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 Ben
Rayfield was born in Yorkshire and educated at Leeds
Grammar School. He was awarded a choral scholarship to study
Mathematics and Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he
sang in the choir under the direction of Bill Ives. After
graduating in 1995, Ben was appointed as a lay-clerk in the choir
of New College, Oxford, directed by Edward Higginbottom,
regularly touring and recording with groups such as The King's
Consort and The Academy of Ancient Music, as well as appearing on
the best selling Erato CD “Agnus Dei – Music of Inner
Harmony”.
On
leaving Oxford in 1997, Ben embarked on a freelance career as a
musician, and has enjoyed great success, having made over a hundred
recordings in repertoire as diverse as medieval music on
Hyperion, via grand opera on Opera Rara and Chandos, through to
the Cannes Classical Award winning recording of Arvo Pärt's
“Passio” on Naxos.
Particularly
noted as an early music singer, Ben has regularly performed with
consorts such as The Tallis Scholars, The Cardinall's Musick and
The Clerk's Group, as well as the larger choirs of The Sixteen,
The Gabrieli Consort and The English Concert.
In
2003, Ben moved into the field of artist management, firstly
working closely with Sue Nicholls in the vocal department at
Hazard Chase Ltd, and since 2005 for his own company, Rayfield
Artists.
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Elisabeth Fleming studied Music at Jesus College, Cambridge, where she was a choral scholar, and she also sang as a volunteer in the Choir of Clare College. She completed an M.Phil on the subject of Handel's borrowings in Giulio Cesare, Tamerlano, and Rodelinda. She now works as a freelance singer and arts administrator. She is the manager of and sings in English Voices; recent projects include a tour of Spain with the OAE and Gustav Leonhardt, Handel's Solomon with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Ivor Bolton, and staged performances of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in the Aix-en-Provence Festival with Concerto Vocale and René Jacobs. She is also company manager of the Cambridge Handel Opera Group, and the administrator for The Clerks. She studies singing with John Llewellyn Evans.
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Matthew Ross was born and educated in Teesside. He read Modern and Medieval Languages at Clare College, Cambridge, where he held a choral scholarship with the Choir of Clare College under the direction of Timothy Brown. Subsequently, Matthew read for a Masters in Medieval Studies at University College London, where he undertook research in musical innovation, papal legislation and the transmission of Platonic musical thought in the late-medieval papal chapel.
Since his graduation from Cambridge in 2004, Matthew has worked as Planning Assistant of the OAE and Manager of the Choir of Clare College. In addition to work for Rayfield Artists, he maintains a portfolio of freelance work in music administration which includes current projects for internationally-renowned conductor Ivor Bolton and Cambridge University, and past projects for EXAUDI vocal ensemble and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Matthew has also performed widely as a singer, appearing throughout Europe, the USA and the Far East with the Choir of Clare College, and more recently with the Cambridge Handel Opera Group and English Voices, including performances at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, the Munich Opera Festival and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
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