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Benjamin Segal Tenor

Benjamin Segal has recently completed the National Opera studio course (supported by the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation and the Headley Trust) and, prior to this, a season as a member of The Glyndebourne Festival Chorus.

Operatic Roles include his Glyndebourne Festival debut as Monostatos/Die Zauberflöte with Sir Charles Mackerras; Tamino (cover)/The Magic Flute, Opera North, Alfred/Die Fledermaus, Scottish Opera; Mr Upfold/Albert Herring, The Husband/Les Mamelles De Tirésias; Laërte/Mignon; School Master/Comedy on the Bridge, Snout/A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Benjamin has also recently taken part in workshops for Almeida Opera on their new commission The Twins by Errollyn Wallen.

Oratorio highlights include his Edinburgh Festival debut in Serenade for Music at the Usher Hall, Bach Bminor Mass with Suzuki in the Aldeburgh festival at The Snape Maltings Concert Hall, The Evangelist in St John Passion, Missa Solemnis, The Creation, Requiem (Mozart) and Messiah (Händel)

Benjamin has given many recitals throughout the UK and abroad including performances at Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House Crush Room, St John’s Smith Square and St James Piccadilly. Recently he gave a world premier of a newly commissioned piece by Benjamin Wallfisch at the Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square.

Katrina Reimers Repetiteur

Katrine Reimers was born in Somerset and graduated in 2000 from King’s College, Cambridge, where she founded the King’s College Musical Society Chorus. She then continued her studies in Piano Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Since 2001 Katrine has devoted a large part of her time to education and community projects, principally as the musical director of the East London-based community opera company Vision Opera, where she was Musical Director for four years.

Katrine’s opera experience encompasses conducting, repetiteuring, chorus coaching and harpsichord continuo, most recently for performances of Così fan Tutte and Rodelinda with Opera de Baugé in France this Summer. She has also been employed as a stage director, making her debut with Hampstead Garden Opera in a production of Alcina in April 2005.

For three years she has been the conductor of two London chamber choirs, The Bourne Singers and The Lewisham Town Hall Singers, and has worked as an accompanist and assistant conductor for numerous choral societies across the south of England.

She also has a great passion for Lieder, participating in Masterclasses with, among others, Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Eugene Asti and Iain Burnside, as well as regularly accompanying singers on the concert platform. Katrine is grateful for the support from the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, the Solti Foundation, the Friends of Covent Garden and a Nelly Groner Bursary.