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Glenys
toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and then
appeared in several West
End
shows. She sings in concerts and music festivals in the UK and abroad and regularly works
with the Ambrosian Singers. A member of the Royal
Opera, Covent Garden her recent roles include Chief Hen (Cunning Little
Vixen), Lady-in-waiting (Les Huguenots), Newspaper Seller (Death
in Venice), Modestina (Il Viaggio
a Reims), Milliner (Der
Rosenkavalier), Page (Lohengrin),
Bridesmaid (Marriage of Figaro), Apparition (Macbeth), Olga (The
Merry Widow) and Ida (Die Fledermaus).
This latter production included the televised farewell performance of Dame Joan
Sutherland, in the company of Marilyn Horne and Pavarotti. She is involved with
the ROH Education Department in workshop performances in schools. She has appeared
at Chichester and Wexford festivals. For BBC
Radio Glenys has played a solo part in the majority of the broadcast series of
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
Other radio programmes have included Songs from
the Shows and Friday Night is Music Night. Glenys has also
appeared as guest soloist in several concerts with the celebrated Black Dyke
Mills Brass Band. Recently, Glenys joined leading trumpet virtuoso James Watson
and Jennifer Partridge, one of Britain's foremost piano accompanists, to
form a new ensemble called ‘Vox Ottone’.
Their first CD, entitled ‘Trumpet and Soprano in Duet’ has been released on the
ASV label. In collaboration with a Royal Opera colleague, mezzo-soprano Andrea Hazell, Glenys and Jennifer have recorded a second CD, of
Victorian ballads and duets, entitled ‘On Wings of Song’.
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Scilla Stewart
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After
completing Bachelor of Music (Auckland University, New Zealand), and LRSM (piano), Scilla
continued studies at the Royal College of Music. In the same year she was a
major prize-winner at the Royal Overseas League Competition and performed at St
James Palace for Princess Alexandra and was a ‘Young Performer’ at the Bath
Festival. A great interest in singing developed and she began studies with
Eduardo Asquez. Recitals and concert tours have taken
her worldwide - to the Lincoln Centre, New York; the Edinburgh Festival; Australia; the Far East and New Zealand.
Recent operatic roles include Amneris (Aida), Orfeo, Charlotte (Werther),
Ernestine (Perchance to Dream), Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte),
Marina (Boris Godunov), Ulrica
(Masked Ball), Azucena (Trovatore) and Carmen. Scilla has also
performed the role of Katisha in Bromley's
"Opera in the Park" production of The Mikado and Ruth in The
Pirates of Penzance. She recently
played the role of The Mother in Amahl and
the Night Visitors at the Windmill Theatre, Littlehampton
in a production that she also co-directed. Oratorio performances have
included Verdi's Requiem at Rochester Cathedral and Janacek's
Glagolitic Mass at the Royal Festival Hall. She
has made television appearances on BBC2 and ITV.
Sheffield born Roy trained at The Royal Academy of
Music. His extensive experience includes the post of Musical Director and
pianist for The Royal Ballet For All on their British
tours. His work on operatic recordings includes Verdi's
Attila, Macbeth, Nabucco, and
La Traviata and Bizet's Carmen,
coaching both chorus and soloists including Carreras and Domingo. Roy's
versatility as a musician spans from working on many film soundtracks,
including Star Wars, Evita with Madonna, Yentl with Barbra Streisand, and The Two Ronnies. He has been Musical Director of a number of
hit shows including Chicago, A Chorus
Line, Fiddler on the Roof, Half a Sixpence and Scrooge, as well as Royal Variety Shows. As
a teacher of singing he is much sought after by the casts of West End musicals and singers from the
worlds of pop and opera. As a singer he has performed roles in many venues
around the country, including Tonio in Pagliacci, Marcello in La Bohème, and Frank Maurant
in Street Scene By Kurt Weill. He has also
sung with The Netherlands Opera , at La Fenice,Venice and at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Born
in Winchester, Rodney trained at the Royal
College of Music and then continued his studies with Paolo Silveri
in Rome and Raimund
Herincx in London. He was a finalist in the
Richard Tauber Competition. Making his debut in Rome, he appeared in musical theatre
throughout Italy and in opera throughout the UK. His many performances for the
Royal Opera include roles in Billy Budd, Mathis der
Maler, Les Huguenots, La Boheme, Eugene Onegin, Un Ballo
in Maschera, Simon Boccanegra,
La Traviata and Salome. Recordings include La Traviata
(with Angela Gheorghiu) (CD and video) and he is
featured on the recording of duets with Gheorghiu and
Alagna. He also appears on recordings of Simon
Boccanegra and Salome for the Royal Opera
and the BBC drama The Lakes. Rodney performed the role of
Ping (Turandot) at the Royal Albert Hall with
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He was the baritone soloist in Mr Worldly Wise for the Royal
Ballet. Recent engagements include a UK tour of Phantom of the Opera.
