A Britten Pears young artist, Panaretos Kyriatzidis is in high demand as a collaborative performer, vocal coach and musical director. He has won the Gerald Moore Award, Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, Emmy Destinn Awards accompanist prize and London Song Festival duo prize.

Panaretos (aka Pan) is the Musical Director of St Paul’s Opera and co-founder of The Opera Makers. He has performed extensively across the UK and abroad, has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and has musically directed award-winning opera productions, one of which received an Olivier Award nomination.

A native of the Greek island of Thasos, Panaretos holds a BA in law and is an avid food lover. He is a member of staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and at Morley College.

Born in Leigh-on-sea, Essex, Elspeth studied at King’s College, London, Trinity College of Music and Royal Academy of Music. She has performed at the Royal Opera House; the Royal Albert Hall; St Martin-in-the-Fields; Savoy theatre, West End as well as performing recitals in Spain, Portugal, France and South Africa. Elspeth has performed at the Ravenna festival, Italy, the Edinburgh Festival and the Dublin Theatre Festival winning the ‘Oscar’ award for performance. She has worked with BBC Wales, Royal Ballet, Royal Shakespeare Company and Southbank Sinfonia and has worked as repetiteur/musical director with Opera up Close, Opera Brava, Merry Opera Company and Opera de Bauge. Elspeth is the conductor of Thurrock Choral Society and assistant conductor of Barnes Choir and Putney Choral Society. She is also a member of the Bridgetower Ensemble. In her spare time, Elspeth is a keen quizzer and has appeared on TV on Mastermind, The Chase, Countdown and The Weakest Link!

Award-winning pianist Chad Vindin is one of the rising stars of the accompaniment world. 

Born in Australia, Chad studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before moving to London to study with Malcolm Martineau and Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music. From there, Chad was awarded the position of Lord & Lady Lurgan Junior Fellow in Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music, which he held for two consecutive years. 

Chad performs regularly as a recitalist with the Royal Overseas League, The Tait Memorial Trust, and the popular Debut Opera series, based in Shoreditch. He has performed with Grange Festival Opera, Bury Court Opera, Opera UpClose, and recently toured with Manchester Collective, performing Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. He is regular staff pianist at Malcolm Martineau's annual Oxenfoord International Summer School for Singers and Accompanists in Scotland.

Chad has been awarded many prizes, including the accompanist prize at the Royal Overseas League Competition, the Ludmilla Andrew Russian Song Accompanist Prize at the Royal Academy of Music, and the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards Accompanist’s Prize at the Wigmore Hall.

In addition to his busy performing schedule, Chad also maintains a full workload as a staff pianist and vocal coach at both the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music, London

Emil Vincenzi started his musical education within the family at the age of 5 and graduated in Guitar at the Conservatory of Brescia (Italy) at the age of 18. He later started his voice training firstly in Verona and then in London with Raymond Connell. He was cast as Gianni Schicchi in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with Berlin Opera Academy in 2020 (cancelled due to Covid) and graduated in Voice at the Conservatory of Verona (Italy) the same year. In 2021 he made his debut as Nabucco in Verdi’s Nabucco with St Paul’s Opera and appeared as Don Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Hampstead Garden Opera in November 2021.

Lyric-dramatic soprano Marrianne Town Smith started to sing in 2007 as a hobby and distraction from a fast-paced marketing management role.  In 2015 she successfully auditioned for a Postgraduate Vocal Studies Programme at Trinity Laban and graduated with distinction in 2017.  
Most recently Marrianne performed the role of Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco and was soprano soloist in Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem and Handel’s Messiah in Bart’s Great Hall London. She has also performed many roles in scenes at Trinity Laban and other educational courses including Lady Billows Albert Herring, Ariadne Ariadne auf Naxos and roles studied include Lady Macbeth Macbeth, Sieglinde Die Walküre, Leonora La Forza del destino. Marrianne's 2022 season includes  an orchestral concert with St Paul’s Sinfonia of Chausson’s La Poeme de l’amour et de la mer.  

Please visit marrianne.co.uk for further information.

