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London Opera Vocal Tutorial Team
KELVIN LIM
Kelvin Lim trained at the RCM and ENO, and studied with Phillip Thomas. He has worked as repetiteur for companies including; ENO (Magic Flute, Madam Butterfly, Salome, Xerxes, Billy Budd, Boheme, Carmen), Opera Genesis/ROH2 (development-Bird of Night, The Assassin Tree), Opera Holland Park (Nabucco, La Traviata, Fanciulla del West, chorus master-Madama Butterfly), English Touring Opera (Eugene Onegin, L’Infedelta Delusa), Royal Academy of Music (Magic Flute cond. Colin Davis), Mastersingers (Der Ring Des Niblungen cond. Anthony Legge, Parsifal), Bampton Classical (La Vera Costanza, La Cappriccioso Correter, Jewel Box, Don Giovanni, Barber of Seville), Tete-a-Tete (Push!), Broomhill Opera (Il Trittico dir. Simon Callow), Central School of Speech and Drama (Sweeney Todd), Dorset (Russlan and Ludmilla), and numerous productions for Surrey Opera and Kentish Opera.
Kelvin has also been Musical Director for Opera Brava (Carmen, Madam Butterfly), Bampton Classical (L’Infedelta Delusa), Central School of Speech and Drama, (Company!) and for many years with London Opera Vocal. Kelvin worked as repetiteur for the Opera Genesis Program at ROH, and regularly freelances at ENO. He has been MD for rehearsals of Magic Flute and Opera scenes at Royal Academy of Music, official accompanist for the Wagner Society and was the first UK pianist to be awarded the Bayreuth Bursary Prize. He has worked for John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Anthony Rolf-Johnson, Elizabeth Connell, Ludmilla Andrew and in masterclass with Gwyneth Jones, Barry Banks, Sarah Walker, Malcolm Martineau and Diana Montague. He has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and performed at The Coliseum, Royal Academy of Music (with Anthony Negus), St John Smiths Sq, Aldeburgh, Buxton, Warwick, Winchester and Salisbury Festivals. Future engagements include Tosca for Opera Holland Park, Marriage of Figaro for Opera East, Die Meistersinger for Mastersingers and Leonora for Bampton Classical Opera.
CAROLINE JAYA-RATNAM
Caroline Jaya-Ratnam was a frequent winner in local music festivals and at the tender age of nine sang Rossini’s ‘The Little Shepherdess’ on Radio Cleveland as winner of her song class!Caroline read music at Cambridge holding an Instrumental Award, a Choral Exhibition and playing the violin in the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra (CUCO). She completed her Masters Degree (solo piano) and was later appointed the Geoffrey Parsons Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music. Caroline is in particular demand as an accompanist and appeared on BBC television and Radio 3 accompanying in the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2000 and 2004 competitions, Belgian Radio accompanying in the Queen Elizabeth competition and she was interviewed twice and performed on Radio 3s ‘In Tune’, with Sean Rafferty, accompanying violinists Fanny Clamagirand (winner of the International Kreisler competition) and Charles Siem.
Competition successes include the accompanists’ prizes in: the ‘Great Elm Vocal Awards’, ‘Performing Australian Music’ competition, ‘Haverhill Sinfonia Soloists Competition’, John Ireland and Sir Arthur Bliss prizes and Sir Henry Richardson Award. Caroline has been a repetiteur on the music staff at English National working with conductors Ed Gardner and Richard Hickox alongside artists including Donald Maxwell, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe. She was appointed Director of Music at St. Matthews Church in Croydon in Sept 2006 and is currently a Vocal Repertoire Coach at the GSMD. Caroline was recently the featured piano soloist on the soundtrack of the film Wer Liebe Verspricht released on ZDF on Easter Monday 2008.
Caroline has also performed as a concerto soloist in Saint-Saens’ Piano Concerto in G minor. An accomplished violinist, she won several conservatoire places to study as both a pianist and violinist at the age of seventeen, going on to perform as the soloist in several violin concertos whilst at school, university and beyond (Bruch - Gm, Mendelssohn - Em, Bach E major, Saint-Saens - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso).
Caroline has performed internationally as far as New Zealand and her London appearances have included duo recitals at the Royal Festival Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Purcell Room and the Wigmore Hall.
JANE STREETON
Jane studied at the Royal College of Music where she graduated with honours and was a winner of the Clara Butt Award. Jane’s operatic career has taken her across Europe, to the USA, Kenya, Russia and Japan. Jane has worked with English National Opera and for the English Bach Festival at the Royal Opera House. She works largely with UK touring companies, her most recent roles being Gretel Hansel and Gretel for Longborough Festival Opera; Donna Elvira Don Giovanni for First Act Opera, Violetta La Traviata for Opera Interludes and the title role in The Merry Widow for Opera Holland Park. She will sing Alice Ford Merry Wives of Windsor at The Minack Theatre in Cornwall this summer. Next year she will sing Madam Butterfly. Jane has recorded on Hyperion for Opera Restor’d. Festival appearances include Buxton, Warwick, Newbury and Edinburgh and abroad at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Festival de la Vezere France and the Barbados Festival. She has sung at the Purcell Room, St Martin-in-the fields, St James’s Piccadilly, the Wigmore Hall and as soloist with the London Gala Orchestra in their Viennese Spectaculars. Jane is an experienced singing teacher. She coaches singers for the BBC, RADA, the RSC, the Globe and National Theatre. Privately she works with many West End singers as well as classical singers. She has recently taught on a classical singing course in Rome.
PAMELA SMITH
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