Ann Lampard

ARCM   Hon ARAM

Ann Lampard was born and educated in the North East of England, studying singing with Betty Middleton. At 21 years old she won many National Festival Awards, including five awards from the Teesside International Eisteddfod, Blackpool Festival Rose Bowl, and Oxford Festival Professional Recital Award, before moving to London to study with Marjorie Thomas. She joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera after winning the Dame Maggie Teyte International Operatic Prize, and went on to sing many roles including The Countess in Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck and the named roles in Handel’s Orlando and Alessandro. She was one of the 6 soloists to win a place in the Summer Voice Masterclasses with the late Geoffrey Parsons, at the Purcell Room, and was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Award.
She toured the Far East giving recitals and Masterclasses before she decided to concentrate on teaching. She has been Head of Voice at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, London for 18 years. From 2000 - 2005 she divided her time between her home on the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides, commuting from Inverness Airport to Sussex to teach and adjudicate. She is also voice advisor to the Benedictine Order, regularly giving master classes and lessons to enclosed sisters in Abbeys all over the British Isles. She is also a British Federation Voice Adjudicator.

She was awarded her Hon. ARAM, from the Royal Academy of Music at a reception in the David Josefowitz Hall in March 2004.

In July 2005 she retired from the JRAM handing on the reins to old pupil Sara Reynolds, and now adjudicates all over the UK, and has a large teaching practice in Skye, she has formed Inner Sound, a vocal group made up of pupils, who, in conjunction with some of Ann’s prior, and now professional pupils perform and tour with a fully staged and costumed Gilbert and Sullivan opera - so much for retirement!

Elizabeth Shepherd

Elizabeth Shepherd works as both performer and repetiteur with singers, instrumentalists and many leading choirs such as Crouch End Festival Chorus, The Philharmonia Chorus, The Hertfordshire Chorus, The Harlow Chorus and Cantate Youth Choir.

She works regularly with the City of London Sinfonia; has appeared at most of London’s major concert halls and made various television and radio broadcasts. She has toured widely in Central Europe and last Autumn gave a concert in Dubai before the ruling family.

Performing highlights have included the piano solos in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (RFH, Willard White), Constant Lambert’s The Rio Grande (Barbican), Arvo Pärt’s Credo, Tolga Kashif’s Queen Symphony (RPO, Festival Hall) and Lutoslavski’s Paroles Tissees with Ian Bostridge and Paul Daniel at a BBC prom.

Elizabeth has worked in collaboration with composers such as Sir John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, John Rutter and David Bedford, and with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Hickox and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Future engagements include work on a BBC television documentary for 2008.