British mezzo-soprano Wendy Silvester’s recent performances credits include Erda (Das Rheingold) for Tarnhelm Opera, Rossweisse (Die Walküre) for New York Dramatic Voices, and Klytämnestra (Elektra) for Dramatic Voices Program Berlin. In 2020, Wendy was awarded the Richard Wagner Stipendienstiftung (Bayreuth Bursary) from The Wagner Society, and is looking forward to attending these postponed events in 2022. Other plans for 2022 include returning to New York to perform with New York Dramatic Voices, as Azucena (Il trovatore) and Erste Norn (Götterdämmerung). Wendy is also currently preparing a recital to include Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. To learn more about Wendy’s path into singing, a full biography is available on her website; www.wendysilvester.co.uk

Robin was educated at Reigate Grammar School, and spent a gap year at the Royal College of Music before reading Maths at St Peter's College Oxford. Whilst at university, he played as principal horn with all the university orchestras in addition to performing Strauss’s 2nd horn concerto and Bach’s 1st Brandenburg concerto and sang with all the major choirs, appearing regularly as a soloist. Since then, he has appeared in numerous operas, including Carmen, Cosi fan Tutte, La Traviata, Tosca, Albert Herring, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze de Figaro and La Cenerentola. Oratorio work has included Evangelist in both Bach Passions as well as his Christmas Oratorio, Haydn's Creation, Handel's Messiah and Theodora, Mendelssohn's Paulus, Elijah and Lobgesang, Verdi’s Requiem, Britten's Nocturne Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and St Nicolas, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. In 2014, he was invited to take part in a public masterclass with the University Orchestra on Mahler's orchestral lieder, taken by Ian Bostridge. Robin studied with the heldentenor Kenneth Woollam at the RCM and currently studies with Neil Baker in London and David Jones of New York. 

Naomi Felix is a contralto who was born in London, but grew up and was educated in Guyana, South America, where she began singing at the early age of 10 in her local church and school choirs. She returned to London to continue her vocal studies at Trinity College of Music, later touring the U.K. and Japan with the musical Carmen Jones under the direction of Simon Callow. Her many performances have taken her around the world including the USA, Holland and Italy, where she resided for a year. Other performances include 24 Italian Songs and Arias (BRIAN LOBEL); The Trojan Women (HERA); Porgy and Bess in Lisbon, Portugal; and Falstaff (PEGASUS OPERA). She can often be found singing at weddings and funerals at St Peter’s Italian Church in London. For more details about Naomi see Pegasus Opera Company

Duncan Stenhouse is a Canadian bass and composer currently completing his Masters at The Royal Academy of Music where he studies with Raymond Connell and Chad Vindin.  Duncan has performed a myriad of roles including Spinelloccio and Notaio in Royal Academy Opera’s 2021 production of Gianni Schicchi, as well as Crespel in Les contes d’Hoffmann, and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte during the 2019 Halifax Summer Opera Festival, a role in which Daphna Levit from Opera Canada stated “his voice is outstanding”, and that he “exhibited the stern regal posture befitting the role.” In the Summer of 2021, Duncan performed as an Alvarez Young Artist for Garsington Opera’s award winning production of Der Rosenkavalier. He also competed in the 50th FCMF Canadian National Music Festival where he placed 3rd. Duncan is excited to make his Verdi role debut in Uncovered Opera’s Nabucco as Zaccaria and hopes you all enjoy the show. 

Rosalind O’Dowd (soprano) was brought up in Hampshire before studying at Liverpool University, followed later at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for her MMus. She has worked for a variety of fringe opera companies, including English Pocket Opera, Opera Loki, Fulham Opera, and has produced for her own small opera company: Ormond Opera. Opera roles include Cio-Cio San, Madama Butterfly; Michaëla, Carmen; Alice Ford (cover) Falstaff; Mabel, The Pirates of Penzance; Marcellina, The Marriage of Figaro; and an Apprentice, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. She is a regular soloist with Richmond Choral Society alongside other choral societies nationwide, performing works such as Rossini’s Petite Messe Sollennelle, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. She was in the chorus for La Bohème with Hampstead Garden Opera in December 2019. Future plans include: Curra, Forza del Destino; and Lady Billows (cover), Albert Herring in July 2022.

