BEN COX

Accompanist / Associate Conductor

Ben read music as an Organ Scholar at Cambridge University and now works across the UK within Musical Theatre and Opera. Ben was also a Genesis Sixteen Conducting Scholar, and studied with Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan. He has taught and accompanied singing students at The Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Oxford School of Drama, Birmingham School of Acting, Millennium School of Performing Arts, LAMDA, and Trinity Laban Conservatoire. He was Musical Supervisor for Tooting Arts Club’s off-Broadway transfer of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and recently collaborated with the same team to bring Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet to the new Boulevard Theatre in Soho.

Theatre credits include: Les Miserables (West End & UK Tour), Show Boat (West End), Everybody’s Talking about Jamie (West End), Broken Wings (West End & Middle East Tour), I Am Thomas(Told By An Idiot UK Tour), Trial By Laughter (Simon Friend Entertainment UK Tour), Hansel & Gretel, Our Town and Korczak (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Assassins (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham),Cyrano de Bergerac, Hello Again and Little Shop of Horrors (LAMDA)

Opera credits include: Svadba and Lamento Della Ninfa (Trinity Laban Conservatoire), The Barber of Seville and The Pirates of Penzance (Heritage Opera), Hin und Zurück (Sheffield Music Festival), Suor Angelica and Pagliacci (Aix-en-Provence), Merrie England (Finborough Theatre), Acis and Galatea (West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge).

ADEY GRUMMET

Associate Conductor

Born in Australia, Adey trained as a dancer and actor as well as a singer. She worked in radio broadcasting, choral music, drama and musical theatre (original Australian casts of Cats and Les Miserables) before she ran away. She has worked in the UK since 1988 for companies including the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, English Touring Opera, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, Music Theatre Wales, Tête à Tête and D'Oyly Carte in classical repertoire from mainstream to contemporary.

As an animateur and workshop leader, her work has included projects under the auspices of all of the major opera companies in the UK as well as such highly regarded international groups as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Brodsky String Quartet, The Shout, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. She has also developed projects for organisations such as Artangel, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Glasgow City Council and Aldeburgh Music. She is one of Big Big Sing's choir doctors and a Mentor and choral consultant for Music For Youth.

SARAH LATTO

Accompanist/Associate Conductor

Sarah is a vibrant choral director, enjoying a blossoming career as a conductor and vocal coach in London and the South East. She read music at Cambridge University, where she held a choral scholarship with Sidney Sussex College, and completed a BA Hons between 2007 and 2010. She studied conducting with Stephen Layton, and performed in masterclasses with Stephen Cleobury, Andrew Nethsingha and Timothy Brown.  

After graduating in 2010, Sarah continued her conducting studies in Brighton, where she worked closely with Brighton Early Music Festival as a vocal coach and director.  In 2014, Sarah was awarded the Association of British Choral Directors bursary scheme for young conductors, and through the scheme worked with the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus, a 150- strong chorus. Sarah works as a musical director and vocal coach with the arts department at Brunel University, and directs Tapestry, a sixteen voice ensemble based in Berkshire exploring 19th and 20th century repertoire for women's voices. 

As an alto, Sarah is currently a Lacock Scholar and studies with Jenevora Williams. In August 2015, Sarah took up a week-long Fellowship at the Norfolk Chamber Music Course at Yale University, on the Choral Conducting workshop lead by Simon Carrington. Most recently, Sarah was appointed as the Conducting Scholar with Genesis Sixteen from 2015-16, a young artists scheme run by The Sixteen designed to nurture the next generation of talented ensemble singers.