Mary Banks | Low alto with good blending voice. Good sight-singer. Years of choral experience from early music ensembles to contemporary premieres. Oratorio and concert soloist, recitalist. Plays organ and sings for weddings and funerals. Regular choir member West London Synagogue, Harrow & Wembley Progressive, Coro Cervantes. Formerly Lincoln's Inn, now available Sundays, weekdays. Reliable with own transport. |
Cathy Bell | Strong mezzo with good low range and excellent reading. Former Caius choral scholar (99-02), now freelancing as both soloist and choral singer. On lists for Ex Cathedra, Polyphony etc. Recent oratorio includes Haydn Nelson Mass with CBSO in Birmingham Symphony Hall. Available any time, weekdays and weekends. |
Mhairi Ellis | Co-founder of DepList and adviser on membership admissions. Versatile and experienced alto. Sings at the morning and evening services on Sundays at All Saints, Margaret Street, where she also fixes the choir, but is open to suggestion at other times of the week. |
Ruth Gibbins | Former choral scholar at Trinity College,Cambridge. Sings regularly with Polyphony and has also worked for the Gabrieli Consort and Philharmonia Voices in addition to depping at most London professional church choirs. Regular at Lincoln's Inn during academic terms and free all other Sundays of year. An experienced choral singer with strong low alto range and an excellent sightreader. Free for any singing work 7 days/nights a week. |
Eleanor Harries | Low mezzo with good range and excellent sight-reading. Former choral scholar at Gonville & Caius, Cambridge. Currently deps at many churches including St Margaret’s Westminster, Marylebone, Lincoln’s Inn, Barts, Tower, All Saints’ Margaret Street, Eaton Square. Also sings with groups such as Stile Antico and Philharmonia Voices. Available any time. |
Christine Petch | Regular singer at St. Alban's, Holborn. Available any time except Sunday morning. Experienced solo and choral singer, currently taught by Brian Parsons, GSMD. Strong voice with good range. Reliable with own transport. |
Eloise Power | Former choral scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. Experienced DepList singer and very good sightreader. |
Ksynia Reynolds | Postgrad student at Royal Academy of Music with extensive choral experience and good sightreading. Strong, wide-ranging voice – can sing A1 or S2. Solo work combines opera (Buxton Festival, BYO, RAM), oratorio, consort singing and recitals but voice blends well for choral work. Weddings also a speciality. Available weekdays and weekends. |
Lindsay Richardson | Lindsay Richardson won a postgraduate scholarship to TCM. Operas include mediaeval music-drama and Monteverdi through to contemporary works, also Old Vic and BAC with theatre company Convivio. Concerts include Wagner at St. John's, Smith Square; Britten and Copland at St. Giles, Cripplegate; Bach at St. James's, Piccadilly; and Monteverdi’s Vespers in Exeter and Gloucester Cathedrals. |
Helen Roche | Experienced choral singer and excellent sightreader (due to very reliable absolute pitch) with a voice which blends easily. Former choral scholar of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge (2004-2007), member of the Rodolfus Choir since 2003. Also organist - about to take up postgraduate organ scholarship at Our Lady of the English Martyrs Catholic Church, Cambridge. |
Stephanie Seeney | Reliable and experienced choral singer with excellent sight-reading skills, and good blending ability. Also available for solo/oratorio work. Available for weekday services as well as weekends. |
Joanna Tomlinson | Joanna studied at Bristol University and Royal College of Music, and is now freelancing. She deps at churches including Guards', Grosvenor, Margaret Street and Marylebone. Also Philharmonia Voices and BBC Singers ad hoc. No regular Sunday. |
