Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE read music at Oxford University and is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester. She has published widely in the area of education, most recently on spirituality/liminality. Her doctoral research into children’s musical development has been translated into five languages. She is a composer exploring and writing about the possibilities of intercultural sharing through composing/improvising. She has written about and organised events in the area of interfaith dialogue using music in Winchester and Hackney; she is at present working on one with the Vedic Temple in Southampton. She has held visiting fellowships at Indiana University and the Episcopal Divinity School on Massachusetts. She is an international performer, especially in the work of Hildegard of Bingen and healing. Her large scale works for cathedrals such as Winchester, Southwark and Norwich involve professional musicians and school children. She has written on Music and Healing - Constructing Musical healing - and is convenor of the Winchester the Centre for the Arts as Well-being. She is an ordained Anglican priest and honorary chaplain to Winchester cathedral.

Paul Hillier is from Dorset in England and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His career has embraced singing, conducting, and writing about music. Earlier in his career he was founding director of the Hilliard Ensemble, and subsequently founded Theatre of Voices. He has taught in the USA at the University of California campuses at Santa Cruz and Davis, and from 1996-2003 was Director of the Early Music Institute at Indiana University. He was Principal Conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (2001-2007) and has been Chief Conductor of Ars Nova Copenhagen since 2003. His recordings, over a hundred CDs including seven solo recitals, have earned worldwide acclaim and won numerous prizes. His books about Arvo Pärt and Steve Reich, together with numerous anthologies of choral music, are published by Oxford University Press. In 2006 he was awarded an OBE for services to choral music. In 2007 he received the Order of the White Star of Estonia, and was awarded a Grammy for Best Choral Recording. In 2008 he took up the position of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the National Chamber Choir of Ireland (now Chamber Choir Ireland), and in 2009 was invited to form the new Coro Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal. In 2010 he won a second Grammy (this time in the small ensemble category), for Theatre of Voices’ recording of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion (which also won a Pulitzer Prize), together with a selection of choral works by Lang, sung by Ars Nova Copenhagen.

Ghislaine Morgan is in much demand as a soprano, choral director and coach, singing teacher, adjudicator and lecturer. She has performed throughout Europe, India, Japan, and the USA.

Ghislaine read music at Oxford University where she continued her studies in piano and violin before going on to train in music education, and then as a singer at the Royal College of Music. There she was awarded the Sacher scholarship: The Musical Times described ‘An exquisite soprano,’ the recital was, ‘lifted into ecstasy’.

Ghislaine sang regularly with many renowned groups such as The Monteverdi Choir, The Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen, as well as with the King’s Consort, The Richard Hickox Singers and opera choruses including The Aix-en-Provence Festival Opera, The Bath Festival Opera and Opera de Lyon. She has appeared as soloist on recordings for the Arte Nova, Decca, EMI, Gimell, Naxos, Richmond and Regent labels. She was a member of the choir of St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street for 17 years but latterly has pursued her own individual career encompassing a wide variety of musical styles.

Solo engagements include a tour of South Africa singing Mahler’s Das Knaben Wunderhorn; recording the title role of Handel’s Deborah for German radio; concerts for the Mathieson Music School Calcutta International Festival, the Tel Aviv Festival for Vocal music, and the Sligo Festival of Baroque Music; and collaborations with Ballet du Nord. Ghislaine’s repertoire list embraces Monteverdi’s Vespers to Finzi’s Dies Natalis, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor to Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne. According to demand she has appeared as a washing machine, impersonated a caveman, sung opera from under a tablecloth and tongue trilled in an Indian garden!

Ghislaine’s educational work is inspired by a passion for encouraging others to be expressive with confidence, and a desire to demystify vocal technique in order to make it both fun and simple to learn. For many years she trained trebles for the national opera houses, and now works with choral scholars at Cambridge University. She has private teaching practices in London and Amsterdam and gives workshops at Morley College.

Ghislaine is engaged as a coach for choirs throughout Britain and Europe and has directed workshops in Britain, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. She is an active member of the British Voice Association and is on the faculty of the Corso Internazionale Corale di Rimini and the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. Ghislaine is the founder/director of the Sintra International Singing and Choral Conducting Course, and the director of the Casole International Renaissance Polyphony School.