Ardingly IMS Tutors

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

• NEIL JENKINS
  has carved out a unique career, being equally at home as an Operatic, Oratorio and Recital singer; and combining this with an increasingly important role as a musicologist. (more..)

ADMINISTRATOR

• PENNY JENKINS
  has performed opera and oratorio throughout Europe, has broadcast for the BBC and recorded solos with the Oriana Consort, the Brighton Chamber Choir and the Neil Jenkins Chorale. (more..)

HOUSE PIANISTS

• HOUSE PIANISTS
  who are drawn from the cream of the country’s professional accompanists at Music Colleges and schools. (more..)

TUTORS

• TERENCE ALLBRIGHT
  composer of about 50 scores for BBC Radio Drama and Director of Music at Seaford College. (more..)
• EUGENE ASTI
  the recipient of numerous awards including the Megan Foster Prize and the Ferdinand Rauter Memorial (more..)
• HANS-PETER BLOCHWITZ
  An internationally renowned lyric tenor, whose extensive discography of opera, oratorio and lieder is critically acclaimed. (more..)
• ROBIN BOWMAN
  the head of vocal studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. (more..)
• KATE BROWN (NEW TUTOR IN 2008)
  has made a speciality of early opera, and has directed the modern world premieres of several seventeenth-century works. (more..)
• CHARLES CORP
  a concert, oratorio and recital singer who has sung throughout the UK and abroad. (more..)
• ROBERT DEAN
  Artistic Director and Chorus Master of London's famous Philharmonia Chorus (more..)
• HILARY FISHER
  who has led classes in classical repertoire at Goldsmith’s College and the City Literary Institute. (more..)
• THERESA GOBLE
  has appeared with major opera companies in the United Kingdom, including English National Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park. (more..)
• AMERAL GUNSON
  has appeared at Covent Garden, Alter Oper Frankfurt, Turin, Helsinki & Amsterdam opera houses; and the Almeida Theatre, London. (more..)
• ROBERT HAMMERSLEY
  inaugurated the Music Department at Guildford Technical College and was the first conductor of the national youth string players Pro Corda (more..)
• STEPHEN HOPE (NEW TUTOR IN 2008)
  has worked extensively both as pianist and conductor with a number of societies and orchestras. (more..)
• RICHARD JACKSON
  has sung opera for ENO, Opera North, Glyndebourne, Almeida Opera and the Monnaie in Brussels. (more..)
• SCOTT JOHNSON (NEW TUTOR IN 2008)
  is Head of Vocal for the Centre for Young Musicians in Hackney. (more..)
• BRIAN KAY (NEW TUTOR IN 2008)
  presents over 100 radio programmes each year, including Brian Kay's Light Programme on BBC Radio 3, and Radio 2's long-running series, Friday Night is Music Night. (more..)
• DAME EMMA KIRKBY
  has made well over a hundred recordings of all kinds and in 1999 was voted Artist of the Year by Classic FM Radio listeners (more..)
• DELIA LINDON
  works with the major opera companies and colleges, as well as running courses on the continent. (more..)
• PENELOPE MACKAY
  is responsible for coaching French Song at the Royal Academy of Music, and French diction both there and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. (more..)
• MORAG MCLAREN
  has performed in principal roles with Welsh National and Scottish Opera, plus music theatre in the West End, cabaret and concerts. (more..)
• BRIAN PARSONS
  now Professeur de Chant at the Conservatoire Supérior National de Musique in Lyon, and a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. (more..)
• WILLIAM POOL
  has sung roles for Glyndebourne & Covent Garden, La Scala, Milan, and worldwide with the Monteverdi Choir. (more..)
• JOHN RAMSTER
  a freelance opera director and Drama Lecturer for the Opera Department at the Royal Academy of Music. (more..)
• LYNDA RICHARDSON
  has worked with the world’s greatest conductors, orchestras and singers in opera, oratorio, contemporary music, recording sessions, TV and radio. (more..)
• STEVEN RICKARDS
  one of America’s finest countertenors and director of the Vocal Arts Institute at the University of Indianapolis. (more..)
• GREGORY ROSE
  Music Director of the Jupiter Orchestra and Singers and CoMA London Ensemble. (more..)
• SARAH WALKER (CBE)
  was made a C.B.E. in 1991 and is much in demand on the concert platform worldwide where she has worked with many famous conductors. (more..)
• RICHARD WILKINS
  a regular member of the Summer Music team for nearly 30 years and a teacher of great experience. (more..)
• DAVID WILLISON
  has enjoyed a diverse musical career as pianist-partner to some of the finest soloists. (more..)