Amy Carson: Soprano

Amy Carson began her singing career as a girl chorister at Salisbury Cathedral, and went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. 

Amy sings with many of the UKs leading ensembles and enjoys appearing regularly as a soloist on the concert platform. Her solo performances include Bach St Matthew Passion and Cantatas in the Barbican, the Royal Albert Hall and Snape Maltings. Recent opera performances include performing Galatea with Music for Awhile in Somerset, singing chorus in Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini in Versailles and the Proms, Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Vespers in venues across Europe with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. 

In recent years she has also been performing regularly with The Sixteen, ORA, Solomon’s Knot, The OAE. Recent recordings include two new exciting recordings choral works by James Macmillan with ORA and The Sixteen and featuring on Nick Cave’s new album Carnage.

Charlotte Tetley: Mezzo soprano

Charlotte studied Music and Education at Homerton College, Cambridge where she sang with Trinity College Choir. After graduating she became a primary school teacher in London for 2 years. She then studied vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London followed by Opera Studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow. After graduating Charlotte went to Glyndebourne for the next two years as a member of the chorus in both the Festival and Touring Opera. 

Charlotte is a keen lieder, recital and oratorio singer; she has performed as part of the ‘Leeds Lieder’ festival and is a Creer and Samling Scholar. She has performed Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Oxford Sinfonia and recitals at both the Dorchester and Holt Festivals. She sings regularly with the Orchestra of St. John’s under John Lubbock OBE. Recent performances have included the St. John and Matthew Passions, Handel’s Messiah, Respighi’s Il Tramonto and the Vivaldi Gloria amongst others.

Charlotte lives in Hampshire with her 4 children and is taught by Christine Cairns.

Edmund Hastings

Originally a treble at Bath Abbey, Edmund sang at King’s College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford, going on to study at the Royal Academy of Music. 

His operatic experience ranges from the title role in Orfeo (Hampstead Garden Opera) to creating the role of Gabriel in Hagar in the Wilderness by Sally Beamish. Other opera includes Sailor Dido and Aeneas (AAM), Offenbach’s Vert-Vert (cover Vert-Vert) for Garsington Opera, and Cinea Cajo Fabricio for the London Handel Festival.

Concert appearances include the first performance of Handel’s Messiah in Goa with the Symphony Orchestra of India, a song recital at the Parisian British Ambassadorial Residenc, Beethoven's Ninth with CUMS in the Pallazzo Vecchio, Florence, and a St Matthew Passion tour with the Israeli Camerata. 

Edmund is also the proud mastermind of a unique music and mountains holiday concept, set against the backdrop of the stunning Snowdonia hills. Google ‘Mountain Lieder’ for more details.

Tim Dickinson: Bass-Baritone

Timothy Dickinson has been noted for his “wonderfully warm, round, powerful tone” (Early Music Today). His work ranges from recitals across the UK to Operatic roles at Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera, Longborough, Buxton and elsewhere. He has toured internationally with Silent Opera, in their groundbreaking production of ‘Vixen’, and has also been a regular guest at the St Endellion Festivals in Cornwall. Along with his wife, soprano Amy Carson, he has staged two successful Opera productions in the grounds of Wyke House, near Bruton, most recently ‘The Fairy Queen’ by Henry Purcell.

Timothy is also very active as an Oratorio soloist, embracing a broad repertoire including Bach’s Passions, the Requiems of Verdi, Mozart, Fauré and Duruflé, and Haydn’s ‘The Creation’. He has also sung with various ensembles, including Freiburg Barokorchester, The Sixteen, Dunedin Consort, BBC Singers and La Nuova Musica, with whom he appears on ‘Sacrifices’ (Harmonia Mundi).

In November 2021, Timothy released 'The Holy Boy: Christmastide in Albion’, a recital album of Christmas-themed songs and piano music with pianist Duncan Honeybourne.

Timothy was the recipient of the 2013 Wessex Glyndebourne Award, and is an Alumnus of the National Opera Studio, London.