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LSC People
LSC’s Patron is the distinguished musician and broadcaster
Charles Hazlewood. Charles has presented
BBC Two’s The Culture Show and BBC television broadcasts
of The Proms season, also presenting Discovering Music and
The Charles Hazlewood Show on BBC Radio and landmark composer
documentaries on BBC television (including the recent damatised
documentaries on Mozart and Tchaikovsky). Charles is co-founder
of the lyric-theatre company Dimpho Di Kopane based in Cape
Town, for whom he was Music Director of the award-winning
film U Carmen e-Khayelitsha. He is currently also Principal
Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, and works as
a conductor with other orchestras and opera companies, some
he founded himself, throughout the world. Charles is an eclectic
and versatile musician who has worked effortlessly to break
down conceptual barriers that have alienated 'classical' music
for so long, working with artists as varied as Broomhill Opera
and Badly Drawn Boy. We are very proud that he is associated
with LSC as our Patron.
LSC was founded by its Music Director Andrew Mellor.
Andrew has worked professionally in the classical music industry
since leaving Liverpool University in 2002. He is active as
a writer and critic, and in January 2006 became the youngest
member of Laurence Olivier Awards opera judging panel. He
has held posts at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, its resident
chamber orchestra Manchester Camerata, and at the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, and has written widely on music and musicians,
conducting interviews (for broadcast and print) with major
international conductors, soloists and arts figures. He has
contributed to publications produced by the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Manchester
Camerata, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Kremerata Baltica, The
Anvil Basingstoke, Music at Oxford, Glyndebourne Festival
Opera, Sheffield International Concerts and Brighton Dome,
and has written reviews and features for The Reader, Seven
Magazine and The Filter Review (with whom he is a political,
travel and music columnist). Andrew made his concert debut
at fourteen years of age as a soloist in Britten’s St
Nicholas with the University of Bristol Symphony Orchestra
and Chorus, and as an organist and choir-trainer has held
various posts including, in 2001 at 21 years of age, that
of Acting Director of Music at Plymouth Cathedral.
Anna Munford, LSC's Concerts Manager is
from Cambridgeshire and is a founder member of the group.
Anna is known as a soprano, a woodwind player, and ensemble
manager and a marketing professional, and has worked with
Liverpool University Singers, LUS Baroque Ensemble, Liverpool
University Wind Orchestra, Sedici and the Huntingdonshire
Philharmonic with which she is currently Second Clarinet and
Publicity Manager. For LSC Anna co-ordinates accommodation
for tours, front of house operations at concerts, and deals
with the LSC membership. Anna works in the automobile industry.
David Butt-Philip, LSC's Associate Director,
is originally from Wells in Somerset and began his musical
training as a chorister at Peterborough Cathedral. He has
sung with Wells, Liverpool Metropolitan and Manchester Cathedral
Choirs and broadcasts regularly on the radio with the BBC
Daily Service Singers. He studied for four years at the Royal
Northern College of Music in Manchester with Peter Alexander
Wilson, appearing in the college’s productions of Don
Giovanni (2003) The Rake’s Progress (2004) La Cenerentola
(2005) and La Rondine (2006). Awards include the 2004 Bessie
Cronshaw Song Cycle Prize (RNCM), the 2006 John Cameron Prize
for Lieder (RNCM) and the 2006 Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize
(RAM). In 2005 he performed the role of Calchas in Avalon
Opera’s revival of Rutland Boughton’s Bethlehem
and took part in the world première of Gerard McBurney’s
new opera The Airman’s Tale at the Imperial War Museum
in London. David is currently a postgraduate opera student
at the Royal Academy of Music where he studies with Glenville
Hargreaves and Iain Ledingham. A founder member of LSC, David
has directed the group in Liverpool, Norwich, Guildford and
Chester-le-Street, and regularly appears as a bass section
member and soloist.
LSC's Principal Soprano is Anne Kan, a soprano
of repute in both Great Britain and Europe. Trained in the
choir school of Utrecht Cathedral and by Barbara Dix in Liverpool,
Anne has appeared on the concert platform under the baton
of Richard Hickox in Tippet's A Midsummer Marriage, and under
Peter Dijkstra in Poulenc's Figure Humaine, as well as in
staged and concert performances of operas and oratoria by
Handel, Purcell, Vivaldi and Mozart. Anne sings regularly
with Utrecht-based professional ensemble MUSA as well as with
LSC and at Utrecht Cathedral where she remains a cantor.
Jeremy Kenyon, LSC's founding Principal
Alto, is fast establishing himself as a talented young counter-tenor
and enters the opera school of the Royal Academy of Music
in the autumn of 2007. Jeremy has broadcast and recorded extensively,
appearing on live on BBC Radio and BBC and independent national
television stations, and appearing with many of the great
English cathedral choirs including those of Canterbury and
Gloucester. He recently made his concert debut with the London
Mozart Players as soloist in Bach's St John Passion, and on
record, his 2005 recording of Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb
with Gloucester Cathedral Choir on the Avie label was hailed
by International Record Review as 'extraordinarily atmospheric'.
Peter Di Toro has been LSC's Principal Tenor
since 2003, and studied with David Lowe (Royal Academy of
Music). Peter made his LSC debut in Ely during the summer
of 2002, and has since appeared as a section leader and soloist
in Cambridge, Guildford and during the group’s tour
to Latvia in 2005. Peter is also a founder member of the Colla
Voce Singers which he formed under the direction of Lee Ward,
and has also made appearances with the London Oratory Schola,
Norwich Cathedral choir and other semi-professional groups
in London and the south-east, including concert appearances
and recordings with major conductors and orchestras in London.
John Sherlock, LSC's Principal Bass, is
another founding member of the group. John is from Bradford
in Yorkshire, and has experience singing at Liverpool Cathedral
where he was bass lay-clerk for three years during which time
he also appeared with Manchester Cathedral Choir, Liverpool
Metropolitan Cathedral Choir, Liverpool University Singers
and The Pilgrim Singers. In Liverpool John broadcast frequently
with the cathedral choir whilst making frequent appearances
with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has sung
as section leader and soloist in almost every LSC performance
since its founding in 2001, and has a special interest in
piano and chamber music as both a performer and listener.
Non-principal members: Kathryn Indian, Rosy
Hunter, Joanna Newell*, Jane Eliot, Phinean Woodward**, Luke
Phillips
*associate member **member emeritus
LSC recording Music for the Royal Chapels, Trinity College
of Music, Greenwich, April 2006
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