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successful broadcasts and recordings to hername. She grew up in Northamptonshire,graduated from Trinity College of Music, andafter a brief time in the BBC Singers, embarkedon a solo career which has taken her all overthe world. She has recorded a wide repertoireof music including many works by Handel,most recently the title role in Alexander Balus;also Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Copland’s In TheBeginning, Bruckner’s Requiem, Schubert songswith the Songmakers’ Almanac, Monteverdi’sL’incoronazione di Poppea and Bach’s B minorMass with Richard Hickox, and three highlyacclaimed volumes of Sacred Music by Vivaldi,with the King’s Consort.Mezzo-soprano Louise Winter was born inPreston, Lancashire, and trained at Chetham’sSchool of Music and the Royal NorthernCollege of Music. She has performed withopera companies such as GlyndebourneTouring Opera, The Royal Opera, CoventGarden and English National Opera, as wellas in venues in Toronto, Berlin and Barcelona.Among the roles she has sung are those ofRosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Marguerite (LaDamnation de Faust), Sextus (La clemenza diTito), Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict), Octavian(Der Rosenkavalier) and the title roles in Serseand Carmen. Louise Winter also performsin recital and concert with orchestras suchas the BBC Symphony Orchestra, City ofBirmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBCNational Orchestra of Wales, Royal ScottishNational Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestraand Montreal Symphony Orchestra.London-born Mark Padmore has won acclaimthroughout the world for the musicality andintelligence of his singing. He is particularlyknown for his committed performances of theEvangelist in Bach’s Passions. His many operaticperformances include Orfeo in Haydn’s Orfeoed Euridice for the Opéra de Lausanne, DonOttavio in Don Giovanni at Aix-en-Provence,and for The Royal Opera, Covent Garden hehas performed the roles of Thespis and Mercurein Rameau’s Platée, Interpreter in VaughanWilliams’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and Hot BiscuitSlim in Britten’s Paul Bunyan. He has appearedat many of the world’s most prestigious festivals,including Edinburgh, Salzburg, Spoleto andthe BBC Proms, and recently made his BBCVoices debut with Roger Vignoles in aprogramme of lieder by Beethoven andSchubert.Stephen Varcoe has established a reputationas one of Britain’s most versatile baritones. Hehas made over 125 recordings including worksby Hahn, Chabrier, Finzi, Gurney, Stanford,Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Schubert, NigelOsborne and Thea Musgrave and John Tavener,and has joined Richard Hickox for numerousreleases of Haydn, Beethoven, Vaughan-Williams, Grainger and Britten on Chandos.On the concert platform, Stephen has appearedwith orchestras in the UK, Scandinavia,Europe, Japan and North America, workingwith conductors including Brüggen, Christie,Herreweghe, Knussen, Leonhardt, Norrington,Rifkin, Kuijken, Marriner and Malgoire. Hehas regularly taken part in the BBC Proms andfestivals throughout the world and appears inrecital with Roger Vignoles, Graham Johnson,Julius Drake and Ian Burnside. StephenVarcoe’s opera engagements have taken him toAntwerp, Lisbon, Drottningholm (Stockholm)and Tokyo where he has appeared in works byMonteverdi, Haydn, Debussy, Holst, Brittenand Taverner.Ian Watson has made prestigious appearancesand recordings not only as an organist andpianist, but also harpsichordist and conductor.He has been a Principal with the City ofLondon Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestraand Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, aswell as working with many period instrumentensembles such as The Academy of AncientMusic and English Baroque Soloists. Inaddition he has featured on many film soundtracks,such as Amadeus, Mr Holland’s Opus,Death and the Maiden as well as playing cameoroles in The Madness of King George and JohnOsborne’s England My England.Collegium Musicum 90, jointly founded bySimon Standage and Richard Hickox, is a wellestablishedname for the historical performanceof baroque and classical repertoire which rangesfrom music for chamber ensemble to large-scaleworks for choir and orchestra. It has recordedmore than fifty CDs under its exclusive contractwith Chandos Records, has broadcast on BBCRadio 3 and appeared at European and UKfestivals. Highlights of recent seasons haveincluded appearances at the CheltenhamInternational Festival and the BBC Proms aswell as performances in Poland, at the LucerneEaster Festival and at the International HaydnFestival in Eisenstadt, Austria.One of Britain’s most gifted and versatileconductors, Richard Hickox CBE is MusicDirector of Opera Australia, and wasPrincipal Conductor of the BBC NationalOrchestra of Wales from 2000 until 2006when he became Conductor Emeritus. Hefounded the City of London Sinfonia, of34 35