Personnel who were full members of the quintet

Soprano

• Karen Jensen

  1970-75

  B. Mus – University of Saskatchewan, Canada

  1977-78

  Royal Academy of Music Post-grad student

  1978-80

  Ph.D. student, University of London, doctorate on EVT

  1980-83

  Assistant Professor of Voice – Universities of Regina, Saskatoon

  1983-02

  Professor – University of Manitoba, free-lance performer

  2001-present

  Associate Director – School of Music, University of Manitoba

• Elaine Barry

  1962-7

  Scholar – Royal Academy of Music, London

  1968-9

  Glyndebourne Festival Touring Opera

  1970-2

  Welsh National Opera

  1972-

  Purcell Consort of Voices, Wilbye Consort

  1979-80

  BBC Singers

  1981-3

  Electric Phoenix

  1983-

  Freelance soloist, commercials etc

  Elaine Barry died in 2006

• Judith Rees

  1966-70

  Student – Royal College of Music, London

  1970-72

  Student – Royal College Opera School

  1972-74

  D'Oyly Carte Opera

  1974-75

  English Opera Group

  1976-78

  English Touring Opera

  1979-84

  BBC Singers

  1983-98

  Electric Phoenix

  1984 -

  Freelance singer and teacher including Hailebury College

Mezzo

• Linda Hirst

  1965-69

  student - Guildhall School of Music and Drama (flute and voice)

  1969 -

  freelance singer, first early music, then mainstream, then international contemporary specialist.

  1974-78

  Swingle II

  1978-88

  Electric Phoenix

  1995 -

  Head of Vocal Faculty, Trinity College of Music

• Mary King

  1970-73

  Birmingham University – BA in English

  1973-74

  St Anne’s College Oxford – BEd

  1976-78

  Guildhall School of Music and Drama – Postgraduate Opera Course

  1978 – present

  Solo singer mixing Opera, Concert and Recital work.

  1985- 87

  Electric Phoenix

  1990 - present

  Educator and voice teacher – Royal Academy of Music, English National Opera

  1993-

  Artistic Director The Knack - performance skills course, ENO

  2002 - present

  Freelance TV and radio pundit/presenter  Channel 4, BBC etc

  2004 - present

  Artistic Associate English National Opera: Baylis

• Meriel Dickinson

  1958-63

  Student – Royal Manchester College of Music

  1963-64

  BBC Singers

  1964-67

  Postgraduate student – Vienna Academy

  1967-97

  Solo operatic, music theatre and concert career, including recordings with her composer/brother, Peter Dickinson

  1988-97

  Electric Phoenix

  1997-

  Teacher, Birmingham Conservatoire and Oxford University

Tenor

• John Potter

  1957-61

  Chorister, Kings College Cambridge

  1966-67

  Choral Exhibitioner, Caius College Cambridge

  1968-71

  Lay Clerk, Worcester Cathedral

  1974-78

  Swingle 2

  1978-79

  Electric Phoenix

  1979-83

  Electronic Vocal Theatre

  1984-2001

  Hilliard Ensemble

  1989-

  Red Byrd

  1998-

  Lecturer, University of York.

• Andrew Parrott

  1966-71

  Merton College, Oxford (Postmastership in Music, Organist, BA, Director of Music, postgraduate work; conductor, Schola Cantorum of Oxford)

  1971-

  Assistant to Sir Michael Tippett

  1971-

  Freelance conductor (Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Japan); occasional continuo player and singer; author (The Essential Bach Choir, articles on Monteverdi, Purcell, haute contre); editor (The New Oxford Book of Carols, with H. Keyte)

  1973-

  Conductor and director, Taverner Choir, Taverner Consort and Players (over 50 recordings, mostly for EMI; EBU broadcasts; BBC Proms, Bath, Edinburgh, Salzburg, Lucerne Festivals)

  1980-82

  Electric Phoenix

  2000-

  Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, London Mozart Players

  2002-

  Music Director, New York Collegium

• Daryl Runswick

  1964-67

  Choral Exhibitioner – Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

  1968-83

  Freelance double bass and bass guitar player (Ronnie Scott's Club, London Sinfonietta, session work etc)

  1968-

  Composer (jazz, pop, concert music, feature film, TV etc)

  1970-83

  Touring accompanist - Cleo Laine and John Dankworth

  1970-

  Arranger, esp The King's Singers

  1983-98

  Electric Phoenix

  1984-

  Freelance record producer, broadcaster, author

  1993-2003

  Head of Composition Faculty, Trinity College of Music, London

  2008-

  One man show combining jazz, pop and contemporary classical

Bass

• Simon Grant

  1961-66

  Chorister – King’s College, Cambridge

  1971-5

  Student – Guildhall School of Music and Drama

  1975-6

  BBC Singers

  1976-7

  Swingle II

  1977-79

  Electric Phoenix

  1979-80

  Keyboard player with rock group The Tommy Band

  1980-87

  Swingle II (musical director 1984-7)

  1987-

  Freelance singer, early music specialist, The Consort of Musicke (since 1990), The Gabreili Consort and (since 2004) The Scholars

• Terry Edwards

  1957-60

  Student - Trinity College of Music, London

  1961-64

  Teacher - Rickmansworth Grammar School

  1964

  Great Britain basketball team, Olympic Games

  1964-66

  Manager & singer - John Alldis Choir

  1966-67

  Lecturer - University of Nigeria

  1967-73

  Manager & singer - Schutz Choir of London and Linden Singers

  1973-77

  Manager and sound projectionist - Swingle II

  1978-98

  Manager and sound projectionist, then singer and artistic director, Electric Phoenix

  1978 -

  Director - London Voices, London Sinfonietta Voices

  1991-2004

  Chorus Director - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

  2004-

  Freelance conductor

Sound

• John Whiting

  1948-51

  Student, College of the Pacific, Stockton, California

  1951.4

  BA, English, University of California, Berkeley

  1954.6

  Librarian, U.S. Air Force, Chelveston, Northants, England

  1956.61

  Librarian, University of California, Berkeley

  1961.5

  Production Director, KPFA, Berkeley

  1966-70

  London Correspondent, Pacifica Radio (USA)

  1970-2

  MA, Institute of US Studies, University of London

  1972-2002

  Free-lance sound engineer

  1979-1998

  Sound projectionist, Electric Phoenix

  1984-1995

  Sound Projectionist (Principal), London Sinfonietta

  2002-2005

  News Editor, Fine Food Digest

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