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MARK BURGHAGEnaCTORMark studied acting and classical music in Germany, Aachen and at the University of York in the UK, where he gained the highly competitive Roslyn Lyons Scholarship. |
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YVONNE MORLEYDIRECTORYvonne has been established as a versatile voice teacher and vocal coach for over thirty years in the UK and abroad (Canada, America, Europe and the Middle East). She works with actors, singers and dancers and has been involved in actor training for a number of drama schools including Elmhurst Ballet School, Drama Studio London and being Head of Voice for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts where she oversaw a large department delivering training to actors on all courses, providing rehearsal support to over 25 graduate productions working with writers including Mark Ravenhill and David Edgar and a range of others. |
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Director of photographyBen Porter is a filmmaker working in media arts since 2011. He has created and self funded a 20 part documentary series "People Of York", telling the stories of the creative journeys of independent and up-coming artists and creatives. This lead him to be commissioned by York's Destination Management Organisation "Make It York" to create a film summing up the entire year's cultural and creative events for York's first Culture Awards in 2016, as well as being nominated and shortlisted in the "Best Film Category" for his film "Spotlight: Jonny Long + The Vale Skate Mag", which tells the story of a young skateboarder diagnosed with cancer. He has also worked with a vast range of commercial clients over the past few years, including Adidas, Reebok, eBay, Betty's, KPMG and Aviva, and is currently in post production on "Follow The Vikings", a 30 minute Creative Europe funded documentary, telling the story of the "Follow The Vikings Roadshow" which travelled across Europe. |
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john PottertenorJohn Potter's multifarious musical collaborators include lutenists Jacob Heringman and Ariel Abramovich, the Dowland Project with John Surman and Milos Valent, the composer Ambrose Field and the Conductus Ensemble with fellow tenors Christopher O'Gorman and Rogers Covey-Crump. He is Reader Emeritus in Music at the University of York and a sometime British Library Edison Fellow; his books on singing are published by Cambridge University Press and Yale. He was a member of the Hilliard Ensemble for 18 years and was a major contributor to the group’s Officium project, subsequently developing many of the ideas in The Dowland Project's four albums for ECM. He also produced the first three ECM albums by the Scandinavian Trio Mediaeval. His programmes with lutenists Ariel Abramovich and Jacob Heringman focus on the farther shores of the renaissance and the jazz-like 17th century 'division' repertoire - from Ford to Ferrari. |
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jacob heringmanLUTENISTFor 32 years now, the American-born lutenist Jacob Heringman has made his home in England, where he has established himself as a leading soloist, song accompanist and chamber musician. As a soloist, Jacob has released several highly acclaimed CDs of renaissance lute repertoire. As an accompanist, Jacob has had the good fortune to work regularly with many fine singers, including Emma Kirkby, Barbara Bonney, Michael Chance, John Potter and Clare Wilkinson. Regular instrumental collaborators in recent years include the Dufay Collective, Theatre of the Ayre, Ariel Abramovich, Adel Salameh, and The Dowland Project. Susanna Pell and Jacob appear as the duo Pellingmans' Saraband. Jacob also appears on many film soundtracks (including Harry Potter III, The Hobbit, and Robin Hood), and has recently become increasingly active in the area of improvised and crossover music, as well as transcription and arrangement. Jacob also teaches (and uses) the Alexander Technique. Since 2010, Jacob has been a no-fly musician, as a result of which he is getting to know the continental train system intimately. |