Christmas Carol Concert 2026

Theano Papadaki’s recent highlights include soloist appearances at the Edinburgh International Festival, Athens Megaron, and Greek National Opera, the title role in Monteverdi’s Poppea with Hampstead Garden Opera, and recital tours of the UK and Crete with Sholto Kynoch. In the new year she plays the title role in Rodelinda with London Opera Ensemble.

Ellie Neate studied at the GSMD. She has performed principal roles at ENO, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Buxton International and Waterperry Opera Festivals, and in concert at Oxford Lieder, Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall. Ellie recently made her recording debut in Puccini’s La Rondine with Opera Rara and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Sophie Timms is an alumna of The Sixteen’s Genesis Sixteen programme, VOCES8 scholarship, and the St Martin’s Voices Fellowship programme. She works with leading ensembles including the Gabrieli Consort, Philharmonia Voices, OAE Choir of the Enlightenment, ORA Singers, London Voices, Stile Antico, and Britten Sinfonia Voices.

Eleanor Messenger trained at University of York and GSMD. In high demand as a choral singer and an experienced soloist, this year with BBC Singers she sang Howells Hymnus Paradisi and a concert of Mozart and Handel. She sings with other professional ensembles and deputises at St Paul’s Cathedral, St Albans Cathedral and many top London churches.

Edward Woodhouse has appeared as a soloist with the Dunedin Consort, Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Baroquestock Festival, at the Barbican, and at the National Opera House, Wexford. As a consort singer, Edward has worked with some of the foremost ensembles in the UK, including The Tallis Scholars, Alamire, Dunedin Consort and Tenebrae.

William Searle has performed in Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall, alongside Graham Johnson at the Wigmore Hall and on Classic FM live from Smith Square, in addition to operas with Garsington Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park and concerts at Carnegie Hall, New York and across Europe.

William Harmer has sung with The Sixteen, BBC Singers, Monteverdi Choir, Temple Singers, Carice Singers and Vache Baroque. He is a regular bass with St Martin’s Voices with whom he has toured and recorded numerous albums. He is also a composer and pianist, with commissions from the BBC Singers, National Youth Choirs and St John’s College, Cambridge, and multiple competition successes.

George Robarts is the winner of the 2025 Lotte Lenya Competition in the USA. 2026 saw his debuts with English Touring Opera (“side-splitting” – The Guardian) and the Buxton International Festival, recitals at the London Song Festival and Luxembourg Philharmonie, and the premieres of two major opera translation commissions: Orpheus & Eurydice for English Touring Opera and The Marriage of Figaro for Oxford Opera.

Edward Picton-Turbervill is a prize-winning pianist and composer, who specialises in working with singers. He can frequently be heard on Radio 3, and has two albums due for release in 2026. He studied at St John’s College Cambridge, the University of Heidelberg and Guildhall.