Catherine Cropper (mezzo soprano)
Catherine was born in 1994 and from an early age she developed a passionate interest in music, particularly singing. She had taught herself to sing using books borrowed from her local library and she dreamed of entering the world of musical theatre. Catherine longed to be able to have formal singing lessons to help her [...]
Victoria (soprano)
Victoria’s passion is singing and performing; however despite her obvious talent, she had not received any lessons before approaching Future Talent. Instead, Victoria had taught herself to sing. Receiving support from Future Talent has meant that Victoria is finally able to benefit from formal singing lessons, something which had previously been an impossible dream. Receiving [...]
Ashleigh To (soprano)
Ashleigh’s musical talent was first spotted by her primary school teacher. She wouldn’t stop singing (!) and so she had her first formal singing lesson shortly after turning ten. Ashleigh’s singing teacher encouraged her to sing a variety of music, but in the end Ashleigh decided that classical music was her favourite style. Ashleigh had already [...]
Elizabeth Hardman (soprano)
Elizabeth really loves music and spends four nights a week at Bolton Music Centre. She first began singing in choirs when she was seven when she joined the Turton Training Choir and shortly after this she moved to the Bolton Junior Youth Choir just in time to be invited to sing in the 2005 School’s [...]
Charlotte Beale (soprano)
Charlotte began singing at the age of five, when she took part in Dainty little fairies from Iolanthe in a dancing show. She then began piano lessons at the age of six and ten years later she had passed all her grades. Charlotte began to take lessons in singing at twelve when it became clear [...]
William (tenor)
William is from Hovingham and began his musical life playing the clarinet. He then received singing lessons at Kirkham Henry Performing Arts Centre in Malton, North Yorkshire at the age of 13 and the progress he made in the first couple of years enabled Will to take his GCSE Music exam a year early, for which [...]
Molly (voice)
Molly is from Hull and was taking singing and cello lessons at school. Future Talent awarded Molly a bursary to enable her to continue her singing lessons for another year. “My daughter would not have had the chance to do any of this without Future Talent and Wansbeck Primary. I believe it [...]
Tylah Tomkins-Simpson (pop singer)
Tylah began singing when she was about two and whenever she was given the opportunity to get on stage and sing she would jump at the chance! She also started acting at the age of six and has had main parts on both TV and radio. Tylah started singing lessons at the age of ten [...]
Emma Rae Ward (soprano)
Emma is from Nottinghamshire and Future Talent awarded her funding in 2009 to increase her weekly singing lessons from 30 minutes to an hour. Emma also plays the flute and piano but singing continues to be her real passion. Since Future Talent has supported Emma, she has made great progress. The additional time in her [...]
Adam O’Shea (tenor)
Adam has been singing publicly from a young age, performing solo in the largest national venues in the UK, including the O2 Arena, the Manchester Evening News Arena and The Royal Albert Hall. As a member of a young male quartet called Just Four, Adam reached the finals of Music for Youth in Birmingham and [...]
