I am a composer of choral music, based in the United Kingdom. 

Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. - Mary Kay Ash

Cecilia Sala, born in Milan, approached the world of classical singing as soloist soprano of the vocal quartet “Santa Tecla” of Milan’s cathedral. Together with the diploma in baroque singing at the “Accademia Internazionale della Musica” (2008, prof. Roberto Balconi) she attended various masterclasses in Italy (with Sergio Foresti, Roberta Invernizzi) and Austria (Austria Barock Akademie). Pupil of the mezzo-soprano Bianca Maria Casoni, she performed as a soloist and with chamber choirs in several music festivals such as “XXVII Festival delle Nazioni di Città di Castello“, le “Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore” and “Suoni entro le mura”. With the ensemble “Il Canto di Orfeo” she recorded music of Giacomo Carissimi and Antonio Vivaldi. In 2008 she moved to Berlin, where she studied with Birgit Wagner and Sibylle Fischer and works as a soloist. In 2012, 2013 and 2014 she gave a recital at the Mozarthaus (Mozart House) in Augsburg with the pianist Stephanie Knauer. Since 2010 she´s been an Italian language coach for operas: she already worked with the Musikfestspiele Potsdam for the baroque Opera “Calandro“ by Ristori and for the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg for Puccini’s “Tosca”. Between 2012 and 2017 she worked as Italian teacher at the „Carl Maria von Weber“ conservatory in Dresden and in 2017 she was lecturer for “Italian for the Opera” classes at the Udk Berlin. In 2018 she worked as a prompter for Sciarrino´s “Luci mie traditrici” for the Theater Lübeck. In addition to that she works as a translator for musicology, singing teacher, voice therapist and breathwork facilitator in Berlin.

Nathan James Dearden is an award-winning Welsh music creator, whose work has been described as “hauntingly beautiful” (Media Wales), and performed and featured by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tippett Quartet, National Youth Orchestra of Wales, tenor Nicky Spence, National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Fidelio Trio, and Hebrides Ensemble. His music regularly features in concerts across the UK and overseas, including at the Cheltenham Music Festival, Dartington International Festival, CROSSROADS International New Music Festival and Vale of Glamorgan Festival. His music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, Resonance FM, RTÉ lyric FM, S4C and Soho Radio, whilst also released on NMC Recordings and Delphian.

Nathan is also a sought-after conductor, arts advisor, event curator and educator, holding arts advisory roles with several international organisations, and is currently Lecturer in Music Composition at Royal Holloway University of London.

The Verismo Consort is an all new choral ensemble made up of eight singers from Genesis Sixteen; the young singers training programme run by The Sixteen and supported by the Genesis Foundation. One of the benefits of the programme is that members are encouraged to set up smaller groups and pursue their own musical endeavours. All the members of Verismo are between 19-24 and are individually becoming well established musicians in London, Oxford, Cambridge and Cardiff. They are all good friends and the idea of making great music together is the prime drive behind setting up this group.

Followers of Verismo Consort