Cassie's experience in local theatrical and musical societies includes Magnolia in Showboat, Velma in Chicago and Countess Charlotte Malcolm in A Little Night Music, together with many performances in revue.  She has been co-ordinating the performances of Chimes Musical Theatre since 1987.

Pam was born in Wales.  A former Head of Music at St Philomena’s School, Carshalton, she has an extensive repertoire, and has sung many roles, including Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus and the title role in Hello, Dolly!  She has also sung oratorio with numerous groups in London and the south-east.  More recently, while living for two years in Miami, Pam sang with, trained and occasionally directed four choral groups, one of which will be touring Britain during 2003.

Leon has taken major guest roles with ENO, the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, New Sadler's Wells and many touring companies. Recordings include cast albums of The Merry Widow, Pacific Overtures, Joe Carpenter & Son, Cox & Box, a solo album of George Grossmith's comic songs, and Sullivan's The Masque At Kenilworth. He is a featured soloist on the BBC series Lives Of Jesus (for which he wrote the lyrics), and has recorded Gilbert's His Excellency in the new version by Terry Hawes. Leon has played lyric and patter roles in all G&S operas for many companies including G&S For All, The Magic of D'Oyly Carte, New Savoyards of London, Gawsworth Summer Opera and G&S Unlimited. Leon is an Hon Life Member of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society for whom he sang Ludwig in the Centenary Grand Duke and Lucifer in The Golden Legend. He is archivist to the late Donald Swann and is writing the authorised biography of Michael Flanders.

Stephen studied at the Royal College of Music Opera School with Neil Mackie.  He sings regularly the standard oratorio repertoire and is otherwise particularly drawn to comic opera, having played numerous Gilbert & Sullivan roles.  His operatic roles include Rodolfo (La Bohème), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Troufaldino (The Love for Three Oranges) and the Mayor in Britten's Albert Herring.  He has worked with Kent Opera, for Almeida Opera in London and the Aldeburgh Festival, and for the New D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in The Pirates of Penzance.  He is a popular concert singer and performances include the St Matthew Passion in Iceland and London with Peter Schreier, concerts in Romania and India and broadcasts on French and Viennese radio. He appears as a soloist on the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society's recent CD recording The Masque at Kenilworth - Music for Royal and National Occasions.  Stephen is also an experienced conductor and arranger.

Camilla was born in Nairobi and came to the UK when she was 18.  She has just graduated in performance at Trinity College of Music where she studied with Wendy Eathorne and Robert Aldwinkle, appearing in Samuel Barber's Vanessa and the première of Goldschmidt's Beatrice Cenci.  Other roles include Pulcherio in Mozart's The Deluded Bridegroom, a recording of Sullivan's The Rose of Persia for BBC Music Magazine, Carmen and L'Elisir d'amore.  She has toured Australia and New Zealand with Carl Rosa; G&S roles include the Duchess in The Gondoliers, Dame Carruthers in The Yeomen of the Guard, and Lady Psyche in Princess Ida.

Stephen joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1995, and has played Urbain in La Vie Parisienne, Pavlovitch in The Count of Luxembourg and Private Willis.  Most recently, he played Go-To and covered Pooh-Bah, and played the Boatswain, at the Royal Festival Hall, and the Pirate King in London's West End.  For the Carl Rosa Opera Company, he has performed Samuel and Go-To on a UK tour, and has also performed with European Chamber Opera, Opera Interludes, G&S Unlimited, The Kensington Gore Singers, and the Gawsworth Festival Opera.  These roles include the Pirate King, the Sergeant of Police, Strephon, and Masetto in Don Giovanni.  With his own company, Off The Cuff Productions, Stephen performs regularly as a soloist in productions and concerts of G&S, opera, operetta and musicals throughout the UK and around the world.  In his solo concert career, he has performed oratorio, including Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem with the Occam Singers, lieder with pianist Rebecca Holt, and as a regular guest soloist for baroque and lieder recitals with Brian Whyld in Penzance.  He regularly records as both a soloist and ensemble for both Deutsche Grammophon and TER.

John's musical repertoire incorporates most styles from musical theatre to oratorio and opera.  Musicals include Guys & Dolls and Uptown, Downtown, a revue featuring Sondheim, Bernstein and Kander & Ebb.  He has also sung with close harmony group "Song Circle".  John has sung on a number of recordings including the original London cast recording of Nine.  Operas include Papageno in The Magic Flute and Brissard in The Count of Luxembourg.

David was born in Barnsley.  He studied Classics at Oxford before moving on to study singing at the Royal College of Music.  Apart from Gilbert & Sullivan, his stage experience includes roles as diverse as the Steersman in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Percival Browne in Sandy Wilson's The Boyfriend.  Since leaving college David has appeared with Holland Park, Carl Rosa, the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, Wexford Festival, Grange Park, and as Colonel Fairfax in British Youth Opera's production of The Yeomen of the Guard.  David's repertoire as a concert soloist ranges from Haydn's Maria Theresa Mass, Handel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Bach's St John Passion and Mozart's Requiem to Gershwin, Porter and Coward.

