In addition to the tutors listed, our team of staff coaches and accompanists also include:
Eunji Han
Versatile collaborative pianist, Eunji extensively performs throughout Europe, in such prominent venues as St Bride’s, St Andrew’s (UK), Petit Palais, Opéra de Lyon, Prieuré de Chirens (France). She has been invited to the festivals such as International Lied Festival Zeist (Netherlands), Festival Culturel International de Musique Symphonique (Algeria), Les Allées Chantent (France), A casa de Aldán (Spain) and Lavaux Classic Off (Switzerland). She is Oxford Lieder and Leeds Lieder Young Artist, official accompanist at Aigues-Vives en Music (France) as Young Artist Fellow, J&R International Music Academy (South Korea and France), and Concours Junoir “Souffle” in La Côte Flûte Festival (Switzerland). Her passion for exploring contemporary music led her to found Ensemble Dimensions where she premiered young composers’ works including Alex Nante’s ‘Arcanum’ for two pianos, two percussions sets and dance, Sirah Martínez Alvarez’s ‘Une espèce de bêtise m’a sauté aux yeux’ for saxophone alto and piano, commissioned by the ensemble. The Ensemble held an educational project for children with Anahita Abbasi’s ‘Moving Surfaces III / Another birth’ for piano, tenor saxophone and percussions. She has also performed with Lemanic Modern Ensemble under the baton of Pierre Bleuse. Her motivation for the orchestral piano has driven to perform under the baton of Mikko Franck, William Blank, Ricardo Castro and Alain Jacquon.
Eunji studied at Ewha Womans University (S. Korea) receiving a Bachelor of Music in Piano with Soo-Yeon Lim and Yehrim Lee, Conservatoire de Lyon (France) for Piano and Piano Accompaniment with Hervé Billaut and Laetitia Bougnol, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon (France) completing the DNSPM in Piano Accompaniment and Master of Chamber Music with David Selig, Franck Krawczyk, Sergio Menozzi and Dana Ciocarlie, Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (Switzerland) earning Master of Music in Piano Accompaniment with Marc Pantillon, Todd Camburn and Béatrice Richoz, and most recently the Royal Academy of Music (UK) being awarded Advanced Diploma in Piano Accompaniment under the guidance of James Baillieu and Malcolm Martineau. Her studies were generously supported by the RAM, Mécénat Musical Société Générale and ADAMI France. Eunji has taken opportunities also to have masterclass with Mark Padmore, Christoph Glynn, James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook, Amanda Roocroft, Graham Johnson, Helmut Deutsch, Jeff Cohen, Hartmut Höll, John Fiore, Billy Eidi, Anne le Bozec, Laurent Cabasso, Sontraud Speidel, Françoise Thinat and Sharon Boaz. She has appeared at the Radio Télévision Suisse (Espace 2) for her constant research of french women composers, Lili and Nadia Boulanger. This project led her to exhibit and give concert series dedicated to Lili Boulanger, ‘Sur les pas de Lili’ at the Médiathèque Nadia Boulanger of CNSMD de Lyon. Eunji is the laureate of the Concours Internatioal de la mélodies de Gordes with Soprano Yui Futaeda and Jeunes Talents in Paris with saxophonist Helena Otero Correa.
Elizabeth Hayley
After studying piano accompaniment and flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Elizabeth Hayley spent six months at Selly Oak Bible College before working in Jamaica as a music educator in churches, communities and schools. She has subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a versatile musician; working as a pianist, accompanist, vocal coach, adjudicator, ballet repetiteur, examiner & conductor. In her early years as a piano student she was often told to “stop fiddling and practice properly!” But she fortunately ignored that advice and those ‘fiddling’ skills eventually became very handy, enabling her to spend many happy years playing with world-renowned groups such as The Pump Room Trio (Bath), the Royal Academy of Dance, and The Pasadena Roof Orchestra. Elizabeth has always loved singing, being in her local church choir from a young age, and has enjoyed working with many community groups – producing arrangements of popular songs such as James Bond theme tunes, ABBA, & James Galway to encourage people to sing for fun! She recently enjoyed 12 years of extensive travel throughout Asia as a Classical & Jazz Examiner for ABRSM, and currently works at Eton College as piano teacher/accompanist, alongside her role as Professor of Piano at the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth.
