Cariadon

Soprano Eldrydd Cynan Jones and Tenor Geraint Dodd bring the passion of their marriage to the stage in a collaboration entitled Cariadon, the Welsh for “Lovers.”  Their love of singing and performing has delighted audiences the World over encompassing Opera, Operetta, classic songs as well as the timeless masterpieces of Broadway and Hollywood. Their thrilling voices, charismatic personalities and vast variety of repertoire are a perfect match for any musical occasion.

Early successes in competition came to both Geraint & Eldrydd when they attended the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Eldrydd was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Competition at the Wigmore Hall, and was the winner of the Young Welsh Singer of the Year Competition. She subsequently represented Wales in the prestigious “Cardiff Singer of the World” Competition where she was chosen to participate in a master class with Dame Joan Sutherland which was televised on BBC2. As well as this she sang at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, performing Britten’s “Les Illuminations” and Goretsky’s “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.” Geraint was the winner of the Webster Booth Memorial Scholarship and the Ricordi Prize for Opera. During their time at college they both undertook their first operatic roles as Madam Butterfly and Captain Vere (Billy Budd) respectively. Quite a baptism of fire for them both!

Having left the RNCM they quickly established themselves as popular Oratorio, recital and concert artists with them both undertaking concert tours to the USA and the Far East. Eldrydd notably sang the Messiah and Bach’s B minor Mass with Stephen Cleobury at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge and Elijah alongside Bryn Terfel under the Baton of the late Richard Hickox. She also regularly performed Mahler’s 2nd and 8th Symphonies and Verdi’s Requiem, recording the latter for RTE Slovenia. Geraint sang Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Belem Centre in Lisbon and at St David‘s Hall with Sir Charles Mackeras, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and Verdi’s Requiem with Owain Arwel Hughes. He was also a regular soloist at the Albert Hall in Raymond Gubbay’s “Classical Spectacular” concerts.

On the Operatic stage they have worked collectively and individually for Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Opera North, English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park, Singapore Lyric Opera and San Francisco Opera. Eldrydd has sung First Lady (The Magic Flute), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Musetta (La Boheme), Leonora (Fidelio), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana), and Aida. Geraint has sung The Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), Rodolfo (La Boheme), Canio (I Pagliacci), Manrico (Il Trovatore), Radames (Aida), Calaf (Turandot), Florestan (Fidelio), Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana) and the title roles in Idomeneo and Stifelio. Together they have sung Michaela and Don Jose (Carmen), Amelia and Ricardo (Un Ballo in Maschera), Cio Cio San and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) and Cavaradossi and Tosca.

Most recent highlights have included a recital of Grieg’s songs performed at Grieg’s summerhouse in Trolhaugen, Bergen and Opera Galas with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Theatre Amazonas, in Manaus, Brazil and St Petersburg, Florida.   

Andrew Macnair

After successfully completing a doctorate in nuclear physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Andrew embarked upon a career in music. He subsequently spent a year on The Knack (a performance course run by ENO Baylis) and several years as a Gentleman in Ordinary at Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace.

He attended the Deller Academy of Early Music, a summer school based in the south of France, on several occasions and has returned to the country to sing the role of the Sailor (Dido and Aeneus) at the Artois Music Festival, Bethune, and to take the romantic lead in a Comedie Musical Franco-Brittanique for Channel Arts Link in Wimereux.

Opera credits include the roles of Drunken Guest in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for the Royal Opera, Don Basilio & Don Curzio in a national tour of The Marriage of Figaro for the London Opera Players, Bob Boles in Peter Grimes for Surrey Opera and Fenton in Falstaff for New Sussex Opera. Other appearances include the role of Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore for Opera Options, First Yeoman in The Yeomen of the Guard for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Vistola Fiume in the UK premiere of Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dal’Isola d’Alcina (the first opera to be written by a woman) for Arts Etc. and one of Raguel’s men in the world premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Tobias and the Angel for Almeida Opera. He has also sung the roles of Blind (Die Fledermaus), Charles Edward Stuart (Candide), Nathaniel (The Tales of Hoffman), 1st Priest & 1st Armoured Man and Parpignol.

