Youth Opera. She has also sung in masterclasses with Jane Highfield and Noelle Barker. Prizes include The Young Singers Trophy at Salisbury's Young People's Festival of Music.
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| Name:
| Tabitha Delwen Watling
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +44 1843 226120
| | Address:
| 4 St Paul's Road,, Margate CT9 2DB, United Kingdom
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| | Tabitha (age 21) comes from Margate, England. In October 1995 she was the winner of the prestigious BBC Radio 2 "Choirgirl of the Year" award, and gained a great deal of experience as a performer, both in the recording studio and on Television and Radio.
In addition, Tabitha has sung at many other Concerts, Church services, weddings and anniversaries throughout the country including such venues as the Wembley Conference Centre, St Martin's in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, Llandaff Cathedral and at International Trade Fairs in Brussels. She first met and sang with British treble star Anthony Way for a BBC programme, and recorded duets with him for his CD "Wings of a Dove" for Decca records. This album shot straight to No 3 in the U.K. Classical "Charts".
She had singing lessons from the age of eight with Pamela Burn in Cliftonville, Tabitha continued her studies reading music at the Welsh College of Music and Drama (Wales' national conservatoire in Cardiff), where she gained the highest mark in her year for the performance examinations. She has represented her College at national level and also in the Cardiff theatres, performing in opera and musicals. She is equally at home singing light music, jazz, oratorio and opera as well as the classical solo repertoire.
In the Spring of 2000 she was selected by Music Theatre Wales to take the part of Adèle in the world premiere of Michael Berkeley’s chamber opera Jane Eyre at the Cheltenham Festival. This production subsequently toured England throughout the summer and autumn, including the Buxton Festival and the Linbury Studio Theatre at Covent Garden Opera HOuse, London (for which she was favourably reviewed in The Times).
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| Name:
| Bryce Westervelt
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist (Tenor soloist available for Opera, Oratorio, Recital, and special events)
| | Phone:
| +1 (727) 834 8948
| | Address:
| New Port Richey, Florida 34655, United States
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| | American tenor, Bryce Westervelt, has sung with professional opera companies, orchestras and choral groups across the United States. He has been characterized as a “light tenor with a charming ease in the stylistic subtleties of early music” Washington Post, having a “delicately nuanced lyric voice” Washington Times, and as being both “vocally seductive and tonally impressive” Monterey Herald.
Mr. Westervelt’s concert repertoire spans over 30 major works including those of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Verdi and Dvorak. As concert soloist he has performed with several leading ensembles including the Folger Consort (early music ensemble of the National Shakespeare Library), Washington Bach Consort, Cathedral Choral Society (of the National Cathedral), Albany Pro Musica, Connecticut Choral Artists, Hartford Symphony, Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony and several other choral and orchestral groups throughout the United States. He has performed in several prestigious venues including the Washington National Cathedral, The National Building Museum, The German Embassy, the Smithsonian, and the Arts Club of Washington.
On the opera stage, his roles include Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Almaviva in I Barbiere di Siviglia. He has performed with Opera Roanoke, FloriMezzo Opera, Concert Opera of Philadelphia, Summer Opera Theater (Catholic University), the 20th Century Consort (Smithsonian Institute), the Washington Savoyards, and the Maryland Opera Studio.
Mr. Westervelt was a finalist in the 2000 Bethlehem Bach Festival Competition and received the prestigious Virginia Best Adams Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival in 2000. Mr. Westervelt was a member of the Berkshire Opera Young Artist Development program and spent two summers as a member of the Brevard Music Center Opera Workshop. He holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland where he was a student of François Loup and a Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Georgia, where he was a student of Gregory Broughton.In 2006/07, Mr. Westervelt’s exciting season includes debuts in the Central Florida Bach Festival in Handel’s Saul and with the Canterbury Choral Society in Oklahoma City as the tenor soloist in Dave Brubeck’s oratorio To Hope! He also has return engagements with the Washington Bach Consort in a staged performance of Bach’s Drama per Musica BWV 205, Lake Wales Chorale in Vaughan Williams’ Hodie, and as the featured soloist in Howard Blake’s Benedictus with the Southwest Florida Symphony, among others. More information can be found at www.brycewestervelt.com.
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| Name:
| Paul Whelan
| | Skills:
| singer, soloist (Baritone)
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| Name:
| Eveline Wijaya
| | Skills:
| player, singer, teacher (I Play Piano, electone (organ), and I also join in choirs, and also teaching small children.)
| | Phone:
| 001-62-21-5673976
| | Address:
| Jl. Tanjung Duren Raya No.1 , Jakarta 11470, Indonesia
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| | I Learn music since I was 4 years old. I started with junior music course there. But actually I love singing more.. Now I'm still learning ,in electone, piano and vocal. And I also teacher in JMC too.
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| Name:
| Claire Williams
| | Skills:
| Singer
| | Address:
| United Kingdom
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| | Claire Williams is an accomplished singer currently performing with the Blue Note Trio from India
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| Name:
| Kashief Williams
| | Skills:
| Singer, vocalist (SINGER)
| | Phone:
| 0744705721
| | Address:
| 6d duck bill road newlands east durban, Durban South Africa 4037, South Africa
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| | Kashief williams a south African male singer,born in the year 1992 in cape town,at a very young age KASHIEF was gifted with a voice and entertained family members,friends and people close to him
HE STARTED RECORDING in the year 2010 discoverd by PAUL STAINBANK he formed a group called mouthful
kashief says that he has 3 personalitys,kashief,kash and kashsha fears,kashief is a n0rmal guy,that keeps to himself,kash is the singer perform that just love music. . . .
Kashsha Fears,is the Dark side. . . that wants to take over KASH,it makes kash MEAN,it always takes over kash at every show....
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| Name:
| Robert Carl Young
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)7854 321610
| | Address:
| 15 Clive Mews, Cardiff CF5 1HY, United Kingdom
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| | Recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, London. Former BBC Young Musicians Semi-finalist and EPTA UK overall winner.
Presently Tenor Choral Scholar at Llandaff Cathedral and free-lance piano teacher and accompanist.
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