Verity Jo Spencer Hall is a 24 year old Soprano currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Verity began singing at the age of 17 playing leading lady roles in musicals and was the soprano soloist in choirs around the coast in Spain where she has been living since the age of 4. After being talent spotted by the then Jette Parker Young Artist Programme student Yuriy Yurchuk, she was invited back to the Royal Opera House in 2019 for a consultation with vocal teacher Jack Livigni where he offered her a place in his MOSF young artist programme in Sicily. Whilst there, she performed in chorus for La Rondine and debuted in the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni. A Vocal Coach by the name of Marek Ruszczynski on the programme suggested for her to audition for the Royal Academy of Music and she was accepted into the BMus 4 year undergraduate course, where she is now in her second year. 

She is thrilled to have been given the opportunity to perform in the Chorus and as Anna in Nabucco in the first production for Uncovered Opera Company.

Melvin commenced his operatic training in 1992 at the Ottawa School of Music. He went on to train with the renowned Italian soprano, Maria Pellegrini, in Ottawa. He has sung with the National Youth Choir of The Bahamas in Nassau; Opera Lyra Ottawa in Ottawa; and Opera Holland Park in London, among others. He currently trains with Neil Baker. 

His previous roles have included Bartley in Riders to the Sea; The Registrar in Madama Butterfly; Andy in Treemonisha and Publio in La Clemenza di Tito. His chorus engagements include Tosca, La Boheme, Porgy and Bess, Manon Lescaut, Rigoletto, Le Nozze di Figaro, Aida, Nabucco, Macbeth, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci and Carmen.

More recently, Melvin has organised and performed in charity and disaster-relief fundraising concerts. 

Melvin also works as a solicitor and is Vice-Chair of the Board at Pegasus Opera Company.

Peter Foster was born in London and grew up near Frankfurt in Hesse, Germany. He returned to the United Kingdom to embark on a professional career in science and engineering, a vocation which he continues toenjoy. As a classical musician, he studied guitar, double bass and voice under private instruction and was a choral scholar. Since 2017, he has been studying under the tutelage of Neil Baker. Between 2018 and 2019 he undertook the Morley Opera School course at Morley College in London, where he performed as Rocco (Beethoven) Mephistopheles (Boito and Gounod), Dulcamara (Donizetti), Immigration Officer (Dove), Thoas (Gluck) and others as part of opera scenes programmes. He will be performing as Falstaff (Nicolai) with OperaIntegra in February 2022.

London-based brazilian baritone André Andrade is a former student of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. André’s opera performance experience includes roles such as Nabucco, Wolfram (Tannhäuser, act 3), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde, act 3), Roucher (Andrea Chénier), Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Schaunard (La Bohème), Moralès, Escamillo and Dancaïre (Carmen), Mr. Gobineau (The Medium) and Surgeon (Stephen McNeff’s “Banished”), in addition to understudying the roles of Barnaba (La Gioconda) and Nabucco, and workshopping the role of Alberich (das Rheingold) with Orchestra. His Oratorio repertoire includes Mozart’s Requiem, and Mozart’s C Minor mass.  André has also performed chorus work with Oxford Opera (Carmen, La Bohème), Winslow Hall Opera (Il Trovatore), OperaGlass Works (The Rake’s Progress) and Blackheath Halls Opera (Carmen). André will also be playing Krušina in Midsummer Opera’s production of Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride in the summer of 2022.

Past full rôles include Oberon (Oberon), Tamino, The Duke (Rigoletto), Fenton (both Falstaff and The Merry Wives of Windsor), Lenski, Aeneas, Cyril (Princess Ida), Spallanzani, Le Remendado, Orpheus, Riccardo, Sir Walter Raleigh (Merrie England) and Turridu. Mike also sings with various choruses around London plus an a cappella quartet. Future performances include Jenik and Ringmaster (The Bartered Bride), tenor soloist in Rossini's Stabat Mater and tenor soloist in Britten's Nocture no.60.

Robert studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked extensively as an actor in the West End, on tour and at the National Theatre including appearances in Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Racing Demon and An Inspector Calls. 

