SINGING TEACHER From Kilmarnock, Scotland, Paul Keohone is a conductor, singer and vocal coach living in Glasgow. Paul studied singing at the Royal College of Music, London. He has sung roles with Scottish Opera, Opera West (Norway), Opera de Nancy, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opera Holland Park and and at countless Festivals from Edinburgh to Bermuda. Also as a soloist he has sung with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Opera Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Peking Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia, and recorded with EMI, Naxos, Chandos and Deutsche Grammophon record labels. He sang the British Premier of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “When I Woke” Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and was nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for his performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’ “8 Songs for a Mad King”. During his 25 year singing career he understudied many major operatic roles, most notably with Scottish Opera, English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden and the opera of La Scala, Milan. In November 2021 he was appointed Musical Director of the City of Glasgow Chorus (CGC) www.cityofglasgowchorus.org and in November 2022 made his orchestral conducting debut with the CGC and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera at Glasgow City Halls, conducting Mozart Requiem and Ola Gjeilo Sunrise Mass. Since then, he has conducted the orchestra and choir in performances of Verdi Requiem at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Gloria at Glasgow City Halls and yearly performances of the CGC’s popular “Christmas Cracker” at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. As well as that he conducts a busy schedule of choral concerts with the CGC in venues across the west of Scotland. Paul teaches singing at The High School of Glasgow, and works as a vocal coach with the National Youth Choir of Scotland, The National Boys Choir and at the world famous Eton Choral Course. (now known as The Rodolphus Foundation Choral Course). He conducts choral and performance workshops with many other choirs including Glasgow Youth Choir and The Peninsula Choir and in 2024 took on the post of tutor in Singing for Wellbeing at the University of Strathclyde.

SINGING TEACHER London born soprano and Cambridge University graduate, Elinor Rolfe Johnson, possesses a ‘commanding stage presence and the voice to match’ (Seen and Heard International) and has been praised for her ‘superlative singing’ (The Guardian). An RCS scholar and Britten-Pears Young Artist, Elinor has been a Finalist in various competitions, including the inaugural Sing Finzi, London Welsh Singer of the Year and International Handel Singing Competitions. Elinor has worked with companies including Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Chelsea Opera Group, Nevill Holt Opera, The Mozartists and the London Handel Festival; her roles include Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Desdemona (Otello) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni). Elinor has performed in venues including the Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Opera House, Het Concertgebouw, Palais de Versailles, Royal Festival Hall and La Scala. Broadcasts include appearances on In Tune for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Proms performances. In demand on the concert platform, Elinor has performed with ensembles including La Nuova Musica, Britten Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Camerata Jerusalem; her repertoire includes the Passions of J.S. Bach, Handel Messiah, Haydn Creation, Mendelssohn Elijah, Mozart Mass in C minor, Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder, Mahler 4 th Symphony and Rückertlieder, Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony and Serenade to Music, Rossini Petite Messe Solonnelle and the Requiems of Brahms,Verdi, Mozart and Fauré. Elinor has worked with conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Antonio Pappano, Laurence Cummings, Anna Lapwood, David Bates and Raphael Pichon. In recital, performances include Cambridge Summer Music Festival, Lewes Chamber Music Festival, competition recitals for the International Wigmore Hall/Bollinger and International Handel Singing Competitions and Gregynog Music Festival. Collaborative partners include Ian Tindale, Graham Johnson, Robin Ticciati and Mark Padmore. Elinor was recently nominated for an ‘Off Westend’ Best Performance award for Contessa with Ensemble Orquesta at the Arcola Theatre. She most recently performed with Handel’s Heroines at Herrenhausen in Hannover with the Academy of Ancient Music.

PRINCIPAL ACCOMPANIST Daniel Greenway is Organ Scholar at Westminster Cathedral where he accompanies the world-famous Cathedral Choir on a regular basis. He began his musical studies as a chorister at Liverpool Cathedral. Whilst there, he developed a keen interest in the organ, becoming a student, and later scholar playing regularly for services. During this time, he studied with the cathedral organist Ian Tracey. This led to an organ scholarship at Keble College, Oxford where he graduated with a First Class degree in Music. He has won recital prizes to play at various venues around the country and has also performed on multiple BBC Radio 3 and Television broadcasts. In recognition for his organ playing, he has been awarded the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

COURSE ASSISTANT Benjamin Markovic pairs a busy freelance career as an organist, pianist and conductor with Masters study at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studies on a scholarship with James Cheung and Joseph Middleton. He holds the post of Director of Music and Organist at St Mary’s Church, Barnes, and gives regular recitals as an accompanist and as a soloist. Ben has worked with ensembles including the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Choral Sinfonia, St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble, National Children’s Choir of Great Britain, and the choir of the Peterborough School - with whom he recently toured Tuscany.

C​OURSE ASSISTANT Gregory May is a pianist and composer based in London. After studying piano and composition at the Junior department of the Royal Academy of Music, he went on to study music at Clare College Cambridge. He has just completed his final year of postgraduate study in composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. As a pianist, his focus is primarily on accompaniment and ensemble playing, with a particular interest in working with singers. He performs as part of a duo with the soprano Hannah Dienes-Williams, working together largely on 20th and 21st century repertoire.

C​OURSE ASSISTANT ​Caroline McCartney is a mezzo-soprano from Belfast. She studied music at Durham University, before moving to the University of York to study for a Masters in Solo Voice Ensemble Singing. She is now a Lay Clerk at Canterbury Cathedral, alongside which, she enjoys a busy freelance career. She has recently recorded with iFagiolini & The Lyon’s Mouth, under the direction of Robert Hollingworth, and has just been appointed as a member of the inaugural Constellation Academy, under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Caroline also works in fundraising, for a charity based in Canterbury.

C​OURSE MANAGER ​Zoe Silkstone currently lives in London and works in Sales for Procter & Gamble. Alongside her 9-5 she is a singer, depping around London, and runs a semi-pro consort group, I Dodici. She first attended the choral courses in 2011 at Eton, went on to sing in the Rodolfus Choir and then as a choral scholar at Cambridge, and has worked on several courses as Admin over the past 10 years.

HOUSE PARENT Harry Guthrie is a choral conductor, baritone and teacher based in London. He founded Continuum in 2018 and directs the group in concerts and recordings in and around London. In addition to being Director of Music at St Barnabas’ Church, Ealing and Musical Director of Fulham Camerata, he has been a Guest Conductor for the Cambridge University Chamber Choir and has directed Ely Cathedral Choir. Harry is Head of Choral Music at Notting Hill and Ealing High School. He has previously worked at Wells Cathedral School, St John’s College School, Cambridge, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and at Ely Cathedral. Harry enjoys annual work with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and the Rodolfus Foundation, both of which were instrumental in developing his love of choral music. After growing up in Bedford, Harry read Music at Trinity College, Cambridge where he held a Choral Scholarship under Stephen Layton. Before coming up to Cambridge, he spent a year as the Bass Choral Scholar at Wells Cathedral. Harry has studied conducting with Stephen Layton and Paul Spicer.

HOUSE PARENT Rachel Fright has worked for the Rodolfus Choral Courses since 2017. She is the accompanist for Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus and Congleton Choral Society and was a recent prizewinner in the Stella Jockel Memorial Prize for choral composition. Rachel studied with scholarships to Pembroke College, Oxford and the Royal Northern College of Music, where she held a Junior Fellowship. Rachel loves working with singers and works as a collaborative pianist at the RNCM and the University of York. She also teaches at Yorkshire Young Musicians and Sheffield Music Academy and does regular musical outreach projects for Live Music Now and the Leeds Lieder Festival.