Bradford-born countertenor Garreth Romain specialises in opera, oratorio, solo and choral music. Based in London, he is currently under the tutelage of Andrew Watts. He has been awarded degrees and other qualifications from several higher education institutions including University of Huddersfield, University of Leeds and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

During his time at Trinity Laban, Garreth studied classical voice under the tuition of Dominic Natoli and performed scenes from a variety of operas. Roles include Athamas ('Semele'), Hamor ('Jephtha') and Cherubino ('Le Nozze di Figaro'). He also performed in vocal masterclasses with Roderick Williams OBE, Robert Alderson and Patrick Terry. On completion of his studies, Garreth was awarded the prestigious Kathleen Roberts Vocal Scholarship, the Finzi Trust and the Wilfred Greenhouse Allt Prize for Oratorio and Cantata.

Since leaving Trinity Laban, Garreth has worked with Blackheath Halls Opera, Random Opera Company, Hampstead Garden Opera, Chineke! Voices, Philharmonia Chorus and the Black British Classical Foundation. He continues to sing with the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir under Dr Ralph Allwood MBE, and deputises frequently for several London church choirs, including The Chapel Royal St James' Palace, St Marylebone Parish Church and St Bride’s Fleet Street.

Wayne Weaver is an alumnus of Cambridge University and a member of Wolfson College, where he read for a PhD in historical musicology. His current research focuses on the sonic and social cultures of late eighteenth-century Jamaica, particularly the roles played by Black women in early accounts of Jamaican street pageantry. Wayne’s doctoral thesis explored the life and creative outputs of the Anglo-Jamaican organist Samuel Felsted (1743-1802), observing how his musicking (and that of Kingston’s European-origin minority) contributed to the construction of a racialised white-Creole identity.

In addition to his research, Wayne is interested in how social politics shapes access to music education today. He lectures on issues in jazz studies at King’s College London while holding various other academic and professional organist roles in London and Cambridge, such as Graduate Organ Scholar at the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, and Assistant Organist at Robinson College Cambridge. Formerly a secondary school music teacher and boarding school assistant housemaster, Wayne previously studied at Edinburgh University. He holds the Associate Diploma of the Royal College of Organists and, when not otherwise engaged, enjoys preparing performing editions of historical sheet music manuscripts. 

Please note that this is close to the programme order. There may be more further changes made nearer the time so keep an eye out for them:

• Purcell - 'Strike the viol' ('Come ye Sons of Art' Z. 323)
  
  

• Purcell - 'Vouchsafe, O Lord' ('Te Deum in D' Z. 232)

• Handel - 'There land brought forth frogs' ('Israel in Egypt' HWV 54)

• Handel - 'Thou shalt bring them in' ('Israel in Egypt' HWV 54)

• Handel - 'Presti omai' ('Giulio Cesare in Egitto' HWV 17)

• Handel - 'Orlando' HWV 31

• 'Stimulato dalla gloria'

• 'Già per la man d’Orlando/Già l'ebro mio ciglio'

• Pergolesi - 'Eia mater fons amoris' ('Stabat Mater' P. 77)

• Purcell - 'One Charming Night' ('The Fairy Queen' Z. 629)

• Monteverdi - 'Lasciatemi morire!' ('Arianna')

• Dowland - 'Flow my tears' ('The Second Book of Songs')

• Gluck - 'O del mio dolce ardor' ('Paride ed Elena' Wq. 39)