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British mezzo-soprano Nancy Holt attended the National Opera Studio 2024/25, having recently graduated from the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is an Oxford International Song Festival Young Artist for 2024/25, Britten Pears Young Artist 2025/26, an Opera Prelude Young Artist 2026 and an Edinburgh International Festival Rising Star of Voice 2025. A recipient of the 2024/25 Musicians’ Company Salomon Seelig Award, Nancy gave a winner’s recital at Wigmore Hall in April. She won Second prize at The Ashburnham English Song Awards 2025. Last autumn, she made her debut at The Royal Ballet and Opera in the role of Guest Singer in Like Water for Chocolate and is covering the role of Hebe in HMS Pinafore at English National Opera. She performed a recital ‘Summer Nights’ at Oxford International Song Festival 2025 in October. Nancy won the Simon Sandbach Award for her time at Garsington Opera as an Alvarez Young Artist 2024, covering the role of Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and playing the role of Maenad 2 in Rameau’s Platée. She also joined IF Opera as Ensemble for their 2024 season, covering the role of Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.

British pianist and conductor Ashley Beauchamp studied on the opera course of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Ashley has a long relationship with Glyndebourne Opera. He conducted the world premiere of glass human (Fernando) for the Glyndebourne Tour 2022, and has worked as assistant conductor on L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti) and the world-premiere of Pay the Piper (Appleby, Cruttwell-Reade, Livingston & Robertson), conducting one performance of the latter. 2024/2025 sees Ashley returning to Glyndebourne as assistant conductor for La Traviata (Verdi), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) and as assistant conductor and chorus master for the world-premiere of Uprising, a new opera by Jonathan Dove.

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