Resurgam
Resurgam was founded in 2003 by Mark Duley, and is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed vocal ensembles, specialising in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Resurgam is committed to bringing a collaborative approach to its music-making in every corner of the country, and the western seaboard in particular. The ensemble values its relationships with local choirs in these communities and enjoys bringing the expertise of its singers and players alongside them with regular workshops and performance collaborations. Resurgam has worked with an international array of conductors including Monica Huggett, Christophe Rousset, Erin Headley, John Butt and Christian Curnyn, and has performed in the UK and continental Europe, including acclaimed appearances at the Bach Festival of Lausanne and Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. Within Ireland, Resurgam has appeared at most of the major international festivals, including Galway International Arts Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ardee Baroque Festival, Cork International Choral Festival. Resurgam has given many groundbreaking performances of music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including the first Irish period-instrument performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. In addition to its work in the field of historically informed performance of Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, Resurgam has also brought to Irish audiences the great choral works of the Russian Orthodox tradition, touring the country with Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil and Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, and giving the first complete Irish performance of Schnittke’s monumental Concerto for Choir. Resurgam has collaborated with flagship Irish instrumental ensembles, and works regularly with the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, with whom it has undertaken tours of the west coast of Ireland performing music by Schütz, Praetorius, Lassus and Monteverdi. Recent highlights for Resurgam have included the release in 2023 of its first recording, ‘Thomas Weelkes: Gentleman Extraordinary’, with the disc garnering an array of laudatory reviews, including selection as Editor’s Choice for Gramophone Magazine. 2023 also featured the ensemble’s lauded sell-out performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers as part of the Galway International Arts Festival. In 2024, Resurgam partnered with Opera Collective Ireland under the direction of Christian Curnyn, in presenting double-bill performances of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. These performances were part of Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, and were met with international critical acclaim.
Christopher Bowen
Tenor
Christopher Bowen studied singing alongside medicine in New Zealand. While in London he was a member of the BBC Singers and after moving to Dublin in 2020 was soon immersed in the Irish classical music scene. He was tenor evangelist in Bach’s Johannespassion and Weihnachtsoratorium with the Academy of Ancient Music, sang Handel’s Solomon at the Dublin Handel Festival and was evangelist for A Patchwork Passion at the BBC Proms.
On the opera stage he created the role of James Joyce in Old Ghosts for Irish National Opera. He played Bill in Dove's Flight and the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland for Opera Collective Ireland. He was First Jew in Salome, Fr. Brendan in The Ballybruff Trilogy and Samuel Beckett in Blue Electric. His diverse concert appearances include Britten’s Serenade with the Hibernian Orchestra, a world premiere of Ina Boyle’s Lament for Bion with ConTempo Quartet, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and Britten’s War Requiem.
Christopher’s recordings include Lyell Cresswell songcycles, Purcell duets for The Hibernian Muse, Vaughan Williams’ A Cambridge Mass, Delius’ Song of the High Hills and Janácek’s Excursions of Mr Broucek as well as recordings with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, BBC Singers and I Fagiolini.
Margaret Bridge
Mezzo-soprano
Irish mezzo-soprano and conductor Margaret Bridge has performed across the UK, Ireland, Europe and the US. A former Studio Artist with Northern Ireland Opera and winner of the Deborah Voigt Opera Prize, her operatic roles include Flora in Verdi's La Traviata and Maddalena (cover) in Verdi's Rigoletto with Northern Ireland Opera, Dorinda in Adès' The Tempest with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Melanto in Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses with Opera Collective Ireland, and Elaine in Later the Same Evening with Opera Memphis. Solo concert highlights include Mahler's Kindertotenlieder for Northern Ireland Opera, Bach's St John Passion and Handel's Messiah with the Ulster Consort, Philip Wilby's An English Passion with the Belfast Cathedral Choir, Handel's Messiah (semi-staged) with Sestina, and De Falla's El Amor Brujo with the Ulster Orchestra.
A dedicated ensemble singer, Margaret has sung with the Monteverdi and Constellation Choirs under Sir John Eliot Gardiner since 2019. She has also performed with the Handel and Haydn Society under Harry Christophers and Harry Bicket, as well as with Chamber Choir Ireland, Wexford Festival Opera and Irish National Opera.
As a conductor, Margaret took part in the NCH Grant Thornton Female Conductors Programme, leading the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra in 2022, and later received a development grant from Northern Ireland Opera, conducting its chorus at Ulster Hall. She is currently the proud conductor of Lauderdale Community Choir in Scotland. She holds a Master in Voice from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, a Graduate Diploma in Voice from New England Conservatory, and a first-class honours degree in Musicology and Theory from Trinity College Dublin. She used the COVID-19 hiatus to retrain and now enjoys balancing her singing and conducting work with her career as a software engineer and being a mother to a very energetic toddler.
