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Having studied at Dulwich College in his native London, Charne gained entrance to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of eighteen where he is presently in the fourth year of his studies. There he is taught by Ian Partridge and coached by Gareth Hancock.
His oratory repertoire includes Handel Messiah, Haydn Creation, Mozart Requiem, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, Bach Magnificat and St. John Passion.
Last year he was selected to be the cover for the American tenor Richard Croft for the Handel Music-Drama Hercules, the other soloists included Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels and Lynne Dawson. In the same year he was also selected to participate in the London Bach Festival where he sang the solo in Bach Cantata No.55, which took place at the Academy.
Although partial to many genres of music, Charne has a great affinity for the music of Benjamin Britten. He has performed the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings in the Duke’s Hall at the Academy. He has also performed the cantata St. Nicholas for King’s College London and at Southampton University. Forthcoming projects include Winter Words and Les Illuminations.
Future performances will be of Bach St. John’s Passion with the Kingston Orpheus Choir and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Huddersfield.

March 2001)

Christopher Adams sang for a year as a Choral Scholar at Wells Cathedral, Somerset, before taking up a Choral Exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was also a Senior Academic Scholar, graduating with a Double First in English. He is now in his third postgraduate year studying singing at the Royal Academy of Music with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham.
Christopher has been the recipient of scholarships from Trinity College and the Sir James Caird Foundation, and won both the Norman McCann and Harry Fisher Memorial prizes at the Royal Academy. He has sung with groups such as Oxford Camerata, Trinity Baroque and Chapelle du Roi, toured the United States, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel and parts of Europe, and taken part in several CD recordings.
Past oratorio performances include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at St. James, Piccadilly, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music for the Amersham Festival, Stainer’s Crucifixion at St. Marylebone Church and Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. Opera roles include Collatinus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Colas in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne. Future performances include Mozart’s Requiem at Gloucester Cathedral, Haydn’s Creation at Chichester Cathedral, and Haydn’s Nelson Mass at Wells Cathedral. Christopher will also be running in the 2001 Flora London Marathon in April on behalf of the National Deaf Children’s Society.

(March 2001)

Jonathan Watts was born and educated in Wales and still maintains musical links with his homeland. After graduating from University College Cardiff, he spent a year studying for a master’s degree in Baroque keyboard techniques, which included a scholarship for organ lessons at The Queen’s College Oxford. He moved to Devon in 1984 and now combines a career in medical marketing with a very active musical life. He is equally at home giving organ recitals and conducting musical theatre. He is currently musical director for Crediton Operatic’s production of The Hired Man. Jonathan’s great loves, other than music, are cooking and skiing. However, the excesses of the former are never balanced by the opportunity to indulge in the latter.

(March 2001)