In addition to his operatic career, he is an experienced oratorio and concert
artist. He has performed most of the major oratorios throughout Britain and abroad.
Luke Price was a chorister at
Westminster Cathedral and later studied singing at Trinity College of Music.
Roles at college included Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Shepherd (L’Enfant et Les Sortileges) and the
title role in Tuchapsky’s The Undertaker with Patrick Libby and Victor Morris. Other roles include Monostatos
(Magic Flute), Camille (The Merry Widow) and Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor).
Luke has worked for a number of opera companies both in Britain and abroad, including
Opera de Lyon, Paris Chatalet, Salzburg Festival
Opera, Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera and Denederlandse
Opera. Luke played the Apprentice in Die Meistersingers both with the Denederlandse and The Royal Opera. Luke is now a full time chorister at the
Royal Opera House and made his debut as a Jannisary
in Die Entfuhrung
aus dem Serail
and recently played the role of Third Squire in Parsifal under Sir Simon Rattle and the Drunken Young Man in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. He has performed many times on the concert platform,
both in recitals and oratorios, including Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem,
Rossini’s Messe Sollenelle
and Ramirez’s Navidad.
Born in Portsmouth, Kevin Ferguson began
his musical studies as an oboist and later, a composer. He had pieces performed
by the LSO and London Sinfonietta before furthering
his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music as a singer. His repertoire
includes The Duke (Rigoletto), Macduff (Macbeth), Rodolfo (La Boheme), the title role in Alessandro
Stradella, Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus)
and Mack the Knife. He has sung frequently with the Royal Opera, Scottish
Opera, Opera Ireland and at The Wexford Festival. Most
recently he sang the tenor solo in performances of Les Noces
by Stravinsky with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. His oratorio repertoire is extensive and
includes the major works of Elgar, Handel, Haydn,
Mendelssohn, Mozart and Verdi. A member
of London Voices, he has sung on many film sound tracks including The Lord
of the Rings and Star Wars. Future engagements include Cavaradossi (Tosca) and
Alfredo in performances of La Traviata
in Ireland and Wales.
Stephen
was born and educated in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
He made his South Bank debut with a performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion at
the Royal Festival Hall conducted by Sir David Willcocks.
His West
End
credits include Sweeney Todd at Drury Lane, Jeeves
Takes Charge at the Fortune Theatre and Cats at the New London
Theatre, where Stephen was the Production Vocal Director for 12 years. He
has also appeared at many Festivals both at home and abroad, including Edinburgh, where he sang the role of the
Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier.
Stephen has appeared as soloist for many BBC Radio 2 programmes,
including Songs from the Shows and Friday Night is Music
Night. For many years Stephen directed his vocal group, The Stephen Hill
Singers, who made frequent recordings for radio, television and films.
They also appeared on The Royal Variety and Children's Royal Variety Shows, and
were the backbone for the BBC Radio 2 series of musicals in which Stephen
appeared in all 24 editions, either as Vocal Director or in one of the lead
roles. His most notable credits include The Caliph (Kismet), Mr Erlanson (A Little Night
Music), Ceruti (The Dancing Years), Carshott (Half a Sixpence), Harry (My Fair Lady),
Peter (Jesus Christ Superstar), Uncle Jeff (Mame),
Ralph (Kiss Me Kate), Larry (A Chorus Line) and Roscoe in Stephen
Sondheim's Follies which was recorded live at Drury Lane in the presence
of the composer. Very much in demand as a vocal coach, director and arranger,
Stephen is Choral Director of the Music Theatre Degree Course at the Royal
Academy of Music.
(17.11.05)