LSO Discovery Junior Choir

Natalia Armstrong-James-Cutino
Isla Bakth
Daisy Bell
Pip Burton
Leonardo Carrascon Moreno
James Catchpole
Olive Chambers
Oscar Compton
Noah Compton
Annabelle Dale
Sienna Daly-White
Luna de Andrade Riebel
Joseph Gillinson-Geach
Natalia Gladstone
Josiah Harrison
Pixie-Leigh Higgins
Maya Karabag
Oliver Kazimierczuk
Zara Khan
Mila Lecic
Imaya Macgregor
Orrin Macleod
Annie Mary
Danielle Medeiros Eatock
Emma Meneguzzo
Mia Milczanowska
Leo Moss Guerra
Precious Osatohamwen
Susannah Osborne
Teodora Panich
Emmeline Phillips
Vitoria Ribeiro
Alice Rocha de Godoy
Margot Scott
Fenna van Kasteren
Vivienne Wood
Noa Yamakawa
George Zhang

LSO Discovery Senior Choir

Sophie Ellen Barker
Eva Beets
Tamzin Birhane-Ghetaceu
Elizabeth Burton Spence
Marnie Clark Course
Elise Curtis
Lucas Da Silva Lottmann
Poppy Dawid
Dolly Deakin
Francesca Falcioni
Colette Gritschke
Pamela Harrison
Caitlin Heaphy
Olli Heaphy
Gabriela Hunt Montoya
Idris Jones
Evie Mary
Alex Middleton
Ellen Morton
Kat Morton
Lois Parker
Qaiz Rodrigues
Lara Ruiz Rodrigo
Kitty Dora Sinclair
Kira Siu
Julius Steele-Kendrick
Betsy Thorn
Astrid Thornton
Maximilian Ticheli
Eben Watson
Nathan Withers
Olivia Yamakawa
Lara Zaroslinski

Greg Link
conductor

Greg Link is a London-based singer, actor-musician and choral director. He works in a range of fields across musical theatre, voiceover, a cappella groups and choirs as both a performer and director around the UK and internationally.

For a decade, Greg sang bass with the vocal ensemble Apollo5 with which he performed hundreds of concerts, recorded numerous albums, and led education projects in national and international tours around Europe, US and Asia. He now works with various organisations as a performer, educator and director including VOCES8 Foundation, Disney Theatrical Group, London Symphony Orchestra, British Film Institute, Platinum Consort, National Youth Choir, London Contemporary Orchestra, Rock Choir, London Choral Sinfonia, National Schools Singing Programme, vocal groups Shards, Echo, and Enchord, and Merryweather Theatre, a London-based arts collective with which he writes, develops and performs folk musicals for children at schools, theatres and arts festivals around the UK.

Greg is passionate about making high quality music-making rewarding, accessible and available to all through singing. He has led workshops in partnership with the BBC and BBC Proms, and has worked on a number of projects across France and Belgium including Festival de la Vézère, Association Sing'In, and Orchestre National d’Auvergne with which he has conducted a series of interactive concerts for children. He has also worked as an adjudicator and workshop leader for a number of international choral festivals including Michigan State Choral Festival, and with ChoirFest Middle East with which he worked with 55 choirs across Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Steve Loedder
piano and keyboard, accompanist

Steve Lodder is highly a regarded sideman for many International and London musicians including Andy Sheppard, Naná Vasconcelos, George Russell’s ‘Living Time’ orchestra, Sarah Jane Morris, John Harle, Carla Bley, Mônica Vasconcelos. He has also been musical associate with Paul McCartney on the ‘Standing Stone’ and ‘Ecce cor meum’ projects, and musical arranger for the Zappatistas. Originally a Cambridge organ scholar, he has played church organ on albums with Mark Ramsden and Asaf Sirkis and has written several books, one on Stevie Wonder, one on the Hammond organ, and The Keyboard Bible.

Henry Thomas
bass

Henry Thomas is a musician, writer and educator with extensive experience of live and recorded performance in all styles of music ranging from Rock, Pop Jazz to Classical music. Active on the London scene since the mid 80s his early education began as a classical viola player in the Wolverhampton and Birmingham Youth Orchestra before achieving a degree in music and educational psychology from Middlesex University Cockfosters Trent Park.

Later he transitioned into playing electric bass in West End shows, doing recording sessions and touring with well known established artists. Eventually this led to a music programme on the BBC called Rockschool (about playing in a band), for which he is most well known to the general public. He co-presented with Deirdre Cartwright on guitar and Geoff Nichols on drums.

Luke Baxter
drums

Des Neysmith
cello

Ralph Porrett
guitar

Ralph Porrett is the only guitarist to have reached the final of BBC Young Jazz Musician. He performed in the competition at Cadogan Hall in 2020 and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2022, where he showcased a suite of original music, broadcast on BBC Four. Ralph has performed for HRH The King at Westminster Abbey, the Prime Minister at Chequers Court, and at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms. He tours internationally with YolanDa Brown OBE and regularly plays with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Drawing inspiration from artists such as Bill Frisell, Laura Marling, and Bon Iver, Ralph’s original music spans a wide range of genres, incorporating elements of jazz, blues and folk. He is releasing four singles throughout 2024 (Feathers is out 29 March), while working on his debut album.

Ralph is a Junior Fellow of the Guildhall School, where he was awarded a Concert Recital Diploma, graduating with First Class Honours in 2022. When he’s not touring or recording, Ralph enjoys open water swimming, running in Battersea Park and eating rissóis.

Midge Parry
vocal coach

Imogen Parry comes from a musical family and found her passion for performing at an early age. Now a freelance singer in London, she has experience singing in all styles from jazz to choral to musical theatre. She attended the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department, was a member of Aldeburgh Young Musicians, The Rodolfus Choir, National Youth Chamber Choir of Great Britain, and was cast in the National Youth Music Theatre’s production of The Hired Man in 2014. While studying at the University of Glasgow she played lead roles in plays and musicals every year, including while studying abroad at Boston College in the US. In 2018, Imogen joined the Grammy Award-winning vocal group, The Swingles. Touring internationally, The Swingles perform a cappella, classical and original music in the world’s most prestigious venues. Imogen is also a recording artist and session singer for film soundtracks, TV, video games, adverts, live concerts and backing vocals.