Recent masterclasses include:

John Mark Ainsley, Sir Thomas Allen, Florian Boesch, Barbara Bonney, Susan Bullock, Chevalier José Cura, Dame Anne Evans, Diane Forlano, Wolfgang Holzmair, Angelika Kirchschlager, Helen Lawrence, Dame Felicity Lott, Dennis O’Neill, Thomas Quasthoff, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Ann Murray, the late Robert Tear and Sir John Tomlinson.

Recent Student successes

Many Academy graduates have performed principal roles with the Royal Opera House, La Scala, New York Met, English National
Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opéra de Paris and many more.

They have also become Wigmore Young Artists; BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists; Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera
House; Kathleen Ferrier Award winners including second prize 2011, Song Prize 2009 and 2011, Young Ferrier 2010; winners at
Miriam Licette Award and Royal Over-Seas League Competition. Academy graduates were first and third in the 2008 Kathleen
Ferrier Bursary, first in the 2009 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, and second and third in the 2011 National Mozart Competition (first and third in 2009).

Alumna Meeta Raval reached the final as England’s representative in Cardiff Singer of the World 2011.