Kaapo Ijas (b.1988) is the Mills Williams Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has been fiercely interested in composing, performance, drama, group dynamics and the orchestra itself for all his life.
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Originally from Northern Ireland, Peter Harris studied Music at the University of Oxford where he held a choral scholarship at The Queen’s College. Following university Peter was awarded a place on the Monteverdi Choir Apprenticeship Scheme. Recent solo engagements with the choir include Mozart Requiem at the Salzburg Festpielhaus.
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Ana Teresa de Braga e Alves started learning the viola in Portugal at the age of 5 including high school with distinction Academic, Music and Artistic Merit Awards in 2012. Currently she is in the 1st year of the Masters in Performance Degree at the Royal College of Music as an RCM Barry Shaw Scholar, holder of a Help Musicians UK Postgraduate Award and St Marylebone Education Foundation Scholarship under the supervision of Andriy Viytovych.
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Praised for his “exceptional musicianship and emotive playing”, Jonathan Radford is one of the leading classical saxophonists of his generation. In high demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, Jonathan is a Vandoren Paris Artist and Henri Selmer Paris Saxophone Artist.
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Welsh Soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester with a First Class B.Mus (Hons) Degree. She subsequently completed her M.A Degree at the Royal Academy of Music, London and hasrecently completed their Opera Course, under the tutelage of Lillian Watson and Jonathan Papp.
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British tenor David Webb is a graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera School.
A former Harewood Artist at the English National Opera, his roles for the company included Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Frederic The Pirates of Penzance, Young Sailor Tristan und Isolde and Messenger Aida and most recently as First Priest/First Armed Man The Magic Flute.
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