Clive Osgood, Excelsis, Amy Carson, London Mozart Players & Robert Lewis
Biography Clive Osgood, Excelsis, Amy Carson, London Mozart Players & Robert Lewis
Amy Carson
began her singing career as the youngest founding girl chorister at Salisbury Cathedral, and went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music.
From a young age Amy has been performing and recording in venues around the world, both as a soloist and as an ensemble singer. She is a versatile artist, who performs recital, oratorio and operatic repertoire and whose regular commitments in both choral and solo contexts mean she enjoys exciting and diverse performance opportunities.
Highlights of Amy’s operatic roles include Pamina (in a film of The Magic Flute directed by Kenneth Branagh), Soprano chorus in The Rakes Progress and cover Alinda in L’incoronazione di Dario (Garsington Opera), Amy Cumnor in The Cumnor Affair (Tete a Tete Opera), Susanna in Marriage of Figaro and Constance in Dialogue des Carmelites (Royal Academy Opera Scenes), Musetta in La Boheme (Choir of London, conducted by Nick Collon), Galatea in Acis and Galatea (Music for a While directed by Margaret Faultless), The Spirit in Dido and Aeneas (alongside Magdalena Kožená conducted by Nicholas Kraemer), Soprano Role in The Fairy Queen (at The Wigmore Hall conducted by Matthew Halls), Newspaper Seller and Strolling Girl in Death in Venice (The Queen Elizabeth Hall conducted by Richard Hickox and at St Endellion Festival conducted by Martyn Brabbins).
On the concert platform, Amy has sung much of the core repertoire from Monteverdi to MacMillan, and has appeared as a soloist at many of the UK’s most prestigious venues including the Barbican, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall and The Queen Elizabeth Hall. Highlights include singing the Semi Chorus in the premiere of James MacMillan’s St John Passion with the LSO (Barbican) conducted by Colin Davis; Soprano soloist in St Matthew Passion (Barbican) and Bach Cantata BWV 79 (Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms) with The Monteverdi Choir conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and a consort performance of St John Passion with the OAE directed by Mark Padmore, which toured Japan and Korea.
Amy has sung with many of the UKs leading ensembles (with solo appearances) including Solomon’s Knot, The Sixteen, The Monteverdi Choir, Tenebrae, The Gabrieli Consort, London Voices, Philharmonia Voices, Contrapunctus and The Choir of the Enlightenment.
Recent projects include: singing solos with The Gabrieli Consort in Versailles, London, Gdansk, Rotterdam, featuring as one of an ensemble of five singers on the new album by Nick Cave, singing in ‘Bach, the universe and everything’ with The OAE, singing BWV 210 with Music for A While, led by Maggie Faultless, singing with ORA and recording with Aurora Nova.
The London Mozart Players
has been the resident orchestra at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls for thirty years, and in September 2019 enjoyed a gala concert to celebrate the Halls’ reopening. As Croydon’s resident orchestra, the ensemble has shown an invigorated and growing commitment to the borough’s cultural life. In 2016, LMP relocated its office from Fairfield Halls to St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, undertaking a programme of initiatives within the local community. The orchestra has brought classical music stars Nicola Benedetti, Michael Collins and Sheku Kanneh-Mason to Upper Norwood in world-class performances, and its annual St John’s season has included family concerts and collaborations with local community groups and schools. During the closure of Fairfield Halls for refurbishment, the orchestra took classical music to new and unusual venues across Croydon in its award-winning three-year series #LMPOnTheMove. This saw the ensemble pushing the perceived boundaries of classical music performance in the borough, welcoming new audiences and partnerships. Events included a live film score played on top of a shopping mall car park, a house music set at Boxpark with young DJ/producer Shift K3Y, free concerts in libraries for children and a series of musical initiatives in Centrale. [..]
Robert Lewis
A conductor, performer and educator, Robert specialises in nurturing emerging young talent and working with them to create their unique musical voice through the recording process and beyond. Early training as chorister at Westminster Cathedral and later at New College, Oxford; also led to an eclectic musical career in the fields of jazz and pop, giving him wider experience to bring to the modern classical market. Robert’s recent recordings with treble Cai Thomas continue to attract millions of views on social media, and he regularly conducts leading orchestras and choirs.
