Frédérique Klooster  (soprano)

Frédérique Klooster completed her Bachelor in Music degree at the Rotterdam Conservatory and is currently an MA student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has worked with many renowned musicians, including Sir Colin Davis, Robert Dean, Richard Egarr, Michael Fields, John Hancorn, Jurjen Hempel, Robert Hollingworth, Neil Jenkins, Reinbert de Leeuw, Anthony Rooley, Evelyn Tubb, Stephen Varcoe and Carolyn Watkinson.

Theatre roles include Hildegard in BINGEN, Hildegard von by directors Hogerzeil and Stroeve, Jonge Maarten/Jantje in Waterman by Koolmees, Saffi in Strauss's Der Zigeunerbaron, Timor Dei/Patientia in Von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum.

Frédérique has appeared as soloist in various oratorios, such as Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Vivaldi's Gloria, Biber's Vesperae longiores, Charpentier's Messe de Minuit, Haydn's Nelson Mass, Mendelssohn's Hear my Prayer / O for the Wings of a Dove and Lobgesang.
Future engagements include Handel's Messiah and Bach's St John Passion.

Kerri-Lynne Dietz   (mezzo-soprano)

Born in Bermuda, mezzo-soprano Kerri-Lynne Dietz studied at the Mannes College of Music in New York City before beginning her undergraduate studies with Elizabeth Ritchie at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has taken part in masterclasses with Diane Forlano, Phyllis Hoffman, and Robert Tear, and participated in the Boston University Tanglewood Young Artists Programme.

In addition to the British Youth Opera's Easter Workshops and their production of The Rake's Progress, recent performances include recitals at the Bermuda Festival, Duruflé's Requiem at the Monterosso Festival in Liguria, and a performance of Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer at the Royal Academy of Music. Aside from her musical studies Kerri-Lynne has participated in programmes with the Jason Project and the Bermuda Biological Station for Research. Kerri-Lynne is the recipient of a number of scholarships including those of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the English Speaking Union, the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society and St. John's Church, Bermuda.

Educated on a music scholarship at Blundell's School, Devon, Rupert completed his BMus Honours degree at King's College, London, in 2008.   During his time at King's he was a choral scholar in the Chapel Choir where his interest in 16th century choral polyphony was first sparked.  He is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Philip Doghan.

 As well as solo work in a range of oratorio, Rupert made his operatic debut in May 2008 as a founder member of the King's College Opera Company, playing the role of Prince Philippe in Lennox Berkeley's A Dinner Engagement.  At the Spitalfields music festival in July 2008 he was in the UK premiere of The Sealed Angel by Rodion Shchedrin, a performance subsequently recorded.   Other recordings include Convocation, a disc of music by Giles Swayne and a new Hyperion recording of works by Philippe Rogier.  He is also a member of close harmony group Six Tricks and of Siglo de Oro, a chamber choir specializing in 16th century European polyphony.

A former pupil at Gresham's School, Tom is a graduate of both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music, where he now studies on the opera course with Janice Chapman and Iain Leadingham. During time off from full time education he combines his passion for singing with teaching music and physical education to the pupils at Wymondham High School as well as pursuing his freelance career.

Tom's operatic roles include Mercurio (La Calisto), Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Leporello and Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Noye (Noye's Fludde), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Maximilian (Candide), Batone (L'inganno felice). His oratorio repertoire includes Carmina Burana, Elijah, the Mozart and Brahms Requiems and Five Mystical Songs.

Tom's future plans include covering the role of Count Almaviva for Royal Academy of Music Opera School, the Duruflé Requiem with Iain Leadingham, Opera Masterclasses with David Syrus and Swansea City Opera.