Biography

Formed in 2014 at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Ceruleo create dramatic programmes using spoken text alongside music for two sopranos and continuo. Every member of the group performs as a soloist, and they use all available combinations of instruments and voices to create innovative and captivating performances.

They were selected to be part of the prestigious Brighton Early Music Festival’s Live! Scheme and have performed at venues including St John's Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Courtauld Gallery and for City Music Society, The London Handel Festival, the Folkestone Literature Festival and live on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune'. They created and premiered 'Rival Queens', an immersive operatic experience, for Handel and Hendrix in London. 

Their newly commissioned staged show about Henry Purcell, written by Clare Norburn and directed by Thomas Guthrie, toured around the UK in 2018-20. ‘Burying the Dead’ was performed at Festivals including the Buxton International Festival, Lake District Summer Music, Baroque at the Edge at LSO St Luke’s, Brighton Early Music Festival and the York Early Music Christmas Festival.      

For more information about the members of Ceruleo, please click below:

Emily Owen Jenni Harper Toby Carr Kate Conway Satoko Doi-Luck