George Parris is a singer, conductor and student of early twentieth-century Anglo-Irish music. In 2011 he was awarded the Elgar Society’s Certificate of Merit for initiating an Elgar Festival at his school, St Edward’s, Oxford. In the same year, he founded The Carice Singers, and has since directed the choir in a number of concerts and one critically acclaimed recording. He has recently completed a Master’s Degree at the University of Oxford, in which he focused on the ‘Irish’ music of Sir Arnold Bax. George Parris now works as an artistic administrator for Longborough Festival Opera, which he combines with a Lay Clerkship at Magdalen College, Oxford.

The Carice Singers are an ensemble comprised of some of the United Kingdom’s best young professional singers, noted for their “freshness of tone” and “careful musicality” (Gramophone). Named after the daughter of Sir Edward Elgar, the choir aims to bring an imaginative approach to choral music of the Romantic period and beyond, frequently drawing upon the latest academic research to produce original and insightful programmes. Among The Carice Singers’ ongoing projects is a mini-series of recordings for Naxos featuring choral music by lesser-known British composers, including Warlock, E.J. Moeran and Bax.

David Owen Norris is a pianist, composer and broadcaster. He has performed all over the world since his appointment as the first Gilmore Artist in 1991. His compositions include a Symphony, a gloriously tuneful Piano Concerto, the oratorios Prayerbook and Turning Points, and the multi-media tribute to the passing seasons, HengeMusic. His Inside the Score programmes on BBC2 television are a popular feature of the Proms.