Australian tenor Paul Bentley-Angell is a concert soloist and consort singer throughout the UK and Europe. Paul performs with many of the world's leading choirs and ensembles, notably Grammy Award winning groups Huelgas Ensemble (BE) directed by Paul Van Nevel and Theatre of Voices (DK) directed by Paul Hillier. He regularly sings with London vocal consort Siglo de Oro (UK), Ireland's flagship ensemble Chamber Choir Ireland (ROI) and Birmingham based Ex Cathedra (UK). Paul was also a member of Grammy Award winning Danish vocal ensemble Ars Nova Copenhagen (DK) for six years.

Additionally, Paul can be found performing with Collegium Vocale Gent (BE), Polyphony (UK), The Gabrieli Consort (UK), Voces Academy (DK / UK), The Musicall Compass (UK), BBC Singers (UK), Musica Ficta (DK), The Carice Singers (UK) and La Grande Chapelle (ES).
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He was a founding member of The Consort of Melbourne (AU) and of London-based madrigal group Convictus (UK). He has also lent his vocals to a variety of popular video games and to Hollywood movie soundtracks, most notably Mary Magdalene (Universal, 2018).
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He has performed at some of the worlds most famous venues: Palais Garnier - Paris; Teatro Real - Madrid; Elbphilharmonie - Hamburg; Wigmore Hall - London; The Royal Albert Hall - London; Carnegie Hall - New York & The Lincoln Center - New York. Paul served as a lay-clerk at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire, England for 2 years, and now sings periodically at various UK great cathedrals and churches, including Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, St James' Sussex Gardens, The London Oratory, St Paul's Knightbridge, St Margaret's Westminster and Chichester Cathedral.
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Paul has extensive training in vocal performance, particularly in the area of early music, having studied with some of the world's leading experts and musicians in their repective fields, including Anthony Rooley, Jeremy Summerly, Evelyn Tubb, Nicholas Clapton, Greg Dikmans, Ruth Wilkinson, Emma Kirkby, Jessica Cash, Gary Ekkel, Miriam Morris and Vivien Hamilton. Paul graduated with first-class honours from the University of Melbourne in 2008, and at Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland in 2010 he studied Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies (AVES) under the direction of renowned musician and director Anthony Rooley (lutenist & director Consort of Musicke), taking a place in the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) program.

Fanny Kempe is a Swedish mezzo-soprano, educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Music, and The Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen, where she finished her studies in 2018.

Fanny has been engaged as a soloist with some of the most prominent orchestras and ensembles in Denmark, such as Århus Symphony Orchestra, the Danish Chamber Orchestra, Copenhagen Phil, Concerto Copenhagen, Camerata Øresund and the Danish National Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2017 Fanny made her debut at The Royal Danish Opera/ The Royal Danish Theatre as Modestina in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims.

Fanny is regularly hired as a soloist in various oratorios and requiems. She has a special interest for early music, and a love for French baroque. In the spring of 2025 she will sing the Leçons de Ténèbres by Couperin in both Denmark and Sweden.

Beside her work as a soloist Fanny often sings with various vocal ensembles. She is a regular member of the Copenhagen based CIV’s Vocal Ensemble, and she assists in for example The Danish Radio Concert Choir, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and Ars Nova. In June 2024 Fanny received a scholarship from the Drottningholmsteaterns Vänner, at a ceremony at the Drottningholms Slottsteater in presence of H.M The Queen Silva of Sweden.

In the summer of 2023 Fanny was a part of the ensemble of The Fairy Queen at Drottningholms Slottsteater in Stockholm, as cover for one of the leading roles, as well as alto in the choir, conducted by Francesco Corti (musical director) and directed by Josette Bushell-Mingo. Fanny was also a part of the theatre’s production in the summer of 2024, as a soprano/ dessus de choeur in the choir in Armide by J-B. Lully, as well as cover for the roles La Sagesse, Sidonie, Une Bergere héroïque and Lucinde, directed by Florent Siaud.

