Staff A-Z

Mark has also worked as a choreographer and director since 2010. Credits include: Peter Pan for BYMT, The Last Five Years and Tin Pan Alley for Cosson’s Performing Arts, Cautionary Tales for Youth Music Theatre UK, Milk Milk Lemonade, for Ovalhouse, Stepping Out, and Legally Blonde for Reynolds Performing Arts, and Romeo and Juliet for Arch 468.

In 2011, Mark received a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Professional Practice: Musical Theatre Education, from Middlesex University as well as receiving his PTLLS and DTLLS teaching qualifications. He has taught Jazz Dance, Ballet, Musical Theatre, Physical Theatre and Clowning on a variety of vocational courses and helped establish Cosson’s Performing Arts, where he was Head of Dance for 3 years, creating and developing course content and pedagogy.

Since 2022, Mark has also been the Lead Producer for An Tobar and Mull Theatre on the Isle of Mull and has produced and co-produced a variety of productions for the organisation including Our Carnal Hearts, In the Weeds and Morag, You’re a Long Time Deid.

His choreographic work has been shown at the National Theatre in Belgrade, Madlenianum Opera & Theatre, Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad, National Theatre Sarajevo, Festival Velenje, Music Center in Montenegro, Zagreb Dance Center, National Opera and Ballet of Macedonia and the Šibenik Dance Festival, amongst others.

Aleksandar was Acting Director of Belgrade Culture Centre (2019-2023) and Artistic Director of BELEF the Belgrade Summer Festival (2017-2022). He is a Professor and a founder of the Belgrade Dance Institute, President of Association of Professional Ballet Dancers, Choreographers and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia and Director of Dance Magazine Stepart. He has also written three books of poetry. He is currently an ensemble pedagogue at the National Theater in Belgrade and the Music Center in Montenegro

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Richard has also undertaken extensive concert work, including appearances with conductors Sir David Willcocks, Sir Neville Marriner, Gary Bertini, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Richard Hickox. He has performed Handel’s Belshazzar at the Bath Festival, Christus in Jonathan Miller’s dramatisation of Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Festival d’Ambronay in France, Britain and Spain, Britten’s War Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall and St Matthew Passion with the City of London Sinfonia at the Barbican.

After singing in the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, for three years, Richard attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and worked privately with Pierre Bernac.

Richard has taught both German and French song at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and is in demand as leader of masterclasses.

She has appeared as Guest Principal with most major UK ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Welsh, BBC Scottish, BBC Concert Orchestra, CBSO, Hallé Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, RSNO, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, RTÉ National Symphony, the Orchestra of Opera North and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Carol’s session work features on a number of commercial soundtracks for feature films, advertisements, jingles, albums and singles. Carol has also contributed to myriad commercial pop tracks and as such her work has appeared in the Top 10 UK charts numerous times.

Carol has been a trombone professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music for over eleven years and has given masterclasses throughout the world, including Lucerne Conservatoire in Switzerland, University of California in Los Angeles, Rice University in Houston, Mexico City University, Lima Conservatoire in Peru and at the Jazz Institute in Graz, Austria. She quite often serves as an outside assessor at UK Conservatoires and abroad, and on international juries for trombone competitions around the globe. Carol is a former President of the British Trombone Society and was appointed President of the International Trombone Festival in 2017.

As well as performing and teaching, Carol has written orchestral arrangements for a whole host of different artists and genres. Most notably for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Grammy award-winning stars such as Corinne Bailey Rae and multi-Platinum-selling pop star Seal. She was part of the production team on a Eurovision Song Contest entry representing the UK and her orchestrations have been featured on Mercury Prize nominated albums, been in the top 5 of the UK Album Charts, top 10 on the US Billboard Chart and also been recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.

Carol recorded her debut solo album ‘Smile’ at Pinewood Studios, which reached the penultimate round of the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. Carol is a solo endorsed artist with Michael Rath Trombones and Roland Keyboards.

Theatre credits include: The Book of Mormon (UK/International Tour); Annie (UK Tour); Madagascar the Musical (UK Tour); Sunset Boulevard (UK Tour); Annie (Cork Opera House); Starlight Express (Germany); Saturday Night Fever (Frankfurt); Grease (UK Tour); An Evening of Dirty Dancing (UK Tour); Taimid Seanachai (Toronto, Canada); High School Rocks (UK Tour); Zombie Prom (Landor, UK Premier); Peter Pan (Derngate); Snow White (Hawth); Dick Whittington and Aladdin (Gala); and the Royal Masonic Variety Show (Prince Edward).
Film and Television credits include: Wicked: Part One; Axe Gold Commercial; Clive in Nickelodeon’s hit sitcom Genie In The House; and dancing for Tim Minchin’s Canvas Bags video. Darren is passionate about the voice. He is a qualified Vocal Health First Aider, has completed his Advanced Professional Diploma in teaching contemporary singing through The Voice College, and teaches at institutions including The Miskin Theatre and Trinity Laban Conservatoire.

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For the past few years, Kate has been creating a series of dance scores for use in everyday situations, with a particular focus on relationships and mood. Where and how these scores exist, in terms of location and medium, is an important aspect of this work.

Her current collaboration, with artist Lili Murphy-Johnson and dancers Kirsty Alexander and Lily Paine, is an exploration of the act of “doing” through film and dance and uses film as an integral part of the choreographic process.

Previous collaborations have been with dance artist Marina Collard, poet Carol Watts, and film maker Ros Cheshire.

