Malachy Frame
Belfast-born baritone Malachy Frame was Northern Ireland Opera’s ‘Voice of 2016,’ having won the competition at the company’s annual Festival of Voice in August.
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Bass-Baritone, Louis Hurst, is the Winner of the Audience Prize at the Fulham Opera Robert Presley Memorial Verdi Prize and Finalist for the Wagner Society of England’s Singing Competition. Selected to participate in ENO’s Opera Works Programme and with British Youth Opera, Mancunian-born Louis gained his MMus with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music. His studies were made possible by the generous support of Michael Oglesby, the Drapers Guild, and the Musician’s Benevolent Fund.
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Edmund Danon
Edmund grew up in London and began singing as a chorister at the London Oratory. He read aerospace engineering alongside a choral scholarship at Bristol University and studied singing with Angela Hickey. He received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham supported by the Josephine Baker trust. He was a 2017/18 National Opera Studio young artist as part of the Glyndebourne New Generation Programme, supported by Peter and Helen Blumer.
Read More »Emyr Wyn Jones
Hailing from the South Wales Valleys, Emyr trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. And in 2017/18 was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio, London.
Read More »Piran Legg
Piran Legg is a Bass – Baritone originally from Kent and a graduate of Kent University, where he studied history. He went on to become a Masters graduate of the Guildhall Opera Course and Artists Diploma. Piran has performed extensively in Opera and concert around the UK and abroad, singing roles with companies such as Wexford Festival Opera, Garsington Opera and the LSO. He has ranged from characters such as Schaunard in La Boheme at the Cadogan Hall and Giorgio Germont in Clonter Opera’s 2015 production of La Traviata to Antonio in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Ferrando in Verdi’s Il Trovatore.
Read More »Dawid Kimberg
Dawid was born in Johannesburg and he moved to the UK in 2001 to further his studies at the Royal College of Music in London. Dawid subsequently attended the National Opera Studio and received a position on the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artist Programme which commenced in 2009. He also represented South Africa in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2009.
Read More »Hrólfur Sæmundsson
Hrolfur Saemundsson initially studied singing at the Reykjavik Vocal Academy before completing his MA in Music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, 2002.
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