In 2025 Fanny returns to the Drottningholms Slottsteater in the opera Orpheus by Telemann, with the Italian director Elena Barbalich.

Kevin Skelton has a multifaceted career performing, directing, choreographing, teaching, and researching. Equally at home on the concert and operatic stage, Kevin specializes in seventeenth-century music and experimental music theatre with a particular interest in combining classical singing and contemporary dance. He has created several videos and performances under the auspices of his own company ātmāand performed with such renowned companies as Opera Atelier, Boston Early Music Festival, LOD, Muziektheater Transparant, ISH, Nederlandse Reisopera, SPAC (Japan), and Sasha Waltz & Guests.

The recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Ontario Arts Council, Kevin has completed graduate studies in voice, conducting, musicology, theatre, and choreography having studied at the University of Toronto, Indiana University, Oxford University, and the contemporary dance school PARTS in Brussels.

The dutch mezzo soprano Francine Vis studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Royal Danish Opera Academy. She sang Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata, Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen, Pernille (Nielsen’s Maskarade) and Cherubino at the Royal Danish Opera. She sang the part of the Squirrel in Richard Ayres’ opera The Cricket Recovers, directed by Pierre Audi, for the Holland Festival. She had her Swedish debut with a leading role, Gwendolen, in The Importance of being Earnest (B Tommy Andersson) in Vadstena.

In 2018 she sang and conducted a new music theatre production with music by a.o. Ligety at the Opera Forward Festival in Amsterdam. She sang Carmen with the Danish National Operam, Tisbe in Cenerentola at the Royal Swedish Opera, Cherubino in Danish with Den Ny Opera in Esbjerg, the Dormouse and the Cricket in the contemporary children's opera by Mathilde Wantenaar A song for the moon, with the Dutch National Opera. She toured through Scandinavia with the contemporary opera Drømdøden with Nordic Opera. She had her role and house debut as Gertrude in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at Malmö Opera.

In 2023 she successfully jumped in as Faust in Malmö Opera’s tour production Marguerite and she sang the part of Angelina at Opera Hedelands La Cenerentola. At Malmö Operaverkstan she sang the main part of Nallepirat in the newly written opera for children Nalle Havsöga in spring 2024. In 2025 she will go on tour with Malmö Opera to perform the main part of Baba in Menotti’s The Medium.

Next to her opera work she is a frequently asked soloist for baroque, romantic and contemporary music. She has won the Händel Award and the Diorapthe Award for new music at the International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch 2014 and the 1st prize for her lied duo with Christian Westergaard at the Copenhagen Lied-Duo Competition 2015.

Þórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir is an Icelandic vocalist and performer based in Copenhagen. She is classically trained and performs in a wide range of early to contemporary music, but has found her niche in performing new music. She enjoys working closely with composers and has premiered well over twenty pieces which comprise both operas, solo pieces, as well as chamber music composed for her trio KIMI ensemble. In 2022 the trio published their first album Bittersweet with Dacapo Records, in collaboration with the composer Nick Martin.

Þórgunnur has performed in several experimental operas as well as inter-disciplinary performances, such as Livia’s Room by the Norwegian Lene Therese Teigen and The Altersea Opera at the Venice Biennale by artists Lap-See Lam, Kholod Hawash and composer Tze Yeung Ho. She has performed as a soloist with e.g. The Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, BIT20 Ensemble (NO), Ensemble Storstrøm (DK), Århus Sinfonietta (DK) and at festivals & such as Bang on a Can (US), Tête à Tête opera festival (UK), Nordic Song Festival (SE), NJORD biennale (DK), et al..

Þórgunnur has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Music where she studied with Marianne Rørholm, Hanna Hjort and Helene Gjerris. In addition she has a Bachelor’s degree in Icelandic and Anthropology from The University of Iceland.

Tenor Kristoffer Appel is a native of Copenhagen, Denmark. He was trained at LaGrange College, Georgia (US), Danish National Academy of Music (Odense, Denmark), and The Royal Danish Academy of Music (Copenhagen, Denmark). 

