Reisha Adams Stephen Aviss British Soprano Reisha Adams

National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Reisha Adams
British Soprano Reisha Adams
trained at the Royal Welsh College of
Music and Drama and studies with
Janet Price.
Roles include Naiad (Cover) Ariadne
auf Naxos at Glyndebourne Festival
Opera, Micaela Carmen for Riverside
Opera and Ludovina (Cover) The
Yellow Sofa with Glyndebourne
Touring Opera.
Reisha was awarded the First prize for
Most Outstanding Musicianship in
The Ian Stoutzker Prize and Highest
Achiever on the MA Opera
Performance Course at RWCMD in
the MA Opera Prize.
Reisha is supported by the
Glyndebourne New Generation
Programme, The Arts Council of
Wales, a Sybil Tutton Award
administered by the Musicians
Benevolent Fund, and Christopher
Ball.
Stephen Aviss
British Tenor Stephen Aviss trained
at the Royal Academy of Music and
studies with Philip Doghan.
Roles include Alfredo La Traviata for
Iford Arts and Lenski Eugene Onegin
for RAM Opera.
Stephen was the recipient of both the
Rhoda Jones Roberts Scholarship and
the Connell Grabowsky Prize from
the Royal Academy of Music.
Stephen is supported by a scholarship
from UNUM, Il Circolo (an Italian
cultural charity) and the Josephine
Baker Trust.
National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Pedro Beriso
Jennifer Davis
Spanish Répétiteur Pedro Beriso
trained in Orchestral Conducting at
ESMuC and studies conducting with
Jordi Mora.
Irish Lyric Soprano Jennifer Davis
trained at DIT’s Conservatory of
Music and Drama, Dublin and studies
with Colette McGahon-Tosh.
Performances include Il Turco in
Italia 2013 at Gran Teatre del Liceu,
Mozart Academy 2012 at Festival
d'Aix-en-Provence and The Beggar's
Opera 2013 at the European Opera
Center with Liverpool Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Roles include Countess Le Nozze di
Figaro with Lyric Opera Productions,
Governess The Turn of the Screw at
DIT’s Conservatory of Music and
Drama and Susanna Le Nozze di
Figaro for Glasthule Opera, Dublin.
Pedro is supported by the Royal
Opera House and by the
Amar-Franses & Foster-Jenkins Trust.
Jennifer is supported by English
National Opera, The Bernadette
Greevy Bursary provided by the
National Concert Hall, Dublin and a
Sybil Tutton Award administered by
the Musicians Benevolent Fund.
Jennifer won 1st prize in the best
singer category at Gervase Elwes, Feis
Ceoil Dublin and reached the
semi-final of the Opera
Competition at the International
Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition,
Vienna.
National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Katie Grosset
Lucy Hall
Scottish Mezzo Katie Grosset trained
at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama, Operastudio Vlaanderen in
Belgium and as an Emerging Artist
at Scottish Opera. She has recently
started studying with Catherine
Wyn-Rogers.
British Soprano Lucy Hall trained at
Guildhall school of Music and Drama
and studies with Yvonne Kenny.
Roles include Zerlina (cover) Don
Giovanni, Edith Pirates of Penzance,
Flora and Annina La traviata, Second
Lady (cover) Magic Flute, Boletta
(cover) Lady from the Sea with
Scottish Opera. She also performed
on the Scottish Opera Highlights tour,
and Olga Eugene Onegin with Opera
Bohemia in the Edinburgh Festival.
Katie has performed chorus, cover
and small roles for Garsington Opera
and the Tête à Tête Opera Festival.
Katie is supported by Scottish Opera,
Creative Scotland Artists’ Bursary,
Nicholas Boas Trust, Michael and
Yvonne Ward, The Winship
Foundation, The Hope Scott Trust, The
South Square Trust, The Robertson
Trust, The Scottish International
Education Trust and Christopher Ball.
Roles include Sandrina La Finta
Giardiniera for Festival D'Aix en
Provence Tour at Theatre du
Luxembourg and Opera Toulon, Flora
Turn of the Screw with the London
Symphony Orchestra and Barbarina
Le Nozze di Figaro at Festival d'Aix en
Provence.
Lucy was awarded the Song Prize in
the National Mozart Singing
Competition and 1st prize at the
Oxford Lieder Young Artists Platform
2012.
Lucy is supported by Opera North,
and by a Scholarship from the Lionel
Anthony Charitable Trust.
National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Tim Hawken
British Répétiteur Tim Hawken
studied viola at the Royal Northern
College of Music and with singing
teachers including Colin
Iveson and Jeffrey Lawton.
Engagements include Assistant Staff
Pianist in the vocal department of
the Royal Northern College of Music
and Tenor Lay Clerk at Christ Church
Cathedral in Oxford.
Sarah-Jane Lewis
British Soprano Sarah–Jane Lewis
trained at the Royal Academy of
Music and studies with Ryland
Davies.
Sarah–Jane was awarded first prize in
the Richard Lewis Prize 2012.
In 2013 she was awarded first prize in
the Ludmilla Andrew Russian Song
Prize.
Tim was awarded a scholarship in
piano accompaniment whilst at the
Royal Northern College of Music.
Tim is supported by the Foundation for
Sport & the Arts, and the Musicians
Benevolent Fund.
Sarah–Jane is supported by a
scholarship from the Nicholas John
Trust, and the Countess of Munster
Musical Trust.
National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Frederick Long
Adam Marsden
British Bass-Baritone, Frederick Long
trained at the Royal Academy of
Music and studies with Mark
Wildman.
