RACHEL GODSILL
Rachel Godsill read music at Selwyn College Cambridge as a Choral Exhibitioner and was subsequently a prize winning student at the Royal College of Music. Having received a Byrne Trust Handelian award she has been in demand as a recitalist and oratorio soloist, performing in major concert venues throughout the UK and Europe. She has worked with Richard Hickox, Simon Rattle, Roger Norrington, Charles Mackerras and Ivan Fischer.
Recent solo performances include Bach’s St John Passion , Tippett’s A Child in Our Time, Handel’s Messiah and a series of Orff’s Carmina Burana. In 2009 she performed Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in China with The Academy of Ancient Music, and sang in The Lincoln Centre, New York. Rachel has recorded song cycles by British Twentieth Century composers, and Hummel and Schubert masses with Collegium Musicum 90 under Richard Hickox. She sang for a BBC Radio 3 series of interval concerts and continues to perform newly commissioned works, recently premiering an oratorio on the life of William Blake by Rachel Stott.

MARIE-NOELLE KENDALL
Marie-Noelle Kendall studied in London with Marilyn Meyer Holzer, Albert Ferber & Joyce Rathbone. After leaving Cambridge University she studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest with Ferenc Rados and Gyorgy Kurtag. She was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year and has performed at major London venues. She has given concerts in the U.K. with the Philharmonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Birmingham Ensemble, Cardiff Philharmonic and with several ABC orchestras in Australia.
Marie-Noelle has recorded recitals for Classics FM and the BBC, and a concerto for BBC2's "Contemporary Mozart" series, broadcast in the U.S., Canada and Australia. She has a long-standing collaboration with the Australian String Quartet involving concerts and recordings in Australia and Europe. Marie-Noelle Kendall continues with her commitment to performing contemporary music, focusing especially on the work of the English composer Douglas Weiland.