Rachel E. Copeland continues to receive acclaim as a “revelation with her coloratura soprano leaping easily to impossible heights!” She is a sought after artist combining her crystalline voice with her compelling and energetic stage presence.

Ms. Copeland recently debuted at Avery Fisher Hall as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass to rave reviews as well as performances with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra in a concert of arias and duets. Other career highlights include the Contessa in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Cleveland Opera Theater, Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen with San Diego Opera, Micaela in Peter Brook's Le tragédie de Carmen with Indianapolis Opera, and Woglinde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and first nymph in Dvorak’s Rusalka with North Carolina Opera.

She returned to Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra in 2013 to great acclaim as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, including a national broadcast and her debut at Severance Hall, the prestigious home to the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Other considerable performances include Ms. Copeland’s appearances in a world premiere on the life of Lorenzo DaPonte with Penn State Opera Theater, as Zdenka in Strauss’s Arabella, Musetta and Mimì in La bohème, Lauretta in Puccini’s beloved Gianni Schicchi, Lucia in Donizett’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Juliette in Gounod’s Romèo et Juliette, Adele in J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, and Papagena in The Magic Flute. Internationally, Ms. Copeland has performed the roles of Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.

Upcoming engagements include a world premiere workshop with Cleveland Opera Theatre, a return to the Helena Symphony in Montana, and a role and company debut of Agueda in Mayo, Bisperas ng Liwanag in the Philippines.

In addition to the operatic stage, Ms. Copeland has been praised for her “elegant and smooth tone” in oratorio and symphonic works. As a frequent performer with the Helena Symphony (MT), Ms. Copeland has most recently sung the role of Eve in Hadyn’s The Creation and as the soprano soloist for Bach’s Mass in B minor as well as the St. Matthew Passion. Other notable engagements were with Apollo's Fire for Handel's Messiah, The Choral Society of Durham (NC) as the soprano soloist in Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard, and the soprano soloist in Hadyn’s “Lord Nelson’s Mass” and “Missa belle tempori.”

Dr. Copeland began an appointment at Penn State School of Music as a member of the Voice Department in Fall, 2018. She previously was on the faculty of East Carolina University School of Music where she served as the Associate Director (2016–18), the Coordinator of Graduate Studies (2014–18), and a member of the Voice Faculty (2011–18). In both academic years 2017–18 and 2014–15, Dr. Copleand was nominated for the Robert Wright Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award at East Carolina University. Many of Dr. Copeland’s students have received awards, scholarships, assistantships, and are featured in principle roles at the undergraduate and graduate level at prestigious music schools like Boston Conservatory, Indiana University, Florida State University, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the University of North Texas, in addition to sharing the stage with luminaries of the field like Natalie Dessay to Vanessa Williams.

Dr. Copeland is frequently sought after as a master class technician both nationally and abroad and has been on the faculty of the Cornish American Song Institute in Falmouth, England since 2016 and Cantos para hermanar al mundo in Torréon, Mexico in 2019. During the summers of 2011 and 2012, Dr. Copeland was a faculty member of Musica nelle Marche in Urbania, Italy. Administratively, Dr. Copeland serves at General Manager for the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and has previously served in the positions of Program Director (2017) as well as the Operations Manager (2011–2016) for Oberlin in Italy in Arezzo, Italy. Dr. Copeland holds the Doctor of Music degree in Vocal Performance with a minor in Music History from Indiana University; the Master of Music degree in Voice Performance from Baylor University; and the Bachelor of Music Education degree in Choral Conducting from Baylor University.

Giles Underwood has a varied career as a bass-baritone, voice teacher, vocal coach and conductor. Before taking up the post of Professor of Singing at the Academy in 2016, he taught at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His students have gone on to young artist schemes in Helsinki, Vienna, Zurich and Florence, as well as the National Opera Studio. He runs a successful teaching practice in Oxford with students from a variety of colleges. He taught in Cambridge from 2004 to 2013 and since 2013 he has been Director of Music at University College, Oxford.

He has led workshops and education projects for The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The London Symphony Chorus, Cor de Cambra of Barcelona, the Granada Festival and Chorworks in Washington DC. He has done residencies at The College of New Jersey and Duke University in the US. He has been a teacher on Rodolfus Choral Courses every year since 1995 and has taught for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.

