London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble

Mark Le Brocq held a choral scholarship at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge where he read English. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Kenneth Bowen and later continued at the National Opera Studio where he was sponsored by The Friends of English National Opera. Upon completing his studies, he became a Company Principal with English National Opera where roles include Tamino ‘The Magic Flute’; Paris ‘King Priam’; Count Almaviva ‘The Barber of Seville’; Narraboth ‘Salome’; Cassio ‘Otello’; Don Ottavio ‘Don Giovanni’; Don Basilio ‘Figaro’ and Doctor Maxwell ‘The Silver Tassie’.

Most recent and future engagements include Aschenbach ‘Death in Venice’ (Welsh National Opera, winner of Achievement in Opera at the 2024 UK Theatre Awards and the Sky Arts Award for Opera), Loge ‘Das Rheingold’, Mazal ‘The Excursions of Mr Broucek’ and Melot/Sailor ‘Tristan und Isolde’ (Grange Park Opera), UK premiere of Houston Chamberlain ‘Wahnfried’, Siegmund ‘Die Walküre’ and Loge (Longborough Festival Opera), Melot (Scottish Opera), Vitek ‘The Makropolos Affair’ (WNO /Brno Festival/Scottish Opera), Tinca (Tabarro) and Gherardo (Gianni Schicchi) for WNO and World premieres of Blackford’s ‘Babel’ (Camden Choir) and Fennessy’s ‘The Riot Act’ (RSNO).

Pianist Anna Tilbrook has become a regular artist at all the major concert halls and festivals since her debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1999, and frequently broadcasts for BBC Radio 3.

In 2022 Anna and James Gilchrist celebrated 25 years as a duo partnership. They have made a series of acclaimed recordings of English song for Linn and Chandos, the Schubert song cycles for Orchid, Schumann’s cycles, the songs and chamber music of Vaughan Williams with Philip Dukes and most recently ‘Solitude’, settings of Purcell, Schubert, Barber and a cycle written for James and Anna by Jonathan Dove, ‘Under Alter’d Skies’.

In August 2021 Lucy Crowe and Anna marked 20 years of working together by releasing their disc ‘Longing’ featuring Lieder by Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg on the Linn label. In 2023 Anna was on the jury for the Song Prize for Cardiff Singer of the World. She also teaches at the University of Oxford and Royal Academy of Music where she is an Associate.