Sopranos

Molly O’Toole

Molly is a soprano from Sheffield who recently completed a Master’s degree in Solo Voice Ensemble Singing at the University of York under the direction of Robert Hollingworth. Molly was a member of the tenth cohort of the Genesis Sixteen Young Artists Program and the first cohort of HeartEdge Manchester scholars in 2021-22. She held a Music Scholarship while studying History at the University of Birmingham and has sung with ensembles including the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Lunds Akademiska Kor, Sweden, and St Giles’s Cathedral Choir, Edinburgh. When she’s not singing, Molly loves knitting and climbing.

 

Lizi Vineall

Lizi is a freelance soprano based in London, enjoying both solo and ensemble work. She studied in Munich with Julian Prégardien at HMTM and will start with Morley Opera School in September 2024. Lizi was a senior choral scholar at the Queen’s College, Oxford and also sang weekly services with Magdalen’s Consort of Voices. She has trained with Genesis Sixteen and was a scholar with the Oxford Bach Soloists. Solo work includes Mozart’s Requiem, Faure’s Requiem and Bach’s St Mark’s Passion. She is fluent in German and enjoys programming recitals of European art song. Lizi was  music director of the Oxford Gargoyles and her a cappella arrangements of French chansons have been performed in England and France.

Alto

Tania Murphy

Born and raised in Belfast, contralto Tania has recently moved to London from York where she completed a Masters degree in Solo Voice Ensemble Singing under the direction of Robert Hollingworth. Tania also held an Alto Choral Scholarship at York Minster and was the first ever female undergraduate student to be given this role. She enjoys a busy freelance career of both solo and ensemble singing and is an alumna of the Young Artist Programme, Genesis Sixteen and the first cohort of Chamber Choir Ireland Studio in 2023/24 which has led to her upcoming debut with Chamber Choir Ireland in Berlin. Tania recently made her solo opera debut in Handel’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ led by Mary Bevan and Barokksolistene.  She is looking forward to building her freelance career in London!

 

Tenor

Mark Zang

Born in London, Mark began his musical journey studying the piano from roughly four years of age. He then studied at the Purcell School of Music for eight years, before becoming Organ Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he studied Music. Although piano remained his main musical focus, it was during this time he discovered a joy for singing – first singing when not playing the organ, and then joining the (sadly now defunct) St John’s Voices – culminating in a place on Genesis Sixteen. Mark is extremely excited to be part of the Emerging Artists programme, alongside which he begins his studies in Piano Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

 

 

Bass

Freddie Ingles

Born in London, Freddie started singing with the boy’s choir, Libera, in 2007. With them he toured the US, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines and sang solos to concert halls of up to 5000 people. Freddie went on to study Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at the University of Birmingham, majoring in Linguistics and Performance, and graduated with a first-class degree. From 2023-2024 he was a Choral Scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields and a member of Genesis Sixteen. As well as choral and ensemble singing, Freddie loves art song. Recordings of a live performance of French, German, and English art song given by Freddie in the months before his final performance exam at university can be heard on Spotify. Starting next year, he hopes to attend the Royal Academy of Music for a Masters degree in art song.

 

Henry Saywell

Henry is a London-based freelance bass and regular member of professional ensembles including The Carice Singers and Recordare.  With a BMus (Birmingham University) and Vocal Performance MMus (Birmingham Conservatoire), he was a ’23-4 Monteverdi Choir Apprentice, is a former Ex Cathedra scholar, Genesis Sixteen alumnus and former St Chad’s Cathedral (Birmingham) choir member, having started singing in Tiffin Boys’ Choir.  For ’23-4, solo engagements have included St John Passion and Messiah, and opera roles, Colline Bohéme (Cowes/touring), Ramphis Aida, (Guildford), Huntsman Venus and Adonis  (Ryedale) and Chorus for MCO’s Les Troyens European tour.  ’24-5 roles include Zaretsky Onegin (HGO) and Chorus Castor et Pollux (Paris Opera).