Soloist

Rebecca Saunders’ television work includes singing the music for Channel 4 productions Astronauts and Westminster Women. She performs regularly in the UK, and has also performed and broadcast in Holland and Germany. She specialises in early music and has a particular interest in the music of the Restoration theatre. Her Baroque opera roles include Zealota in Grabu’s Albion and Albanius directed by Anthony Rooley at Dartington, Venus in Blow’s Venus and Adonis at the York Early Music Festival, and in Purcell’s King Arthur, directed by Peter Holman. She has also sung with the Rose Consort of Viols, Yorkshire Bach Choir, and leading roles with Opera Restor’d. Rebecca studied at the University of Huddersfield and the Royal College of Music.

Beth Clay
“Special thank you to Beth for singing so beautifully a song that means so much to us.”

Beth Clay trained with Elizabeth Glen, and has sung with Lyrica for 4 years. She has sung as a soloist for the Karl Jenkins oratorio “The Armed Man”, and has performed in many concerts, weddings and functions. She specialises in contemporary and jazz works, and recently premiered a new work by a Birmingham based composer, Jeremy Clay.
As well as singing with Lyrica, Beth has a busy performance schedule singing with the jazz-funk band “The J-Tones” singing at parties, functions and balls.

Elizabeth Glen trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and her career as a professional singer has taken her all around the world.

She spent 3 months of 1998 touring Europe and the USA, performing the roles of Fides and Misericordia in the "Sequentia" production of the medieval music drama "Ordo Virtutum". The tour included 3 performances at the Lincoln Center Festival, New York, and a performance for the 1998 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, which was broadcast live on Radio 3. Reviews for this production were glowing, and Elizabeth's performance was particularly mentioned in "The Times" (London) and "Bay Windows" (Boston, USA). She also performed in the 1999 Melbourne International Festival in Australia.

Emma is an accomplished singer and actor, and trained in singing and performing arts at the Bridge Theatre Training Company, London. Solo concert work includes Summer Season Shows in the South West, solo oratorio work in Prague and the UK, and many wedding and jazz engagements, as well as recordings with “Lyrica”.

"Thank you for making our wedding day so fabulous!"

Kiran has sung as soloist for the Mozarts Requiem, Vivaldi Magnificat, and Jenkins “The Armed Man”. With “Youthful Spirit” a gospel choir, she performed in the ensemble and as a soloist in the UK and on tours of Austria and Greece. As well as singing with Lyrica, she performs in the Soul Quartet “Soul Interlude”. She was awarded the Ken Redfern Memorial Prize for Music in 2006.

Rosie Secker
"Her singing was amazing, out of this world. Everybody applauded, it brought a tear to the vicar's eye, and she did a wonderful job"

Zoë trained at the Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she graduated in 1995. Her teachers since then have included the late Mary Thomas and Alison Pearce, both of them professors at the Royal Academy of Music.

Her operatic roles have included Antonia in Tales of Hoffman, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Dido in Dido and Aeneas.

Recent oratorio work has included Bach’s Magnificat with Cantoris in Wellington, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and the demanding soprano role in Carmina Burana. She also enjoys giving recitals and concerts, most recently exploring repertoire for clarinet, voice and piano of Schubert and Spohr. She has been guest soloist with the world renowned Morriston Orpheus Choir.