Andrew Woodmansey is a freelance Tenor studying for a Master’s degree under Neil Baker at Trinity Laban, supported by the Elliot Rosenblatt Memorial Scholarship, The Kathleen Kreed Scholarship, and the Prowdes, Williams, and Zobel Trusts.

Andrew has a particular interest in contemporary opera and concert works, having recently played roles in operas by Harvey Brough, Libby Larsen, Errollyn Wallen, Mark Springer and Michael Gordon, among many others. These included appearances with the Tété a Tété Opera Festival, Trinity Laban Opera, Oxford Alternative Orchestra, Hive Opera, and the Playground Theater. 

They have also performed widely in the cornerstones of the classical canon from opera, with Roles including: Rodolfo (La Bohéme), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino and Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Spoletta (Tosca), Abdallo (Concert Nabucco), Bill (a Hand of Bridge), Frederic (Pirates of Penzance), along with several small roles and Choruses, including Götterdämmerung Chorus at the Longbourough Festival this year, and in Merry Opera‘s Staged Messiah.  

Concert performances have included: Solo appearances in Haydn‘s Creation, Handel‘s Messiah, Beethoven‘s 9th Symphony, Handel‘s Ode on St Cecilia‘s Day, Bach‘s St John Passion (Both Evangelist and Arias), Stainer‘s Crucifixion, and Mozart‘s Requiem,  at venues including Cadogan Hall, PAC Mumbai, St John‘s Guernsey, Christchurch Priory, and Holy Sepulchre, London.

Maggie Vaz Neto is a Portuguese soprano based in London, England. She is in love with contemporary and modern music, but still saves a special place in her heart for Romantic opera. She performs a wide range of repertoire, both as a soloist and as a member of the Philharmonia Chorus. Maggie’s regular engagements also include a choral scholarship in Christ Church, East Sheen, being a cantor in St Mary of the Angels, in Bayswater and giving private singing lessons.

With the Philharmonia Chorus, she has performed in the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, Bold Tendencies, in Peckham Rye, among other places.

Maggie regularly collaborates with composers. Recently, she has co-founded the new music focused New Contemporalis Ensemble with the composer Margarida Gonçalves. This

ensemble is focused on collaborating with other musicians and artists in search of creating

concerts that aim to be approachable experiences of new music for first-time audiences, while keeping the essence and intensity of the music.

In opera, she has recently created the role of Brízida in Margarida Gonçalves’s The Acts of Brízida Vaz, premiered in the Tête-à-Tête Contemporary Opera Festival in September 2024.

Upcoming performances include the solo performance of Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, with the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and the Magna Sinfonia Orchestra, in Lighthouse - Arts and Entertainment, Poole; a recital with the Musicians of London, in St Mary with All Souls, West Hampstead; all in November this year; and her debut as Mimì in Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème in a Bread and Bus Production, in Peckham, in November and December this year.

Rob Brooks is a baritone from Hertfordshire, UK.

Rob has performed in the chorus and supporting roles in a variety of productions with the Royal Northern College of Music and the Dorset Opera Festival, including Cosí fan tutti (Mozart), Street Scene (Weill), The Merry Widow (Lehar), Le Cid (Massenet), La bohème (Puccini), Le comte Ory (Rossini), Faust (Gounod), Macbeth (Verdi), Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Un ballo in maschera (Verdi), Le Docteur Miracle (Lecocq) and Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart). Rob is delighted to be making his return to the stage in Bread and Bus Stop’s production of La bohème.

Since graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music in 2017, Rob has dedicated much of his time to developing his expertise across the arts, charity and education. Currently part of the Development Operations team at the Royal College of Music, Rob previously managed operations at the charity Future Talent, which provides performance and development opportunities and financial support to young musicians from low-income backgrounds, and was Chorus Manager at the Dorset Opera Festival.

Besides opera, Rob enjoys performing music from the musical theatre and big band repertoires and is a budding voiceover artist.