As a dance animateur for Yorkshire Dance, Swindon Dance, Cambridgeshire and Rambert, Kate has taught in a variety of community settings. She has also taught at Barnsley College of Art, Lewisham College and London Contemporary Dance School.

CJ has starred in countless West End plays and musicals including 42ND STREET (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), SMALL ISLAND (Olivier, National Theatre), 101 DALMATIANS (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Royal Exchange), OLIVER (Cameron Mackintosh Tour), RENT (Duke of York’s), PIAF (Donmar/Vaudeville Theatre), WOMAN IN WHITE (Palace Theatre), THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Rose Theatre), CHESS (Oslo), THE KING AND I (tour), SINATRA WITH THE NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA (UK tour and London Palladium), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Frankfurt), ZIPP! (Duchess Theatre).

Workshops include HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PINOCCHIO (NT), & JULIET, PUMP UP THE VOLUME, THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE, THE BUTTERFLY LION, THE IRON WOMAN, THIS IS A LOVE STORY, HEEL, LITTLE BEASTS, THE PIED PIPER.

As a singer, CJ has toured globally as a soloist, including Tokyo, Shanghai, Macau, San Francisco, Paris, Dubai, Milan for clients such as Swarovski and David Beckham. She has appeared with opera band Amici Forever and Incognito Artists. She also sang for the QUEEN’S GOLDEN JUBILEE (Buckingham Palace).

Her TV and film credits include CALL THE MIDWIFE (BBC), THE MYSTERY OF MARILYN MONROE (NETFLIX), GALAVANT (ABC), SMALL ISLAND (NT LIVE), BEYOND THE FENCE (SKY ARTS). She starred in the short film MOUSIE (set in 1936 Berlin and starring as Katharina) winning several film festival awards including BEST ACTRESS at the SOCIAL FILM FESTIVAL ARTELESIA. She plays Stina in new award-winning comedy TV series THE PLAYERS. She appears in the RICHARD RODGERS CENTENARY GALA (BBC4/Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

As a recording artist, CJ appears on THE LIGHT PRINCESS Original Cast Recording (Universal/Tori Amos) and has recorded demos for BBC and SKY including OTHERWORLD and PSYCHOBITCHES. Her vocals were also used for THE HURLY BURLY SHOW (Garrick Theatre). As a voiceover artist, CJ has a list of credits including the voice

of ITV PLAYER, narrator for YOU ARE AWAKE (Channel 4) and playing characters for BILLIE AND THE GHOST (DISNEY).

She is also a qualified yoga and meditation teacher and loves to bring an essence of mindfulness to all of her teaching.

Training: ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC (PGDip), Winchester University (First Class BA (Hons) Drama, Theatre and TV); Estill Voice Method Levels 1&2 (Anne-Marie Speed); Meisner technique (Actor’s Centre, London); Yoga and Meditation instructor (200hr East & West RYS Yoga Alliance).

As a chamber musician, Malcolm joined the Amernet String Quartet in 1990 after meeting at the Julliard School in New York. The quartet went on to be the recipient of many major awards including the prestigious Gold Medal at the 1992 Tokyo International Chamber Music Competition. They performed all over the USA, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Germany and Australia and held residencies at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, LSU and The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts while also participating in the Aspen, Tanglewood, Norfolk and Great Lakes Summer Festivals.

More recently, Malcolm has worked as guest violist with the Leopold String Trio at the Edinburgh Festival and the Snape Proms, participated in the Chamber Music series at the Wigmore Hall with the LPO Chamber Players as well as featuring as violist with the Falk Quartet. He has collaborated with several distinguished musicians including Ruth Laredo, Miriam Fried, Nathaniel Rosen and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.

Malcolm earned his Bachelor’s degree at the RSAMD, Glasgow (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and continued his studies with John White at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Other teachers included Masao Kawasaki and Jerzy Kosmala. Among others who have given direction to Malcolm’s career are the Tokyo, La Salle, Emerson and Amadeus String Quartets and Isaac Stern, during the inaugural season of his Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall, New York.

As an educator, Malcolm has been a visiting professor at Trinity Laban, the RAM and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for several years. He is especially sought after as a mentor for young musicians preparing for auditions and embarking on their careers with several former students now holding prominent positions in orchestras around the UK. Malcolm is very excited to now hold the position of Professorial Staff- Viola at Trinity Laban.

In 1997, he was elected an Associate of the RAM (ARAM).

As a recitalist he has performed throughout Europe as well as Israel, Colombia, Ecuador and the United States.
As a principal keyboard player for the Gabrieli Consort and Players for 17 years, he took part in some 22 landmark recordings for Deutsche Grammophon. As a member of the chamber ensemble Florilegium for 10 years he performed throughout Europe and North and South America (and was the first European to record on an 18th century organ built by the indigenous Indians in Santa Ana, Bolivia). He recorded eight solo discs of works by Blow, Gibbons, E Pasquini, Cornet, Elizabethan Virginalists and a Bach recital (on the Waalse Kerk organ, Amsterdam). He is currently principal keyboardist with Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir.

In 2016 he undertook a series of critically acclaimed Bach recordings for Metronome Recordings: Clavierübung Part III, Fantasias and Fugues, the 18 Chorales and Canonic Variations. The complete organ works of François Couperin and d’Anglebert was released in 2020. Current new releases include Bach’s Art of Fugue on harpsichord, the six violin and obbligato harpsichord sonatas with Rodolfo Richter and Volume 4 of the Bach series (Bader organ, Zutphen).

James also teaches early keyboards at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music London.