Helen Rowe  (soprano)

Helen read music at Leeds University before continuing her studies on the Royal Academy of Music Opera course. She joined the Glyndebourne Opera chorus in 1991 and in addition to understudying major roles she sang The Russian Mother in Britten's Death in Venice, and ran workshops for Glyndebourne Education Department.

Solo concert work includes tours of Italy, France, Belgium and Sicily singing Dido and Belinda with the Deller Consort, Mozart's C Minor Mass with the Wiener Frauenorchester in Vienna, the Mozart Requiem at the Brighton Festival and the Monteverdi Vespers in Canterbury Cathedral. Professional choral experience includes work at the Salzburg Festival with the Schütz Choir under Roger Norrington.

Coming up in the future will be further appearances at the Salzburg Festival with Sir Simon Rattle, Messiah and The Creation for choral societies in Sussex, and running a choral course at Dartington International Summer School.

Clarissa Meek  (mezzo-soprano)

Clarissa studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has performed as a soloist for the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera, Netherlands Opera in New York, Scottish Opera, Garsington, Grange Park Opera, English Touring Opera and Opera Theatre Company in Ireland. Her roles have included Suzuki in Puccini's Madam Butterfly, Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, and Mrs Grose in Britten's The Turn of the Screw. Recent engagements have been in The Magic Flute at the Royal Opera House, and as the Fox in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in the Czech Republic.

Clarissa performs regularly in oratorio and on the concert platform, including Haydn's Stabat Mater at The Maltings for the Snape Proms; the Verdi Requiem at Paisley Abbey, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius at St. Edmundsbury Cathedral and The Kingdom at Winchester Cathedral, and Handel's Messiah in Hannover.

She has performed the Berlioz Nuits d'Été with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra on a tour of Belgium, Elgar's Sea Pictures at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, and has recently sung in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Bamberger Symphonica in Germany, with Walter Weller.

Philip O'Brien (tenor)

Born in 1971, Philip O'Brien studied on the AGSM and Opera courses at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London becoming a Wolfson Scholar and winning the Patrick Libby prize for acting.

His operatic roles have included Lenski in Eugene Onegin with the Oxford City Opera, Nemorino in L'Élisir d'Amore with Bel Canto Opera, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana with the London Festival Choir, Don José in Carmen at Aylesbury Festival and Florestan in Fidelio at St John's Smith Square.

Recent concert work has included Obadiah in Mendelssohn's Elijah with Haslemere Festival Choir, Puccini's Messa di Gloria with the London Festival Chorus and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at St John's Smith Square.

Future engagements in 2004 include singing the role of Samson in Samson and Delilah for Kentish Opera, Beppe/Canio in I Pagliacci for English Pocket Opera, and Alfredo in La Traviata with Opera in a Nutshell.

Jozef Koc  (baritone)

Jozef read music at York University before winning a scholarship for postgraduate study at the Guildhall School of Music. He was finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier, Royal Overseas League and Richard Tauber competitions, and winner of a South-East Arts competition which let to his debut at the Wigmore Hall.

He has enjoyed creating roles in many new opera and music theatre pieces. For ENO he sang Ygene in Gavin Bryars' Dr Ox's Experiment, the Captain in Arion and the Dolphin by Alec Roth, and the Corporal in Mark Anthony Turnage's The Silver Tassie. In more standard repertoire he has sung the Spirit in Orfeo and the Marquis in La Traviata. He has sung with Pimlico Opera, at Garsington, for Grange Park Opera and in Rigoletto for HoIIand Park Opera.

Further afield in Europe Jozef played the Traveller in Britten's Curlew River for Opera Factory at the Aix en Provence Festival and in Zurich; Don Perlimpin in Simon Holt's The Nightingale's to blame in Vienna; Tarquinius in Britten's Rape of Lucretia in Antwerp and Ghent, and Zhou Wenju in Night Banquet by Guo Wenjing in Vienna.

As a concert artist Jozef has appeared with the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and English Chamber Orchestras. He has sung at the BBC Proms and at festivals throughout Britain. He has broadcast on Channel 4, BBC TV and Radio and has made three CDs for Hyperion records. His recording of the Paray Mass with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy Award.