Talent Development

Jerwood Young Artists

A programme of exceptional coaching and performance opportunities for young singers.

Thanks to the generous support from Jerwood Foundation, Glyndebourne has been providing a programme of exceptional coaching and performance opportunities for young singers in the Glyndebourne chorus since 2005.

In 2010, a new strand of work was introduced to focus on nurturing exceptionally talented singers from the Chorus selected as Jerwood Young Artists. Through the Jerwood Young Artist Programme, the singers work with leading conductors, directors, choreographers, theatre specialists and vocal coaches to enhance their skills and experience.

The Jerwood Young Artist Programme is supported by Jerwood Foundation.

Jerwood Young Artists

British mezzo-soprano Angelina Dorlin-Barlow holds the Fishmongers’ Company Scholarship, supported by the Karaviotis Scholarship, at the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio, where she studies under the tutelage of Patricia Bardon. She is also a Samling Artist and is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust alongside other charities. She has performed in Le nozze di Figaro at Cadogan Hall and Teatro Massimo Comunale with The Mozartists and created the role of Mia in the world premiere of Link in My Bio by Charlotte Marlow and Dirty Freud at the Théâtres de la Ville Luxembourg. She joined the Glyndebourne Chorus for Festival 2025 before performing the roles of the Dog and Woodpecker in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the RCM International Opera Studio. Angelina and pianist Firoze Madon released the first recordings of ‘Moments of Freedom’, a new song cycle by Joanna Borrett, available on all digital platforms.

British Baritone Hector Bloggs is an Opera Course Graduate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with John Evans. His operatic roles include the title role in Don Giovanni, Sid in Albert Herring, Dr Falke and Frank in Die Fledermaus and Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre. Most recently he covered the role of Conte di Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at Opera North. Last summer he made his Glyndebourne debut as Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and was the recipient of the Wessex-Glyndebourne chorus award. In Autumn Season 2025 at Glyndebourne, Hector performed Il Sargente in La boheme, and sang Belcore’s Aria in the Christmas Concerts. In 2024 Hector made his Wigmore Hall debut in a Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass, where he returned for the Kathleen Ferrier 2025 Finals. He performed in La rondine with the LSO under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano and won First Place in the Courtney Kennedy Award and Keith Bonnington Award. Hector was a 2024/25 Drake Calleja scholar, a Gwen Catley Scholar and is an Opera Prelude and Samling Artist.

Fife tenor, Liam Forrest, recently graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music as a Master of Music with Distinction, studying with Mark Wildman. Liam was a semi-finalist in this years Concurs Tenor Viñas International Competition. In 2024, he was a Serena Fenwick Young Artist with British Youth Opera and performed as a soloist with The Hallé in Lili Boulanger’s ‘Psalm 130’. His recent operatic roles include Passerby in Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová at Glyndebourne Autumn Season 2025, Young Puccini in William Niall Morris’ Puccini: Man of the Theatre at Wexford Festival Opera, Hoffmann in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman at Preston Opera, Dorvil in Rossini’s La Scala di Seta at RNCM and Mr Rushworth in Dove’s Mansfield Park at RNCM and Byre Opera. Other works include Verdi’s Requiem, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, Mozart’s Requiem, Schubert’s Mass in G minor and Haydn’s The Creation. Liam looks forward to joining the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Stuttgart in September this year.

Baritone Oliver Williams is in his final year of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he also completed his undergraduate studies under the continued guidance of John Evans. Oliver is a recipient of the Sybil Tutton Opera Award and is a Gwen Catley Scholar, supported by the Amar-Franses C Foster-Jenkins Trust. Recent operatic roles include Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Lescaut in Manon and Lord Talbot in Maria Stuarda. In the 2026 season, Oliver will perform Spencer Coyle in Britten’s Owen Wingrave at Guildhall School and appear at Glyndebourne Festival as Lackey in Ariadne auf Naxos. He will also join the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, where he will cover the title role in Britten’s Billy Budd. Concert highlights include appearances as soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Wyatt Sinfonia, and as part of the Octet in Mendelssohn’s Elijah under the baton of Antonio Pappano with the London Symphony Orchestra.

South Korean Soprano Seohyun Go is currently pursuing Opera Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she began her postgraduate vocal studies in 2023 under the guidance of Samantha Malk. She earned her Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University and was a Young Artist at the Opern Studio of the Korean National Opera in both 2021 and 2023. In 2025, she was awarded the prestigious Guildhall School Gold Medal and has previously appeared as soprano soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Choir at the Barbican Centre. She is the winner of the 2025 Bampton Opera Young Singers Competition and a Kathleen Ferrier Awards Finalist. As the 2024 recipient of the Guildhall School Franz Schubert-Institut Lieder Prize, she spent the summer immersed in German Lieder and poetry at the Franz Schubert-Institut in Baden, Austria. Recent recital appearances include a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. Her studies are generously supported by the Margaret Easton Scholarship, the Richard Buxton Scholarship, the Fishmongers Colyers-Edwards Bequest and she is also a Josephine Baker Trust Artist.


JERWOOD Foundation

Established in 1977 for John Jerwood MC (1918-1991) by Alan Grieve CBE (1928-2025), Jerwood Foundation is a UK charity committed to supporting excellence and emerging talent in the arts in the UK. Alan Grieve served as Chairman for over 30 years and was appointed Chairman Emeritus in 2023, when Rupert Tyler was appointed Chairman. The organisation is led by Lara Wardle, Executive Director and Trustee and to date Jerwood Foundation has committed over £113 million to support the arts in the UK. To find out more visit jerwood.org

 


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