Andrew was a regular member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and performed in several productions at the Savoy Theatre in London's West End. He also took part in H.M.S. Pinafore at the Shubert Performing Arts Centre, New Haven, Connecticut and on the national tour. He has also worked for ENO’s Contemporary Opera Studio experimenting with and performing new pieces in collaboration with Muziektheater Transparant, Antwerp, and Tapestry New Opera Works, Toronto, and for ENO Baylis recording excerpts of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice for an audio-visual educational project.

Over the last few years he has quite busy on the concert platform, the most of recent of which was a performance of Sullivan’s Cox and Box in the Crush Room at the Royal Opera House and one of Trial by Jury at Hever Castle for Opera Options. He also appeared as Admund (Die Hochzeit) and Erste Diener (Männerlist größer als Frauenlist) for ROH2 in a concert of “Wagner Rarities” in the Linbury Studio Theatre. His repertoire also includes Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, Bach’s Magnificat and Handel’s Messiah.

Andrew is presently a member of the Royal Opera Chorus at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Although it is very much a full-time job he has also managed to become a founder member of Hous8, a vocal group from within the chorus and to cover a number of roles for the Royal Opera. These include Don Curzio, Count Lerma & Herald (Don Carlo), Master of Ceremonies (The Queen of Spades), Federico (Stiffelio), Borsa (Rigoletto), Second Nazarene (Salome), Pony Express Rider (La Fanciulla del West) and Parpignol.

Forthcoming work includes a performance of Haydn’s Mass in Time of War in Canterbury Cathedral.

Cheryl Enever

Having graduated as a cellist with a first class honours degree, Cheryl Enever began studying singing with Janice Chapman. She currently studies with Jennifer Caron and also works with Ludmilla Andrew, Ian Page, Classical Opera Company, Jeremy White Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Current and Forthcoming operatic roles include First Lady and the title role in Katya Kabanova (cover) for English Touring Opera, Fiordiligi with Opera a la Carte; Countess in Strauss' Capriccio for The Wagner Society, Pamina in Montreau, Switzerland.

Recent operatic rôles include Donna Anna and Mrs Hayes in Susanna, Carlisle Floyd for ETO; Pamina, Opera a la Carte; Countess Almaviva for Surrey Opera and Eva, Die Meistersinger (excerpts) for the Mastersingers, at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Covent Garden. Tatiana and Franzi, Weinerblut (J Strauss) for ETO, Gutrune, Götterdammerung and Mariana, Liebesverbot (Wagner) in excerpts for the Mastersingers; First Lady, Magic Flute for Surrey Opera; the title role Rusalka for Aylesbury Opera Group, Tina, Flight (Jonathan Dove) for Opera Anywhere; Sandrina, L’infedeltà  delusa, Donna Ximena, Don Giovanni (Gazzaniga) for Bampton Classical Opera, Tamiri, Il Re Pastore (Mozart) for the Classical Opera Company; Flower Maiden, Parsifal for Palace Opera;  Mimi, Ashton Hall, Lancaster (Concert Performance); Musetta, La Boheme;  Damned and Divine (Will Todd) for English National Opera Studio; Helena, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lucia, School for Fathers (Wolf-Ferrari), Noémie, Cendrillon (Massenet), City Opera; Dido, Dido and Aeneas for Waltham Abbey Opera; Theodora, Theodora (Handel); Countess, Le Nozze di Figaro, Micaëla, Carmen all directed by John Abulafia.

