English Songs, Medieval to Contemporary

Dorothy Whyte-Venables is a British soprano currently completing a master's degree in Vocal Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She previously graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Hons) from Royal Holloway University of London, where she held a Choral Scholarship.

Recent operatic highlights include Louise (Louise), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) and Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) at Blackheath Halls, Despina (Così fan tutte) at Château de Barjac, Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe), and Anne Trulove (The Rake's Progress).

Dorothy recently won the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder competition held at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and currently holds the Colin & Joyce Sewell-Rutter Award for the 2026 Sussex Young Musician of the Year

Adrian Green was educated at St James Schools (London) and has been a student in the School of Philosophy and Economic Science since 1995. He is currently head of the School's Music Group. He is the Managing Director of Convivium Records (est. 2009) and Convivium Singers, and a tenor Lay Clerk at Portsmouth Cathedral. Adrian has run Portsmouth Cathedral's "Cathedral Sing" programme since September 2008, which engages with thousands of primary school children each year.

Will Pate studied French at Magdalen College, Oxford where he was a choral scholar, and then on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has been a soloist at the BBC Proms where Seen and Heard International described him as "a singer who is a bit of a discovery … his sound, diction and phrasing were perfectly judged."

Will works in artist management supporting a roster of world-renowned opera singers and directors, and sings when he can on Sundays with some of London's professional church choirs. Away from the opera world Will is passionate about food; he is slowly cooking (and eating!) his way through Ottolenghi's various cookbooks.

Gillian Thompson studied piano with David Ward at the Royal College of Music on the graduate course, then took her post-graduate teaching qualifications at Homerton College, Cambridge. She studied singing with Dr. Margaret Lobo and was a soloist with Discantus and Linden Baroque, directed by Catherine Mackintosh. She was Head of Music at Kew College for 15 years, directing the annual musical productions from the keyboard. She performed frequently at Art in Action, in Oxford, both as a soprano soloist and duettist, as an accompanist and as a solo pianist. She now teaches piano and singing privately.