{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Sulis", "page" : "sulis", "description" : "heavenly, healing, early music", "location" : "London, England", "bio" : "CELIA HARPER worked for many years as a keyboard continuo player and latterly double harpist, playing and recording with most of Britain's early music ensembles in concert and opera. She was for many years particularly associated with Kent Opera's baroque productions under Sir Roger Norrington. She has taught as a singer's style coach on early music at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh and also with the European Union Baroque Orchestra. Her interest in researching 17th and 18th century music led to her devising several series of music programmes for S4C, the Welsh Television Channel. Celia has been composing since 1994 and has had works premiered by Michael Chance and Fretwork, Felicity Palmer CBE, Canterbury Chamber Choir, Chiswick Baroque and the Joyful Company of Singers among others. Her ensemble SULIS www.sulismusic.com has been involved in ground-breaking research into music and healing at Bristol Cancer Help Centre. Patients listening to her music felt less stressed and showed significantly raised levels of immunoglobulin A, an immune status indicator, and reduced levels of the stress hormone cortisol. In 2007 Celia won joint 2nd prize and 3rd prize in the English Poetry and Song Society's song writing competition and an ensuing song cycle was premiered by Michael George in 2008. She is currently working on songs about British wildlife for 4-7 year olds and a Patronal Mass commission.\n\nELIZABETH WILCOCK won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music and later to the Mozarteum, Salzburg. It was here whilst studying with the Hungarian violinist Sandor Vegh that she met Nicholaus Harnoncourt and began her interest in authentic performance. Upon her return to Britain in 1976 she became one of the pioneers of the early music revival in this country, playing and recording with conductors such as Christopher Hogwood, Trevor Pinnock and John Eliot Gardiner. Elizabeth led the English Baroque Soloists for twelve years and the Gainsborough Quartet, whose recording of Mozart Piano Quartets for Deutsche Grammophon was voted record of the month. In 1992 Elizabeth gave up the performing and touring life and moved with her three children to Dorset where she retrained at Bristol University as a Music Therapist. She now practices Music Therapy as well as playing with Sulis.\n\nJACQUELINE EVILL is the first winner of the Holland Park American Express Prize for the most outstanding operatic performance of the year. She won the prize, awarded by a distinguished panel of critics and opera journalists, for her performance as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. The panel, who voted for her unanimously, described her as \"utterly convincing and enthralling from the first moment she walked onstage\". Her many Verdi roles include Leonora in Il Trovatore, Violetta in La Traviata and Desdemona in Otello and other repertoire includes Tosca and Tatiana.\n\nShe has worked with the Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera Holland Park, European Chamber Opera, Kent Opera and Travelling Opera. Jacqueline sang Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at Sadlers Wells Theatre and among the many complimentary reviews she received were the following: \"the palm must go to Jacqueline Evill's Countess, whose command of her role is both dramatically and vocally complete\"-The Independent. \"Jacqueline Evill's exquisitely sung Countess\"- Opera magazine.\n\nJacqueline is a founder member of Sulis.\n\nROBIN BLAZE was born in Manchester, he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and the RCM where he is now a Professor of Singing. He has appeared in opera at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon and at festivals in the UK and abroad. Concert appearances include engagements with The King's Consort, The Sixteen, Gabrieli Consort, English Concert, English Baroque Soloists, Academy of Ancient Music, Bach Collegium Japan, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Tafelmsik, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Rias Kammerchor. Recital include appearances at the Wigmore Hall London, Paris, Gottingen, Innsbruck and Karlsruhe and for BBC Radio 3. He has recorded for Hyperion, Bis, DG Archiv, EMI, Chandos, Harmonia Mundi and Virgin.\n\nMICHAEL CHANCE has established a worldwide reputation as one of the foremost exponents of the male alto voice in all areas of the classical repertoire, and is in equal demand as an opera, concert and recording artist.\n\nHis vocal training with Robert Bruce-Lockhart followed an English Degree at King's College Cambridge where he was also a choral scholar. His first operatic experience was in the Buxton Festival in Ronald Eyre's staging of Cavalli's Giasone which was followed by appearances in Lyon, Cologne, and three seasons with Kent Opera.\n\nSubsequently, he has performed in the Sydney Opera House, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, La Scala Milan, New York, Lisbon, Paris, Amsterdam, and with Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, and English National Opera. His roles include Orfeo (Gluck), Oberon, Giasone, Giustino, Ottone, Athamas, Andronico, and Apollo (Britten's Death in Venice). He has had roles written specially for him by Sir Harrison Birtwhistle (The Second Mrs Kong) and Judith Weir (A Night at the Chinese Opera). Recent festival appearances include Edinburgh, Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg.\n\nHis appearances in oratorio and recital have taken him to concert halls all over the world and his list of recordings is extensive. He received a Grammy award for his participation in Handel's Semele for Deutsche Grammophon with John Nelson and Katharine Battle. He has recorded frequently with John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Franz Bruggen, Ton Koopman and Nicholas McGeegan. On his recently released CD for Deutsche Grammophon he sings solo alto cantatas by Vivaldi with Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert.\n\nHis belief in extending the counter-tenor repertoire has prompted new works to be composed for him by Richard Rodney Bennett, Alexander Goehr, Tan Dun, Anthony Powers, John Tavener, and Elvis Costello - amongst others. 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