Tutors for all courses are leading professionals in their particular field and have a wealth of experience in teaching and coaching.

John Streets MBE was director of the Opera Department at the Royal Academy of Music, London, for 21 years and later appointed Director of all Post-Graduate studies. At the same time, he pursued a very active worldwide concert career, accompanying such artists as Paul Tortelier, Dame Janet Baker, Salvatore Accardo, Dame Felicity Lott, Elisabeth Harwood and Helen Watts, working with Casals, Nadia Boulanger, Messiaen, Tippett, Hindemith, Vaughan-Williams, Solti, Menotti etc., as well as appearing as pianist with the Gabrieli Quartet and Ensemble. He now lives in the relative peace and calm of the French countryside, but continues to give Master Classes at several European Conservatoires and act as adjudicator in international competitions.

Valerie Guillorit began her musical studies with the violin in Montpellier and finished her vocal studies with Margreet Honig at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam in 1997. Her operatic roles have included Susanna (Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro), Belinda (Purcell Dido and Aeneas), Romilda (Handels Xerxes), Euridice (Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice), La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) and Delia (Gomez Fosca) in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

She has sung in oratorio and concert with the Orchestre d'Aquitaine, Gelders Orkest, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve, Zurich Tonhalle Orchester in masses by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Rossini, Bach, Poulenc, Franck and Symanowski in the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Germany.

Her work as a recitalist and chamber musician has brought her particular acclaim. She has worked with pianists Paolo Giacometti, Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Irene Russo, Dido Keuning, the Arriaga Quartet and guitarists The Katona Twins. In 1997 she was awarded first prize in the 'Vriedenkring Competition' of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for her interpretation of Debussy and Tchaikovsky. She is now a regular performer in the Concertgebouw and is a sought-after member of the teaching faculty at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam.

Iain Farrington studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music. In 2001 he won the Megan Foster Prize for Accompanists at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. He works regularly with David Wilson-Johnson, John Mark Ainsley and Lesley Garrett, the London Symphony Orchestra and The Royal Ballet, with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle. He has performed in Sweden, Jordan, The Netherlands and France as well as the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room and the Royal Opera House. He often performs with the BBC and is the regular accompanist for the London Philharmonic Choir.

He was Organ Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, touring widely and making many cds with the celebrated choir. He has given organ recitals in Westminster Cathedral, the Royal Albert Hall and Symphony Hall Birmingham and recently served several months as organist of St Paul's Cathedral.

He has made many recordings with the BBC Singers including works by Duruflé, Holloway and Berkeley and has made many arrangements for organ, piano and chamber music ensembles. His piano version of Elgar's Third Symphony is published by Boosey and Hawkes.

Brian Neubauer trained at the University of Iowa in the Department of Physical Education and Dance. 1981-1984. Winning scholarships from Fred Astaire International Tap and Jazz Competition, he continued study at the Alvin Ailey School and Broadway Dance Center in New York.

Starting as a professional with the Ontario Ballet Theater in Canada then on to Des Moines Ballet. In Europe he joined Tivoli Ballet and Pantomime Troupe in Denmark, Copenhagen where he gained valuable character and mime experience in the Comedia Dell'Arte pantomimes there. Brian's experience includes contemporary dance with the Amsterdam based Geranium company. Brian has also danced in Cats, Evita, and West Side Story.

David Wilson-Johnson read French and Italian at Cambridge University and studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music. Over a career already spanning 35 years he has been a guest of the major opera houses, orchestras, festivals and radio and TV networks worldwide. He is a regular performer at the BBC Proms.

In 1977 he made his debut at the Royal Opera House in We Come to the River by Henze, singing many roles at Covent Garden over the next 21 years, and at the opera houses of Brussels, Geneva, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Salzburg, Turin and Amsterdam.

Recordings include Winterreise with David Owen Norris on an 1824 fortepiano and over a hundred CDs of music of all periods and styles. These range from Hergest Ridge (Mike Oldfield) and Give My Regards to Broad Street (The Beatles) to Bach Cantatas with Gustav Leonhardt and the B Minor Mass with Carlo-Maria Giulini, Beethoven Fidelio with Sir Charles Mackerras, Stravinsky and Schoenberg with Robert Craft and Pierre Boulez, Ravel L'enfant et les Sortilleges, L'Heure Espagnole, Brahms Requiem with Andre Previn and Mahler Eighth Symphony with Sir Simon Rattle.

Recent Opera: title roles in Tippett King Priam (Nationale Reisopera, BBC Proms), Albeniz Merlin (Teatro Real Madrid), Shostakovich The Nose (Amsterdam) and Messiaen Saint Francois d'Assise (London, Lyon, Amsterdam, Brussels, New York, Edinburgh Festival).

David Wilson-Johnson is professor of singing at the Amsterdam Conservatoire and lives between houses in Amsterdam, London and Ferrandou.