The Gyg

Contact

You can send the gyg a general email at hello@thegyg.co.uk or email us personally at the addresses below.


Alison Charlotte Nicholls, Mezzo-Soprano alison@thegyg.co.uk

Alison is currently studying with Teresa Cahill at Trinity College of Music and has received coaching from Ubaldo Fabbri and Alistair Young. Her roles have included Second Lady in Die Zauberflote and La Musica in L’Orfeo. Alison has a long standing interest in contemporary music recently gave the premiere performance of Israeli Composer Sivan Shenav’s In Nights of Autumn. Alison is a founding member of the gyg and is looking forward to future projects with the company.


Freya Wynn-Jones, Actor/Soprano freya@thegyg.co.uk

Freya gained a first class BA Hons in Drama and Psychology from the University of Exeter where she was also a music scholar under Director of Music Marion Wood. She runs fringe theatre company The Moon on a Stick as well as working as a singer, actor and freelance director in East Sussex. Recent roles have included Sandra in Beautiful Thing, The Nurse in Lear’s Daughters, Prospero in The Tempest, title in Princess Ida and The Mother in Roberto Zucco.


Katherine Gillham, Composer/Soprano katherine@thegyg.co.uk

Katherine Gillham is a spnm shortlisted Composer. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree with a first in composition from Leeds College of Music in 2007 and was awarded the Michael Grady Memorial Prize for Composition. She is also a junior alumnus from Trinity College of Music where she received the Chappell Prize for Composition in 2004. She has had works performed at the Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, and Glyndebourne Opera House. She was commissioned by Glyndebourne Education in 2004 to write a fifteen minute piece for Glyndebourne Youth Opera, which toured to Utrecht for the Your Opera Festival and was also performed at the Jerwood Studio, Glyndebourne in 2005. Recent commissions and performances include an electroacoustic soundtrack for Rhys Fullerton’s short film Untitled (premiered at the Keswick Film Festival and the Exp24 Film Night in Leeds) and collaboration with writer and director Chrys Salt for the Leeds Lieder festival; Baghdad 2003 premiered at Leeds College of Music in October 2007. Katherine continues her studies in composition at the Royal College of Music in 2009.


Robine Landi, Actor/Soprano robine@thegyg.co.uk

Robine trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama on the BA Acting course and studies vocally with Soprano Sarah Leonard. Roles at Central include: Amy in Sondheim’s Company, Ophelia in Hamlet, Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest, Birdie Hubbard in The Little Foxes and the Club Singer in “It Must be Madness”(devised). Other credits include Hope and Glory(BBC), Me and My Girl(London Palledium), Berta in The Barber of Seville(Workshop Recording for Peter Knapp’s The Travelling Opera), Dust(Tricycle Theatre). Robine is an experienced soloist and is a visiting lecturer for voice for Central and Millennium Dance.