Giles has sung with many of the UK’s leading vocal ensembles. His nine-year membership of I Fagiolini taught him the most about consort singing, from staged productions of Monteverdi madrigals to more unusual contemporary repertoire. His solo work has taken him around the world, and he has sung roles in operas by Britten, Mozart and Puccini, as well as by James MacMillan, Edward Dudley Hughes, Cavalli, Paisiello, Salieri and Martinu.

In 2017 he founded the solo voice ensemble Martlet Voices whose purpose is to offer student singers the opportunity to sing alongside professional ensemble singers. This collaboration has led to the group performing over a dozen different themed programmes, singing music from Cornysh and Monteverdi to newly commissioned works.

Teresa Cahill’s career began at Glyndebourne with performances of Die Zauberflöte (First Lady) and later Falstaff (Alice Ford). She has sung over 100 performances at Covent Garden including Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) under Carlos Kleiber, Elvira/Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), which she sang at La Scala, Milan. Her many concert appearances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has also worked with Riccardo Chailly to open the 1987 Berlin Festival, with Michael Gielen at the Vienna Festival and with Eliahu Inbal in Frankfurt (recorded by Denon), and performed in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Tennstedt and the London Philharmonic. She also performed in Sir Michael Tippett’s Symphony No. 3 conducted by the composer himself, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and worked with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Gary Bertini. Her recording debut was with Klemperer and her CDs include music by Mozart, Elgar, Strauss, Mahler, Lutyens and Saxton.

Teresa is a Professor of Voice at the Trinity-Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and regularly on the jury of many national and international voice competitions including the National Mozart Competition, the Kathleen Ferrier, the Royal Overseas League and the International Vocal Concours in S’Hertogenbosch, where she also gives masterclasses. Other masterclasses include the Royal Academy of Music, Oxford University and Dartington Summer School.

Susan held a scholarship at the Royal College of Music and has sung many soprano roles including: Leonore, Fiordiligi, Erste Dame, Cio Cio San, Michaela, Donna Anna, Santuzza and much contemporary newly composed opera. Highlight performances include Sadler’s Wells, Covent Garden’s Linbury Studio, the Buxton Festival, Salzburg International Festival, Opera Holland Park, Opera de Baugé (France), Classical Opera Company, Fairfield Halls, St Martin in the Field, Cadogan Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. She is also in demand for concerts, oratorios, and featured as soloist in the World Premiere at the Royal Albert Hall of Karl Jenkin’s “Armed Man’s Mass for Peace” (later for Virgin Records) reaching No1 in the British Classical album Charts. She has broadcast live on BBC Radio, E4, sung in plays (later being photographed for 'Hello' magazine) and in Hollywood films "If Only" with Jennifer Love Hewitt and recently in the Puccini 'Turandot' opera scene in the latest "Mission Impossible" film. Susan was a prize winner for 'Best FemaleVoice' at the 12th International “Umberto Giordano” Voice Competition in Italy.

Roger Vignoles is recognised worldwide as one of the leading piano accompanists of our time. In a career already spanning nearly four decades he has partnered many eminent artists, including Sir Thomas Allen, Olaf Bar, Barbara Bonney, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Robert Holl, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Dame Felicity Lott, Elisabeth Soederstroem and Sarah Walker, and he continues to appear regularly in the musical centres of the world.
He has recorded a wide repertoire, from Schubert to Britten, recently winning partciluar acclaim in Reynaldo Hahn (Susan Graham), Tchaikovsky (Joan Rodgers), Schumann and Dvorak (Bernarda Fink), Beethoven, Wolf and Mahler (Stephan Genz), Britten, Finzi and Tippett (Mark Padmore), and Volume I of Hyperion's complete Strauss series (Christine Brewer).
In addition to his work at the RCM, Roger Vignoles regularly gives masterclasses at the Britten-Pears Young Artists' Programme, the Royal Conservatory, Copenhagen and at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. He is also director of "Sommer Lied Weinberg", an international workshop for singers and pianists in Upper Austria.