Dame Felicity Lott lives in East Sussex and is one of Britain’s best-loved and most internationally renowned sopranos.
Felicity Lott DBE,CBE was born in Cheltenham, educated at Pate’s Grammar
School for Girls , read French and Latin at Royal Holloway College, University of
London, and then won a scholarship to study singing at the Royal Academy of
Music. She made her début at English National Opera in 1975 and her
Glyndebourne Festival début in 1977, singing in almost every subsequent
Festival until 1990. She specialises in the operas of Mozart and Strauss and has
sung at all the major opera houses of the world: London, Vienna, Milan, Paris,
New York, Chicago, Munich, and with many great conductors. She has also toured
the world giving song recitals.
She holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Oxford, London,
Sussex, Leicester, Loughborough,Gloucester and Paris, she is a Fellow of Royal
Holloway College, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, the
RSAMD and the Guildhall School of Music, a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur
and an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was awarded the
Wigmore Medal in 2010 and the ISM Distinguished Musician Award in 2014.
Her repertoire ranges from Handel to Britten and from Offenbach to Noel
Coward.
Rosie is based in East Sussex and performs widely throughout the area and has also sung at London’s Natural History Museum for BBC Children In Need.
Marcus balances a busy performing schedule with his love for teaching the next generation of brass players.
Based in East Sussex, Fiona enjoys both performing as a soloist and collaborating with other musicians.
Sebastian was a founder member of the Bochmann Quartet until 1983 when he became principal cello with the London Mozart Players, a position he continues to hold.
Paul Gregory is a distinguished local prize-winning guitarist, with a busy performance schedule.
Louise Winter, who lives in Sussex, has sung with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis and many more.
Modulus Quartet specialises in performing original string quartet repertoire written in close collaboration with a number of international composers. The quartet explores new ways of presenting music, performing in unusual venues and incorporating visual arts and multi-media technology.
Nancy Cooley lives locally in East Sussex. She is Artistic Director of the Lewes Festival of Song which she set up in 2015 and performs in the UK and abroad as a solo and chamber musician.
Matthew Fletcher is a sought-after pianist and répétiteur, a member of Glyndebourne Opera Festival’s music staff since 2012, and winner of the Das Lied and Kathleen Ferrier accompanist prizes.