Max Todes, Musical Director & Bass

Max Todes is a British conductor, cellist, and singer with a strong foundation in choral music. He is currently completing a Master’s in Conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying with Martyn Brabbins, and directs the Cavatina Festival in Somerset.

A graduate of the University of Cambridge, he was a choral scholar at St John’s College and later a Lay Clerk at King’s College, gaining extensive experience in professional liturgical singing. Alongside his vocal work, he conducted opera including Le nozze di Figaro and Semele. He founded the Cavatina Orchestra at sixteen, and continues to integrate vocal and orchestral performance in his projects.

Matt Supramaniam, Tenor

Matt began singing at 11 when he was press-ganged into the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. This has become a recurring theme, as he was later cajoled into spending two years sporting a buzz cut, wearing khaki, and foraging in South-East Asian jungles.

Matt has recently left King’s, Cambridge, having been a choral scholar then lay clerk there. With King's, he featured as a soloist in venues including the Concertgebouw, the Barbican, Usher Hall, and the Sydney Opera House, as well as on broadcasts and recordings. He was also the Musical Director of The King's Men, and maintains a rabid obsession with close-harmony music.

Matt has since sung major liturgical services at Westminster Cathedral and the Brompton Oratory, has performed with the Ex Cathedra Consort, and has been awarded a Voces8 Scholarship. Matt occasionally pens terrible poetry and is composing the soundtrack to a short-film being released in 2026.

Alasdair Austin, Countertenor

Alasdair is a member of The Gesualdo Six. He made his debut with the ensemble with a BBC Prom and has since enjoyed a varied schedule taking a range of domestic and international concerts including the USA, Japan, China, Canada and regularly across Europe. Outside of the group Alasdair performs regularly as an oratorio soloist, most recently including Bach’s St John Passio and Handel’s Samson and Messiah. Alasdair studied as an undergraduate at Cambridge University where he sung with St John’s College Choir. With the University Opera Society he starred as Damon in Handel's Acis and Galatea, The Spirit in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Athamas in Handel’s Semele. Whilst a chorister at Jesus College, Cambridge, he was given the opportunity to perform as Harry in English Touring Opera’s production of Albert Herring and as Cobweb in Shadwell Opera's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Tom Pickard, Baritone

Originally from Port St Mary in the Isle of Man, Tom began his singing journey as a chorister in the Choir of King’s College Cambridge. He was awarded a music scholarship at Eton College, before returning to King’s College Cambridge as a Choral Scholar, to read for a degree in modern languages. Graduating in 2024, Tom has stayed on at King’s as a lay clerk, and works in the Boarding House of King’s College School alongside his singing commitments in the College Choir.

Hamish Macgregor, Tenor

Hamish is a tenor from Cambridge. He sings regularly with a range of professional choral ensembles including Tenebrae and Continuum, and has performed across the UK, Europe, China, South Africa and the USA. He has also performed as a soloist in works including Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St John Passion and Mass in B Minor. He has also recently completed a PhD in the evolutionary dynamics of cancer, alongside singing as a lay clerk with the choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. He has since continued as a postdoctoral researcher and now divides his time between his continued scientific work and an active musical life.

Christopher Villiers, Reader

Christopher comes from a theatrical family. His father was a film director, and his mother an actress, his sister is a multi-award winning film producer, and brother is also an actor, so it was hardly a surprise that Christopher opted for a life on the boards, or more accurately in front of the camera.

Christopher has an extensive career across film, television, and theatre. He has made 27 films including Top Secret, First Knight, Bloody Sunday, Sliding Doors, Fisherman’s Friends and Magic Mike’s Last Dance. He has also appeared in over 93 different TV shows including Slow Horses, The Crown, Hetty Feather, Sharpe, ABC Murders, Indian Summers, Vera, Mile High and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Christopher wrote and produced ‘Two Men Went to War’ (released in USA and around the world) and wrote and directed the Bosnian language short film ‘Snow for Water’ which won the Jury award at the Berlinale and has since been shown at many other film festivals including – Tokyo, Tangier, Rome, Newport, Beirut and Sarajevo. Snow for Water was also shortlisted for a Bafta.