Robert Steadman is a composer and conductor. Brought up in Hampshire, he read music at Oxford University, gaining an award for the fugue he composed for his Finals.

Over the years, he has written a wide range of music including 3 symphonies, 2 operas (one with a libretto by the author Richard Adams, and one with a libretto passed down to him by John Masefield), 2 musicals, a large amount of both chamber and choral music, and music for a wide range of theatre productions. In recent years, he has composed two new soundtracks for the classic silent movies ‘Nosferatu’ and ‘Battleship Potemkin’, both of which have been performed several times with live orchestra. He was Composer-in-Residence with Nottinghamshire Education and The City of London’s Freeman’s School, and has been commissioned to compose music for, amongst others, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, Sinfonia Viva and London Brass Virtuosi. He had two compositions specially commissioned and premiered in the Millennium Dome.

He currently conducts Horncastle Choral Society, Isle Choral Singers and the Isle of Axholme Orchestra.

You can find Robert on his website and Facebook, and hear a large amount of his music on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc.

Tamara Stein studied singing in Munich and London, where she also studied dance, acting and creative writing. She started performing professionally in TV and film before moving into theatre and opera. More recently she has been concentrating on recital/concert work and writing/producing. Additionally to her serious work, Tamara has also performed successfully in cabaret, where she combined opera with comedy.

Tamara sang in works by contemporary composers as well as operas and operettas by Mozart, Verdi, Bizet, J. Strauβ Jr. R. Strauss, Rossini, Smyth and Borodin to name just a few. She acted in plays by Shakespeare, Frayn and Stoppard among others. She has directed several short plays, Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night's Dream and staged versions of Haydn’s cantata Arianna a Naxos and Schuman’s Frauenliebe und Leben singing also in the latter. She has won several singing competitions gaining first prizes in opera, operetta and song.

She appeared at Hylands House (Essex), The Barn Theatre and The Komedia (Sussex), The Hawth Theatre (Surrey), South Hill Park (Berkshire), Dicken’s World and The Tom Thumb Theatre (Kent), for Music at Park House in Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) and in London at the Southbank (Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Festival Hall), St Johns Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, The V&A, The Pleasance, The Steiner Theatre, Arcola Grimeborn Opera Festival, Fitzroy Square Gardens, Severndroog Castle, The Chapel Playhouse, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Proud Camden, Volupté Lounge, Madame Jojo’s, and as a recitalist and concert soloist in countless churches from Hampstead to Streatham, incl. St James Church Piccadilly and St Pauls Church, Covent Garden. Recently she has been heard singing on ITV London and BBC Radio London (live). Since 2011 she has been asked to perform in open spaces, such as public gardens and markets, she is also in demand as a private entertainer. During the pandemic in 2020 Tamara created recitals for streaming and wrote the lyrics for a filmed aria by Esther Hopkins for Spare Tyres online production of Signal Fires in which she also sang.

Tamara is working on an easy accessible operatic solo show that is designed to tour in areas that have been starved of opera and classical vocal music. A work in progress version was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023, which received a ‘Highly Recommended Show’ by the Fringe Review. She has also created a recital, showcasing female classical composers. She premiered a shorter version with a twist – the audience drew lots which songs were to be performed – at the Edinburg Festival Fringe, which received a 5* review from The Wee Review. Since then she has performed the recital in a more traditional setting at St Margaret’s in Putney, London. Further performances are planned. Tamara is also working on a libretto for a chamber opera by composer Esther Hopkins.

Tamara is neurodiverse and has been suffering from ‘severe’ to ‘very severe’ M.E. and fibromyalgia, rendering her invisibly disabled.

Esther began as a player in brass bands and orchestras whilst growing up in Tenby, West Wales. She left to pursue her musical education and she attained a BA(hons) in Music at Bath Spa University followed by a PGCE from Cardiff University before finally following postgraduate studies in composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. After leaving the Cardiff area, she undertook a number of varied roles which included Music Lecturer at Swansea College, Course Leader of Popular Music at New College, Telford, Music Teacher at Holland Park, London, Course Co-ordinator of Music at Haylane Special School and  teaching composition and Brass at the Egerton Rothesay School. She was also a founding member of the Little Phoebe Brass Quintet with whom she played Trumpet. She continued her training in Media Music and studied with Nanita Desai (BAFTA Breakthrough Brit 2016-17) at Goldsmiths University.

Esther has composed pieces for Regent Brass, Staines Brass, London Consort of Winds - Ancient and Modern Consort, Isle of Axholme Orchestra and various solo comissions including 'Meltemi' for Trumpet and 'The Fog on Daegga's Knoll' written for Clarinettist Jonathan Rider.