After further vocal studies Robert appeared as an opera singer for companies both in the U.K. and abroad in operas from the baroque to contemporary repertoires. After an extended break from singing he recently started performing again. Recent performances include Geisterbote (Frau); Nachtwächter (Meistersinger) and Stárek/Rychtář (Jenufa) - all for Fulham Opera. Elsewhere Rigoletto; Scarpia. He studies with Neil Baker

Julie’s career as an opera singer and concert performer has seen her  perform music from Bach to Wagner all over the UK. After a first degree in Music & German from Oxford Brooke's University she studied firstly with Elizabeth Robson, Royal College of Music and latterly with Dame Josephine Barstow and Professor Janice Chapman. 

On the operatic stage her highlights include Leonore Fidelio (Cover) for Dorset Opera and  Leonore Fidelio for OperaHerts, conducted by Phillip Thomas, for whom she also sang Musetta La Bohème. Helmwige for Berwick Festival Opera's Die Walküre, conducted by Peter Selwyn. Other operatic engagements have included Alice Ford Falstaff, Donna Anna Don Giovanni, Leonora Il Trovatore and Freia Das Rheingold.

She has performed extensively on the concert platform throughout the UK, she was the soprano soloist for the second only UK performance of the Verdi et al Messa Per Rossini and is in demand to perform major Choral works such as Verdi’s Requiem, Brahms Requiem, Orff Carmina Burana, and Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem. Concert engagements for 2022 include Mendelssohn's Elijah and Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder, which she most recently performed at Ely Cathedral. 

As a conductor Julie leads numerous choirs and Choral societies in Hertfordshire including Northwood Choral Society. She is a renowned teacher of singing and has studied singing and vocal pedagogy for over two decades with the eminent professor Janice Chapman. She regularly leads workshops on vocal technique for choirs all around the UK as well as running online group lessons and teaching face to face in her studio in Watford. Juliebale.co.uk

Adam is a baritone studying for his Masters at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and a recipient of the Morag Noble Scholarship. Having grown up surrounded by Gilbert and Sullivan, he has expanded into the wider operatic repertoire, ranging from Mozart and bel canto to grand opera and modernism. He is looking forward to his first go at a bit of Verdi. Previous performances have included Leporello (Don Giovanni), Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Onegin (Eugene Onegin - scenes), Big Ben (Merrie England), the Sergeant of Police and the Pirate King (The Pirates of Penzance), 2nd Yeoman (The Yeomen of the Guard), and Strephon and Mountararat (Iolanthe).

Andrew Bale is a keen tenor and has sung in opera groups and choirs around the London area. He is married to and taught  by Julie Bale. He has taken part in workshops and master classes with the eminent SLT/Singer and BVA Workshop Leader Ron Morris and regularly sings as a soloist both with Northwood Choral Society and other local Choral Societies.

Yixuan Qian, a Chinese Mezzo-soprano, is currently studying opera at Morley Opera School in London, where she has been supported by the Nicholas John Trust and studies Opera with Michalis Angelakis and Nicholas Bosworth. She obtained a Postgraduate Advanced diploma in Vocal Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2021, where she studied singing with Patricia Rozario and was coached by Helen Yorke. She has also been given the Kathleen Roberts Vocal Scholarship for this program. She holds a Master degree in Music performance from University of Surrey in 2019, and an undergraduate honours degree in Music from Chongqing Normal University in China in 2016. Most recently Yixuan Qian has played Idamante in scenes from Mozart’s Idomeneo, Medoro in Handel’s Orlando and Èboli in Verdi’s Don Carlos (Morley college Opera Scenes 2021), and Chérubin in Massenet’s Chérubin and Suzanne in Milhaud’s La Mère coupable (Trinity Laban Opera Scenes 2021).

Anna Miell was born in Vienna and grew up in a family where music played a major part in daily life. At 11 she joined her first choir, having already decided that she would leave the high notes to the sopranos.  Anna has continued to make music, and especially choral singing, an important part of her life, also after moving to London. Her role as German teacher and coach led her to explore singing technique. For the past three years Anna has been taking regular singing lessons with Kate Hamilton, which has become a weekly highlight. Venturing into arias and songs has been a great experience and opportunity for growth for her.  Next stage: learning and singing the mezzo part in the Nabucco chorus!