As a concert artist. Cheryl has worked with Sir Simon Rattle, Richard Hickox, Sir Roger Norrington and Robert King and toured extensively with The English Concert. Recent concerts include Brahms Requiem, Mozart C Minor Mass, Requiem (St John’s Smith Square, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge) Vesperae solomnes de confessore and Exsultate Jubilate (QEH); Handel Messiah with the London Festival Orchestra; Vivaldi Cantatas (Purcell Room); Bach St John, St Matthew Passion and  Magnificat; Haydn Creation, Paukenmesse and Nelson Mass; Mendellsohn’s Elijah; Rossini Messe Solenelle; Poulenc Gloria and Stabat Mater; Tippett Child of our Time; Mahler Fourth and Eighth Symphonies (Bath International Festival); Fanshawe African Sanctus; Verdi Requiem (Blackheath Concert Halls and Stowe Chapel).

James Longford

Born and raised on the Isle of Wight, James Longford studied at the Royal College of Music in London, where he won the Tagore Gold Medal. He was organ scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields, was awarded the first RCM Legal & General Junior Fellowship in 2000, and was the pianist for the groundbreaking orchestra Southbank Sinfonia in their inaugural year.

As a collaborative pianist, his work with a variety of singers, instrumentalists and ensembles has taken James to many major UK venues, including the Royal Opera, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Westminster Abbey, St David’s Hall Cardiff, Snape Maltings and the London Palladium; he has also performed abroad throughout Europe, the Middle East, the US and the Baltic States, and has broadcast on BBC Radio, most recently live on Radio 3 with Ann Murray and the Royal String Quartet. James was recently on the music staff for On the Rim of the World, a new opera by Orlando Gough – a six-month project which culminated in a performance by over 200 Kent primary school children and their parents on the main stage of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

James is one half of the acclaimed longfordbrown piano duo with New Zealand pianist Lindy Tennent-Brown. They are laureates of several major international competitions and are fast becoming one of the UK’s foremost two-piano teams, recently giving two acclaimed performances of Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos at the Wiltshire Music Centre under Gerry Cornelius.

Ayozie Pollendine

Ayozie trained on The Knack, English National Opera's  performance course for young singers, as well as developing her jazz singing and songwriting skills under the direction of Laka D on ENO's The Works Programme.
She then went on to study at The Royal College of Music on the Creative Leadership Course, with singing as a second study with tutor Stephen Roberts. On graduating, she was one of three shortlisted nationwide for a Black Educational Achievement Award for outstanding achievement in higher education at a ceremony hosted at The House of Commons.
Ayozie now works as a singer and a vocal animateur, as well as writing her own material.

Performing credits as a singer include: Demon Juice( Royal Opera House, Clore Studio, and Stratford Circus Theatre); Orlando Gough's Singing River (Royal festival Hall reopening) in which she featured one of eight soloists; Luciano Berio's Laborintus II (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Cologne Philharmonie)conducted by Diego Masson, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio Three; 'Photo Me' (a musical by Dominic Harlan, at the Tete a tete Opera festival); 'Esther'(Palace Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre, West End). Throughout 2007, Ayozie toured with Big InTent Theatre Company in 'Free for All' a show in Cathedrals nationwide commemorating the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. Other performances include the Streetvibe festival at The Scoop, City Hall, London, with Eugene Skeef; David Knott's 'Celebration' at Snape Maltings Concert hall, Aldeburgh; 'Corridors' by Richard Taylor for The Knack, and a concert at the London Coliseum for ENO's The Works.

As a vocal animateur, Ayozie has worked with English National Opera (Bake for One Hour, Family days on The Magic Flute and The Mikado);The Southbank Centre(Paco Pena's Requiem for the Earth, and various schools projects);  The Royal Opera House (Orlando Gough's On the Rim of The World), and is currently working with Southwark Splash.

Ayozie is currently studying musical theatre repertoire with Ann James (tutor at the Royal Academy of Music).

Elinor Jane Moran

Elinor was a student at the prestigious Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester before moving to London to study voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  Whilst at the Guildhall she won the Worshipful Company of Horners’ Becker Scholarship to complete her Masters Degree in performance and the Tracey Chadwell Memorial Prize for Contemporary Song.