In 2020, she was commissioned by Spare Tyre theatre company and collaborated with Tamara Stein on 'You can't hold me now'. She is also working with Soprano & Librettist Tamara Stein on an Opera based on the life of Florence Nightingale. 

Currently she is working on a Song Cycle - 'A Circle of Song' collaborating with writer and composer Julian Broadhurst.

She has a strong musical interest in the folk traditions of the British Isles and World Music and these influences can often be heard in her music. Esther can be contacted for commissions through her website.

Piano was always Augusta’s first love but after switching to first study singing during her BMus at Royal Holloway University London, she discovered a whole new world of performing opportunities. She played various lead roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and other musicals around Lincolnshire and also enjoyed performing with Peak Opera at the Buxton Opera House at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival. Augusta sang in various other church and chamber choirs locally before relocating to Hertfordshire.

In 2015 Augusta began singing with Peregrina EnChantica, a small vocal ensemble mixing performances of Bulgarian song and orthodox chant with newly composed music dedicated to wildlife conservation. Concerts have been in varied locations including the Bulgarian Embassy in London, RSPB Rainham Marches, the International Bird Fair at Rutland Water and a number of trips to Bulgaria. In 2017 she joined a local Gilbert and Sullivan society where she continued her musical and operetta performances. Followed by a scholarship with English Chamber Choir singing a vast range of music. Film/TV scores included Michael Giacchino at 50, Beauty and the Beast, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Close Encounters of the Third Kind all at the Royal Albert Hall. At the London Palladium she sang with Procol Harum and Journey to the Centre of the Earth with Rick Wakeman at the Barbican. Recording credits include The Fizz, Rick Wakeman and solo work for a Patriotic Britain album. More traditional classical concerts include Handel’s Messiah, Faure and Mozart Requeims at St Martins-in-the-Fields, premieres of new music in Patmos, Greece and traditional church services in London. In 2018 she was invited to join Felici Opera a group based in Hertfordshire producing operas and classical concerts.

After her performing abruptly stopped in 2020, Augusta like many others, was part of various recorded performances shared and streamed and continued to teach her piano and singing students online. Later she began creating musical political parodies, focusing on the mishandling of the pandemic and on the various political scandals that ensued both in the UK and abroad. These were later compiled into a book with Mike Cashman, ‘It’s My Party and I’ll Lie if I Want To’. As the previous groups she had sung with went ‘back to normal’ she was very appreciative of Felici Opera’s continued garden concerts each summer which predated the pandemic. As a medically vulnerable performer these were the only live performances she had continued to give. 

Unfortunately Felici Opera disbanded in 2025 so Augusta has begun to diversify and lean into her folk music roots, and will be performing in the upcoming finals of a folk song writing competition. She is delighted for this opportunity to raise awareness for clean air and share her more classical side for The Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation and hopes you enjoy the changing seasons theme.

Julian Broadhurst – Derbyshire 1967 and I only briefly left.

In 1983 I begin my life’s odyssey with his first Acknowledged Artwork and poem CW 1 and Oe 1 - I hit the ground running. 

‘Thrown out of school in 1984 - went across town to study music and never really left 

Poetry and Drama became a persistent undertow, to Music, to Art, to party, to Cancer - three times and rather nasty.  Three years in a row where poetry took the lead 86 - 87 - 88. The first Six volumes of eight hat became Poesis 1 the poems to 1990. The time when Visual Art took over. A Poesis 2 takes on, for the rest of my poetic life in many more volumes all called Dancing on the surface of Meaning - the better part of a thousand poems in the Oe Catalogue. 

Visual Art rises with me and I make University at 27 in 93 after a few important years in Art. After graduating I go straight back into Art. My Geometric Abstraction-, Elementalism, a branch of OP Art.

I became a professional in 2000 at 33. In 2006 music called with a recording studio. And I end 22 years of work after prestigious installations at Oxford University and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Notable exhibitions. There is a huge documentary website at Drowningcircle.com

In 2006 I recorded a percussion Album, first of a Gargaspian 144 others in 5 classical Genres and 21 collaborations for my Label DCM. Now all in the National Sound Archive -The National Collection.  My hearing failing me I catalogue the poetry and rewrite 4 plays. I use strong friendships in serious music in Cross collaborations. British Composer Martin Gaughan Writes a Choral Symphony and a mini chamber opera on my work. American composer Martin Max Schreiner writes a song cycle of my works ‘Songs of Youth - a Cycle of Dreams’ and British Composer Esther Hopkins is writing another -  ‘Circle of Sound’. Music is available here.