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SARUM VOICES SOUTH AMERICA TOUR, MARCH 2010
Charlotte Ashley
A former chorister at Salisbury Cathedral, Charlotte has been singing with
Sarum Voices for the past seven years. She has recently graduated from the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied singing and oboe.
Nicholas Berry
Nicholas’ early musical education was as a chorister at Salisbury
Cathedral, leading eventually to choral scholarship to Magdalen College,
Oxford. Most of his work these days is in the legal side of music,
although he also maintains a busy solo and choral career.
Emily Chelu
Emily is a founder member of Sarum Voices, and holder of this year’s
Choral Scholarship. She graduated from the University of Birmingham
with a degree in music, and currently works as a music editor for
ABRSM (The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) where
she concerns herself with the finer details of music notation amongst
other things.
Mary Chelu
Mary (sister of Emily) is another founder member of Sarum Voices; in
recent years she has ventured out of the comfort of choral singing to
dabble in opera, taking the roles of Barbarina in Mozart’s The Marriage
of Figaro, and Margery in Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley, as well as
singing soprano roles in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. She is married to
Ash, a photographer, and they live together in their little cottage in
Sixpenny Handley, a village near Salisbury.
Yvonne Eddy
Yvonne studied music at Manchester University and the Schola
Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland; she now sings with several
professional church and chamber choirs. As a medieval music
specialist, she directs her own vocal group, Levedy and is a
member of Le Basile, Mediva and Vox Animae.
William Edwards
William Edwards was a chorister at New College, Oxford, a choral
scholar at Wells Cathedral and then a Tenor Lay Clerk at Christchurch
Cathedral, Oxford. He is currently working as a journalist in Paris.
Stephen Harrison
Stephen’s formative musical training was as a chorister at Derby Cathedral.
He was awarded a choral scholarship to the University of Leeds where he
read music, singing in the choirs of Leeds Parish Church and the University
Chamber Choir amongst others. Since graduating he has sung in the choirs
of Manchester, Lichfield, and (again) Derby Cathedrals whilst also pursuing
his career in accountancy.
Augusta Hebbert
Augusta has recently been awarded a scholarship to study on the postgraduate singing course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
As well as her work with Sarum Voices, she has established an
international career as a soloist and consort singer, working alongside
René Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, Louis Langrée and many others.
Abigail Hooper
Abigail Hooper was a choral and academic scholar at Gonville and Caius
College, Cambridge. She now combines solo and choral singing with a
career as a Speech and Language Therapist, working with adults across
Hampshire.
Richard Hooper
Richard Hooper studied Materials Science at Cambridge, where he sang with
the choir of Gonville and Caius College. He regularly broadcasts, records
and tours with professional vocal ensembles, and works as an IT
professional in Basingstoke.
Ben Lamb
Choirmaster and composer Ben Lamb founded Sarum
Voices in the 1990’s. Apart from conducting nearly all of
their concerts, he has composed and arranged much of
their repertoire and is the choir’s counter-tenor. He began
his musical career in Salisbury Cathedral, has held organ
scholarships in Truro and Salisbury Cathedrals and was
organist and choirmaster in St Peter’s Church,
Bournemouth from 2003 to 2007. When his wife Cathy
was appointed assistant organist at Lichfield Cathedral in
2007, Ben moved to the area with her and joined the choir
at the Cathedral, where he is now Alto Lay Vicar. Apart
from teaching piano and singing he is Director of the
Outreach programme at St Peter’s Church Wolverhampton,
associated with the HMG programme SingUp!