She is experienced on both opera and concert stages and has performed in many of the major concert halls in the UK and as far away as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the US.  She has appeared as a soloist aboard The Minerva II for the Swan Hellenic Cruise Line, and has entertained at corporate events at venues including Skibo Castle, the HMS Belfast, The Gherkin, King’s Road Gallery, Burlington Arcade, Chelsea Marquee, The East India Club, Bridgewater Hall, Huddersfield Football Stadium, Tower Of London, Olympia Exhibition Centre, The Dixie Queen and most of the City Livery Halls.  In 2004 Elinor was a soloist at the world famous Thursford Christmas Spectacular. 

In November 2008, as a soloist and member of the Gala Ensemble, Elinor released a classical chart number one selling album on the SONY BMG label of Gilbert and Sullivan Highlights.

Her recent operatic roles include Pamina The Magic Flute, Susanna The Marriage of Figaro, Rusalka/Voran May Night, Rowan The Little Sweep, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Gretel and Dew Fairy and Sandman Hansel and Gretel, Mercedes Carmen, Second Lady The Magic Flute, Polly Peachum The Threepenny Opera, Forester’s Wife and Owl The Cunning Little Vixen.  In 2005 Elinor was the recipient of the Garsington Young Artist’s Award.

Oratorio performances include Mozart Requiem, in the Cadogan Hall, Haydn Nelson Mass, Mozart Coronation Mass, Faure Requiem, Mozart Vespere Solonne De Confessore, Rutter Feel The Spirit, Magnificat, Mendelssohn Elijah, Vivaldi Gloria.

As well as being a busy performer Elinor is in much demand as a vocal animateur for opera companies such as Opera North, English Touring Opera and the Royal Opera House, with whom she performed in Orlando Gough’s On The Rim Of The World at Covent Garden in March of this year.  She is also a guest tutor for the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus in Toronto. 

Over the summer in 2009 Elinor will be performing Michaela in Carmen for Opéra à la Gozinère in France and will return for a fourth time to the International Festival of Music in Shannon, Limerick as a resident artist and principle vocal coach for the Children’s Opera Faculty.

Aidan Smith

Originally from Gloucestershire, Aidan began to sing aged 15, and when he was 18, moved to London to continue his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Robert Dean. He was then awarded the Stokes Scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music to complete his studies there with Mark Wildman. Aidan now studies privately with Robert Dean and David Drummond.
Aidan now enjoys a varied singing career with recent highlights including The Royal Opera’s productions of The Beggar’s Opera playing Ben Budge and the Dido and Anæas/Acis and Galatea double bill. Kevin in The Office the Opera by Anne Chemlewski for The BBC; La Corporal in La Fille Du Regiment for Opera Holland Park; Benoit in La Boheme for Longborough Festival Opera’s young artist scheme and understudying The Marquis of Forlimpopoli in Mirandolina by Martinu for Garsington Opera.
Recent operatic roles include: Escamillio in Carmen for Swindon Opera; Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore for Charles Court Opera; Osmin in Die Entfürung aus dem serail for Opera Loki; Black Bob The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten for Longborough Festival Opera and the title role in The Marriage of Figaro for Hampstead Garden Opera
Aidan’s most recent recordings include: Tosca for ORF (used on the James Bond film Quantum of Solace) and The Beggar’s Opera for Chandos.
Aidan’s extensive concert platform experience includes performing Haydn’s Creation at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Winterreise in the Chichester International Music Festival, The Messiah in Hamburg, Germany and Britten’s Spring Symphony in Austria. Aidan loves travelling and has been lucky enough to sing as a soloist on a Swan Hellinic cruise to the Caribbean and on a recital tour to Zimbabwe. Aidan has also toured France and Spain singing with the European Baroque Academy, conducted by William Christie.
Aidan also enjoys teaching and has a number of private singing students as well as directing a parent-pupil choir in Herne Hill for the London Music Masters.

