Madeline Boreham is currently studying for her Masters degree at the Royal College of Music where she is the Kiri Te Kanawa Scholar, studying with Ben Johnson and Bryan Evans MBE. She is generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and The Countess of Munster Musical Trust. She will be joining the RCM Opera School in September supported by the Drake Calleja Trust.

She won 2nd place at the 2024 Kathleen Ferrier Awards is a 2023 Samling Artist. She was a Young Artist at Opera Holland Park, singing Mother (Hansel and Gretel) and has recently performed Countess Almaviva (Marriage of Figaro) with Westminster Opera. This season, Madeline will be covering the role of Musetta (La Boheme) with the English National Opera, previously performing with the company in 2019 in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, which later went on to win an Olivier Award. Her other opera work at the RCM includes Diana (Orpheus in the Underworld), La Princesse (L’enfant et les sortileges), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni Tenorio) and Valencienne (The Merry Widow).

In competition, Madeline has seen much success. She was awarded the Audrey Strange Memorial Prize for Promising Young Singer at the 2023 Royal Overseas League Competition and the Schubert Song Prize at the London Song Festival. At the RCM, she has received 1st place for the Lieder Competition, 3rd Place in the Lies Askonas in 2022 and 1st place in this year’s Joan Chissell Schumann Competition.

Madeline has performed in masterclasses with Brindley Sherratt, Nicky Spence and Sir Thomas Allen and, more recently, at Wigmore Hall with Ann Sofie von Otter. She is also in demand as a concert soloist, performing works by Beethoven, Mozart, Rossini, Elgar and Mendelssohn. She recently sang as a part of a gala concert for Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at Opera Holland Park. In 2022, she performed Vaughan William’s Sea Symphony with Adrian Partington and the RCM Symphony Orchestra and in January 2024, returned to the orchestra alongside Antonio Pappano to perform Strauss.

24-year-old Daniel Barrett is a baritone from Glasgow who is currently a member of the Opera Studio at the Royal College of Music and studies with Russell Smythe. Daniel is delighted to be a Drapers’ de Turckheim Scholar and a Drake Calleja Trust Scholar. Daniel is also an associate artist with the Josephine Baker Trust and a Samling Artist.

His achievements include; the Molly Robb Award (2018), 2nd place in the Leonie Kayser Song Competition, winner in the Hugh S Robertson Memorial Award for Scots Song (2018/19), highly commended in the Elgar/Spedding Lieder competition (2021), and was one of 4 finalists in the Governer’s Recital Prize (2021). In January 2022 Daniel won 1st Prize at the RCM’s Lieder Competition, claiming the Ted Moss and Bertha Taylor-Sach Prize; he claimed 3rd Prize in RCM’s Brooks van der Pump English Song competition 2022 and, most recently, 3rd Prize in the Lies Askonas Competition Finals 2023.

Since moving to London in September 2021, Daniel’s most notable engagement was the baritone solo in Brahms’ “Ein Deutsches Requiem”, performed by the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, under the baton of Thomas Zehetmair. He also performed Handel’s Messiah at the end of 2021 with the Orchestra of St. John’s in Oxford, conducted by John Lubbock. Notable engagements in 2022 include singing the Bass arias in Bach’s John Passion under the baton of Jeremy Summerly, and as a soloist in Bach’s Matthew Passion for the Tilford Bach Festival 2022, led by Adrian Butterfield. Daniel is frequently performing around London and the southeast as a soloist for many choral societies in collaboration with the Josephine Baker Trust.

Daniel was delighted to be an Atelier Lyrique singer at the Verbier Festival, where he was involved in numerous masterclasses with world-renowned artists. He also played the role of Sam in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera on the Verbier Festival main stage, alongside a stellar cast including current ROH artist Freddie de Tommaso, under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda. In November 2022, Daniel performed the role of Jupiter in the Royal College of Music’s autumn opera production, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, the roles of the clock and the cat in the RCM’s double-bill of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges and Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel Bosco, and most recently, Danilo (The Merry Widow). Daniel also performed Bartolo in France with Westminster opera in August 2023. Daniel made his Opera Holland Park debut this June performing the title role of Figaro in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville as a Young Artist.