Margaret Marinkovic
Margaret Marinkovic studied piano and cello prior to accompaniment at GSMD with Paul Hamburger and Peter Gellhorn. As a student, she participated in masterclasses with Hugues Cuenod, Geoffrey Parsons, and Roger Vignoles.
Margaret has coached, répétiteured and performed worldwide, and has been fortunate to work with Peter Pears, Richard Bonynge, Laura Sarti, Janis Kelly, Marianne Cornetti and Nelly Miricioiu.
Paul McKenzie
Paul McKenzie lives in London, and works as a repetiteur for opera: most recently with English Touring Opera, Grange Park Opera and Opera Up Close. Paul was the holder of the Adami Award for Piano Accompanists Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music 2014-2015: and has continued to work there since. Previously, Paul completed a Masters in Piano Accompaniment at the RCM, studying with Simon Lepper. Paul has also performed many concertos, and enjoys working as an orchestral pianist, a song accompanist and jazz pianist.
Asako Ogawa
Asako Ogawa is one of today’s most versatile performers on keyboard instruments: from virginals, harpsichord, fortepiano to modern piano. She is originally from Japan and based in London. She has been performing both as a harpsichordist and as a pianist in UK, Europe and Japan. Asako taught baroque repertoire classes for postgraduate Accompanists’ Course since 2009 till 2023 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, where she has been a member of the staff accompanists since 2007.
As a collaborative pianist, Asako completed her MMus and Postgraduate Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Whilst studying at GSMD, she has performed in many vocal projects devised by Graham Johnson, Iain Burnside, Eugine Asti and Robin Bowman. She studied collaborative piano with John York, Iain Burnside, and Robin Bowman, solo piano with Rona O’Hora, John Bingham, and Nina Sereda, in UK. Asako won many prizes as an accompanist, including the MBF Sir Henry Richardson Accompanists’ Award. She has been one of the official accompanists for the London Handel Singing Competition since 2008, and has been coaching numerous singers on baroque and classical repertoire. Renown singers she coached regularly include Rosie Lomas, Jorge Navarro Colorado, and Nazan Fikret to name a few. Asako also collaborated with many acclaimed singers including Helen Charlston, Héloïse Mas, Jerome Knox, Will Thomas, Patrick Terry, Josep Ramon Olivé and
Hilary Cronin. With a mezzo soprano Héloïse Mas, she has performed in “Symphonie d’été” festival (2018) in France and did BNP Paribas recital tours (2019-2020) for the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Belgium.
As a harpsichordist, she has played for the Opera North productions of Handel’s Alcina conducted by Laurence Cummings, and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice conducted by Antony Hermus. Last year, Asako conducted from a harpsichord, a semi-staged performance of Handel’s Tolomeo at the St John’s Smith Square, London. Asako released two critically acclaimed solo albums with FHR, Bach’s 6 Partitas and Handel’ 8 Great Suites. The Handel album received 5 stars review from the BBC Music Magazine and was broadcast in the Breakfast Show on BBC radio 3
Ella O’Neill
Ella O’Neill is in demand across the UK and Europe as a collaborative pianist specialising in song. Recital venues and festivals have included the Zankel and Weill Recital Halls at Carnegie Hall as a SongStudio artist, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Cadogan Hall, the Royal Opera House Crush Room, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sage Gateshead, Cedars Hall, Opera Holland Park as part of their Opera in Song series, Heidelberger Frühling Lied Festival, Oxford International Song Festival, Leeds Town Hall for Leeds Lieder and Brighton Dome for Brighton Festival. As a répétiteur, she has worked for companies including Grange Park Opera, English Touring Opera, Mid Wales Opera and the Tête à Tête Festival. Ella has also performed live on BBC Radio 3 InTune with Roderick Williams, Mark Padmore, Laurence Kilsby and Themba Mvula.
In 2019, Ella won the Help Musicians UK Accompanist’s Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards at Wigmore Hall. She was also a finalist in the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger
International Song Competition, London, and 2023 Das Lied competition, Heidelberg, with regular duo partner Laurence Kilsby, who was awarded first prize in both. Ella
and Laurence have since recorded their debut album, co-produced by Deutsche Grammophon, Avi Music and SWR Kultur. Ella is a Samling artist and works regularly as a staff pianist with Samling Institute for Young Singers. She was the Lord and Lady Lurgan Collaborative Piano Fellow 2022-24 at her alma mater the Royal College of Music, where she remains as a staff pianist. Ella graduated from the RCM in 2019, having studied with Simon Lepper, Roger Vignoles and Kathron Sturrock.