David Stephenson

David Stephenson, Baritone, was born in Aberdeen and trained as an electrical engineer before entering the Royal College of Music where he won several prizes.

Following appearances with Haddo House, Bath and Wessex Opera, the Broomhill Trust, and Opera East, he made his debut with DGOS Opera Ireland as Alidoro in La Cenerentola. 

Since then his operatic appearances have included Speaker Die Zauberflöte and Angelotti, Tosca Opera Ireland, Malatesta, Don Pasquale and Johann, Werther Wexford Festival Opera, Morales and Escamillo, Carmen, Silvio, Pagliacci Raymond Gubbay/Royal Albert Hall, Ariodate Xerxes Halle Handel Festival, Harlekin, Ariadne Auf Naxos (also broadcast), Marchese d' Aubigny La Traviata, Papageno, Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo, Cosi Fan Tutte and Turn Of The Tide Scottish Opera, Escamillo, Carmen, Silvio in Pagliacci (recorded for television), Sharpless, Madame Butterfly and Papageno, Die Zauberflöte Welsh National Opera, Simone, La Finta Semplice and Roland, Fierrabras Buxton Festival Opera, Poulenc's Le Bal Masqué, The Gaoler, Dialogues des Carmelites, Marullo, Rigoletto, 

Enrico, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Andrey Shchelkalov, Boris Godunov for English National Opera, Brixi double bill MusicTheater Transparant, Belgium, and Escamillo Carmen Opera Zuid, Netherlands and Festival de Perelada, Spain, Count Almaviva, Le Nozze Di Figaro, Guglielmo, Cosi Fan Tutte (and Japan tour) Marcello, La Bohème, Falke, Die Fledermaus, Dandini, La Cenerentola, Enrico, Lucia di Lammermoor, Pasha Selim, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the title role, Eugene Onegin (Russian), Figaro, Barbiere di Siviglia, Sharpless, Madama Butterfly, title role, Don Giovanni, Dr Malatesta, Don Pasquale, the Baron, La Traviata and Father, Hänsel and Gretel for Diva Opera, Falke Die Fledermaus, Mikado Mikado, Shadbolt Yeomen Of The Guard, Willis Iolanthe, and Captain Corcoran, HMS Pinafore for Carl Rosa Opera, Count Robinson, Il Matrimonio Segreto for Les Azuriales Opera. 

His extensive concert appearances have included Fauré Requiem Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Raymond Leppard, Vaughan-Williams Five Mystical Songs and Mozart Requiem Orchestra of St John's Smith Square and Queen Elizabeth Hall and Messiah Claudio Scimone and I Solisti Veneti in St Mark's Cathedral and Bergen, Norway. 

David’s recordings include the Gaoler,The Carmelites with ENO on the Chandos label, Messiah highlights with the London Symphony Orchestra, broadcasts on BBC Radio 2 in Friday Night Is Music Night and on BBC Radio 3 in Stephen Storace's No Song, No Supper for Britannia at the Opera, an appearance in BBC Television's 1996 New Year's Eve special and Hogmanay Gala’s for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow.

He has recently performed the role of Scarpia (to critical acclaim) for Opera Holland Park and Guglielmo, and Marcello for Diva Opera.

Forthcoming engagements include Escamillo for Opera Holland Park and Diva Opera in 2010.

Valda Wilson

Valda Wilson was born in Sydney, Australia. She grew up in the bushland suburb of Castlecrag and on the family grazing property in the Upper Hunter mountains. She was awarded a Bachelor of Science (Hons1) by the University of Sydney in 2004 before completing a three year Diploma of Opera at Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2007. In September 2008 she moved to London to study at the National Opera Studio on Opera Foundation Australia’s Rockend Scholarship. She now lives in London. Her voice teachers and coaches include Stephen Yalouris, Sharolyn Kimmorley, Yvonne Kenny, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Lillian Watson.
 
