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Alexander Trowell

Baritenor, Director

Alexander was raised in South London and started his musical training as a chorister at Southwark Cathedral. He continued music-making at City of London School. Whilst still at school, Alexander studied at Junior Guildhall with joint-first-study singing and composition and second study violin/viola, held a Junior Choral Scholarship at Southwark Cathedral, and the Organ Scholarship at All Saints, West Dulwich. During his gap-year, Alexander was organ scholar at St. Mary Magdalene, Richmond.  Alexander is in his fourth year reading for a degree in Classics at Corpus Christi College, where he was previously the Organ Scholar. Alexander now holds a choral scholarship at Keble College, he is the cantor at Campion Hall, and directs Oxford-based early music ensemble, Antiquum Documentum. He was formerly a member of The Schola Cantorum of Oxford and was cast as Dr. Daly in the Oxford University Gilbert and Sullivan production of The Sorcerer in Trinity Term 2023.  He currently studies singing with Luise Horrocks having previously studied with Sam Queen, Rachel Sherry and Kate Mapp.  He has studied the organ with Stephen Disley and Peter Wright.

Jarek Jankowski

Tenor, Co-director

Ed Gaut

Bass, Organist

Ed is the Junior Organ Scholar at Keble College, Oxford, accompanying the college choir for their weekly services.  He is also the Master of Music at Pusey House, Oxford, where he conducts the choir and accompanies the Mass.  Ed is an undergraduate in his second year of a Music degree at the University of Oxford.  He studies conducting with Will Dawes and organ with Stephen Farr and David Ponsford, as part of the Oxford-RAM scheme.  He is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists.

Before going up to Oxford, he spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Anne Page and David Titterington.  Recent recital venues have included Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Keble College Chapel; Exeter College Chapel; All Saints’, Orpington and St Michael and All Angels’, Great Torrington.  He recently played the organ for the Oxford University Orchestra’s (OUO) performance of Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie.  Ed grew up in Sevenoaks, where he began his organ studies with Peter Young.  He was later a music scholar at The King’s School, Canterbury, where he studied the organ with Adrian Bawtree.

Lois Heslop

Soprano

Lois is a Soprano, Oxford Physics graduate and DPhil in Nuclear Fusion Engineering at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Lois is a Choral Scholar with the Magdalen Consort of Voices and the University Church in addition to her role at Pusey House, and a former Graduate Choral Scholar at The Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford. 

Lois performs regularly as a soloist and in consort with leading ensembles including Antiquum Documentum, Orchestra VOX, the Instruments of Time and Truth, the Oxford Baroque Players, and the Delius Singers. She was a Section Leader of both the London Youth Choir and London Youth Chamber Choir. Opera and Musical Theatre credits include Rose Maybud (Ruddigore), Iolanthe (Iolanthe) and Katerina Cavalieri (Amadeus). Most recently, she was the Director of Oxford University Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s The Sorcerer and the lead (Professor Keane) in the UK Premiere of Off-Broadway production Fermat’s Last Tango. 

Lois was also a first study violin and baroque recorder at CYM at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Co-Principal of South London Youth Orchestra and the Nevis Ensemble, and leader of the CYM Weir Quartet, where she opened for the Kronos Quartet at the Barbican. Lois takes her vocal studies with Lisa Howarth.

Maddy Bellotti

Soprano

Cosima Clara Gillhammer

Mezzo

Veronica Tarka

Mezzo

Josh Clough

Tenor

Josh is a final year undergraduate reading Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Keble College. His choral journey started at the age of 11 as a treble in the Tiffin Boys’ Choir under the direction of Simon Toyne, where he was given the opportunity to perform at the BBC proms and various operas and concerts in and around London. Highlights of Josh’s early singing career include performing in La Boheme and Tannhauser at the Royal Opera House, and performing in Bernard Haitink’s 50th anniversary BBC Prom. 

Since his days as a treble Josh has flourished as a tenor and outside of AD you can  find him singing at both Pusey House and Keble College where he is a scholar. After his final year concludes, Josh hopes to continue his singing journey in London as well as regularly returning to Oxford.

John Morshead

Baritone

John was raised in London and sang as a treble chorister at the Temple Church, London for eight years under Roger Sayer, where his vocal studies began under Anita Morrison. Before coming to Oxford, John continued his vocal training under Kate Mapp for two years. John is now an Oxford-based Baritone who sings as an Academical Clerk at Magdalen College. He currently studies with Giles Underwood. John performs regularly with some of Oxford’s leading ensembles such as the Oxford Baroque Players directed by Francois Cloete, the Consort of Voices under Mark Williams, the Delius Choir under Alexander Pott, and the Oxford Bach Soloists directed by Tom Hammond-Davies, with whom he is a scholar for the 2023-24 series. More recently, John joined Antiquum Documentum in late 2023, and looks forward to working with the group in the future.

Daniel Greenway

Bass

Currently, Daniel is senior organ scholar at Keble College, Oxford reading for a degree in Music. He began his musical studies as a chorister at Liverpool Cathedral. While there, he developed a keen interest in the organ, becoming a student, and later scholar playing regularly for services. During this time, he studied with Ian Tracey. Although primarily an organist, he is a keen pianist and has studied at the junior department of the Royal Northern College of Music. During this time, at his former school, Blue Coat Liverpool, Daniel helped to launch a campaign to restore the school’s Father Willis instrument. He was one of the founders of a school organ scholarship programme that aims to allow young people from all backgrounds to learn the instrument.

As well as giving recitals in his home city, he has won recital prizes to play at various Cathedrals and venues around the country. Recently, they have included Queens and Merton Colleges in Oxford, Coventry and Truro Cathedrals, and Bloomsbury Organ Day. He has also performed on multiple BBC Radio 3 and Television broadcasts.

Daniel has also performed orchestral organ and piano with ensembles such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. As a continuo player, he has appeared with Instruments of Time and Truth and the London Mozart Players. In addition to his role at Keble, he is organist to Campion Hall, and principal accompanist to Oxford Bach Choir. He is a multiple prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, currently studying with Stephen Farr and William Whitehead.