Eoghan Desmond
Bass
Eoghan Desmond is a bass-baritone from Cork, resident in London. His oratorio repertoire includes Mendelssohn's Elijah, Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, Handel's Messiah, Alexander’s Feast, J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion, St John Passion, B-Minor Mass, Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, Graun's Der Tod Jesu, Vaughan Williams' Hodie, Willow-Wood, 5 Mystical Songs, Fantasia on Christmas Carols and the Requiems of Brahms, Duruflé, Fauré, Howells, Mozart and Verdi. His art song repertoire ranges from early music to music composed specifically for him.
An accomplished choral singer, Eoghan is a member of Chamber Choir Ireland. He is also a regular guest with choirs such as Resurgam, Polyphony, EXAUDI, The BBC Singers, The Gabrieli Consort and The ORA Singers. Outside of his singing work, Eoghan is a sought-after choral composer. Recent commissions include a major work in the Irish language, entitled Guthanna ar an gCnoc, which received its premiere in February 2025. His music has been recorded by The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, New Dublin Voices and The Sixteen, and is regularly performed across Europe, the UK and the USA.
Ryan Garnham
Bass
A bass baritone from Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland, Ryan Garnham is a Masters graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. A finalist in the 13th Glenarm Festival of Voice, he was invited into the 2024 Young Singers Collective with Le Foyer des Artistes. He has performed operatic roles such as Fiorello and the Ufficiale in Lyric Opera Ireland’s production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville in the Grand Opera House, Belfast in 2026, as well as The Cobbler in Northern Ireland Opera’s production of Philip Glass' The Juniper Tree. He also performed in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Blow’s Venus and Adonis with Opera Collective Ireland and Resurgam in Rheinsberg, Germany in August 2024.
Ryan performed with Irish National Opera in their production of Bellini’s Norma in June 2026, also performing twice the previous season in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore. In August 2025, he sang with the Irish Baroque Orchestra for Handel’s Alexander’s Feast at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. His oratorio repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, Fauré’s Requiem, Charles Wood’s St Mark Passion and Stainer’s Crucifixion.
In October 2024, Ryan was a Northern Ireland delegate at the Worldwide Music Expo (WOMEX) after receiving a bursary from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. His ongoing professional engagements include ANÚNA and M’ANAM with Michael McGlynn, and the Ulster Consort under Matthew Owens.
William Gaunt
Bass
William Gaunt, a native of Yorkshire, received his early musical education as a chorister at Ripon Cathedral. He was a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, and spent 17 years as a member of Westminster Cathedral Choir. As a soloist, William performs a broad variety of genres and styles. Performances have included Carissimi's Historia di Abraham et Isaac and Jephte, Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610, Bach's Johannes-Passion, Matthäus-Passion, Mass in B Minor, Magnificat, and numerous cantatas, Handel's Messiah, Acis and Galatea, Brockes-Passion and Samson, Haydn's Creation, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn's St Paul, Fauré's Requiem, Stravinsky's Les Noces, Pärt's Passio, Turnage's The Silver Tassie, Beamish's The Judas Passion. He has appeared with the Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Cleobury; Choir of Christ Church, Oxford/Darlington, Dunedin Consort/Butt, Arcangelo/Cohen, Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht/Leertouwer, Portland Baroque Orchestra/Earley, Chamber Choir Ireland, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Theatre of Voices and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Hillier, Orchester Wiener Akademie/Haselböck; Freiburger Barockorchester/Bezuidenhout.
William’s solo recordings include Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 with both the OAE/Howarth and the Dunedin Consort/Butt, Fauré's Requiem with the LSO Chamber Ensemble/Short, Handel's Messiah with Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht/Leertouwer, and Bach's Matthäus-Passion with the Academy of Ancient Music/Cleobury.
Francesco Giusti
Countertenor
Born in Bologna, Italy, after studies of pianoforte, organ, composition and musicology, Francesco Giusti began singing as a countertenor and has performed in many concerts in Europe, Japan and the USA. After a BMus in singing at London Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he studied at HMT Leipzig and Amsterdam Conservatorium, where he obtained an MMus.
Francesco moved to Ireland in 2017 where he collaborates regularly with Irish ensembles such as Resurgam, Sestina and the Goethe Choir. He was a member of Northern Ireland Opera studio in Belfast for the 2018/19 season and of the Irish National Opera ABL Studio for the 2021/22 season, during which he covered Tamerlano’s role in Vivaldi’s Bajazet. Francesco’s performance with the Irish Baroque Orchestra conducted by Peter Whelan saw his Royal Opera House London debut.
