Sopranos

Emilia Bertolini

Emilia Bertolini is an Australian soprano with an active career across the UK and Europe. Recent accolades include first prize at the Concours Corneille baroque singing competition in Rouen and the Young Talent Award as a finalist in the inaugural Cavalli Monteverdi Competition in Cremona. Emilia enjoys regular choral engagements with groups including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Gabrieli Consort, and the BBC Singers, alongside solo collaborations with La Risonanza, Le Poème Harmonique, Intende Voci, Ghislieri Musica, and the Oxford Bach Soloists. Emilia is delighted to be a St Martin-in-the-Fields Emerging Artist for the 2025/2026 season.

 

Maddy Morris

Maddy Morris is a freelance vocalist based in Brixton. She read music at Girton College, Cambridge, where she held the Jill Vlasto Choral Scholarship and was awarded both the Daphne Bird and Girton College Music Prizes. In 2023 she graduated with an MPhil in Musicology from Keble College, Oxford, supported by the Sophia Turle Academic Music Scholarship. Maddy now holds choral scholarships at St John the Baptist Church, Holland Park, and St Magnus the Martyr. Her consort experience includes regular projects with Ensemble Pro Victoria, Albion Consort, The English Concert, Filament Theatre, and Shakespeare’s Globe. Her recent solo performances include Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Chiltern Chamber Choir; Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers with Basingstoke Choral Society; and a UK tour with Trio Farben celebrating the life and works of Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Maddy also works part time for the charity UK Music Masters, which provides transformative music education to state primary school children. Her singing teacher is Alison Wells.

Alto

Ellen Griffiths

Ellen Griffiths is a freelance mezzo-soprano and ensemble singer from Liverpool. She completed an MA in Vocal Performance at the University of York with Susan Young and is now a Lay Clerk at Canterbury Cathedral, where she receives lessons from Linda Hirst. Ellen is also a member of the current Glyndebourne Academy cohort. Recent solo highlights have included Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Magnificat, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Mozart Requiem and Beethoven Mass in C and recitals at Canterbury and Liverpool Cathedrals. Ensemble work has included projects with St Martin’s Voices and Kantos. Ellen is an alumna of the Genesis Sixteen programme and has previously held scholarships at Canterbury and Liverpool Cathedrals, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Lancaster Priory.

 

 

Tenor

Albie Soriano

Albie Soriano is a freelance tenor based in London. He is a member of the world-renowned professional choir at Westminster Cathedral whilst engaging in first-rate young artists’ schemes for ensemble singing, including at St Martin-in-the-Fields. In 2025-26, he is also a part of Vox Next Gen with the pioneering Vox Urbane, a Member of Genesis Sixteen, and an Academician with The Constellation Choir. Albie read Sociology at the LSE, during which he studied singing privately with Stuart MacIntyre and started his freelance career, predominantly as a Lay Clerk at St George’s Cathedral Southwark.

Bass

Duncan Tarboton

Duncan Tarboton is a versatile London-based bass-baritone. In 2024 he took up enriching scholarships with both St Martin’s-in-the-Fields and Holy Trinity Sloane Square, alongside his work as digital marketing executive for an international school group. Duncan also enjoys performing as an oratorio soloist, and made his debut performance as Pilate in a German language performance of the Bach St John Passion in Easter 2025. Duncan holds an MA in Classics from the University of St Andrews, where he was a choral scholar in St Salvator’s Chapel Choir, and musical director of The Other Guys, achieving 1st place at the Scottish A Capella Competition 2023. In his early career Duncan performed as a treble soloist in productions at the South Bank Centre, Royal Opera House (Tosca 2014, 2016 – Shepherd Boy), and Barbican (Curlew River 2013 – Spirit of the Boy, Yan Tan Tethera 2014, Alice in Wonderland 2015). Duncan is excited to begin the Emerging Artists Programme with St-Martin-in-the-fields, as well as a choral scholarship at St James Piccadilly this year.

 

Edwin Hughes

Edwin Hughes is a bass-baritone who recently moved to London following a one year stint as a lay clerk at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and four years as a choral scholar at The Queen’s College, Oxford, where he studied chemistry. During his studies he was a member of the twelfth Genesis Sixteen cohort. He is now a freelance singer, and sings with Ex Cathedra among others. He also plays clarinet, having been awarded an LRSM with distinction in 2021. When not engaged with music, he reads classic science fiction and studies physics.