Mark Rogers
Mark Rogers is an American pianist specializing in vocal and chamber music. He has been a Young Artist at the International Lied Festival Zeist, Leeds Lieder Festival, the Ludlow English Song Weekend, and has played for masterclasses with Christian Gerhaher, Martin Fröst, Felicity Lott, and Lawrence Power among others.
Together with regular recital partner baritone Florian Störtz, they won the Prix de Mélodie at the Concours Nadia et Lilli Boulanger and the audience and First prize at the Helmut Deutsch Lieder Competition. Mark performs recitals regularly with musicians on the Countess of Munster and Philharmonia schemes and has played concerts at Scottish Parliament, the Malmö Radhuset, and a series of recitals at Atelier Ferrandou in the south of France with cellist Kristian Chojecki. Previously, he was the accompanist for BBC Choir of the year Les Sirenes, and is a staff pianist at Oxenfoord summer school.
Mark is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with James Baillieu, Malcolm Martineau, and Michael Dussek. was recently awarded the first prize in Art Song accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music and has previously been awarded the Alex Menzies Memorial prize and the Hester Dickson Lieder prize at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he completed his undergraduate studies with Graeme McNaught in 2021. In addition to performing, he has won first prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society for his article on Samuel Barber in their Young Classical Writers competition, and writes program notes for the Wigmore Hall.
Nicola Rose
Originally from London, Nicola began her musical training as one of the founding girl choristers at Salisbury Cathedral. She studied piano at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she was the recipient of numerous awards and she continued working there as a Junior Fellow before completing her studies at the National Opera Studio in London.
Nicola has a passion for education, outreach and community work and has worked as a pianist and workshop leader for Welsh National Opera, The Royal Opera House, Garsington Opera, English National Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and Opera Holland Park.
Based in Cardiff, Nicola is a member of the teaching staff at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and in 2018, Nicola received notable acclaim for her work as Musical Director for Welsh National Opera’s production of Rhondda Rips it Up!, a newly commissioned work by Elena Langer and Emma Jenkins. Written for the Ladies’ chorus at WNO, Lesley Garrett and 50 female members of the Community Chorus, this powerful piece tells the story of Margaret Mackworth, one of Wales’ most prominent suffragettes.
Leanne Singh-Levett
Leanne was Music Staff Fellow at English National Opera (2022/23) and subsequently Chief Répétiteur for Opera North’s acclaimed Requiem project (May 2023). She returned to ENO in Autumn 2023 to work on Peter Grimes with Martyn Brabbins (off-stage conducting) and in Spring 2024 she will be joining the music staff team at the Royal Opera for a new production of Carmen.
Leanne was Chorusmaster for Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal College of Music, directed by Sir Thomas Allen and conducted by Michael Rosewell (Autumn 2018). She then prepared the chorus at RCM for Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoé, and for Holst’s The Planets in the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Andrew Gourlay (July 2019). Leanne has worked at the RCM for many years accompanying song classes, opera and language coachings. She was also a staff member of the Junior Department, coaching chamber music and playing for singers and choirs.
Leanne has coached the Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera, and collaborated in concert with singers including Mary Bevan, Marcus Farnsworth, David Butt Philip and Lauren Fagan. She has accompanied choirs including Kingston Choral Society and Imperial Male Voice Choir, touring with the latter to France, Germany, Russia and Ireland.
Since moving to Cambridgeshire in 2021 Leanne has become involved with local music-making and in March 2023 stepped in at short notice to conduct Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem for Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Society. Leanne was appointed Musical Director of Huntingdon Male Voice Choir in 2023.
Chad Vindin
Chad Vindin won the accompanist prize at the Royal Overseas League Competition, the Ludmilla Andrew Russian Song Accompanist Prize at the Royal Academy of Music, and the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards Accompanist’s Prize at the Wigmore Hall.
Born in Australia, Chad first studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before moving to London. He now maintains a full workload as a staff pianist and vocal coach at both the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music, London, and performs regularly across the UK and internationally. http://www.chadvindin.com/