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Having begun her singing career in school G&S productions, Emily took up singing more seriously at Cambridge and was a choral exhibitioner at Jesus for 6 years. More recently she has moved into the early repertoire, starting with a year with the Renaissance Singers under Edward Wickham. Her regular commitments now include the Latin Schola at Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge, and the Cambridge Taverner Choir. Past projects have included masterclasses with Andrew Carwood, Jeremy Summerly and Francis Steele, performing madrigals for the Viola da Gamba Society, and a Holy Week performance in Spain of Brumel's Earthquake Mass (one to a part). She's still recovering from the last one!
Tina has been singing for as long as she can remember but only started taking it seriously as a choral scholar in Trinity College Chapel Choir, which gave her the opportunity to tour and record extensively. After four years with Richard Marlow, she joined the Schola Cantorum of Fisher House and the Latin Choir at OLEM. To avoid forgetting all repertoire composed after 1650, she also sings with Appassionare which took her on an exotic tour to Sussex. She looks forward to many years of using singing to forget about the trials and tribulations of being a secondary school science teacher.
Emily has been studying at Cambridge University since 2000 and hopes one day to leave with a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Having previously been head chorister in Norwich Cathedral Girls' Choir, since coming up to Cambridge she has sung with various college chapel choirs including two years at Trinity under Richard Marlow. As a break from early music, Emily is also a member of 'The Larks Ascending', a group which specialises in music by living British composers.
Mark Dourish was born in Glasgow and was Head Chorister at St Aloysius, Garnethill, described at the time as the best Catholic choir in Scotland. He went on to study Medicine at St Andrews and Cambridge and sang for three years with the choir of Jesus College under Tim Byram-Wigfield, making several recordings and BBC broadcasts. His greatest commercial success (for someone else, unfortunately) was his performance on the recording of the official 2002 World Cup Anthem. Having earned nothing from this, he now works as a doctor in Cambridge and does occasional deputising work with various professional choirs in London.
He sings with the Cambridge Taverner Choir, the Petrucci Ensemble, and Corde, an eight-voice ensemble specialising in the music of the high and late renaissance under the artistic guidance of Francis Steele of the Tallis Scholars. He also sings with the Latin Schola of the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge, directed first by Colin Mawby and now by the respected Tallis and Byrd specialist, Dr David Allinson.
Will does a lot of good singing work but doesn't like to talk about it. He has sung with Norwich Cathedral Choir, Trinity College Chapel Choir, the Cambridge Taverner Choir and Henry's Eight, amongst others. And that's about all we could get out of him.
Chris has been tarting his voice around the Cambridge choral scene for the past nine years and has lost track of the number of choirs with which he's been involved. After many years of chapel-choir hopping, he became involved in singing early music, where he wouldn't have to share his part with anybody else. A self-professed bass-baritone, Chris specialises in stepping in to help out choirs at the last minute - especially ones containing sopranos.
Along with Mark, Chris reached number 5 in the Japanese chart singing on the 2002 World Cup Anthem by Vangelis. In 2003 he made his operatic debut, playing Guard With String and Ginger Disciple in Stradella's San Giovanni Battista.
Rupert thinks our biographies are too long. He was a chorister at St George's Chapel, Windsor under Christopher Robinson and a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge under Richard Marlow.