The CONVENTional Project
Horsham, 19th June 2026
Daisy livesey, Soprano
Daisy Livesey is a soprano living and working in London. Recent solo engagements include Britten The World of the Spirit (Ben Vonberg-Clark, London Mozart Players, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, 2025), Bach Christmas Oratorio Parts I, III, V, VI (Joe Tobin, Newbury Choral Society, St Nicolas Newbury 2025), Haydn The Seasons (Iain Ledingham, St Mary’s Church, Amersham, 2025) and Handel Messiah (Jonathan Willcocks, Chichester Cathedral, 2025). Daisy was a finalist in the 2025 Ashburnham English Song Awards with pianist Ben Markovic. In March she looks forward to performing a programme of Berg, Debussy and Britten with Ben Markovic as part of the Barnes Music Festival.
Also an experienced choral singer, Daisy has worked in the UK and Europe with Arcangelo, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Gabrieli Consort, the Monteverdi Choir, La Nuova Musica and the Hanover Band. At the end of the March she will tour Bach St Matthew Passion as a step-out soloist with Arcangelo in London and Europe.
Daisy graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2025. She was taught by Alex Ashworth and Iain Ledingham, and was awarded the Philip Hattey and the Jennifer Vyvyan prizes. In January 2025, she won First Prize in the Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize adjudicated by Robert Hollingworth.
Maddy Morris, Soprano
Maddy is a freelance soprano based in Brixton. She read music at Girton College, Cambridge, where she held the Jill Vlasto Choral Scholarship, Daphne Bird Music Award and Girton College Music Award. Upon graduation, Maddy was awarded the Sophia Turle Academic Music Scholarship, before undertaking an M-Phil in musicology at Keble College Oxford where she sang as a Graduate Choral Assistant under director Paul Brough.
Maddy is a 2025-26 Emerging Artist with St Martin’s Voices. She holds choral scholarships at St John the Baptist Church, Holland Park and St Magnus the Martyr. Her consort experience includes projects with The English Concert, Ensemble Pro Victoria, SANSARA, St Martin’s Voices, Filament Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe.
Her most recent solo performances were Haydn’s Nelson Mass with St George’s Festival Chorus; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Wanstead Parish Choir; and a UK tour with Trio Farben celebrating the life and works of Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Maddy also works part time for the charity Music Masters, which provides transformative music education to state primary school children.
Ellie Stamp, Mezzo-Soprano
Ellie Stamp is a London-based mezzo-soprano currently completing a master’s in vocal performance at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She began her musical training at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music and was a member of the 2018–19 Genesis Sixteen programme for young singers. Ellie went on to study at the University of York, where she graduated with first-class honours in Music and received the John Paynter Prize. She spent the next year as the first female Lay Clerk with the Choir of New College, Oxford, and now freelances with professional choirs across the UK.
Charlotte Sleet, Mezzo-Soprano
Hailing from Luton, mezzo soprano Charlotte Sleet enjoys a busy freelance career performing solo, choral and consort repertoire. She was a Choral Scholar and Assistant Lay Clerk at Hereford Cathedral, the first female appointment to these roles in their respective histories, and was until recently a Lay Clerk at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Memorable solo performances include the Bach St Matthew Passion with the Musical and Amicable Society and with Bishop’s Stortford Choral Society, Rutter’s Feel the Spirit with Worcester Cathedral, and the Duruflé Requiem with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Three Choirs Festival.
Charlotte is a busy ensemble singer and can be spotted in many of the professional church choirs across London. She frequently performs with The Carice Singers and Oxford Bach Soloists, and is a founder member of Contrepoint and the Omnium Ensemble. Charlotte has recorded with the BBC Singers and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Charlotte is a graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where she also sang as a scholar at St Chad's Cathedral and was an Ex Cathedra student scholar. Outside of singing she is a lover of cooking, swimming and the sauna.
Dom Wallis, Tenor
Dom is a tenor with a particular love of early music. He is an Associate Artist with Tenebrae and a trustee at the National Centre for Early Music.
Dom's professional career started as a Choral Scholar at York Minster. He has since held singing positions at Clare College, St John's College (Cambridge) and Ely Cathedral. He currently works with a number of leading choral groups and small ensembles - particularly enjoying projects which programme new music and celebrate new musical discoveries.
Joseph Hancock, Tenor
With a growing reputation for his interpretation of Baroque repertoire, Oratorio and Song, Joseph is a recent prize-winning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. He began singing as a Chorister at New College Oxford, and then sang as a Choral Scholar and Lay Clerk in the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.
Recent oratorio and operatic engagements include the Evangelist role in Bach’s ‘St John Passion’ and ‘Christmas Oratorio’, Handel’s ‘Messiah’ and the title role in Britten’s ‘St Nicholas’, Remendado in Carmen for Royal Academy Opera and premiere performances of two chamber operas at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival. He also maintains a busy schedule of choral and consort work, and is a founding member of The Duke's Consort, with whom he recently won the Nancy Nuttall Prize for Early Music at the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed with a variety of ensembles including Voces8 & The Voces8 Scholars Ensemble, Apollo5, Polyphony, ORA Singers, and the Sinfonia of London Chorus. He is represented by SEArtists.
