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Tenebrae Associate Artists 2018-19

Tenebrae is proud to introduce its 2018-19 Associate Artists:

Bethany Partridge (Soprano)

tenebraenov201627Having begun her singing career as a chorister at Exeter Cathedral, Bethany studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was a Senior Academic Scholar and a Choral Scholar under Stephen Layton. Bethany has just completed a fellowship with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain with whom she was a section leader and has performed at the BBC Proms and venues across the world. Bethany regularly sings professionally with Tenebrae, Polyphony and the Gabrieli Consort and looks forward to continuing her Associate Artistship with Tenebrae.

Bethany enjoys performing as a soloist, and recent performances include Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle (Musicanti, Paris), Filia in Carissimi’s Jephte (Ensemble Vocale de Pontoise, Paris), Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate, Handel’s Messiah, Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, and one-per-part performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, St John Passion and the Weihnachts-Oratorium with the Amici Voices, of which she is a founding member. Operatic roles have included Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Second Boy in The Magic Flute.

Bethany is also a keen recitalist and has recently given recitals in Cambridge and Witney on the themes of birdsong and Shakespeare. Besides singing Bethany spends much of her free time baking and running.

 

Elisabeth Paul (Alto)

Originally from Lichfield, Staffordshire, Elisabeth began singing at the age of seven when she joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus. During her eleven years in the choir, she toured Sweden and Malaysia and performed in several BBC Proms, most notably in 2002 as part of the massed children’s choir in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle.  In 2013, Elisabeth graduated with an honours degree in Music from Royal Holloway, University of London. Alongside her studies, she sang as a Choral Scholar with the Choir of Royal Holloway with whom she recorded for Hyperion Records, toured to the USA and widely around Europe, and appeared as a soloist on BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong broadcasts. She was also a regular soloist for the college’s Early Music Society and the Big Band, ‘Undergraduated’.

Now based in London, Elisabeth enjoys a busy career as a freelance consort singer, soloist, and choir administrator. She sings professionally with a number of ensembles including The Tallis Scholars, Polyphony, The Erebus Ensemble, Sansara, Seraphim Consort, and St Martin’s Voices, and is a permanent member of the Choir of St Peter’s Church, Eaton Square. Elisabeth is an alumna of Genesis Sixteen, the choral training programme run by The Sixteen and supported by the Genesis Foundation, and she held a choral scholarship at St Martin-in-the-Fields for the academic year 2013/14. She is delighted to be an Associate Artist with Tenebrae for 2017/18 and is looking forward to working with the group over the coming year.

Recent solo engagements include Handel’s Messiah with Stafford Choral Society, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Bach’s St John Passion, Magnificat, and B Minor Mass, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.  Named roles include First Witch and Sailor in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Away from the singing world, Elisabeth enjoys travelling and hiking up various mountains, and can sometimes be found cheering on her beloved AFC Wimbledon (come on you Dons!).

Benedict Flinn (Tenor)

Benedict graduated in June 2018 from St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read Modern and Medieval Languages. As a choral scholar he performed and toured extensively with the choir and sang solos in Bach Cantata evensongs and on BBC radio broadcasts. Benedict began as a chorister at St John’s under the directorship of David Hill and later Andrew Nethsingha. During this time he performed the treble solo in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Bramwell Tovey and the Huddersfield Choral Society.

Before returning to St John’s, Benedict spent his gap year in Oxford where he sang as a Stipendiary Clerk with Magdalen College Choir under Daniel Hyde. As part of his degree at Cambridge, Benedict spent his third year in France working as a radio presenter at Euradionantes and singing with the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame in Paris.

Benedict will continue at St John’s this year as a Lay Clerk and is looking forward to combining the position with the exciting and challenging Associate Artists programme.

 

Owain Park (Bass)

Owain Park, born in 1993, is a composer, conductor and singer based in the United Kingdom. His works are published by Novello and have been performed internationally by ensembles including the Tallis Scholars, the Aurora Ensemble and the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir. Notably, Tenebrae were delighted to commission Owain to write a unique new choral work to celebrate the choir’s 15th anniversary season, Footsteps, which allows singers of all abilities the opportunity to perform live alongside Tenebrae in concert. Owain is a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), and was formerly Senior Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral and Trinity College Cambridge.

Owain began as a chorister at St Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol, before joining the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. He was assistant conductor of the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir from 2012-2014 and was recently appointed as Cambridge Chorale’s new Music Director. Owain also founded and directs The Gesualdo Six, a vocal consort performing an eclectic mix of renaissance and modern works. The ensemble were St John’s Smith Square Young Artists and have since appeared in the Christmas and Holy Week Festivals. As a singer, he has worked with ensembles including Polyphony, the Dunedin Consort and Alamire.

Owain’s compositions have been awarded first prize in a number of national and international competitions, including those organised by the National Centre for Early Music (NCEM), Reverie, the Phoenix Singers’, the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, the Jackdaws Music Trust, and A Carol for Christmas (in association with the King’s Singers and Classic FM). Recordings of his work have been made by Tenebrae (Nigel Short), ORA (Suzi Digby), the Choir of Wells Cathedral (Matthew Owens) and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge (Stephen Layton). His chamber opera, The Snow Child, was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2016, and his compositions have been broadcast on stations including BBC Radios 3 and 4, Classic FM, and around the world. www.owainpark.co.uk

Thank you to our supporters of the Associate Artist 2018-19 scheme:
Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation
The Fernside Trust
Gina and Jamie Broderick
David and Simone Caukill
Henry C. Hoare Charitable Trust
The Leche Trust
Sir Roger Gifford
The Thistle Trust
Adrian Frost
Jane Merrick
Lydia Challen & Andrew Dymond
Michael & Amanda Gibbon