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MICHAEL CAYTON - Piano/Organ After training at Kneller Hall, Michael served with the Grenadier Guards as a trumpeter before studying piano at the Royal College of Music, where he gained his BMus and ARCM and won the Hilda Anderson Deane prize for conducting and improvisation. While completing postgraduale repetiteur studies he was appointed the first organ Scholar at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Since his debut as an organist at the Royal Festival Hall in 1988, Michael has been in demand as a recitalist and accompanist and has appeared all over the country and in Europe, with notable London appearances at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster Abbey, Blackheath Concert Halls and the Wigmore Hall. Since 2003 he has simultaneously held the posts of Director of Music at St John's Wood Church, organist at Beisize Square Synagogue and conductor of the Chiltern Choir. He has conducted the Watford Philharmonie Chorus, Goldsmiths Choral Union, City Chamber Choir, Aeolian Singers and English Chamber Choir and has broadcast on Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 5 Live, the World Service and on BBCl's Songs of Praise. His church music is published by Redemptorist, the responsorial psalms now a staple of parish churches up and down the country. With broad musical tastes, a hunger to learn new styles and a particular talent for improvisation, he may often be found performing jazz, German cabaret and Judeo-Spanish Ladino music as well. ROBERT BRODY - TENOR Robert Brody began his vocal studies at the Birmingham College of Music while he was a Student at the University. On returning to London he continued at the Trinity College of Music and then with Benvenuto Finelli who introduced him to the Bel Canto vocal technique. He has given recitals in London's leading venues, has recorded for RCA and BBC. He has often been heard on international radio and television and has obtained his qualifications from both the Royal College and the Royal Academy of Music. Robert Brody has on many occasions been called on to act as Cantor in Synagogue Services throughout Europe, Canada and USA. He has visited Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia to record Cantorial Music of the Ghetto for BBC TV and has conducted memorial Services in Warsaw, at Auschwitz and Treblinka. He visited Romania to perform with the Arad Philharmonie choir in the Synagogue and has been honoured to conduct the Shabbat Service in the St Petersburg Great Choral Synagogue. Robert Brody has also recorded with the BBC Singers, the London Jewish Male Choir and with the Zemel Choir of London, music by Louis Lewandowski, by Solomon Sulzer and the recent populär CDs, "Celebrate with Song" and "Zemel goes Stateside”. LUDWIG BÖHME Ludwig Böhme loves vocal music - be it as Singer, conductor, lecturer or arranger. He was born in 1979 in Rodewisch in former East Germany. From 1989 until 1998 he was a member of the St. Thomas Boys Choir in Leipzig, and after finishing as a chorister he worked as assistant of the Director of Music of St. Thomas till 2002. He initially studied orchestral conducting, but then changed to choral conducting at the Leipzig Academy for Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy". After gaining his diploma with distinction he continued his studies to reach public performance Standard. Among his teachers were Georg Christoph Biller and Horst Neumann. Fürther Impulses were supplied by courses with the King’s Singers, Ton Koopman and Morten Schuldt- Jensen. Ludwig Böhme is one of the founders, and the baritone, of the Leipzig Calmus Ensemble, one of the lead ing German vocal ensembles. Calmus gives about 70 concerts a year all over the world, has its own music Pub lishing business, has won important international competitions and its 2009 CD "Lied: gut!" was commended by ECHO-Klassik. Ludwig Böhme is also active as conductor. He has directed the Leipzig chamber choir "Josquin des Prez" since 2002. Though basically an a cappella ensemble, there is regulär co-operation with orchestras. Its repertoire focusses on the oratorios and cantatas of J.S.Bach, but also ranges from Monteverdi's Vespers to Poulenc's Gloria. In 2004 Ludwig Böhme instigated the ongoing concert series "Josquin - the Project", with the first com- plete performance of the latter's entire oeuvre in St Thomas, Leipzig. More than 1000 concerts have taken him to the major music festivals in Germany, to many European countries, and to North and South America. Recordings for CDs, radio and television bear witness to this activity. Ludwig Böhme teaches courses for vocal ensembles and has been Lecturer for Conducting at Music Academies in Leipzig and Halle/Saale. He has also achieved success as arranger and composer (Contemporary A cappella Recording Award 2004). He has been the artistic director of the Leipziger Synagogalchor since 2012. ITAI DANIEL Conductor and composer Itai Daniel is the music director of the Ensemble Choral Copernic in Paris, France, a
