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PROGRAMME
Schumann - Frauenliebe und Leben
Horowitz - Lady Macbeth: A Scena
Howells - King David
BIOGRAPHIES
British born mezzo soprano Lauren Joyanne Morris is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio (RCMIOS), having completed her Master of Vocal Performance (Distinction) at the Royal College of Music, London. During her time at the RCMIOS she studied under Tim Evans-Jones and was a Fishmongers’ Company Beckwith Scholar supported by a Douglas and Hilda Simmonds Scholarship and The John Clemence Charitable Trust. She now studies with Mary Plazas and is a Concordia Foundation Artist.
Performance highlights include covering the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni for Garsington Opera and covering the role of Johanna in Sweeney Todd for Welsh National Opera. Lauren Joyanne has also had the pleasure of performing the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni for British Youth Opera and singing the roles of Young Tree and Narrator in Paul Bunyan for Welsh National Youth Opera: a production which received a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award.
For the RCMIOS Lauren Joyanne performed the roles of Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (under the direction of Sir Thomas Allen), Susan Wheeler in In the Locked Room, Hermia in The Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fox (cover), Grasshopper, Dog and Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen and Childerico in Faramondo (in association with The London Handel Festival).
Concert experience includes performing selections of music by Stephen Sondheim at Cadogan Hall, performing the role of Johanna in Sweeney Todd alongside Bryn Terfel at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod and singing in a performance of Serenade to Music at Buckingham Palace, under the baton of John Wilson.
Future engagements include singing the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte for Hurn Court Opera and covering the role of Isolier in Le Comte Ory for Garsington Opera.
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Jo Ramadan began his music studies as a chorister at Chapel Royal, St James Palace. After graduating from Durham University, he studied as a postgraduate pianist at the Royal College of Music, under John Blakely and Roger Vignoles. Jo is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and a Samling Scholar.
Jo has accompanied various masterclasses, including those of Gerald Finley, Kiri Te Kanawa, Angelika Kirchschlager, Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray and Simon Keenlyside, as well as a Liszt masterclass with Leslie Howard. He has received major awards from both the MBF and the Neuby Trust and was the winner of the Joanina Trust Awards Accompanist Prize.
A keen conductor, Jo was Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor for British Youth Opera’s tour of L’Elisir d’Amore with Southbank Sinfonia. He also conducted Walton’s The Bear and Rossini’s L'Occassione Fa il ladro for Minotaur Music, as well as Così fan tutte for Woodhouse Opera. More recently, Jo was Assistant Conductor of Handel’s Ariodante at Drottningholm Festival.
Jo is currently an Associate Artist and Principal Assistant Conductor and Repetiteur for Classical Opera Company. In addition, he is Director of Music at St Vedast Foster Lane, a listed Accompanist and Professor of Vocal Repertoire at the Royal College of Music and a featured conductor and pianist at Oxenfoord International Summer School. Jo is also a coach and course leader for Samling Academy.
Future plans include Assistant Conductor on Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Grange Festival, as well as recitals with Mary Bevan, Martha Jones, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Kitty Whately and Roderick Williams.