David Le Prevost, Bass
David studied music at the University of Manchester and went on to hold bass lay clerkships at Manchester Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral College, Oxford. Now based in London, he is in demand around the UK and abroad as both a soloist and consort singer with a wealth of experience in performance from early music through to modern composition. On a day to day basis David is regularly engaged for services at institutions such as The London Oratory, Temple Chuch and St Brides whilst he also performs with choirs such as The BBC Singers, Ex Cathedra, Siglo de Oro & the Carice Singers. Recent solo engagements include Brahm’s Ein deutsches Requiem and Christus in Bach’s St John Passion whilst operatic roles include playing the title role in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Simone in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.
Jimmy Holliday, Bass
Jimmy started singing aged 7 as a chorister at Lichfield Cathedral. He was a Lay Clerk at Winchester Cathedral before moving to London where he studied at The Royal College of Music’s International Opera School, winning numerous awards including the inaugural Richard Van Allan award and the 10th Hampshire Singer of the Year competition. He also attended the National Opera Studio, London.
Jimmy has forged an international career as one of the leading Bass voices for choirs and smaller vocal ensembles. He is a regular member of the BBC Singers, Tenebrae, EXAUDI, The Gabrieli Consort, The Binchois Consort and Ensemble Plus Ultra as well as singing with various other ensembles in the U.K. and in Europe. He regularly works with Philippe Herreweghe on Collegium Vocale Gent’s solo and madrigal projects. Recent projects include recording Gesualdo’s madrigals (Books 4 and 5) and Monteverdi’s 4th Book, as well as solos for a Monteverdi Vespers tour, including at La Scala, Milan. Jimmy is also a regular on the session scene singing on movie franchises including Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Hunger Games and Lord of the Rings.
2024 saw the release of Jimmy’s first operatic recording, singing the roles of Groundskeeper and Private Investigator in Oliver Leith’s, Last Days. In 2025, he made his debut at The Linbury Theatre, ROH, reviving the role of the P.I. 2026 will see the release of the opera as a feature film.
Nathan Giorgetti, Viola da gamba
Nathan completed his Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2023 as a Christopher Hogwood Scholar, specialising in historical performance on the viola da gamba and baroque cello with Jonathan Manson. During his time at the Academy, Nathan co-founded Intesa, a viola da gamba and voice duo which celebrates the combination of viol and voice across a wide range of repertoire. In 2023-24, he was a Chamber Music Fellow at the Academy as part of Intesa.
Since graduating, Nathan has worked with leading figures in the early music scene, including Philippe Herreweghe, Rachel Podger, Bjarte Eike, Michael Chance, Matthew Truscott and Pavlo Beznosiuk, as well as being accepted on the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Experience scheme. Nathan recently joined the Salomon String Quartet, led by Simon Standage, for a series of concerts celebrating Haydn’s music at the Esterházy Castle in Hungary.
Nathan is also a core member of Bellot Ensemble, an early music group specialising in 16th and 17th-century repertoire. Bellot was selected as BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Baroque Ensemble 2025-27, and their debut album ‘Cupid’s Ground Bass’ was released in November 2025.
Nathan has played with various leading period performance ensembles, including The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Hanover Band, and the Early Opera Company. He is the founder of the Vilalte Festival, a yearly chamber music festival taking place in southern France. The festival has been running for eight years and has put on over 35 concerts.
Tammas Slater, Chamber Organ
A prize-winning graduate of Chetham’s School of Music, Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music, Tammas Slater has partnered singers and instrumentalists at many of the UK’s most prestigious concert venues, including the Wigmore Hall, Leeds Lieder, and the Bridgewater Hall, and appeared on BBC Radio as a pianist, organist and composer, and is the current Gilbert & Eileen Edgar and Anthony Saltmarsh Fellow in Collaborative Piano at the Royal College of Music.
Alongside his work as a concertising collaborative musician, Tammas is also experienced as a choral accompanist and repetiteur, having served as permanent accompanist to Cambridge University Symphony Chorus, Hertford Choral Society and the Academy Choir, Wimbledon. He has also worked as a rehearsal pianist for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and on opera and musical theatre productions at the Royal Academy of Music, Garsington Opera, Regent’s Opera and Nova Music Opera.
Alongside his work as a pianist, Tammas also enjoys a varied career as an organist, both as a recitalist and church musician. He was Organ Scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, between 2019 and 2023, and has held posts at Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge, and St Michael’s, Highgate. Since 2024 he has been a freelance organist, serving in interim positions at churches around London, including All Saint’s, Fulham, St Marylebone Parish Church and All Saint’s, Kingston upon Thames, and appeared as an accompanist and orchestral organist at many UK venues. Drawing on an eclectic repertoire from the Medieval to contemporary, Tammas has also performed solo recitals around Europe.
Also a composer, and winner of BBC Young Composer of the Year, his works have been performed and commissioned by many ensembles, including the BBC Singers, Aurora Orchestra, Fidelio Trio and the Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge.