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0.75 2021-09-22 https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/players daily 0.75 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/00ec0af8-9676-4911-8a6d-bcf6fc5d6a4b/FULLRES-matsmithphotography-007-MSP_8032-Edit.jpg Players https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/5c835b00-6270-4b12-ab02-42d5cfa1919f/IMG_7495-1.PNG Players https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/1dedf450-4efe-492d-93d0-d142e84fc2ef/GILDAS-38.jpeg Players https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/1c51cc12-777f-4d70-ad17-cb2748800497/IMG_4185.JPG Players https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/f8ec452c-53a8-4372-b674-63c91f30cc47/Simone-Pirri.jpg Players https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/about daily 0.75 2025-02-24 https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/about/ruairi-plpkr monthly 0.5 2023-08-30 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She then completed the Opera Works course at English National Opera, and was an Apprentice with the Monteverdi Choir. Operatic highlights include Isabella in L'inganno Felice (Rossini, Wexford Festival Opera) Belinda (cover) in Dido’s Ghost (Dunedin Consort), First Bridesmaid in Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Victorian in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Will Todd, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House), and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. She performed in the ensemble for the world premiere of Sciarrino's 'Venere e Adone' at Staatsoper Hamburg, and a number of productions with Bergen National Opera, including Wagner's 'Parsifal'. Her recent concert appearances include Dyson's 'Quo Vadis' at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford Cathedral, Haydn's 'Creation' in the Southern Cathedrals Festival in Salisbury Cathedral, and Handel's 'Messiah' in Tewkesbury Abbey. Handel’s ‘Messiah’ with the CBSO at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Verdi ‘Requiem’ with the English Festival Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, and Howells ‘Hymnus Paradisi’ with the British Sinfonia in Gloucester Cathedral As an ensemble singer, Rebecca appears internationally and on multiple recordings with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras, and was nominated by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the Joaninha award. She is a Guest Artist with the Edvard Grieg Kor in Bergen, Norway, performing a series of concerts conducted by Ed Gardner. Rebecca is an advocate for contemporary repertoire, and has performed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at the RCM, Stockhausen’s ‘In the sky I am walking’ in Germany and the UK, Thomas Adès’ ‘Five Eliot Landscapes’ and ‘Life Story’ at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying György Kurtág's 'Kafka Fragments’. https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/about/jacob monthly 0.5 2021-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/1632408805360-KVJEM2VU6OP0BG35TYW5/image0.jpg About - Jacob Garside - Jacob Garside - Cello and Viola da Gamba Jacob is a freelance cellist and viola da gamba player based in London. He regularly plays for La Nuova Musica, OAE, St James Baroque, City Bach Collective, Oxford Bach Soloists, among others. As a gamba player he has also played with Royal Northern Sinfonia (St John Passion), the viol consort Newe Vialles and with Fretwork; recording two CDs with the latter. He also recorded a disk of Handel with La Nuova Musica in the winter of 2020,including the viol solo from Handel’s Julius Caesar with Lucy Crowe in the role of Cleopatra. Jacob attended the RAM studying baroque cello and viol with Jonathan Manson, and the RCM studying viol with Richard Boothby and Reiko Ichise. Supported by the Enlightenment and Hill Scholarships respectively. Outside of the concert hall he plays regularly for Duckie of The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, in their Queer History Club - Princess: The Queer Georgians, A Bent History Bachannal. https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/about/aidan monthly 0.5 2021-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/1632246346314-86VJ1PW1L4UAJEV777ZL/rXI2V7ms_400x400.jpg About - Aidan Coburn - Aidan Coburn - Tenor and Conductor London-born tenor, Aidan Coburn, was educated at The London Oratory School, Caius College, Cambridge and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Having sung extensively in choirs and consorts around London and Europe, Aidan now focuses exclusively on his solo singing career, both as a recitalist and on the operatic stage. Demonstrating significant versatility as a singer, Aidan’s oratorio repertoire includes works as diverse as St John’s Passion, The Creation, A Child of Our Time, The Kingdom, Elijah, St Nicholas, Messa di Gloria, Stabat Mater (Rossini, Dvorak) and Requiem (Verdi, Mozart). Having started his opera work in the Glyndebourne Opera Festival Chorus, Aidan has covered Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni for (English Touring Opera), Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro (GFO). Aidan created the role of Lady Macbeth in Luke Styles’ new opera, Macbeth (GFO) and at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre and played Spiridione in Il Campanello (Wexford Festival Opera) and Pastore II in Orfeo (L’Arpeggiata). More recently, Aidan sang Mozart in Mozart and Salieri (Time Zone Theatre, Summer ’17), Beppe in Rita (West Green House Opera/Opera Rara, Summer’17), and The Duke in Rigoletto (WFO Shortworks, Autumn ’17). Current highlights include Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville (Swansea City Opera, Spring ’18) and Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos (Longborough City Opera, Summer ’18). https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/about/geoffrey monthly 0.5 2025-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/1632408466893-HJNMP83ST1YQ3VG7Z68O/p0524s47.jpg About - Geoffrey Webber - Geoffrey Webber - Keyboard Geoffrey Webber is an organist, conductor and music historian. In addition to his work at Hampstead he is General Editor of the Church Music Society and Associate Artistic Director of Armonico Consort. His musical education began as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and he read music at Oxford University, initially serving as Organ Scholar at New College under Edward Higginbottom. He later became Assisting Organist at Magdalen College and University Organist, and also served as Acting Organist for spells at both New College and Magdalen. As a doctoral student he researched music of the German Baroque period, and his publications in this area include North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude (OUP 1996) and a web-based resource for the Royal College of Organists on Buxtehude's organ music. He