Kristoffer’s career has spanned opera as well as musical theater; but first and foremost he is a vocal ensemble and choir singer and a frequent soloist. Especially baroque music is one of his specialities and he has performed as a soloist in many works by JS Bach and Handel. 

Kristoffer is a member of DR KoncertKoret (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) and Copenhagen based ensemble Musica Ficta. 

As a soloist, Kristoffer recently performed with the Norwegian-based Orkester Nord in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in a concert and album recording of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. 

Besides music, Kristoffer is a member of the city council of Frederiksberg. In his political work, he puts a big focus on cultural affairs and policy at the local level. 

Kirse Kampp is a music educator and singer with a bachelor's degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where she is now studying her master's degree with Tuva Semmingsen. Alongside her studies, Kirse sings in Holmen's Kantori and Vokalensemble and regularly sings with professional choirs and ensembles, such as Musica Ficta and Ars Nova Copenhagen

In addition to her work as a singer, the educational work is also very important to Kirse. Both in the work with musical growth - working with children and opening their eyes to what music can do - and in the work with adult amateurs.

Phillip Faber is one of Denmark’s foremost conductors, composers, arrangers and musical personalities. As well as working with the country’s leading professional ensembles he is known throughout the country as former host of the daily Fællessang broadcasts and The Classical Music Quiz on Danish state television, in addition to his capacity as chief conductor of the Danish National Girls’ Choir.

With a background in theatre and music, Phillip studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm. He has been a guest conductor of Ensemble MidtVest and the Danish National Chamber Orchestra and regularly conducts the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Danish National Vocal Ensemble.

Phillip’s work with the Danish National Girls’ Choir has had a marked effect on the ensemble’s sound and expression and on its standing in national life. He has pioneered new collaborations with the ensemble and made a series of acclaimed recordings with it as well as broadcasting with the choir regularly on television. In 2022 Phillip led the Odense Symphony Orchestra, soloists and choirs from across South Denmark and Funen in a universally acclaimed performance of Mozart’s Requiem at the Odense Concert Hall.

Phillip’s work as a composer includes film and television scores, choral works and opera for children. In 2020 his book Den Danske Sang (‘The Danish Song Tradition’) was published, with co-author Rikke Hyldgaard. Phillip is a recipient of Arne Hammelboe's memorial grant from the Danish Orchestra Association and in 2020 received both the Niels Grundtvig Prize and the honorary prize of the Danish Soloists’s Society. He was knighted by the Queen of Denmark in 2022.

Made his debut as a conductor in 2003 from ’The Royal Danish Academy of Music’ after studies in the choir conducting class of prof. Dan-Olof Stenlund. Ole is a graduate of orchestra conducting at the ’Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien at prof. Uroš Lajovic. He has conducted a wide range of performances of passions and masses by Mozart, Bach, Händel and others, as well as a large number of symphonic works.

With the choir, ’Academic Choir Aarhus’, he conducted several hundred concerts, has won numerous first – prizes, including the award as ’Best Conductor’ at the 8. International Choir Festival in Beijing, and ’Grand Prix’ in Rome 2015, representing Denmark in the first EBU ’Choral of the year’ competition, and recorded several CDs, including on the label ’Naxos’.
He has conducted most professional orchestras in Denmark, and has toured most of Europe, in China and the United States. He has worked as chorus master of ’The royal opera chorus’, and conducted several operas.

He is very active in working with the musical education of children and young people. For many years, he conducted the symphony orchestra at OrkesterEfterskolen in Holstebro, and was behind the upstart 'Holstebro Music Classes' and ’Jutland Youth Symphony Orchestra’.

He is the teacher of the ’International Malko Conducting Academy’ at ’Danish Broadcasting Corporation’.

Niels Rønsholdt is a Danish composer born 1978. His works include experimental operas, installations, songs, performances and concert music. Rønsholdt works with a kind of ‘method composing’ where conceptual constructions involve performance, text and a musical expression that reference mainstream music or historical musical forms.
​Rønsholdt has been commissioned by esteemed international ensembles and performed on most european contemporary music festivals and abroad.