Emma Stannard trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and with Royal Academy Opera.  This summer, Emma has performed the role of Olga Eugene Onegin (Opera Holland Park) and has sung as the alto soloist in the Mozart Requiem (Really Big Chorus).

Further operatic experience includes Idamante Idomeneo and Enrico Elisabetta (English Touring Opera); Flora La traviata (Opera Holland Park YAP); Minerva Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and Pepa Goyescas (The Grange Festival); Mother Amahl and the Night Visitors (Bampton Classical Opera) and Selene Berenice (La Nuova Musica).

Emma has won the Bampton Classical Opera Competition, the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award and was awarded the Audrey Strange Memorial Award at the final of the Royal Overseas League vocal competition. She was also a 2018/19 Handel House Talent Scheme Young Artist.

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Caroline Taylor graduated with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music. She won the 2021 Emmy Destinn Young Singers Award, the 2019 Dean and Chadlington Singing Competition and the 2018 Joyce and Michael Kennedy Strauss Award.

A former Longborough Festival Opera Emerging Artist, Caroline’s opera credits include Kate and cover Elsie Maynard/The Yeomen of the Guard (Grange Festival), Asteria/Tamerlano (Cambridge Handel Opera Company), Adina/The Elixir of Love (Duchy Opera), Chocholka and cover Vixen Sharp-Ears/The Cunning Little Vixen (Longborough) and Governess/The Turn of the Screw (Byre Opera). Concert highlights include Fauré’s Requiem (Manchester Camerata) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Bridgewater Hall. This season, Caroline is a Young Artist with Oxford Lieder. She makes her debut at the Wigmore Hall as part of the French Song Exchange and performs the title role in Příhody lišky Bystroušky with Hampstead Garden Opera. 

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