"..all agreed that the opera singers were a great success. Thank you so much for helping to make our special day go so well."

Simon and Ellie Roche
Wedding
(1st May 10)

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Basses


John Morrissey

John is Irish but grew up in Birmingham where he trained  as an actor. He appeared iin many plays and a film for Channel Four, and took part in the William Poel verse speaking prize at the Royal  National theatre judged by Anthony Hopkins.. He then took up singing, studying with Robert Dean. He has sang for many companies, including Opera Ireland, Opera theatre Company ,Scottish Opera and Wexford Festival, His favourite roles are  Colline in (La Boheme) a role he has sung in eight  different productions, Satastro (The Magic Flute).  Don Basilio (The Barber of Seville) Sparafucile (Rigoletto) .and Angelotti (Tosca)  He joined the Royal Opera House Chorus in August 2005 where he has covered many main house parts and has recently sung the role of the Gaoler in Tosca with Bryn Terfel and Andrea Gheorghiu.


Stewart Kempster

Born in Chirk, North Wales and he began his musical life as a parish church organist and choir master. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham and whilst at the RAM he won many prizes and awards and took part in several masterclasses and concerts. He has since performed much of the Bass operatic repertoire with many different opera companies both at home and abroad. Roles include Banco Macbeth, Don Basilio Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Lodovico Otello, Father Truelove Rakes Progress, Zaccaria Nabbuco and Ffion Mac Cumhail in William Sweeney’s Gaelic opera An Turus performed with the Paragon Ensemble. He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Porgy Porgy and Bess and the four villain roles in Tales of Hoffman for Wexford Festival Opera. Stewart is an accomplished oratorio singer and he has sung with all the major choirs and orchestras in Scotland in the works of Handel, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, the requiems of Mozart, Fauré and Verdi with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Opera Orchestra. He has sung all the major works of J.S. Bach and many of his church cantatas in the City of London Bach Cantata Series. Stewart appears on a number of CD recordings, including Leighton’s Hymn to Matter and the Duruflé Requiem with the National Youth Choir and the SNO and several recordings and broadcasts from Wexford Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He recently worked on the acedemy award winning soundtrack of the Lord of the Rings series of films working with the composer Howard Shore. His recent operatic work includes Leporello Don Giovanni, Sarastro Magic Flute and Superintendent Budd Albert Herring for the Opera Project and the Longborough Festival. Also with Diva Opera group, Colline La Bohème and Montorone Rigoletto and a European tour, singing Don Magnifico Cenerentola and Raimondo Lucia, taking him to many music festivals in France, Switzerland and Russia and culminating in a performance of Cenerentola in the legendary La Fenice opera house in Venice. When not performing, Stewart is an examiner to the Associated Board and in his spare time enjoys hill walking and driving his 1962 Rover 100 motor car.


Peter Grant

Born and Educated in Edinburgh. He studied with Adrian Thompson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Since leaving the Guildhall in 2000 Peter has led a busy freelance operatic career and worked with the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, English Touring Opera, Holland Park Opera, Carl Rosa Opera, Garsington Opera, Garden Opera, Co Opera Ireland and Clonter Opera. His repertoire includes Leporello Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte, Figaro Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno The Magic Flute, Colline la boheme, Peter Quince A Midsummer Night's Dream, Banquo Macbeth, Dick Deadeye HMS Pinafore, Polyphemus Acis and Galatea, Frank Die Fledermaus and Angelotti Tosca. Peter is equally at home on the concert platform and has recently perfromed as Bass soloist in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem and Faure's Requiem. Peter also sings regularly with the Scottish tenor Elliot Goldie in the vocal duo Goldie and Grant. Last summer they performed together with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra in front of 10,000 at the Scottish Prom Concert, Glamis Castle.