is also the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Organ (CUP 1998), a general study of the history and repertoire of the instrument, and his most recent publication is a study of early Anglican church music for a German music encyclopedia. From 1989-2019 he worked in Cambridge as Precentor and Director of Studies in Music at Gonville & Caius College, releasing many CD recordings with the Caius choir of varied repertoire from first-millenium chant to music by contemporary composers such as Judith Weir and Julian Anderson (mainly on the Delphian label). During this time he also taught extensively for the Faculty of Music, and from 2011-19 he served as Course Principal and Director of the MMus degree in Choral Studies which he helped establish, which attracted students from all over the world. As an organ recitalist he enjoys performing a wide range of repertoire (recent venues include Bradford Cathedral, St John's College, Cambridge, and St Michael's Cornhill where he performed Petr Eben's dramatic cycle Faust) and he has also composed a chorale prelude for The Orgelbüchlein Project (which recently completed a task left unfinished by J.S. Bach) drawing inspiration from the music of Arnolt Schlick and György Kurtág. https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/about/matthew monthly 0.5 2025-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/a5eaebca-16cc-4af6-8462-87a56d3e6107/IMG-20230925-WA0006.jpg About - Matthew Fletcher - Matthew Fletcher - Keyboard A member of Glyndebourne Opera Festival’s music staff since 2012, and winner of the Das Lied and Kathleen Ferrier accompanist prizes, Matthew is a sought-after pianist and répétiteur. His performances have taken him to major concert halls, festivals and opera houses across the UK and Europe. He has played with the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Recent highlights include the world premiere of songs by James Macmillan and Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine with Danielle De Niese, Poulenc's Babar the Elephant with Dame Felicity Lott, a disc of songs by Elizabeth Maconchy with Joanna Songi and performances of Janáček’s Diary of One who Disappeared in Budapest and across France. His fortepiano continuo for Glyndebourne’s recent Don Giovanni was described by the press as ‘exciting’, ‘imaginative’ and ‘wonderfully witty’ and his harpsichord playing for The Rake’s Progress as ‘absolutely scintillating’. Matthew is also a keen jazz pianist and composer. Matthew read music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. He then studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek and Pascal Nemirovsky at the Royal Academy of Music. He was made an associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2016, and was on their teaching staff as a vocal coach from 2015 – 2022. https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/about/malachy monthly 0.5 2021-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/1632061348622-ZLUJ3U0HRV84CN0IYG4C/327A7289-Edit.jpeg About - Malachy Frame - Malachy Frame - Baritone Belfast-born baritone Malachy Frame is a Rising Star of the Enlightenment with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2023-25, and was Northern Ireland Opera's 'Voice of 2016,' having won the competition at the company's annual Festival of Voice. Recent operatic roles have included Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Sprecher in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Figaro and Fiorello in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello and Schaunard in Puccini's La Bohème, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, March Hare/White Knight in Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Slook in Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Leporello and Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Count Ceprano in Verdi’s Rigoletto, and Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. As a concert soloist, recent performances have included a Wigmore Hall debut singing Bach with the Gabrieli Consort, Xiaogang Ye’s The Song of the Earth with Haydnorchester von Bozen und Trient in Toblach, Purcell’s King Arthur in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Bach’s St John Passion at the Barbican, Bach’s Easter Oratorio in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Britten's War Requiem, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mass in B minor, Magnificat, and St Matthew Passion, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Theodora, and Alexander’s Feast, Vaughan-Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast. Highlights of this season include revisiting the roles of Figaro and Guglielmo in Le Nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte, singing the title roles in Handel’s Saul and Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation in Salisbury Cathedral, and two concerts with the Philharmonia in the Three Choirs Festival. https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/about/christine monthly 0.5 2021-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61473d6159f1df17e3d63273/1632060908983-5WIDBIV5819O1AH4VX8X/Christine+Buras+headshot.jpg About - Christine Buras - Christine Buras - Soprano Soprano Christine Buras is a versatile artist, equally at home on the operatic and concert stages, whose repertoire ranges from early music, to opera, to contemporary performance art. She received her BA in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago, and subsequently undertook her vocal training at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She currently studies with American soprano Pamela Kuhn. Operatic roles include both Susanna and Contessa Almaviva (Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro / Kennet Opera, Fortismere Festival Orchestra), Cupid (Purcell King Arthur / Dartington International Festival), Suor Dolcina and La Prima Sorella Cercatrice (Puccini Suor Angelica / Royal Academy Opera), Hélène (Chabrier Une Éducation Manquée / Pop-Up Opera), Lucy (Menotti The Telephone / Salon Opera), Theodora (Handel Theodora / Benslow Opera), and Belinda and Second Woman (Purcell Dido and Aeneas / Indiana University, Shipwright Opera). In concert she has performed as soprano soloist at venues such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. John Smith Square, and in works including the Bach St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and B minor mass; Handel Messiah, Dixit Dominus, Judas Maccabaeus, and Samson; Mozart Exsultate jubilate, Requiem, and C minor mass; Haydn Creation; Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem; Mendelssohn Elijah; and the Verdi Requiem. She is a founding member of the award-winning Ensemble x.y, a contemporary mixed chamber ensemble, as well as x.y song, a group of singers and pianist who together endeavour to commission and perform contemporary Art Song. She is a founding member of the Hampstead Collective.