Lily Mo Browne is a 23-year-old mezzo-soprano from East London currently in her first year of study on the Vocal and Opera Masters Programme at the Royal College of Music. She studies under Ben Johnson and Mikey Pandya, and is a Robert Lancaster Scholar. Lily placed third in the Junior Kathleen Ferrier competition in 2019, and was a recipient of the Pamela Hart award. She has taken part in masterclasses with Roderick Williams OBE and Dame Sarah Connolly. With a passion for song and spoken text, Lily has performed in numerous song concerts, including the RCM’s SongPlus concerts with Audrey Hyland, selections of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer and other songs at the Luton Music

Club with Simon Lepper, and most recently Benjamin Britten’s Cabaret Songs with Ella O’Neill.

Earlier this year, Lily took part in the RCM’s Brook van der Pump English Song Final and placed

second, as well as placing third in the RCM’s Joan Chissell Schumann Competition Final. Most

recently, Lily competed in and won the Somerset Song Prize, where she also received the Audience prize. Lily and her pianist Abhisri Chaudhuri are excited to return to Somerset, to prepare and perform a recital of art song, lieder and mélodie in Summer 2025.

Lily was a Southrepps Music Festival Young Artist in 2022 and a 2023 Emerging Artist at Nevill Holt

Opera in Leicester. Operatic roles include Second Witch (Dido and Aeneas-Hurn Court Opera)

and Old Lady (Candide-Southgate Youth Opera). She has performed with the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio during both productions of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte as Zweite Dame and later, as cover Dreite Dame, chorus in Orpheus in the Underworld and most recently, La Regina in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco. Opera scenes include Maurya (Riders to the Sea), Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites), Bradamante (Alcina), and Mistress Quickly (Falstaff). Lily debuted the role of Marie in Ed Driver’s new opera Airtime, in collaboration with the RCM International Opera Studio and Tete-A-Tete opera. She performed with the Grange Festival in a concert performance of David Matthews’ opera Anna.

Lily was the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah at The Priory in Dorset, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Southrepps Music Festival 2023. She joined the South Bank Sinfonia in May 2024 as the alto soloist for Haydn’s Nelson Mass, and will perform Mozart’s

Requiem at the Cambridge Music Festival in July 2024.

Mezzo-soprano Charlotte Clapperton made her debut at the Wigmore Hall and has since been performing across England in opera, oratorio and recital programmes. Charlotte is currently studying at the Royal College of Music, London for a Master of Performance with Dinah Harris and Caroline Dowdle. She is a Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust Scholar and is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust. She recently enjoyed covering the roles of La Mere / The Queen in the Royal Opera House production of Larmes de Cousteau / Full Moon in March in the Linbury theatre, where she performed a cover show. She was awarded her Bachelor of Music at the Royal Academy of Music, for which she received a First Class Honours degree, where she studied with Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Matthew Fletcher. Charlotte looks forward to re-joining the Royal Academy of music as a member of the Royal Academy Opera Studio in September.

Sam is a Masters student at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of baritone Peter Savidge and repertoire coach Caroline Dowdle. In May he made his Wigmore Hall debut as part of a select group of singers from the RCM. Earlier in March he took on the role of Danilo in the RCM production of The Merry Widow and Jesus in Bach’s St John Passion with Danesborough Chorus. In February he won First Place and the Audience Vote at the Clonter Opera Prize. He was joint winner of the Prix Thierry Mermod vocal award at the 2023 Verbier Festival and most recently won First Place and both Audience and Orchestra Vote at the Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Competition. Other recent Engagements include Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel Bosco, Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni Tenorio (both RCM productions), Jesus in the St John Passion with Milton Keynes Chorale, and as a Rising Star at the Shipston Song Festival. In masterclasses, Sam has worked with many celebrated singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Roderick Williams, Lise Davidsen, and Veronique Gens.

Sam is a Samling Artist and is generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and the Richard Silver Scholarship.