Catherine Backhouse | Started singing as a chorister at St. Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh. Durham graduate. Now regular at St. Peter’s Church, Eaton Square and full time member of Voces8. |
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 | Versatile mezzo/alto with good strong low range. Sings with BBC Singers (ad hoc), English Voices, Polyphony, AAM etc, and also as a frequent recitalist and oratorio soloist. Opera work includes title role in Carmen. Excellent sightreading. |
Marie Degodet | Strong, lyrical, mezzo voice, with vast tessitura which enables her to sing either alto or soprano. Good reader, very good ear and capacity to blend. Marie works with many renowned French Baroque ensembles. 17-years choral singing experience. Trained at GSMD. Available all week except Sunday mornings. |
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. |
Eleanor Minney | Lyric Mezzo with good range and excellent sight reading ability. Blends well. Wide experience in choral and solo singing. Reliable and with own transport. Available all week except sunday mornings. |
Katherine Nicholson | Versatile mezzo/alto with excellent reading skills and wide experience of sacred and secular consort singing. Available daytimes, evenings and weekends. |
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 | Versatile S2/A1/A2. Deps regularly at St John's Wood, St. Marylebone, Guards Chapel, The Oratory, St. Margarets Westminster. Sings with Philharmonia Voices, Hartley Voices, Apollo Voices, The Gabrieli Consort, OAE and more besides. Experienced in opera (has worked for Gubbay, Buxton Festival and Northern Chamber Opera) and oratorio solo repertoire, but very able to blend as required. |
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. |