Caledon is equally at home whether inspiring the 55,000 soccer crowd at Hampden Park with a stirring new version of Flower of Scotland, or on the stage of the world-famous Sydney Opera House, singing to a packed auditorium of music lovers. The group had a sensational first year which included highlights such as performing in front of Her Majesty The Queen at the opening of the Scottish Parliament and for His Excellency, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at the inaugural Robert Burns Memorial Lecture at the United Nations Headquarters in New York a s well as closing Scotland's largest rock and pop festival, T - in the Park.
Alan Beck: hails from Lanarkshire and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He later won the entrance scholarship to the Postgraduate Opera Course at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1995 Alan won the British Wagner Society Singing Competition at Covent Garden and was subsequently awarded the society’s Bayreuth Bursary. Later that year, he also won the Wolfgang Wagner Singing Competition in London in front of Dr Wagner and Dame Gwyneth Jones. He made his operatic début in 1995 for Opera Ireland and was a principal tenor with the State Opera, Stuttgart from 1996 to 2002, singing many roles in the German and central European repertoire. Alan has also sung principal tenor roles for Lyric Opera Dublin and the Carl Rosa Opera and in 2002 he made his début as Siegmund in Wagner’s Die Walküre at the London Coliseum for English National Opera. Most recently he has been singing with Welsh National Opera as Bacchus in Strauss'.
Ivan Sharpe: Ivan hails from Dunbartonshire, where at an early age he began his vocal training as a boy soprano. After winning a Pilgrim Scholarship, he became Head Chorister of Winchester Cathedral and also began lessons on the French horn. He graduated from Royal Holloway College with a BMus degree and won a scholarship to study in the Opera School of the Guildhall School of Music. During this time, he was a finalist in the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Singing Competition and The Royal Overseas League Singing Competition. Over the last decade he has sung most of the tenor parts on the oratorio repertoire, including Handel's Messiah with The Vienna Boys' Choir in Symphony Hall, Birmingham St (recorded by Capriccio) and Verdi's Requiem, as well as giving numerous recitals of German lieder, French chanson and Scots songs for which he has a passion.
Jamie MacDougall: Born in Glasgow, Jamie MacDougall has established himself as one of the country's most versatile young singers of his generation. Whether on the operatic stage or the concert platform, he has sung to critical acclaim. In operatic repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Britten, he has appeared with many of the British opera companies as well as singing in Europe, America and Canada. Jamie has performed in many of the world's major music festivals including: The Edinburgh International festival, Perth Festival in Australia, Salzburg festival and Aldeburgh Festival, as well as the Wigmore Hall's International Song-makers series. Since 2001 Jamie has presented his own classical music Radio Show for BBC Radio Scotland.
Michael Barnett is a double graduate in Music from Glasgow University. aAvery experienced concert performer and MD, equally at home in the 'pit' orchestra as the stage. The Caledon 'team' has a fourth member in Michael Barnett - where he is the musical Director, 'manning the keys' and writing the arrangements for them.
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