Cantare are a close harmony quartet created to bring an exciting take to well-known popular and classical songs. It consists of four vocally talented and attractive musicians, impeccably dressed to add sophistication and passion to your event.
Our singers are professional and training musicians from some of the country’s finest conservatoires including The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The Royal Northern College of Music and The Royal College of Music.


Rachel Maby is a lyric mezzo-soprano and vocal animateur who specialises in opera and classical chamber music. She has a particular affinity with vocal improvisation and has premièred multiple compositions which cross classical and jazz vocal disciplines. 

She holds a Distinction Masters of Music degree in classical vocal performance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and completed her undergraduate studies on the prestigious Joint Course at the Royal Northern College of Music and University of Manchester. 
 
Rachel has premièred six new operas by British composers, which includes Charlotte in The Weekend by Scott Stroman (Bloomsbury Theatre première in September 2021); Mrs Cratchit in the London première of A Christmas Carol by Thea Musgrave (Laban Theatre, 2018) and five opera-ballets by Leo Geyer - Mrs Hickling in BrickRow (Constella OperaBallet Spin a Tale festival); Delilah and Palm Reader in Sideshows (Tête à Tête, Lillian Bayliss Studio, BBC Radio 3 In Tune, Grimeborn Opera Festival); Charlotte in Glasstown (Helios Collective, Arts Theatre); Susan in Canary Boys (National Coal Mining Museum) and Blackbird in Orchestras of Aushwitz (Sadler’s Wells).

 Rachel has also performed a variety of opera roles from baroque to twentieth century works with opera companies such as Blackheath Opera, Constella OperaBallet, Highbury Opera Theatre and Baseless Fabric Theatre. Roles to date includes Prince Oreste in La Belle Hélène by Offenbach (Blackheath Opera, 2019); Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia by Britten (Stratford Circus, 2018); Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro ENO translation (Martin Harris Centre, 2014); JouJou in The Merry Widow by Léhar (Royal Northern College of Music Theatre, 2014); Cupid in Venus and Adonis by Bowe (Martin Harris Centre, 2013). Opera scenes roles include Octavian in Act III of Rosenkavalier by Strauss (2019); Third Maid in Act I of Elektra by Strauss (2018); Enfant in Act I of L’enfant et les sortlièges by Ravel (2017).

Rachel has vast experience performing contemporary classical chamber music and has premièred seven works by British composers, which include London Portraits by Leo Geyer (Old Royal Naval College Chapel, 2019); Sea Garden by Leo Geyer(Chelsea Flower Show, 2018); Songs for a Dying World by Ed Nesbit (Royal College of Music, 2018); The Lost Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci by Camden Reeves (Lancaster Jazz Festival, 2015); Star Songs by Jonathan Woolgar (The Forge, 2015); Fear no more by Tom Harrold (Shakespeare Festival, 2014) and Sunset in Grey by Leo Geyer (Lancaster Jazz Festival, 2014).

As a concert soloist, Rachel has a particular love of French orchestral works and has performed the Lakmé flower duet with Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra (c: Mark Heron); Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques by Ravel with Settle Orchestra (c: Leo Geyer) and soloist in Requiem by Duruflé with Queens Park Singers in 2020 Brandenburg Choral Festival (c: Oliver Till). Other solo concert performances include Second Soprano Soloist in Dixit Dominus by Handel with Genesis Sixteen and Badinerie (c: Harry Christophers); Soloist in Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra family concerts 2015 and 2017 (c: Leo Geyer) and Feel the Spirit by John Rutter with Salford Choral Society (c: Justin Doyle).
 
Rachel is a vocal animateur for Welsh National Opera, leading opera projects with children and adults in a variety of settings, from schools to refugee centres. She also works as a choral conductor for High Holborn Chamber Choir, Christ Church Jazz Choir and Music Education Islington. She has delivered and performer in outreach programmess on behalf of Spitalfields Music, The Orchestra of St John’s, Constella OperaBallet, Baseless Fabric Theatre and HighburyOperaTheatre.

Cantare are a close harmony quartet, specialising in classical and a cappella music. Consisting of vocally talented, attractive and impeccably dressed musicians, the group was created to bring an exciting take to well-known popular and classical songs which add sophistication and passion to any event. 


Classical soprano available to be booked for weddings, charity concerts, dinners and other functions. Email abigail.spear@gmail.com for more details. 

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