Music stars from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland perform at Toad Lane

Charlotte Hoather, Elizabeth Lawton, Russell Lomas

Soprano Charlotte Hoather is a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland but originally comes from Winsford, where she was born in 1993. She studied singing and piano from the age of eleven has also had lessons in acting and a wide range of dance. For the past twelve years she has also been a member of a Shukokai Karate club, gaining her 2nd Dan Black Belt in 2009, and becoming the English Junior Champion in Kata in 2006.

Her ambition is to become a leading operatic soprano performing in opera houses all over the world.

Flautist Elizabeth Lawton was born in 1991 in Chester and now lives in Runcorn. She began playing the flute when she was six and was accepted by Chetham's School and on leaving was awarded the Larsson Woodwind Prize. She was Principal Flute in the National Children's Orchestra in 2003 and the National Youth Chamber Orchestra in 2004. Elizabeth has won many prizes in Music Festivals such as the Liverpool Performing Arts Instrumentalist of the Year award. Since 2009, Elizabeth has been studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduating BMus (Hons) last July and continuing for a Master’s Degree in Performance.

Her ambition is for a career combining orchestral work, teaching and solo performances but when she isn't practising she enjoys cooking, reading, scuba diving, horse riding and microlight flying, and she has recently become a member of the TA’s Highland Band, the Royal Regiment of Scotland based in Perth.

They will be accompanied by Russell Lomas on piano, who until his retirement in 2003 was a member of the Music Department of Chetham’s School of Music for over thirty years, and Head of Accompaniment for the final twelve, and he was the only accompanist to appear on at least one televised programme in every series of the BBC TV Young Musician of the Year competition between 1978 (the year of the first competition) and 2004. Since then he has given many concerts in the UK and abroad, accompanied auditions for the National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, and has been an accompanist for Summer Schools and several Music Festivals.

They will perform music by composers as wide-ranging as Handel, Schubert, Puccini, Macmillan, Poulenc, Dvorak, Barber and Quilter at a concert at St Mary's, Toad Lane,  Wednesday 2 July at 12:30pm.