Harry Sever - Music Director
BBC Music Magazine ‘Rising Star’ conductor Harry Sever is fast developing a wide-ranging repertoire and a fluency in both operatic and orchestral style.
A finalist in both the LSO’s Donatella Flick and the Athens International Conducting Competitions, he was Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow at Longborough Festival Opera from 2022-24.
Recent and upcoming engagements include Rheingold / Walküre (Grange Park Opera), Cavalleria Rusticana / Aleko / Carmen (Opera North), Siegfried (Den Ny Opera), Walküre / Siegfried / Fairy Queen (Longborough) Fantasio (Garsington), La Traviata (Opera Holland Park), Cendrillon (Bampton Classical Opera), The Nutcracker (Peter Schaufuss Ballet), concerts with the orchestra of Welsh National Opera and recordings with the orchestra of Opera North.
As an assistant conductor and member of music staff, Harry has worked with Scottish Opera, English National Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, Den Jyske Opera (Danish National Opera), Garsington, Opera Holland Park, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the Grange Festival, and the Britten Sinfonia at Sadler’s Wells.
His education work has included projects with The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, The Royal Opera Academy, Copenhagen, British Youth Opera, Birmingham Conservatoire and Trinity Laban Conservatoire.
A composer for stage and screen, Harry’s shows Mr Men & Little Miss, James and the Giant Peach and Guess How Much I Love You have toured internationally. For the theatre, scores include The Kreutzer Sonata (Arcola Theatre), Sleeping Beauty and My Mother Said I Never Should (The Theatre Chipping Norton), King Lear, As You Like It, Love’s Labours Lost (The Minack Theatre); for television, Stalker (CBS); for the radio, Rossum’s Universal Robots (BBC Radio 4).
Harry studied at the Queen’s College, Oxford and trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Lucy Hollins - Principal Guest Conductor
Lucy is a conductor, presenter, writer and animateur. She is Creative Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra’s Junior and Senior Choirs, Associate Chorus Director of the London Symphony Chorus, a vocal leader for Music of Life, Creative Lead for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Young Creatives project, Principal Guest Conductor of the Cambridge Philharmonic, a conducting tutor for the Association of British Choral Directors, and Conductor of CBSO SO Vocal.
A leading expert in music education and engagement, Lucy is passionate about opening up opportunities for everyone to experience the transformative powers of making music together, regardless of their age, background or level of experience. She presents schools and family concerts for London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Cambridge Philharmonic and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Lucy is proud to be co-author of How To Make Your Choir Sound Awesome with Suzzie Vango, published by Banks Music in October 2022.
Chorus Masters - season 26-27
Term Two
Alex Trigg - CHORUS ACCOMPANIST
‘Rising star’ Alexander Trigg is an organist and director based in Cambridge, UK. Alongside a busy freelance performing schedule, Alex holds roles with a number of choirs, such as Chorus Accompanist with Cambridge Philharmonic, and with the University’s most exciting new ensemble, Cambridge Schola.
A champion of youth music, Alex works with local schools to provide free music education through his charity St Andrew’a Music School. He also runs Festival of Choirs, a company which brings together choirs from around the world to perform large-scale concerts in magnificent venues.