Performers

Performers at the 2007 St Stephen's Festival included:

• Daniel Joy, tenor
• Imperial College Choir
• John Forster, conductor
• Julien Debreuil, baritone
• Kate Symonds, mezzo soprano
• Paula Greenwood, soprano
• Rebecca Owen, clarinet
• Joseph Ramadan, piano
• Royal College of Music students
• Stile Antico, a capella singing group
• Kate Symonds-Joy, mezzo-soprano
• University of London Orchestra
• William Vann, organ, piano

Stile Antico

Stile Antico (photo by Tom Allwood © copyright

The early music vocal ensemble perform Thomas Tallis’s beautifully simple settings from Archbishop Parker’s Psalter for the reformed Church of England, interspersed with some of William Byrd’s most powerful recusant Catholic motets.

Stile Antico were winners of the Audience Prize in the Early Music Network Young Artists 2005. Stile Antico website.

William Vann

William Vann is currently Director of Music at St Stephen's, and will be playing a large part in this year's St Stephen's Festival. His performances include an organ recital on Tuesday 5th June, piano duet accomaniment to the Liebeslieder recital on Thursday 31st May - and jazz piano during the official opening of the exhibition of paintings on Wednesday May 30th.

His organ recital on Tuesday 5th June 2007 will include:

• Mendelssohn - Sonata No 6 in D minor
• Music by J S Bach, Buxtehude and Vierne

William Vann is the Director of Music at St Stephen's. He is currently in his second year on the postgraduate course in piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music where he studies with Malcolm Martineau and Colin Stone: this year his studies are supported by the Sir Henry Richardson Scholarship, administered by the MBF. Recent performances have included several concerts at St Stephen's and an evening programme of love songs at St John's, Smith Square, including the first performance of eight pieces by Joseph Atkins.