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Young Associate Artists 2011

Emma Nash                    Marcella Walsh          Eoin Hynes    

Lawrence Thackeray     Nathan Morrisson     Benjamin Russell

Emma Nash - Soprano


Cork soprano Emma Nash is currently studying with Mary MacSweeney for an M.A in Vocal Performance at The Cork School of Music. She received her Honors B.A in Drama and Theatre Studies and Music from University College Cork and was awarded “The Donal Gleeson Award and Bursary” for excellence in the field of performance. After completing an internship with Opera2005 Emma successfully auditioned for Verdi’s Un Ballo In Maschera.

Emma appeared as The Beggar Woman/Lucy Barker opposite Cara O’Sullivan in a sell-out run of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at The Everyman Palace in Cork. Operatic roles include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart (CSM Opera Studio), Alchemist/Sailor in Candide by Bernstein (Cork Operatic Society), Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck (CSM Opera Studio), Anne Page in Sir John in Love by Vaughn Williams (Irish Vocal Masterclasses), Zdenka in Arabella by Strauss (Irish Vocal Masterclasses), Tatyana in Eugine Onegin by Tchaikovsky (Irish Vocal Masterclasses) and Sister Dolcina in Suor Angelica by Puccini (AIMS International Music School). Future projects include a series of recitals at The Cork School of Music. Back to top


Marcella Walsh - Soprano


 

Belfast born soprano Marcella Walsh studies with Dr Veronica Dunne in Dublin. After graduating with a BMus (Honours) from Queen’s University Belfast, Marcella completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Singing from The Royal Irish Academy of Music. She then commenced the Masters’ course in Vocal Performance from which she will graduate from in June 2011. Marcella was recently described by the Irish Times as having a “captivating presence”. 

Operatic roles include Erato in ‘Terpsicore’ (Queen’s University Belfast, 2008), Serafina in ‘Il Campanello di notte’ (Opera Fringe, 2009), Despina (Royal Irish Academy of Music), Tullia in ‘Virginia’ (Wexford Opera Festival), and Lauretta (RIAM). Marcella’s Oratorio appearances include Exsultate Jubilate with the Studio Symphony Orchestra, and Haydn’s Nelson Mass. Marcella has won many awards including the Gaiety Bursary (RIAM), the Dramatic Cup & Tony Quigley Bursary (Dublin Feis Ceoil), and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and BBC Young Musicians’ Platform Award 2011-2013. Back to top


Eoin Hynes - Tenor

 


Eoin Hynes is a music graduate of both  N.U.I. Maynooth and D.I.T. Conservatory of Music and Drama where he completed his Masters in Music Performance (Honours). He studies voice with renowned tenor Emmanuel Lawler and repetiteur Trudi Carberry. His past concert solo performances include Saint-Saëns Oratorio de Nöel at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.  Mozart’s Missa Brevis in D, and Cornation Mass at Westminster Cathedral, London. Bach’s Magnificat in D, and recently the Evangelist in Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium at the National Concert Hall with the orchestra of  St. Cecilia conducted by  John Dexter.

In opera, the role of  Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with D.I.T. Conservatory of Music and Drama. He has won many singing competitions at  D.I.T. including the Louis Ely O’ Carroll Conservatory Gold Medal. He also won both the Tenor solo, and the prestigious Count John Mc Cormack Cup at Dublin Feis Ceoil in 2009. Last summer Eoin was accepted into the Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival Choir performing in Germany. Back to top


Lawrence Thackeray - Tenor


 

In 2008 Lawrence graduated from the University of Salford in his native Manchester with a 1st in Performing Arts. The same year saw him move to London to study as a Post Graduate on the Musical Theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music. Graduation from the Academy in 2009 was followed by being cast as a soloist in the UK tour of It’s D’Lovely – a Cole Porter and American Songbook revue. He is currently studying in DIT under the tutelage of Robert Alderson and Aoife O’ Sullivan.


Roles include chorus for Macbeth, Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette and Bellini’s Capuleti e i Montecchi (Opera Ireland), El Remendado in Carmen (Lismore Music Festival), Norfolk Costal Opera Season (Yorke Trust) and Tippett’s A Child of our Time (Northern Sinfonia). Upcoming performances include a place in the chorus for Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2011.  Back to top

Nathan Morrison - Baritone


 

Nathan graduated with a first class honours degree in Music and the award for excellence in eighteenth century studies from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 2009 and is currently a voice student at the Royal Irish Academy of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Veronica Dunne.

Operatic roles include: Latinus, Bononcini’s Il Trionfo di Camilla (QUB); Apollo, Handel’s Terpsicore (QUB); Wolf, Brian Irvine’s The Tailor’s Daughter (WNO MAX/ACNI); Aeneas and Sorceress, Dido and Aeneas (QUB); title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Montalto Musica); Barone Douphol/Marchese d’Obigny, La traviata (Loughcrew Garden Opera); Betto, Gianni Schicchi (RIAM). Concert work includes Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem and Bach’s Magnificat, St. Matthew Passion and Cantata 78. Nathan has been a chorus member with Opera Ireland and The Anna Livia International Opera Festival. Back to top


Benjamin Russell - Baritone


 

Benjamin Russell is a fourth year music student at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, where he studies with Sylvia O’ Reegan. His roles include Dancairo in Carmen (Lismore Music Festival), title role in a new adaptation of Gluck's Orpheus (Cork Opera House), Private Willis in the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe and he took part in the English Song course and the Mozart Opera scenes course last Summer, where he performed the role of Figaro, as part of the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme in Aldebugh, Suffolk. Recent competition successes include finalist in the Veronica Dunne International Singing competition 2010, where he also received the Joan Sutherland prize for 'Most Promising Singer', semifinalist and prizewinner in the International Vocal Competition (IVC 2010) in s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, winner of the RIAM Irené Sandford Award for Singers competition 2011, and winner of the Baritone Solo, Duet competition, Mahler Cup and Young Cup in the national Feis Ceoil, Dublin. Later this year he will be performing the role of Junius in Britten's Rape of Lucretia. Back to top