British Baritone Adam Marsden
trained at the Royal Northern College
of Music and the Royal Academy of
Music and studies under Mark
Wildman.
Roles include The Lackey Ariadne
auf Naxos at Glyndebourne Festival
Opera, Medeiros in The Yellow Sofa
with Glyndebourne on Tour and
Sarastro The Magic Flute at the Royal
Academy Opera.
Roles include James Meridith
Kommilitonen, Sprecher
Die Zauberflote and Somarone
Beatrice et Benedict all for Royal
Academy Opera.
Adam was awarded 2nd prize for the
Richard Lewis Award.
Frederick is supported by
Glyndebourne New Generation
Programme, a Donald A Anderson
Award, an Allcard Award administered
through the Worshipful Company of
Musicians, and a Sybil Tutton Award
administered through the Musicians
Benevolent Fund.
Adam is supported by the Foundation
for Sport & the Arts and a Sybil Tutton
Award administered through the
Musicians Benevolent Fund.
National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Ben McAteer
Iain Milne
Northern Irish Baritone, Ben McAteer
trained at Guildhall School of Music
& Drama.
Scottish Tenor Iain Milne trained
at the Royal Academy of Music and
studies with Dr Neil Mackie.
Roles include Sharpless Madama
Butterfly with Opera Holland Park
(Christine Collins Young Artist), Il
Conte Le Nozze di Figaro at Guildhall
School of Music & Drama and Father
Hansel and Gretel for Clonter Opera.
Roles include Sandy and Officer 1 The
Lighthouse at Royal Academy Opera
and Tamino The Magic Flute and
Tito La Clemenza Di Tito both with
Hampstead Garden Opera.
Ben won Northern Ireland Opera
Young Artist Competition in 2011
and was a runner up in the Kathleen
Ferrier Awards 2012.
Ben is supported by Welsh National
Opera, an Eileen Goddard Scholarship
from the Amar-Franses &
Foster -Jenkins Trust, and a Sybil
Tutton Award administered through
the Musicians Benevolent Fund.
Iain is supported by the Foundation
for Sport & the Arts, Sir James Caird
Travelling Scholarship, The Robertson
Trust, The Countess of Munster Music
Award, a Sybil Tutton Award
administered by the Musicians
Benevolent Fund and Miss Sheila
Robertson.
National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Samantha Price
Ross Ramgobin
Welsh Mezzo Soprano Samantha
Price trained at the Royal Welsh
College of Music & Drama and
studies with Janet Price.
British Baritone Ross Ramgobin
trained at Royal Academy of
Music and studies with Glenville
Hargreaves.
Roles include Third Gentleman
Julietta with English National
Opera, Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro
at RWCMD and Nancy Albert
Herring (scenes) for Samling.
Roles include Arasse Siroe Re di
Persia with Internationale
Händel-Festspiele Göttingen and
Eugene Onegin Eugene Onegin and
Papageno Die Zauberflöte both at the
Royal Academy Opera.
Samantha was awarded the Promising
Singer Prize in the Dean &
Chadlington Singing Competition
and the Aneurin Davies Memorial
Prize for Welsh song in the RWCMD
Vocal competitions.
Samantha is supported by English
National Opera, an Advanced Study
Award in Music from the Arts Council
of Wales, the Robert Vivian Memorial
Trust and by Christopher Ball.
Ross was a finalist in the Hampshire
Singing competition and awarded the
Tom Hammond Opera Prize in the
Royal Academy of Music Prizes.
Ross is supported by the Royal Opera
House, Peter & Helen Blumer, Lisa
Newick, the Carr Gregory Trust and
a Sybil Tutton award administered by
the Musicians Benevolent Fund.
National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Andri Björn Róbertsson
Marek Ruszczynski
Icelandic Bass-Baritone, Andri Björn
Róbertsson trained at Söngskólinn í
Reykjavík, Royal Academy of Music
and has studied with Ólöf Kolbrún
Harðardóttir and Mark Wildman.
Polish Répétiteur Marek
Ruszczynski trained at the Royal
Academy of Music and Guildhall
School of Music and Drama and
studies with Ronan O’Hora.
Roles include Gremin Eugene Onegin
and Arthur and Officer 3 The
Lighthouse both for Royal Academy
Opera and Sarastro Die Zauberflöte
with Garsington Emerging Artists.
Marek was awarded the Piano Prize at
the Nadia and Lily Boulanger
International Voice-Piano
Competition Paris in 2011 and Best
Accompanist Gold Medal GSMD.
Andri was awarded 1st Prize,
Schubert Prize and audience prize
at The International Mozart Singing
Competition and was
nominated as Brightest hope in
Classical Music and Jazz at The
Icelandic Music Awards.
Andri gratefully acknowledges Dame
Kiri Te Kanawa and the Kiri Te
Kanawa Foundation who have
provided him with significant
mentoring and financial support.
Andri is also supported by Christopher
Ball.
Marek is supported by aMarek is
supported by a Jean Dunlop Bursary
and by an Opera Awards Foundation/
NOS bursary
National Opera Studio Trainees 2013-2014
Maya Soltan
Russian Répétiteur Maya Soltan
trained at the Moscow State
conservatory and the Royal Academy
of Music and studies with Michael
Dussek and Andrew West.
Engagements include répétiteur and
harpsichord for La Serva Padrona,
Pergolesi and as répétiteur for Eugene
Onegin both at the Royal Academy of
Music.
Maya was awarded the Elena
Gerhardt Accompanists’ prize Elena
Gerhardt Lieder prize and Marjorie
Thomas Award at the Royal Academy
of Music and First prize at the North
London Piano School Festival.
Maya is supported by a Nelly Groner
Bursary.