Liz was born in Barnsley.  She read Classics and French at St John's College, Oxford, and worked with people with learning difficulties before gaining an M.Mus at Trinity College of Music.  She has played the roles of Peep-Bo, Isabel, Fleta, Phyllis and Casilda for Carl Rosa Opera, and took part in their recent tour of Australia and New Zealand.  She is in demand as a soloist, especially in oratorio.  Although most at home in operetta, she also enjoys opera, musical theatre and popular song, often in concert with her brother David.

Debra has appeared as a soprano soloist on the South Bank, including Dear Wolfgang Amadeus and The Age of Belcanto in The Purcell Room.  She has won numerous prizes, including the North of England Tournament Trust and Geraint Evans prizes, to continue her studies at the Bonn Opera and the RSAMD, and has recently been awarded the prestigious Madeline Finden Memorial Award, resulting in a prize-winners' concert at St John's Smith Square.  As well as concert and oratorio work, she has performed on the operatic stage on tour for London Opera Players, Crystal Clear Opera, Opera Interludes and Opera della Luna, and roles performed include: Lucia (Edinburgh Festival Theatre), The Queen of the Night, Gilda, Amina, Adele, Micaela, Adina, Madame Herz, Norina, Mabel and Rose Maybud.  Recordings include soprano soloist in Kaiser's Christmas Cantata on the Classics for Pleasure label.

As well as work as a soloist Sovra also sings with a group of singers under the name THE FOOD OF LOVE, a group that has sung at a variety of occasions and venues, culminating recently in a cruise round Southern India.

Paul left a career in the city to study at Trinity College of Music London, where he gained a BMus and MMus, and was a prize-winner.  He has appeared in concert halls all over the country and toured on the continent.  He made his Prom debut in 1993 and his Wigmore Hall debut in 1999, and records regularly.  He says he’s “too fat and ugly for heroic leads” (we don’t agree, Paul!), so specialises in 'character' parts where “a semblance of clear diction is an advantage”...

Ellis has performed roles in stage, film and TV as diverse as Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar and the Devil in Dvorak’s The Devil & Kate. Other parts include Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera, Polyphemus in Acis & Galatea, Captain Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music, Count Almaviva in the Marriage of Figaro, Falstaff in Sir John In Love, the eponymous Paul Bunyan in Britten’s opera, principal roles in nearly all the G&S operas, and further roles from opera to pantomime. Ellis has featured as a ‘Magic Lantern Showman’ in BBC’s Blue Peter and as King Henry VIII on the BBC’s Learning Zone, as well as featured appearances on national TV. He was recently seen on BBC Knowledge as George, Prince Regent, in the Princes In Waiting series.

Alison was born in Dublin.  Her recent roles include Wellgunde (Das Rheingold - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra tour), Lucille in the British premiere of Danton's Death (Brighton Festival), Arsena (Der Zigeunerbaron - RTE/Opera Ireland), Frasquita (Carmen - Dublin &  Ottowa), Cupid (Orpheus - Cork); also broadcasts of Carmina Burana and Rutter's Magnificat.  Concert work in the UK includes Stabat Mater (Rossini), A Child of Our Time (Tippett) and both the Rutter and Faure Requiems.  Her awards include the John McCormack Golden Voice 1994, and the Lies Askonas and Nicholls Harty prizes at the Royal College of Music.  She studied at the National Opera Studio on a scholarship from English National Opera, and recorded Sullivan's opera The Rose of Persia with the Hanover Band for the BBC.  She is now playing leading roles at the ENO, including Yum-Yum in the Jonathan Miller production of The Mikado and Rosina in The Barber of Seville.

Rebecca graduated from Trinity College of Music, and continues studying privately with Hazel Wood.  Awards include a Tillet Trust scholarship, and, at Trinity, the Vocal Department Award, the English Song Prize, the Morag Noble Memorial Scholarship, and the Greenhouse Allt Prize for oratorio & cantata.  Operatic roles vary from the Messenger in Maderna's realisation of Monteverdi's Orfeo, to Jocaste in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.  She recently made her Purcell Room debut with the Company of Singers & Players performing scenes from Herodiade (Massenet) and Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saens).  Rebecca has made regular appearances on the concert stage, both in recital and oratorio, including a recital tour of Brittany and Normandy, and engagements in venues such as St George's Hanover Square and St Martin-in-the-Fields.

More unusual repertoire includes Praetorius’s Christmas Mass and Stanford’s Requiem and Stabat Mater. Joanna is a keen recitalist and has appeared in this capacity on cruises on the QE2 and for Swan Hellenic also at the Windermere Hotel in Darjeeling. She has recently taken part in new commercial recordings for EMI of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder and Stravinsky’s A Psalm a narrative and a prayer conducted by Robert Craft.