RONAN COLLETT read Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge where as an undergraduate he sang as a baritone choral scholar with St. John's College Choir. He is currently studying with Noelle Barker and Iain Ledingham as a postgraduate on the Royal Academy of Music's opera programme. He has also studied with David Lowe. He recently received the Royal Worshipful Company of Musician's Silver Medal and has been awarded a scholarship from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and a Sybill Tutton award, administered by the MBF. Ronan was the first musician to be appointed a Wigmore Hall Young Artist.

Ronan's operatic engagements have included the role of Tarquinius in Britten's 'The Rape of Lucretia' with Cambridge University Opera Society and Opera East and Pandolfe in Massenet's 'Cendrillon' for the Royal Academy of Music. He made his Edinburgh Festival debut in 2004, in the role of Kilian in 'Der Freischütz' conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras and recently sang 'Peter' in Elgar's 'The Apostles' in Chichester Cathedral.  He has given recitals with Nicholas Rimmer at the Aldeburgh Festival and most recently at Wigmore Hall as part of their Autumn Song Series.  Ronan has performed Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch in Santiago de Compestela, Spain and Schubert's Heine settings from Schwanengesang with Roger Vignoles at Wigmore Hall. He has just performed a series of recitals to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar with Mark Padmore and Roger Vignoles at Minterne in Dorset.

Future engagements include Schumann's 'Spanisches Liederbuch' with Lucy Crowe, Angelika Kirschlager and Allan Clayton, and 'Dichterliebe' with Graham Johnson at Wigmore Hall. He will
also perform the role of Chao Lin in 'A Night at the Chinese Opera' conducted by Dominic Wheeler at the Royal Academy of Music.

CHRISTOPHER GLYNN was born in Leicester, read music at New College Oxford and then studied piano with John Streets in France and with Malcolm Martineau and Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music. He was awarded the piano accompaniment prize in the 2001 Kathleen Ferrier competition and the 2003 Gerald Moore award. He was also recently made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

His recent and forthcoming performances with singers include recitals with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Joan Rodgers, Andrew Kennedy, Carolyn Sampson, Michael George, Julie Kennard, Sine Bundgaard, Sally Burgess, Denise Leigh, Ailish Tynan, James Rutherford, Lucy Crowe, Catherine Wyn Rogers and Ronan Collett at venues including Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St John’s Smith Square, Royal Opera House, Bridgewater Hall and Waterfront Hall, at festivals throughout Europe and the Far East, and in live broadcasts for BBC radio and TV.

As well as his work with singers, Chris has performed with many instrumentalists including oboist Maurice Bourge and cellist Christoph Richter. He has also performed piano duet concerts with John Streets throughout Europe .

In 2001 he organised a festival at the RAM to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the death of Benjamin Britten; he has also been artistic director of two series of McCann Concerts at the National Portrait Gallery. He has recorded as soloist and accompanist on Erato, Warner, Cantoris and Priory labels. Future plans include a recording of the songs of Michael Head, a cabaret show at Pizza on the Park and concert tours to USA, Canada and Japan.