Rosie Middleton, Clara Kanter, Jenni Hogan, Ben Smith
Biography Rosie Middleton, Clara Kanter, Jenni Hogan, Ben Smith
Rosie Middleton
specialises in new music and collaborates with composers internationally. Contemporary opera credits include Laura Bowler’s GOLD (Riot Ensemble), Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Opera House), Catherine Kontz’s A Certain Sense of Order (UK/ Luxembourg), and recently being cast in Matt Rogers’ She Described it to Death (Royal Opera House).
Clara Kanter
studied at Clare College, Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Contemporary roles include Winnie (The Miller’s Wife, Grimeborn) and The Boy (The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken). Ensemble work incudes Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht (Birmingham Opera Company), Janice Kerbel’s Doug (Montreal Biennale), and Berio’s Coro (Det Norske Solistkor/Grete Pedersen,Lucerne Festival Academy/ Sir Simon Rattle).
Jenni Hogan
Hogan’s recent highlights include performances at SJSS, Barbican, BBC1 and Radio 3, at Darmstadt, PrincipalSound and London Ear.
She has appeared as an improviser in numerous film scores (with three premieres in the last 18 months). Jenni is the recipient of the Stanley Burton Scholarship at Leeds University, where she is working for her PhD.
Ben Smith
is a London-based composer and performer specialising in contemporary music.
He is interested in – amongst other things – phenomenological and semiotic approaches to musical analysis, and compositional encounters with silence and repetition. Ben graduated from City, University of London in 2015, and from Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2018, where he studied with Laurence Crane, Rolf Hind, and James Weeks.
Sarah Parkin
specialises in contemporary music and opera, with recent performances in London (Tête-à-Tête Festival, London Cavalcade, Rough for Opera), Luxembourg (Theatre Centaure), and Austria (impuls Festival).
Most recently, she appeared as a finalist in the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (Canada); and will premiere the opera ‘A Kinder Society’ by Amy Bryce (for Stiftung Kunst und Musik für Dresden).
Kelly Poukens
winner Stiftung Blatow prize 2018, Germany / 2nd Prize Honda Competition 2017, Belgium/ etc. – made an international impression with La Voix Humaine and Sequenza III.
Recent highlights include Trouble in Tahiti (Dutch National Opera), Manon (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), King Lear (Holland Opera), and solo recitals at the Henry Le Boeuf hall (Belgium) and Het Muziekgebouw Frits Philips (The Netherlands).
