After a week-long intensive masterclass with Malcolm Martineau at Crear – winner of the Best Arts Organisation  in the ForArgyll Awards 2008 and situated on the Kilberry peninsula in Kintyre – the nine musicians involved are giving a recital at 3.00pm on Sunday 25th January alongside Martineau himself.

Edinburgh born Martineau has played not only throughout the UK but in Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Milan and North America. He has accompanied singers like Janet Baker, Ann Sofie Von Otter, Thomas Allen, Felicity Lott, Bryn Terfel and Tom Krause as well as major instrumentalists. He has received major awards and prizes in recognition of his work and he has accompanied some of the greatest singers as they took their own masterclasses.

The musicians with whom he has worked at Crear this week and with whom he will play in Sunday’s recital are:

• Daisy Henderson, soprano, was a full-time chorister with Scottish Opera for nine years until 2005 performing and covering many roles and continues to work with them as a freelance chorister. She has given two recitals in Glasgow Cathedral and St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh, sings throughout Scotland with Opera Alba and with Trio Serenata and is much in demand as a guest soloist.
• Alinka Kozári graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy and completed her studies at London’s National Opera Studio and the Solti Accademia di Bel Canto.  Her recent operatic successes include Adina (L’elisir d’amore) for the Anghiari Festival and creation of the role of Sally Bones in Varjak Paw. Alinka  appears regularly on the concert platform in both Hungary and the UK.
• Rachel Little was born in Kendal and studied at the RSAMD with Patricia MacMahon and at the Royal College of Music with Eiddwen Harrhy.  An experienced recitalist and oratorio singer, Rachel has performed extensively throughout the North of England and has won several awards including the Jean Highgate Scholarship and the Hugh Sloane Memorial Award.
• Kari Moffatt is currently training with Arwel Treharne Morgan in London. Kari graduated from New College, Oxford University in Music, winning full vocal and instrumental scholarships and the Joan Conway Award for Performance. She studied part-time on The Knack, a Lilian Baylis performance skills course run by English National Opera, culminating in the world premiere performance of the opera A Very Private Beach.
• Shuna Scott Sendall, the Scottish soprano,  graduated from the Alexander Gibson Opera School. Prizes include the Great Elm Vocal Awards and a Scottish Wagner Society Bayreuth Bursary. She is also a Samling scholar. Shuna is currently with Scottish Opera chorus, for whom she has also appeared as Medea  in The Minotaur, The Aunt in Madama Butterfly and The Housekeeper in The Secret Marriage.
• Chris Elliot, a recent graduate of the RSAMD Opera School, studies with Nicolai Gedda & Stephen Robertson. He has been given a ‘student with outstanding potential’ award by Scottish Opera, won the John Ireland Song Prize and was one of 50 young conductors, directors and singers chosen by Opera Now Magazine for their global ‘Who’s Hot?’ feature for the 2007 season.
• Anders Östberg, the Swedish baritone, is a graduate of the RSAMD’s Opera course and the Birmingham Conservatoire. Anders has sung with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus and covered roles in The Coronation of Poppea for English National Opera. He has toured with Scottish Opera’s Essential Scottish Opera, and he will be singing Kuligan in Scottish Opera’s upcoming production of Katya Kabanova.
• Claire Haslin studied at the RSAMD, where she won solo and accompaniment prizes. She represented the Academy in recital tours of Iceland and Russia before completing postgraduate studies at London’s Guildhall. Claire is active as an instrumental and song accompanist and has performed throughout Britain and Europe, including at the Purcell Room, the Edinburgh and Montalcino Festivals and the Queen’s Hall.
• Andrew Brown studied the piano with Fali Pavri at the RSAMD, graduating in 2006 with a Master’s Degree in solo piano performance. As well as performing regularly as a soloist and an accompanist, he also works for Scottish Ballet and the National Theatre of Scotland with whom he has recently toured the UK and worked on Broadway, New York.

Tickets must be booked in advance at Crear and cost £22. Children are free. Phone 01880 770369 or email: info@crear.co.uk

The photograph, which For Argll has permission to use, shows Malcolm Martineau in the masterclass at Crear.

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