Anna Grieve – Soprano

Anna (2001, Cape Town, South Africa) is currently working as a freelance soprano in London. She completed a Bachelor of Music Honours at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama last year, learning under Welsh soprano, Gail Pearson. She also completed an exchange program at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2022, studying with Päivi Kantola.

Anna has enjoyed being a part of many operatic productions including singing Peaseblossom in Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream (David Seligman Opera School, 2023) Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel Bosco (David Seligman Opera School, chorus, 2024); Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Sibelius Academy Opera, chorus, 2022) and Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (RWCMD, chorus, 2022). In November 2022, she was cast as the soprano soloist for Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium in Sipoo Kirkku, working with conductor Eric-Olof Söderström and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra. Anna finds great pleasure in choral work, being part of Genesis Sixteen (2023-2024) and now working as an Associate Artist with Tenebrae. Anna enjoys singing with professional groups around London and with other choirs in Europe.

Clover Willis – Soprano

Clover is a soprano from Worcestershire who began singing with the Wyre Forest Young Voices and Worcester Cathedral Girls’ Choir. She went on to study music at the University of Cambridge where she was a choral scholar with the choir of Gonville and Caius college. After graduating she spent four years as a music teacher in a secondary school in North London.

She now works full time as a singer and has performed with many of the UK’s best ensembles including Ex Cathedra, SANSARA, The Carice Singers, ORA, Polyphony and The Corvus Consort. She also holds a position in the choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London. Clover enjoys performing as a soloist and recent highlights have included Bach’s B minor mass with Ex Cathedra, Handel’s Silete Venti with Belsize Baroque and Haydn’s Nelson Mass at the Tower of London.

Alongside singing Clover also conducts a community choir called Sing Out Pimlico, is a Teacher-Singer with the Pimlico Musical Foundation and a workshop leader for the Voces8 Foundation. In her spare time, Clover enjoys swimming, playing tennis and reading.

Olivia Shotton – Mezzo

Olivia is a mezzo-soprano and conductor based in London. She completed her MA in Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, where she received a distinction and was awarded a ‘DipRam’ for outstanding performance in her final recital, in addition to the Sir Thomas Armstrong Choral Leadership Prize. Whilst at the Academy, Olivia studied singing with Alexander Ashworth. Following the completion of her studies, she was appointed as a Fellow at the Academy, conducting a series of concerts of music by women from the convents of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Olivia has sung with several professional ensembles including London Voices, and currently holds a position in the choir of the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London.

Alongside singing, Olivia is the Assistant Conductor for Handel’s ‘Giustino’ at the Royal Opera House (2025) and was a Grand Finalist in the London International Choral Conducting Competition (2024). She is the conductor of the University of London Chamber Choir, University of Greenwich Choir, and Assistant Conductor of Ealing Symphony Orchestra. Olivia was the 2022-23 Genesis Sixteen Conducting Scholar, and a 2022 Fellow with The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.

Dominic Wallis – Tenor

Dom grew up in Bristol, where he started singing as a chorister at Bristol Cathedral. His early singing experiences encompassed a wide variety of musical styles, including as a member of the National Youth Choir, Welsh National Youth Opera and appearances in musical theatre productions.

Dom’s professional career started as a Choral Scholar at York Minster alongside his undergraduate studies. He has since held Lay Clerk positions at Clare College, Cambridge (alongside his Masters studies at the University of Cambridge), Ely Cathedral and St John’s College, Cambridge.

Currently, in addition to working with Tenebrae, Dom sits on the board of trustees for the National Centre for Early Music. He also works frequently as a freelancer in the UK and abroad. Notable career highlights include performing with the Aurora Orchestra at the Southbank Centre, appearing as a soloist alongside Iestyn Davies on a CD of American choral music (recently considered for a Grammy), broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 at St John’s, and working on a CD of previously unrecorded music by Palestrina.

Dom also occasionally performs in oratorio and opera, including as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St John Passion, and has appeared as the tenor lead in minimalist opera ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’ by Michael Nyman. Alongside performing, Dom enjoys teaching and has worked as a vocal coach on summer singing courses.

Outside of music, Dom works as a Heritage Consultant for Caroe Architecture Ltd, where he specialises in the conservation of historic buildings.

Henry Montgomery – Bass

Henry is a bass from the north of Lincolnshire, and started singing through local musical theatre productions and in the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.

His love of choral singing led him to read music at the University of Cambridge, where he sang daily with the Choir of St. John’s College, and in its close-harmony group, The Gents of St John’s. Whilst at university, he balanced choral singing with solo performing, and took part in many university opera society productions and recitals. Henry had the privilege of learning with Joseph Middleton on the Sir Arthur Bliss Lieder Scheme, and performing as Christus alongside Nick Mulroy in performances of the St. John Passion last year.

After graduating, he took up a place as VOCES8’s 2024-25 bass scholar, and a lay clerkship in the prestigious Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, where he sang for millions of people on TV and radio over the Christmas period.

Outside of singing, Henry is a keen footballer and Grimsby Town fan, and has recently become somewhat obsessed with barbershop quartet singing. He is absolutely delighted to join Tenebrae as their new Bass Associate Artist this year!