Francesco’s oratorio repertoire includes Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, B minor Mass and Magnificat, and Handel’s Messiah. His opera roles include Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina and The Cheshire Cat in Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as well as title roles in Scarlatti/Martini’s La Dirindina, Greg Caffrey’s Pamplemousse and Handel’s Fernando, Re di Castiglia.
Samuel Jenkins
Tenor
Winner of the Berlin Opera Academy’s Luxton Award and an LCS Singing Competition finalist, Samuel is a highly versatile tenor of “richness and delectability” (Haddo Arts). Samuel trained at the Royal College of Music, where he was a scholar and graduated with Distinction, studying under David Rendall; he now works with Antonio Lemmo and Jo Ramadan.
In demand as an oratorio soloist across the U.K. and Europe, Samuel has performed a wide variety of the repertoire, spanning Bach’s Johannespassion to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Jonathan Dove’s The Far Theatricals of the Day, in distinguished venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, St Paul’s Cathedral, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, L’Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles, and the Philharmonie Berlin.
As a recitalist, Samuel has programmed French mélodies with acclaimed pianist Roger Vignoles, and given performances of Schumann’s Dichterliebe at the Edinburgh Festival and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings at St Paul’s Knightsbridge. Samuel’s discography includes Stravinsky’s Mass with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Leighton’s Crucifixus, for which he was commended by Gramophone.
On stage, Samuel’s operatic roles have seen him appear as Tamino, Don Ottavio, Don Carlos and Dorvil; and in scenes as Tonio, Camille and Ferrando. Samuel has performed in numerous productions at Glyndebourne, most recently appearing in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.
Samuel performs as a concertist with a number of ensembles including Arcangelo, the Constellation Choir and Orchestra, the BBC Singers and The Sixteen.
Aisling Kenny
Soprano
Irish soprano Aisling Kenny is a soloist, recitalist and ensemble singer and in recent years has established herself as a specialist in early music. She frequently performs sacred and chamber works of the baroque and classical eras, in particular the music of J.S. Bach. She has sung as a soloist with leading Irish and European ensembles including Collegium Vocale Gent, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Balthasar Neumann Chor, Sestina, Resurgam, Camerata Kilkenny, Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ricercar Consort, Staatskapelle Halle and Pulcinella.
An experienced ensemble singer, she has sung with Vox Luminis, Gabrieli Consort, Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, RIAS Kammerchor, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Ensemble Marsyas and Atalante. Recent performances as a soloist include Johannespassion in Eisenach, the town of Bach’s birthplace and BWV 73 at Bachfest in the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, with Collegium Vocale Gent, directed by Philippe Herreweghe, Spirit and Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas with Collegium Vocal Gent and Ricercar directed by Philippe Pierlot at Le Rivage des Voix festival and several projects with Irish Baroque Orchestra directed by Peter Whelan.
A dedicated recitalist, highlights include Dowland’s lute songs with Thomas Dunford in Paris and Kilkenny and concerts with historical harpist, Siobhán Armstrong at Galway Early Music Festival and East Cork Early Music Festival.
Stuart Kinsella
Tenor
Stuart Kinsella is a tenor soloist and consort singer whose experience includes the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin, Vlaams Radiokoor in Brussels, Arnold Schoenberg Chor in Vienna, Theatre of Voices, Ars Nova and Musica Ficta in Copenhagen, Coro Casa da Música in Porto, as well Irish groups, Chamber Choir Ireland, Resurgam and the Irish Baroque Choir. His cathedral career has spanned the Irish choirs of Christ Church (where he is a lay vicar choral) and St Patrick’s in Dublin, and the English choirs of Durham and Christ Church, Oxford.
With the Irish Baroque Choir, he has recorded their 1742 Messiah, sung Handel’s Alexander’s Feast at the BBC Proms, and performed Bach’s B-minor Mass and Matthew Passion. As a soloist, he has sung as the evangelist in Schütz’s Weihnachtshistorie, Distler’s Weihnachtsgeschichte and Bach’s St John Passion and, last Easter, Charles Wood’s St Mark’s Passion. He has also performed the sprechstimme in James MacMillan’s Seven Angels with the Vlaams Radiokoor touring Belgium, and Tristan in Frank Martin’s Le vin herbé with Léo Warynski in Porto. Stuart occasionally directs a vocal ensemble, Peregryne, who enjoy singing medieval polyphony from the Eton choirbook for the office of Compline.
Laura Lamph
Mezzo-soprano
Laura began her singing career in the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. After a year living on a volcano in Sicily, she moved to London, where she performed with leading UK and Irish ensembles including Arcangelo, The Dunedin Consort, Polyphony, The Gabrieli Consort and Chamber Choir Ireland.
