Various Artists - Robin Holloway
Biography Various Artists - Robin Holloway
Clare Lloyd-Griffiths
grew up in London and read music at Gonville and Caius Cambridge, where she was a choral scholar, before furthering her vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music where she was a Sir Geraint Evans Scholar. Her operatic roles include Susanna/Le Nozze di Figaro and Adele/Die Fledermaus (Weston Studio, Welsh Millenium Centre) and Madame Herz/Der Schauspieldirektor and Tonina/Salieri's Prima la musica, poi Le parole (Teatro Manoel of Valleta, Malta for the Notte Bianca Festival). Her work as a concert soloist includes Merab/Saul for the Spitalfields festival directed by Laurence Cummings and Exsultate jubilate at St John's Smith Square and Clare has sung as a soloist for the conductors Stephen Cleobury, David Hill and the late Sir Philip Ledger. A committed ensemble singer, Clare performs with many groups and is a member of the much-admired ensemble Solomon's Knot, who perform from memory and without conductor. Recent performances with the group include the Bach Johannes Passion at the Snape Maltings on Good Friday 2017 and the group made their Barbican debut in June 2018 with a programme of Bach motets for 'Bach Weekend'. In addition, Clare is a long-standing member of the renowned choir of the Brompton Oratory.
Kate Symonds-Joy
graduated with a First Class music degree from Cambridge University and a DipRAM from the Royal Academy Opera Course. Concert highlights include Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Sydney Opera House, Rutter's Feel the Spirit at the Barbican, Mahler's Symphony no.2 at Cadogan Hall, Elgar's Sea Pictures with the RPO and Christopher Robinson, Handel's Messiah at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Mozart's Requiem with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and Verdi's Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall.
Kate cycled to the most northerly inhabited part of the UK to sing Judith Weir's King Harald's Saga in the Shetland Islands' Muckleflugga lighthouse and recently joined the Prison Choir Project to sing the role of Carmen with a chorus of inmates in Dartmoor and Wandsworth Prisons. Kate sings regularly as a core member of Solomon's Knot Baroque Collective, who have appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival, Leipzig Bachfest, Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms.
Kate has taught the choral scholars of both St. John's Voices and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge since 2014. She appears as soloist on Giles Swayne's Stabat Mater (NAXOS), Strauss' Deutsche Motette (Delphian), Villa Lobos' Magnificat for Contraltino and Choir (Delphian), a CD of Robin's Holloway's song cycles (Delphian) and Bach's B minor mass (Sir John Eliot Gardiner/SDG).
Simon Wallfisch
is in international demand as concert and opera singer.
Notable performances include: DEPUTATO FIAMMINGO/Don Carlo (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 2020 (postponed)), HANNAH BEFORE/As One (London American Music Festival 2021), SANCHO PANSA/Don Quijote (Sommer Oper Festival Schloss Britz, Berlin) FIERAMOSCA/Benvenuto Cellini (Staatsoper Nürnberg 2016) MARCELLO/La Boheme (Teatro Verdi Casciana Terme, Pisa 2016) ESCAMILLO/La Tragedie de Carmen (National Reis Opera, Holland 2013). PELLEAS/Pelléas et Mélisande and ALBERT/Werther (English Touring Opera 2015).
He is amassing a steady output of recordings, including 'Songs by Geoffrey Bush' (Lyrita 2015), Songs by Caplet, Honegger, Milhaud and Ravel (Nimbus 2017), 'Gesänge des Orients' (Nimbus 2018), Songs by Thea Musgrave (Lyrita 2019), Songs by Robin Holloway (Delphian 2019) Schumann Lieder (Resonus 2019), Brahms Lieder (Resonus 2020) and Kowalski Lieder (Nimbus 2021).
He made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2017, performing with the Nash Ensemble live on BBC Radio 3, he has appeared several times at the Oxford Lieder festival, London Song Festival and several venues across Europe including Berlin's Konzerthaus, Hamburg Laeszhalle, the Litomysl Smetena Festival and the Pražské Múzy festival in the Czech Republic.
After studying Cello, he gained a postgraduate diploma in voice from the Royal College of Music in 2006, where he studied with Russell Smythe. In 2006 Wallfisch continued his studies in Berlin (Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik 2006-2007) and Leipzig (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 2007-2009), studying with Dr Favaro-Reuter, and in the Liedklasse of Wolfram Rieger. Subsequently he was engaged at the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House (2009-2011). Teachers have included Raymond Connell and Snezana Brzacovic. Simon currently lives with his family in Berlin.
