Educated at Giggleswick School, the University of London, and Royal College of Music, soprano Sarah Fox is a winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and the John Christie Award, and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway College, the University of London. She has sung major roles including at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Salzburg Festival, Gran Teatro del Liceu, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North. Roles have included Micaëla (Carmen), Asteria (Tamerlano), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Ilia (Idomeneo), Woglinde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Mimì (La bohème) and Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes).

Sarah has appeared in concert with many leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Vienna Tonkunstler, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Basque National Orchestra, Concerto Koln, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Camerata Salzburg. She has performed many times at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, and Three Choirs Festival, and is a regular guest at London’s Wigmore Hall. She has collaborated with many leading conductors, including Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Mark Elder, Andrew Litton, Vasily Petrenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Charles Mackerras, Andrew Manze, John Wilson, Joana Carneiro, Robert Treviño, Ivor Bolton and Richard Hickox. She is a regular soloist on “Friday Night Is Music Night” on BBC Radio 2, was a judge on BBC 2 Television's The Choir, and has performed with Rufus Wainwright in Europe and Hong Kong.

Her substantial discography includes many Gramophone Award nominations and "Editor's Choice" and BBC Music Magazine "Choice" accolades. Recordings include Mozart’s Il Re Pastore (Aminta), two editions of songs by Poulenc (Hyperion and Signum), "The Cole Porter Songbook", Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under Charles Mackerras and Lorin Maazel (both with the Philharmonia Orchestra), "That’s Entertainment" with the John Wilson Orchestra under John Wilson, English Lyrics by Parry, Mozart’s Requiem with the London Mozart Players, Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem with the Colorado Symphony and Chorus under Andrew Litton, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Andrew Manze, Parry's oratorios Prometheus Unbound and the world premiere recording of Judith (title-role) with the London Mozart Players and Crouch End Festival Chorus under William Vann, and the world premiere recording of Nimrod Borenstein’s Shakespeare Songs (English Chamber Orchestra).

Born in London, James Burton began singing and playing the piano at an early age. He was a boy chorister at Westminster Abbey where, as well as singing at many state occasions, he started improvising at the piano: the school’s film club played mostly silent movies and the musical accompaniment was provided by the boys. James has gone on to become an outstanding musical communicator in a variety of musical genres. Well known as an orchestral and opera conductor, he is also one of the UK’s leading choral conductors, and a respected composer and arranger.
A graduate of Cambridge University and the Peabody Conservatory, James has conducted concerts with leading UK orchestras including the RLPO, the OAE, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Royal Northern Sinfonia and also the Hallé with whom he has had a long and fruitful relationship. James’s operatic conducting has included Don Giovanni and La Bohème at ENO, and Cosi fan tutte for English Touring Opera. James has worked at the Metropolitan Opera, Opera de Paris and Opera Rara, and in 2012 he conducted The Magic Flute at West Green for Garsington Opera from whom he received the Leonard Ingrams Award for outstanding work.
James is widely known for his choral conducting and has enjoyed guest invitations with the Gabrieli Consort, the Wrocław Philharmonic Choir and the BBC Singers. He was Choral Director at the Hallé from 2002-9, and under his leadership the Hallé Choir and the Hallé Youth Choir, which he founded in 2003, received outstanding critical coverage for their performances and recordings. Their recording of The Dream of Gerontius received the 2009 Gramophone Choral Award. James is Music Director of the renowned chamber choir Schola Cantorum of Oxford with which he has toured Argentina, China, Italy, France, Mexico, Poland and the USA, made recordings and appeared frequently on BBC TV and radio.
James is a published composer, and commissions have included the music for the 2010 World Equestrian Games opening ceremony, an orchestral album with the folk legend Arlo Guthrie and a large scale choral/ orchestral work for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. His most recent work was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery as part of its World War I commemorations, and a new carol will be premiered next year by the choir of St John’s College, Cambridge.