Laura now lives in Copenhagen with her husband, pianist Miles Lallemant, and their sons, Lysander and Orlando. She is a member of Ars Nova Copenhagen and Theatre of Voices.
A versatile soloist, Laura performs repertoire ranging from baroque and contemporary music to folk song. Recent solo appearances include Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Easter Oratorio and St Matthew Passion, Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, Arvo Pärt’s Passio, and Britten’s Phaedra. Highlights of 2025–26 include her debut at Carnegie Hall with Theatre of Voices, performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and collaborations with Irish Baroque Orchestra, Ulster Consort and Sestina.
Michael MacCartan
Bass
Bass-baritone Michael McCartan is from Newry, County Down. He studied Music at Trinity College Dublin alongside a vocal scholarship at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He now holds a Lay Vicar position at Christ Church Cathedral Dublin. Michael was selected for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain’s Fellowship Programme (2021) and Sestina’s Next Generation Programme (2022). He has since worked with leading Irish ensembles including Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Resurgam and Sestina.
As a soloist, Michael has performed works by Handel, Bach, Fauré, Stainer and Vaughan Williams, among others. As a choral workshop facilitator, he has worked with Sing Ireland, Christ Church Cathedral’s Schools Project and Dublin City Council’s Culture Connects Programme, where he holds the role of Artist in Residence for Community Singing. Michael has also been an Education Artist with Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and Bass tutor for the Irish Youth Choir.
Kate Macoboy
Soprano
Australian soprano Kate Macoboy is a versatile and accomplished performer, known for her specialisation in Baroque and Renaissance music. She holds an Honours degree in Music from the University of Western Australia and relocated to London in 2007 to pursue a career in early music. As a freelance artist, Kate has performed across the UK and Europe, both as a soloist and ensemble singer. She has worked extensively with leading vocal groups including Ars Nova Copenhagen and Chamber Choir Ireland under the direction of Paul Hillier.
In 2010, she was awarded a scholarship to complete a Master in Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies (MAS) at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, where she studied under esteemed early music specialists Anthony Rooley and Evelyn Tubb. Kate is a regular member of the Grammy Award-winning Theatre of Voices and also sings with the Danish Radio Vokalensemblet as a deputy, in addition to working with several professional church choirs in London. Her performances are marked by clarity, sensitivity, and a deep connection to historical repertoire.
Sarah Thursfield
Contralto
Sarah Thursfield is a contralto from Dublin. Her recent solo performances include Stanford’s Stabat mater and Buckley’s Lament for Art O’Leary with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Fennessy’s Blood with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Elgar’s The Light of Life, Duruflé’s Requiem, Bach’s St John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Mass in B-minor, Cousser’s The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus, and Handel’s Messiah with Chamber Choir Ireland and the Irish Baroque Orchestra under Peter Whelan.
An experienced recitalist, her recent repertoire includes Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, Elgar's Sea Pictures and Britten's A Charm of Lullabies, and she recently enjoyed a sold-out recital at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
August 2025 saw Sarah’s debut in the Royal Albert Hall with the Irish Baroque Orchestra at the BBC Proms, performing Handel’s Alexander’s Feast.
Sarah is also an experienced choral musician, and is a member of ensembles such as Chamber Choir Ireland, Sestina and Resurgam. She also recently had the pleasure of being appointed as the first female Lay Vicar at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, where she currently holds the post of Vicar of the Prebendary of Swords.
Edward Woodhouse
Tenor
Edward Woodhouse is a tenor based in London. He is in regular demand as a soloist, and has appeared with the Dunedin Consort, Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Baroquestock Festival, Sestina Music and numerous cathedral choirs and choral societies.
Recent solo performances include: the world premiere of Tansy Davies’ Passion of Mary Magdalen with Dunedin Consort at the Barbican, J.S. Bach’s B-Minor Mass with Sheffield Bach Society and Evangelist in J.S. Bach’s St John Passion with Hampstead Chorus and later Tremeirchion Bach Choir. Future solo engagements include: performances of Handel’s Messiah across Norway with Det Norske Blåseensemble (directed by Peter Whelan) and the second performance of Tansy Davies’ Passion of Mary Magdalen at the Edinburgh International Festival, directed by John Butt.
As a consort singer, Edward has worked with some of the foremost ensembles in the UK, including The Tallis Scholars, Alamire, I Fagiolini and Tenebrae. Edward has also performed extensively on the continent with groups such as Edvard Grieg Vokalensemble, DR VokalEnsemblet and Theatre of Voices. Edward is a regular member of The Marian Consort and recently departed his position as a member of Chamber Choir Ireland. In his upcoming ensemble work, Edward is venturing as far afield as Orkney, Utrecht, Tbilisi, Taipei, Seoul and Shanghai.