Vocalbroker - Soprano


	Elizabeth Holland - a Birmingham based soprano who works throughout the UK and Europe. Educated at Durham and Sheffield Universities and Trinity College of Music, she holds many academic and performance qualifications including a PhD in Baroque Music Performance. She has been awarded numerous prizes including Most Promising Young Female Singer at the David Clover Competition, and is currently sponsored by the Kathleen and Margery Elliot Scholarship Trust. Elizabeth has performed extensively in opera and oratorio from all periods, and has given recitals in venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery in London, the CBSO Centre in Birmingham and the Malta Cultural Centre, as well as having broadcast as a soloist on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. She is a full member of the ISM Performers and Composers Section. Demo tracks and further information can be accessed from Elizabeth’s website, and her first album English Music for Soprano and Strings is available on the E flat minor label. *Website* *Email*		01/08

	Susan Coates - a Bath/Wiltshire based Soprano with extensive Oratorio, Opera and Concert Platform experience. Susan is a regular guest Soprano with the Treorchy Male Choir and has sung at concert halls throughout the UK and Europe. An Honours Graduate in Music, Susan is also a Licentiate of The Royal Academy of Music and holds a teaching diploma. Susan combines a busy performance schedule with her teaching engagements and has also held such posts as Director of Music at St Margaret’s Preparatory School, Calne in Wiltshire. Susan studies with the internationally acclaimed Soprano Rosalind Plowright and is also coached by Simon Phillippo at Welsh National Opera. A well-grounded musician who can learn new repertoire quickly, Susan has worked with various contemporary composers such as Sean Gregory (GSMD) and Nicholas Goodall (Bath). Her Oratorio repertoire to date (2006) includes Mozart - Requiem, Vespers and C Minor Mass (2nd Sop), Mendelssohn - Elijah, Haydn - Maria Theresa Mass, Vivaldi - Gloria, Rossini - Petite Mass, Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb, Fauré - Requiem, Gregory - African Elegy, (Premiere CMAF 1999), Purcell - Dido and Aeneas (Dido/Sorceress) and Handel - Joshua. Susan has performed with many leading conductors and instrumentalists and is an able and well-qualified musician who can learn new repertoire at speed. To learn more or to enquire about future bookings please contact Susan on the e-mail address as shown. She is represented by Lyric Management Services and is a full member of the ISM. Email

	Samantha Binnie - gained a First Class degree and several awards from the Royal Academy of Music. She is currently at the Guildhall School of Music. She has sung as a soloist at the Barbican and Queen Elizabeth Hall and for many choral societies. Her oratorio and recital repertoire is extensive and she has undertaken several principal operatic roles with leading directors. Listen to her demo tracks on her website Website Email		29/03/2005

	Rebecca Hodgetts - was educated at Nottingham University, Trinity College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. Recent operatic roles include Despina Cosi fan tutte (Candlelight Opera), Annina La Traviata (Vox lirika Spring Tour) and Papagena Magic Flute (Opera Garden). She is also active as a recitalist and recently performed a recital of English song at St Martin-in-the-fields, London. She has an extensive oratorio repertoire including such favourites as Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s C minor Mass and Haydn’s Creation. Demo CD available on request. Website *Email*		01/06/2005

	Joanne Heald - was awarded Trinity’s Silver Medal for Vocal Achievement in October 2003 after completing the BMus course and was given a scholarship to continue to Post graduate level, completing the course in June 2005. Recent Operatic roles have included Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Larina in Eugene Onegin and the Father in an all female cast of Hansel and Gretel. She has sung the soprano solos of many oratorios and scared works in the UK and America, including Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Regina Coeli and Exultate Jubilate, Faure Requiem, Haydn’s Salve Regina and Nelson Mass and Handel’s Messiah. Joanne makes frequent appearances as a recitalist and has been the guest soloist on several occasions for The London Welsh Male Voice Choir and the choir of St Anne’s Shrine (Boston MA). Email		12/12/2005

	Gillian Rae-Walker - was born in Edinburgh and studied languages and music, before training at the Stuttgart Conservatory and Opera School and then later with Vera Rozsa, Ryland Davies and Esther Salaman. She made her operatic début at the Ludwigsburg International Festival production of Semele, which was broadcast on German TV and then worked with various UK opera companies. It was also in Germany that Gillian made her oratorio debut as a soloist with various choral societies as well as the Stuttgart Opera Orchestra. Now based in the south of England, she performs throughout the UK to considerable acclaim, singing all mainstream repertoire from Handel’s Messiah to Verdi’s Requiem and beyond. Some recent performances include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at Perth City Hall, Handel’s Messiah at Huddersfield Town Hall, Handel’s Judas Maccabeus at St. Paul’s Knightsbridge, Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony at the Central Halls, Edinburgh and Verdi’s Requiem at Exeter Cathedral. There are reviews and a sound clip on her website and a demonstration CD is available on request. *Website* *Email*

	Joanne Roughton-Arnold - Bedford based soprano, Joanne Roughton-Arnold began her vocal studies with Esther Salaman while a postgraduate violinist at Trinity College of Music and since September 2003 she has been pursuing postgraduate vocal studies at Birmingham Conservatoire. In 2004 she was awarded the conservatoire’s inaugural Postgraduate Certificate prize and in June this year she will complete the M.Mus. (Voice). She is a versatile musician with wide ranging musical interests. Her repertoire includes oratorio, opera, contemporary music (including that from her native New Zealand), early music, and English, French, German and Russian song. Her extensive experience teaching music (voice, violin, viola, class music) make her an ideal workshop leader in educational and outreach work. ... more Email		01/04/2006

	Helen-Jane Howells studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Her vocal experience is diverse and she is equally at home as an operatic, oratorio and recital singer. Highlights include an early music recital for Lord Raglan for the Lower Machan Festival Launch, recital work in the Lancashire Music Festival with lutenist Matthew Nisbet, the Ross-on-Wye International Music Festival, concerts with the R.N.L.I choir, Brighton Welsh Male Voice Choir, the Fletching Singers, recital work for Adrian Partington (Director of BBC Chorus of Wales) and she has put on many solo recitals across the UK. Recent solo oratorio work includes Bach’s ‘St.John Passion’, ‘Matthew Passion’, Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria’ and Handel’s ‘Messiah’ (Truro Cathedral). She is an experienced vocalist and choral singer, and has been privileged to sing with some of the most renowned choirs and vocalists in the UK, including Welsh National Opera, BBC Chorus of Wales and Welsh National Youth Opera. She has made many recordings for BBC Radio 3 & 4 with ‘Serendipity’. Current engagements include: A Recital of American Song, St. Martin in the Fields, London. Soloist in: ‘Mozart K.339 & more’ for the Walmisley Singers, St. John’s College; Rutter ‘Psalmfest’ for the Brighton Orpheus Choir; Haydn ‘Paukenmesse’ for The Phoenix Singers, Bach ‘Christmas Oratorio’ for Choir 2000, and Galatea (Acis & Galatea) for Neil Jenkins, Brighton Festival Chorus. Email		01/05/06