Joshua Furtado-Mendes is an Undergraduate Vocalist Student of the Royal Academy of Music. A French-British Tenor, he began learning the violin and piano aged 3, later beginning vocal lessons aged 6. During his formative years, he gained entrance into leading British musical institutions including the Junior Royal Northern College of Music, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, the Hallé Youth choir and the Junior Royal Academy of Music. Through these institutions Joshua has performed in significant concert venues such the Royal Albert and Festival Halls, the Bridgewater Hall and York Minster. During his time at Junior RAM, Joshua performed in adaptations of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado and Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore. Recent performances in December 2021 include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio under the baton of Iain Ledingham at the RAM Duke’s Hall and the ‘No Frontiers-A Fusion of Romanian Culture and the World’ Concert at the Romanian Cultural Institute, in which Joshua sang arias from the Composizioni da Camera by Guiseppe Verdi. Joshua sings regularly in concerts, specialising in a wide range of Opera, oratorio, German/Italian Lieder and French Chansons.

Manuela Baranik is an American Soprano and recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied under Elizabeth Ritchie. Manuela is originally from New Jersey and is the daughter of Russian immigrants. She received her Bachelor degree from Syracuse University where she graduated with honors and was awarded the Anna Freeland Berry Memorial Prize. She also received a generous entrance scholarship from Royal Academy of Music to attend her one-year Masters intensive program. She is excited to be joining the Uncovered Opera Company’s Nabucco chorus and as the 2nd cover for the role of Anna. Manuela has performed the role of Cio Cio San from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly (2018) with Mediterranean Opera Studio and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (2018) with Syracuse University Opera

Rachel Carter is a senior market research consultant currently providing communications & PR research consultancy and services to identify newsworthy content to make client’s stories come to life. In her spare time, she is a frequent theatre, concert, event & exhibition goer, and traveller, with a keen interest in travel and architectural photography. She first met Marrianne in 2009 when they worked together on Swine Flu communications for the Department of Health, sharing many laughs and prosecco since then.

Cheryl is a soprano who came to singing in 2006 when she decided that she wanted to sing and took a leap into the unknown! A complete novice she was welcomed into the Blackheath Conservatoire Women’s choir where she started her journey into choral singing. A lover of opera since being introduced to it as a young art student, her first large choral debut was singing in a concert performance of Nabucco with the Blackheath Choir.   She has since sung many of the major choral works including Elijah at St John Smith’s Square with conductor Edward Gardner,  performed musical theatre and sung in the chorus of Carmen in the Blackheath Halls Community Opera. She is delighted to be asked by Uncovered Opera to sing in the chorus of Nabucco once again…

London-based mezzo-soprano Rachel Goreing began her vocal studies in London where she was a frequent visitor to the concert stage, performing as a soloist at prestigious venues including St. Paul's Cathedral, and London's historic Guildhall. Rachel studied also in Italy, where she gained valuable experience performing with the Giuseppe Verdi symphony chorus of Milan. 
 
Since returning to the UK, Rachel has been performing with Morley College Opera, where she has studied and performed excerpts from a wide variety of roles, including Hedwige (Guillaume Tell), Mignon (Mignon), Cornelia Giulio Cesare and La Voix Les Contes d'Hoffman.

As well as appearing in Nabucco with Uncovered Opera Company, Rachel is preparing to debut Prince Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus) in Spring 2022."

Swiss tenor Lars Fischer holds an MMus with Distinction from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He has performed throughout Europe including Ireland, Switzerland and France. Recent roles include: Remendado/Morales (Carmen) with Opera Loki in France and the UK, Mr Williams (The Trilobite, Jones) and Gronw(Her Face was of Flowers, Jones) at Tête-à-tête Opera Festival and at Chamber Music on Valentia, Achille (La Belle Hélène) with Blackheath Halls Opera, Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) with Hurn Court Opera, King of the West and Sun (The Enchanted Pig, Dove) with Hampstead Garden Opera, Marley’s Ghost (A Christmas Carol, Musgrave), King Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors, Menotti) and Lucano(L’Incoronazione di Poppea) with Trinity Laban Opera. In June 2016, he created the role of Tommy in the world premiere of Stephen McNeff’s opera Banished under Jessica Cottis and Elaine Kidd. Lars made his debut as Assistant Director with Laura Attridge for Trinity Laban Opera’s The Rape of Lucretia. – www.larsfischer.com

Anna Lluna is currently undergoing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Alex Ashworth. She previously completed a minor in classical voice at The Hague's Koninklijk Conservatorium, whilst completing her studies in Environmental Sciences and working with vocal coach Ana Sánchez Donate.

