Georgina-Rosanna Murray
Mezzo-Soprano

Georgina-Rosanna Murray, 26, is a mezzo-soprano from Manchester where she was a student at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School. She studied the Double Bass at the Royal Academy of Music where she graduated in 2005. She has just completed a postgraduate course at Trinity College of Music where she was awarded the Muncey Scholarship to study voice with Ameral Gunson. At TCM she performed Duncan Macleod's Definition for solo voice and piano with the college's Contemporary Music Group, a programme of English Song at Blackheath Halls and Stephen Montague's Dark Sun, where she appeared as a soloist with the TCM Chamber Choir and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She was also selected to participate in a master class with the renowned Welsh tenor Robert Tear. Recent roles in opera scenes include Idamante (Idomeneo), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro) and 3rd Genie (The Magic Flute). Georgina recently played the role of Leocasta in a production of Handel's Giustino with TCM Opera Co to critical acclaim. She also spent this summer playing the role of the Shepherdess in Puccini's Tosca with Pavilion Opera and made her British Youth Opera debut covering the role of Mother Goose and singing in the chorus in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. Future engagements include covering the role of Lucretia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia with Elemental Opera, a performance of Handel's Messiah with Salford Choral Society at the Royal Northern College of Music, playing the role of Zephyrus in Mozart's Apollo et Hyacinthus for The Rose Opera Company and covering the role of Clarissa in Prokofiev's Love of the Three Oranges for Grange Park Opera.

 

Chloe Morgan
Mezzo-Soprano


Chloe has just finished her undergraduate degree at Trinity College of Music where she studied with Ameral Gunson and Geoffrey Pratley. She spent the first three years of her course on the Jazz Faculty where she studied with Victoria Newton and Anton Browne. Whilst on the Jazz course she sung with the Trinity Jazz Ensemble in Ronnie Scott's and did a series of Township projects with 'Mbawula' a project run by Paul Bartholomew. After she changed course Chloe won a place on the Monteverdi Choir Apprenticeship scheme. This has seen her perform in the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, take part in a Brahms tour and sing chorus for the production of Bizet's 'Carmen' in Paris over the summer. Since completing this course Chloe has started to work around London, singing in various groups including the Academy of Ancient Music and the Marion Consort. She sings for the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court and St Marylebone Parish Church.  As a soloist Chloe has performed such works as St John Passion (Bach), The Messiah (Handel), Membra Jesu Nostri (Buxtehude), Great Organ Mass (Haydn), Rejoice in the Lamb (Britten), Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini). Opera roles include Sally- A Hand of Bridge (Barber), Dorabella - Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart) and chorus in Le Nozze Di Figaro (Mozart).

 

Alison Nicholls
Mezzo-Soprano


Alison has studied singing with Janet Shell, Robin Bowman and is currently studying with Teresa Cahill. A former member of Glyndebourne Youth Opera Alison's operatic roles have included the title role of 'Dalila' in Saint-Saëns's 'Samson et Dalila', 'La Musica' in Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo', 'Second Lady' in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, 'Dorabella' in Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and 'Kate' in 'The Pirates of Penzance' by Gilbert and Sullivan. Recent engagements include a performance of Mozart's 'Mass in C Minor' and a forthcoming recital of Strauss songs. Alison has had a longstanding interest in contemporary music and has given the premiere performances of 'The Cup of Tears' by James Woodhall, which was written specially for her voice and 'Autumn Leaves' by Israeli composer Sivan Shenhev. Alison is also member of The Blossom Street Singers and a founding member of fringe opera company The Gyg. She is currently studying for a post-graduate diploma at Trinity college of Music where she is generously supported by a TCL scholarship and the Greenwich Blue Coat Foundation.