Matthew Coleridge
composer & conductor

Matt is rapidly gaining a reputation as an inspiring and energetic workshop leader. His Requiem-in-a-Day workshops are led with "humour, skill and encouragement" (Buckfast Abbey workshop 2019), gathering momentum through the day before culminating in moving performances of his music. He has "an extraordinary ability to make singers believe they can produce what he has in mind" (SWEMF workshop 2018).

His choral music has been performed around the world, and has been recorded and broadcast by professional ensembles including The Queens Six , Kantos Chamber Choir and RSVP Voices.

Caroline Anne
composer & rehearsal accompanist

Winning the 'Classical pianist of the year' award twice whilst at Leeds College of Music earned Caroline an interview on BBC Radio Three, where she discussed piano teaching and the Leeds Piano Competition; Caroline's Major was in performance.

Highly acclaimed sopranos Barbara Bonney and Lynne Dawson (soloist at Princess Diana's funeral) gave Lieder workshops at the College in 2006 and Caroline was chosen to be their accompanist; this led to more work as a repetiteur for Opera North.

After graduation, Caroline moved back home to Lincolnshire and worked with distinguished conductors Adrian Partington, Nigel Perrin, and Alexander L'estrange. Her choral and film music compositions have been broadcast on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and Lincoln City Radio, and her church music has received performances in Gloucester Cathedral and other parish churches in Wales, Suffolk, Norfolk, Aberdeenshire and Lincolnshire.

Gabriella Swallow
cello soloist

Gabriella Swallow has performed with some of the world's most respected orchestras and musicians. She has emerged as one of the most versatile and exciting cellists of her generation.

Gabriella studied at The Royal College of Music with Jerome Pernoo. She was awarded the coveted Tagore Gold Medal and performed the Hugh Wood Cello Concerto in her final year.

As a soloist Gabriella went on to make her South Bank debut with the London Sinfonietta in the world premiere of ‘About Water’ by Mark-Anthony Turnage. In the same year she performed Paul Max Edlin’s Cello Concerto with the South Bank Sinfonia, which firmly launched her place as a leading performer of contemporary music. This has led her to commission and work with many of the major living composers of today.

Jeffrey Makinson
organ

Jeffrey is Assistant Director of Music and Sub-Organist of Lincoln Cathedral. He is also a tutor for the Royal College of Organists Academy and Music Director of Beverley Chamber Choir.

He was Organ Scholar at York Minster from 1992-1994, before spending five years as Assistant Organist at Lincoln Cathedral. He moved to Manchester Cathedral as Sub-Organist in 1999. During his time in Manchester, he was Tutor in Organ Studies at the RNCM and at Manchester University.

Jeffrey returned to Lincoln Cathedral in January 2015. As part of his duties, Jeffrey directs the Girls of the Cathedral Choir and accompanies the Cathedral Choir for many of the choral services. Alongside his work in Lincoln, he maintains a busy schedule as a recitalist, accompanist, conductor, teacher and adjudicator in the city and throughout the country.

Gaynor Morgan
soprano soloist

Gaynor gained an Honours degree in music at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where she studied piano and singing as joint first studies, as well as being one of the official accompanists. She later studied opera in London. She has taught and coached privately up to diploma/professional level for more than thirty years, during which time she has also been engaged in concert and recital work.

Performances include Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss and Hermione by Hector Berlioz, and a recital of opera and art song for Earl Swinton, where she was accompanied by her daughter Caroline Anne. Gaynor has been invited to teach in various schools and university departments and, for several years, she has been treating patients, referred from hospital consultants, who have been suffering from various vocal disorders; she considers this a particularly rewarding aspect of her work.

She is also delighted that many of her pianists and singers have enjoyed their own successes as professional performers and teachers.

Allan Smith
baritone soloist

Allan is Master of the Choristers at St James's, Louth, and Musical Director of Louth Choral Society.

A former Lay Clerk of Carlisle and Gloucester Cathedrals, he has worked as a professional soloist with many leading UK orchestras, including The Philharmonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Royal Ballet

His vocal studies continued in Milan with Giovanna Canetti, before commencing a training programme with English National Opera. He appeared as Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte in London.