Hannah Boxall is a London-based soprano originally from East Sussex. She has recently graduated from the M.A course at the Royal Northern College of Music with distinction, where she was under the tutelage of Deborah Rees. Prior to her studies at conservatoire, Hannah read Music at The University of Bristol and was a participant of the prestigious Glyndebourne Academy Program.

Recent Operatic engagements include Zerlina in Don Giovanni for The Athenaeum, Edith in Pirates of Penzance for Opera Holland Park, Pitti Sing in The Mikado for The National Gilbert and Sullivan Company, Sprite in Cendrillon for RNCM Opera, Frasquita in Carmen with Bristol Opera, and Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd with The University of Bristol Operatic Society. Hannah regularly performs in the chorus at Opera Holland Park, most recently performing in their productions of La Traviata, Un Ballo in Maschera, Manon Lescaut and Cosi fan tutte. She looks forward to joining the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2022 to sing chorus in Tosca, Carmen and Aida. Hannah is passionate about working within education and outreach work. It gives her the chance to meet people from all walks of life and enjoy moments of connection and spontaneous creativity.

Hannah has been involved in numerous projects with Opera Holland Park, she is an associate artist with Sound Up Arts and has been involved in projects with Streetwise Opera, RNCM, Drama Queens and VaCO Summer school. She conducts Longfield Voices choir in Camberwell.

British baritone, Michael Lafferty, is a dynamic artist, praised for the “melting warmth” of his voice, and “demonstrable affection and involvement” of his performances. (Opera Today - Hurn Court Opera recital, Salisbury Arts Centre, Nov ‘19). He currently studies at the Opera School at Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of David Pollard, where he is generously supported by The Behrens Foundation, The Drake Calleja Trust and Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Prior to his studies at Guildhall, Michael studied at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, graduating with a first-class honours Bachelor degree in 2018. He has had success in numerous competitions, with highlights including First prizes at the AESS Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition 2021, Freda Parry Foundation Competition 2017 and the Guildhall English Song Prize 2021. Other successes include reaching the finals of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2021, Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards 2020 and second prize at the Hurn Court Opera Competition 2018. Michael’s Operatic stage debut was in 2018 as Tarquinius for Trinity Laban’s The Rape of Lucretia.

Since then, Michael has performed the roles of Dr.Falke (Die Fledermaus), Pausanias (Une Éducation manquée) and Masetto (Don Giovanni), as well as scenes from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro), Albert Herring (Sid) and Die Zauberflöte (Papageno). Michael is currently preparing the roles of Prince Andrei (Prokofiev, War and Peace), Fritz (Korngold, Die Tote Stadt) and revisiting Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) for Guildhall Opera School scenes performances in November.

Recent performances include Schumann’s ‘Requiem für Mignon’ as a soloist under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner for Salzurger Festpiele 2021, Mozart Requiem for Battersea Choral Society and guest soloist for Prenzlau Opera Gala, Berlin, conducted by John Axelrod. Other engagements include Guglielmo for Nevill Holt Opera's production of Mozart's “Cosi fan Tutte” for the 2019 season.

British pianist, conductor and coach, Ashley Beauchamp studied on the Opera Course of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He previously graduated from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, under the tutelage of Eugene Asti. Highlights for the 2021/22 season include joining the Glyndebourne Tour as repetiteur for Don Pasquale, before returning to Glyndebourne in Spring 2022 as the assistant conductor (and conducting one performance) for the world-premiere of Pay the Piper. Ashley also joins Nevill Holt Opera as Head of Music for their 2022 season of La Boheme and Il barbiere di Siviglia, and is the musical director for Der Freischütz with the Random Opera Company.

Ashley has recently been appointed as Head of Music for Waterperry Opera Festival, having worked with them every year since their inaugural season in 2017. He has been a musical director for two runs of their critically-acclaimed production of Dove’s Mansfield Park, repetiteur for Così fan tutte and conductor for a new production, in English translation, of Hansel and Gretel. For their 2022 season, Ashley will be musical director for staged performances of Janáček’s song-cycle The Diary of the One Who Disappeared and repetiteur and chorus-master for their main-stage production of Le nozze di Figaro.

Alongside the standard repertoire, Ashley is becoming increasingly known for his work on contemporary opera. He was the repetiteur for Gerald Barry’s The Intelligence Park in a co- production between the Royal Opera House and Music Theatre Wales. Also at the Royal Opera House, he has worked on the music preparation for the world-premiere of She Described It To Death (cancelled due to COVID-19) and as repetiteur for Current, Rising - the world’s first hyper-reality opera. For Glyndebourne, Ashley has worked as repetiteur for six world-premieres - Lovers Walk (Styles), Tycho’s Dream (Styles), Nothing (Bruce), Belongings (Murphy) and Agreed (Moody).

Ashley has also worked on productions for Garsington Opera, as a repetiteur for Offenbach’s Fantasio and Rossini’s Le comte Ory. He has a long relationship with Blackheath Halls Opera, working as assistant conductor for their productions of Carmen, Der Freischütz and La belle Hélène.

Passionate advocate of music education and outreach, Ashley regularly runs workshops and projects all across the UK introducing thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds to opera every year. He has a longstanding relationship with the learning and participation departments of the Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne, running countless outreach projects and working extensively with their respective youth opera companies. He is a musical director for the Thames Opera Company, and has worked on projects with English National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Nevill Holt Opera, Garsington Opera, Blackheath Halls, the Brighton Dome, the British Red Cross, Together Productions and many other organisations working to make opera accessible to all.

Ashley is a staff-pianist at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In Spring 2022, Ashley joined the staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, as a musical director and coach for the vocal department, working on their Spring- Term Opera Scenes. At Waterperry Opera Festival 2022, Ashley is assisting in the running of their Young Artist Programme - providing development and performance opportunities to their young artist singers and trainee repetiteur throughout the festival. As a collaborative pianist, Ashley enjoys a busy recital schedule with singers throughout the UK. He also performs regularly with internationally-renowned flautist, Stephen Clark.