On the concert platform Valda has performed Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen and many other Bach Cantatas, Mozart Exsultate, jubilate! and Three Poems of Byron by modern Australian composer Graeme Koehne. She was soprano soloist in the world premiere of Australian Anne Boyd’s youth cantata Dreams for the Earth. Oratorio repertoire includes Bach St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, Handel Samson and Messiah, Mozart Mass in C minor, and Australian Paul Pavoir’s Mass of the Southern Cross. Valda has presented numerous radio recitals for Sydney radio 2MBS and was a member of Pacific Opera’s 2008 Young Artist Program.
 
In July 2009, Valda performed Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro for the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar. At the London National Opera Studio Showcase in June, she played Mlle Silberklang Der Schauspieldirektor. From March through September 2008 she played Rosina in Opera Australia Schools Touring Company production of Il barbiere di Siviglia. Roles with Sydney Conservatorium Opera were Rosina La vera costanza, Geraldine A Hand of Bridge, Amore Paride ed Elena, and Susan A Dinner Engagement.  Other roles include Ilia Idomeneo, Manon Manon, Giulietta I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Cleopatra Giulio Cesare, Aline The Sorceror, Mabel and Edith Pirates of Penzance, Yum-Yum and Pitti-Sing The Mikado. In March 2010 Valda will play Adina in Riverside Opera’s London production of L’elisir d’amore.
 
Recent engagements include concerts at Chatsworth House, Fulham Palace, Wales Millennium Centre with the Welsh National Opera orchestra, the Barrandov Opera, the Two Moors Festival, Young People In The Arts, the Britain-Australia Society at the House of Lords, and a London Rush Hour Concert with tenor Brad Cooper. 
 
Valda was one of six finalists in the Concours de Genève 2009 International Singing Competition in Switzerland, and a semifinalist in Placido Domingo’s  Operalia 2009 International Competition. In 2007 she was a finalist in the Australian National Operatic Aria and in the City of Sydney Opera Awards, and received the Elizabeth Todd Award for Soprano Voice in the Sydney Eisteddfod. Further competition success followed in 2008 including placing in the City of Sydney Opera Awards and winning Opera Foundation Australia’s prestigious Rockend Scholarship and the Robert and Betty Salzer 2009 Award. Valda also appreciates generous financial support from the Australian Music Foundation, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Tait Memorial Trust, the Opus 50 Charitable Trust, the Helpmann Family Trust, and the Opera and Arts Support Group.

Michelle Sheridan

Irish soprano Michelle Sheridan studied at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, the Royal College of Music, London and the Flanders Opera Studio in Ghent, Belgium. Prizes include the Ford/Sunday Independent ‘Spirit of Life’ Bursary for most promising young Irish artist.

She has performed the roles of Despina (Così fan tutte) for Garden Opera and Co-Opera, Pamina (The Magic Flute), Musetta (La Bohème)and Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro) for Opera à la Carte; Barce (The Kiss) and Sand Man and Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel) for Opera Theatre Company; Hyacinthus (Apollo and Hyacinthus) for OTC / Classical Opera Company; Pepick (The Cunning Little Vixen) at the Janaçek Theatre in Brno, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) for Opera Ireland, English Touring Opera and at the International Music Festival in Bermuda; Barbarina (The Marriage of Figaro) for OTC and ETO; Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for ETO; La Madelon and La Julienne (La Jolie Parfumeuse) at Flanders Opera, Micaela (Carmen) at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival and for Opera à la carte and Xenia (Boris Gudonov) for Opera Ireland.

Oratorio and Concert engagements have included Carmina Burana at the Two Cathedrals Festival in Derry, Creation at the Dublin International Organ Festival, Messiah with Our Ladies Choral Society and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 with the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, Berg’s Seven Early Songs at the National Concert Hall, Dublin and Mahler 4 with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland.

Michelle has recorded recitals for RTÉ and BBC Radio Northern Ireland and in 2002, she recorded the role of Chief Hen for the European Opera / BBC cartoon version of the Cunning Little Vixen, conducted by Kent Nagano.