Anna started singing in choirs at the age of 11 in her hometown of València Spain, going on to receive first prize and audience prize at the Certamen Coral de Egea de los Caballeros in 2018 with the Coral Santisima Trinidad de Valencia. Chamber ensemble work includes Isidora Zebeljan's The Tempest at the Festival Residències de Música de Cambra de Godella in 2019, concerts with Latin American folk group Warekes in 2020, and ongoing projects in London. She has had the immense pleasure of working with renowned musicians such as composer Isidora Žebeljan and soprano Lorena Valero.

Isabella Roberts is a Soprano currently in her first year of a Masters degree at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, studying with Neil Baker and Pan Kyriatzidis. During her undergraduate music degree at Bristol University Isabella performed in the Opera Society’s production of Don Giovanni (chorus), The Cunning Little Vixen (Young Vixen and Head Hen), Dido and Aeneas (Belinda) and was Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro in her final year. Isabella has recently been in the chorus of the world premiere of Edward Jessen’s opera Syllable which was performed in Laban theatre in January 2022. 

Mahtab Ghamsari is a Soprano of Iranian and Canadian origins and has been singing both classical and Iranian music in choral ensembles since childhood. She has recently switched to training as an opera singer and has performed roles such as Despina from Cosi fan tutte, Zerlina from Don Giovanni, Jemmy from Guillaume Tell (Rossini), and Amore from Handel's Poppea amongst others. She completed her ARSM exam with distinction in 2020, ABRSM in 2021 and is currently training at Morley Opera School. 

Mahtab's other profession is in music technology where she has worked in various project from building instruments to building apps for the live music industry, copyright management and artist relations. She also studied music neuroscience and has done some research on the effects of music on the brain. 

Katy is a graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance where she was the recipient on both the Kathleen Roberts Vocal Scholarship and the Paul Simm Opera Prize in 2016. With notable credits including Gretel (Hansel ünd Gretel) and La Suor Zeltrice (Suor Angelica) both for Opera in the Meantime Katy has been described as “particularly impressive” by The Times’s Richard Morrison and by Opera Magazine as possessing “a voice of significant potential”.

Katy has been lucky enough to create two leading roles by acclaimed composer Stephen McNeff performing as a guest artist at Royal Irish Academy of Music and at the Three Choirs Festival. 

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In 2019 Katy gained a PGCE and is a peripatetic teacher working with children from all walks of life. Katy loves to inspire young musicians to explore their own creativity and gain confidence in fulfilling their potential.  

Luci had returned to music after a break, to retrain as a bel canto singer. At present she’s learning with Erika Mädi Jones and Pan Kyriatzidis and has recently done masterclasses with Richard Jackson, Darquise Bilodeau and Neil Baker.

Singing highlights include organising and performing in an open air festival in West London in conjunction with Masters of Ballet Academy (2019), and recitals for the Bedford Park Festival annually since 2019. 

As a singer- songwriter (BC - before Classically trained) she gigged in London culminating in playing Glastonbury.

Find Luci online on Facebook ( Luci de Nordwall Cornish) and Instagram (denordwallcornish).

Martins is a Latvian born tenor currently based in London. He obtained his musical education in London, Royal Academy of Music.
Performance experience includes companies such as GlyndebourneFestival Opera, 

Garsington Opera, New Opera Singapore and Wexford Festival Opera among others.

Most recently he performed with Hampstead Garden Opera as Don Basili/Don Curzio in La Nozze di Figaro and a title role in Cavalli's L'Egisto. He also sang the role of Adrian in Hopes and Fears as part of Grimeborn Festival 21. His other roles include Lucano from L'incoronazione di Poppea, Distiller from May Night and Prince in Viardot's Cendrillon among others. During his studies Martins has been greatly supported by Josephine Baker Trust, Drake Calleja Trust and Countess of Munster Musical Trust.