Franz Joseph Haydn
The Creation — Soprano Part
Hob. XXI:2
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Franz Joseph Haydn
The Creation
2. And the Spirit of God
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Ben Thapa
Ben Thapa is a tenor whose training took him from the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal College of Music to the Wales International Academy of Voice, where he completed his studies under Dennis O'Neill in 2013. On the operatic stage he has sung the President in Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht for Birmingham Opera at the BBC Proms, Mat of the Mint in The Beggar's Opera for the Royal Opera, and Siegfried in The Quest for the Ring with Opera North at the Royal Festival Hall. A two-time Britten–Pears scholar, he has worked in masterclass with Kiri Te Kanawa, Della Jones, Amanda Roocroft, Jonathan Dove and Graham Clark, and continues to study privately with David Pollard.
Chris Webb
Chris Webb is a bass and former choral scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, where he also sang with the University Chamber Choir. Now a lay clerk at Southwark Cathedral, he performs with the Monteverdi Choir, London Voices, Farm Street Singers and Blossom Street, and has sung abroad with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie. His operatic roles include Colline in Puccini's La bohème for Merry Opera Company and Sarastro in Mozart's Magic Flute for Opera Anywhere; he took part in ENO's Opera Works programme in 2016–17 and studies with Alex Ashworth.
Dale Harris
Dale Harris is a baritone and choral scholar with the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, having graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire in 2012. He sings with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Armonico Consort and Blossom Street, and appears as an oratorio and operatic soloist in works ranging from Handel's Messiah and Britten's War Requiem to Verdi's La Traviata and Macbeth. He toured for six months with the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company and returned to the RSC for The Merchant of Venice.
Emily Wenman
Emily Wenman is a soprano who completed her MA in Vocal Performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama under Leah Marian Jones, and now studies with Gail Pearson. She is a principal soprano with Blossom Street, the St Martin's Voices Fellowship at St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Gesualdo Consort, Seren Singers and Newman Hall Choir, and a former choral scholar of King's College London and the BBC National Chorus of Wales. An experienced singing teacher and vocal animateur, she has led projects for the BBC National Chorus of Wales, the Arts Active Trust and WNO Max.
Felicity Davies
Felicity Davies is a soprano who graduated from Trinity College of Music in 2010, winning the TCM Vocal Contemporary Prize. She sings with the BBC Singers, Ex Cathedra and the Armonico Consort alongside a busy solo career, with oratorio credits including The Creation, Elijah, Mozart's Requiem and Messiah, and contemporary works by Judith Weir. Her operatic roles range across Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and The Pirates of Penzance, and she appeared at the BBC Proms in 2010.
Leonora Dawson
Leonora Dawson-Bowling is a London-based mezzo-soprano and concert soloist who performs with Philharmonia Voices, Oxford Camerata, the BBC Singers and the contemporary ensemble Exaudi. Her repertoire is anchored in the Baroque, taking in solo lines from many Bach cantatas and oratorios. On stage she has sung the title role in Handel's Xerxes at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas for the Sarum Consort, and has recorded two albums with the early-music ensemble Musica Contexta.
Rene Bloice Sanders
René Bloice-Sanders is a baritone who trained as a treble in Canterbury Cathedral Choir and joined the National Youth Choir in 2004. He holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Nottingham (2010) and a Master's in Vocal Studies from the Royal Academy of Music (2013), where he gained a Distinction and the Nora Carstairs Bland Award. His operatic roles include Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Marcello in La bohème, Marco in Gianni Schicchi and Belcore in L'elisir d'amore, and his concert work spans Handel's Messiah, Bach's Johannes and Matthäus Passion, Brahms' Requiem and Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony.
Robert Jenkins
Robert Jenkins is a tenor who took his BMus (Hons) at Birmingham Conservatoire in 2012, winning the Cecil Drew Oratorio Prize, and spent five years as Tenor Lay Clerk at Birmingham Cathedral. He sings with the BBC Singers, Ex Cathedra, Polyphony, Philharmonia Voices, Siglo de Oro and the Proteus Ensemble, and with the choirs of Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Chelsea Old Church and Westminster Cathedral. Alongside his choral work he maintains an active solo career and has appeared in a range of operatic roles.
Musical Director
Hilary Campbell
Hilary Campbell is a freelance choral conductor who founded and directs the professional chamber choir Blossom Street, and is Musical Director of Bristol Choral Society, Chiswick Choir and the Music Makers of London. Her guest conducting includes the BBC Symphony Chorus, Trinity Laban Chamber Choir, the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service Singers and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Chorus, whom she prepared for Mahler's Symphony No. 2 under Semyon Bychkov; she also directed the P&O Ferries Choir to victory in BBC Two's The Choir. She collaborates each year with Judith Weir at the Royal Academy of Music, works as an adjudicator and workshop leader, and is a published, prize-winning composer and founding member of the Voices of London Festival.