Our current members... And some rather dubious information about them.
(They're much better looking than this by the way - I
gave no warning before whipping out the camera one rehearsal - sorry all!)
SOPRANOS
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Amy Lazenby
Amy (stage name Katie, ahem) is a Yorkshire lass - turned equity portfolio manager. She has three loves - her horse, her donkey, and her new husband. (Thankfully for the fiancé, the horse and donkey are in Yorkshire most of the time...) |
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Bryony Dean
"Mistress Bryony" fancies herself as tomorrow's Rumpole of the Bailey. If you meet her at the bar, chances are you won't be ordering rounds of drinks. |
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Chloë Zadeh
Chloë is a student of Indian music, a lover of all things Hindi, and her favourite Hindu God is Krishna. Yet ask her about Boy George's "Bow down mister" and she looks a bit confused. |
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Clare Charles
Newly-wed Clare is everyone's favourite teacher at a primary school near Sloane Square. And she's nifty with a bike... |
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Cressida Jenkins
Cress is a budding Music therapist - this involves smiling and singing a lot, both of which she excels at... |
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Ellie Cumbo
Ellie is training to be a crusading lawyer. She'll be ready to practise when her knowledge of actual cases comes close to equalling her knowledge of cheesy TV crime dramas. |
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Emilie Speaight
Imagine this personals ad: "Danish qualified ski instructor" - need we say more? The question is, who would she ltm? |
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Erica Jarnes
Erica publishes Harry Potter books, and is "a bit of a perfectionist". Step aside Hermione Grainger... |
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Fi Cunningham
This was taken on our recent tour to Tunisia - Fi usually comes to rehearsals fully-clothed...
(Sorry Fi, couldn't resist..!) |
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Francesca Bennett
Francesca is something of a singing tourist - she's sung everything you can think of, with every choir you've ever heard of. But obviously now she's found Voce... |
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Helen Begley
Helen helps Tony Blair and pals run the country. So when they start turning up to Voce concerts, we'll know she's doing well... |
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Jess Sandbrook
If you want to get on TV, Jess is your lady. But maybe best to wait till she's finished her current project, "Slave to Fashion"... |
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Lauren Sager Weinstein
Lauren keeps the London buses running on time (sort of), and keeps our members up to date. |
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Melissa Stansfield
Melissa used to be an Oxford choral scholar, but now she's rebelled and joined a pop band. Voce keeps her feet on the ground. |
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Penny Cox
Penny is a high-flying engineer, and a former Real Tennis champion. She's also an expert on non-migratory birds. |
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Rachel Tubby
Rachel's our resident South East London expert - so if you're planning a trip to Lewisham or Blackheath, consult her first |
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Rosemary Galton
Rosemary's just arrived in London all starry-eyed from Cambridge... Her passions include Gilbert & Sullivan and chocolate truffles. |
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Suzannah Bancroft
Suzannah's a high-flying lawyer, cyclist extraordinaire and, having grown up less than a mile from our rehearsal venue, is a true Voce local... |
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Sarah Boxall
Sarah is affectionately known as "tuning fork" for her perfect pitch.
She also likes vegetables. |
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ALTOS
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Alice Foster
Alice is a fruity alto who struggles to sing quietly... she uses this lack of volume control to great effect on the football / rugby field. Not one to tackle lightly. |
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Alison Wood
Alison is passionate about wildlife, and recently helped save a Wiltshire badger set from a bypass |
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Bronwen Stephens
Bronwen trained to sing under Kiri te Kanawa and is setting her sights on the rugby world cup anthem for 2011 |
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Anna Ferguson
Marathon runner. C19 France expert. Data-monkey for a big accounting firm. Singer. Is there anything Anna doesn't do? |
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Astrid Winkler
Astrid researches social exclusion at the LSE, and enjoys socially inclusive singing |
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Jane Macarthur
Jane has sold her soul to the devil and is working in the City so she can afford to buy a flat. In her spare time she pretends she's still quirky. |
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Lotta Gustaffsson
Mama says Lotta was a dancer before she could walk...
She says she began to sing long before she could talk... |
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Matt O'Malley
Matt the counter-tenor is a music teacher in deepest darkest Surrey. He also has blues for fencing and archery under his well-defended belt. |
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Pippa McGeoch
Pippa is a fearless school-teacher in North London with a fiery Scots accent... |
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Rachael Young
Hooray, we finally got a picture of gorgeous Rachael (she's ever so camera shy - it's taken over a year) |
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Rebecca Mair
It was only when Rebecca started singing "Going once, Going twice" instead of "Popocatepetl" in the warm-ups that we realised this entire singing lark is just training for her day-job as an auctioneer. Our gain I suppose. |
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Deborah Willey
Deborah works for a model agency. OK, it's a literary agency too, but the model bit sounded more glam. |
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TENORS
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Daniel Beazer
Daniel learned to sing at gunpoint during an alien abduction, and is a hotshot entrepreneur and comedian |
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David Clasen
David's a legend in the finance world, but on Fridays you'll often find him dreaming up culinary delicacies that money can't buy... |
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Freddie Bjorn
Freddie lives life by the maxim: 'danger is a beautiful thing when it is purposefully sought out'. That, of course, was the appeal of Voce. |
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James Hooper
James manages money for millionaires, and loves cycling in the Pyrenees. |
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Jim Follett
Jim's works with English Touring opera, and knows the libretti of 37 operas by heart. |
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John McDonald
John pretends to be a simple happy chappie from down-under; but underneath there's a PhD Maths brain whirring away faster than you or I can blink... |
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Jonathan Farrant
Jonathan is an actuary, so really ought to be doing Voce's finances. He also collects rugby shirts - Fiji and New Zealand are his prize possessions. Voce 6 a side anyone? |
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Rob Woodford
Rob just got back from 2 years finding himself around the world to find himself in a technology company. |
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BASSES
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Adrian Smallwood
Adrian's trangest performing experience: a Swedish audience who wouldn't clap at the end of the concert as they were in a church. They all just stood up in silence instead. |
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Aidan Briggs
Aidan recently went from Tokyo to London without stepping on a plane. And from Finsbury Park to Angel without stepping on the cracks between the paving slabs. |
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David Neal
All Welshmen can sing, apparently. Thank God they don't all sing as well as David, or we'd all be out of a job. |
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Ed Watkins
Ever-cheery Ed presented Blue Peter in a former life. Spending his days getting 8-year-olds to sing is perfect preparation for taking our Monday evening warm-ups. |
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Harry Briggs
Harry was singing before he was walking (something of a concern at the time) and has a penchant for monochrome |
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Jack Bertram
Jack's back! Famous for attending nursery school by conference call, Jack was a McKinsey partner at 17. Blink and you'll miss him. |
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Leo Ballerio
Ever since Torville & Dean, Leo's been getting letters addressed to Mr. Bolero. But he does do a fine pirouette. |
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Mike Timmins
Mike is the WD40 of Voce, smoothing over troubles with a dry wit and a dark chuckle... Also does Peter Cook better than, er, Peter Cook. |
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Rob Lown
Rob is a doctor. A real doctor. He even uses a stethoscope to check everyone's singing from the diaphragm. very handy. |
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Peter Rice
A student of the Middle East specialising in terrorism, and - just like Osama - he supports Arsenal.
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Peter Smith
Peter was once British number 4 at Croquet, and apparently has an unrivalled gift for spotting imperfections in a lawn |
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Will Haggard
Will is part of the Voce "training to be a lawyer" Mafia. They're taking over. |
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