Lab director
Robert Saxton

Lab mentors
Ruth Fainlight - poet & librettist
Amanda Knott - director
Jane Manning - singer
Kenneth Tharp - choreographer

Lab participants
Matthew Andrews - Lab runner
Helen Astrid - singer
Christopher Austin - conductor
Jane Buckler - writer
Diana Burrell - composer
Ruth Byrchmore - composer
Nicholas Clapton - singer
Morgan Hayes - composer
Mike Henry - composer
Jozik Koc - singer
James Legg - composer
Liliane Lijn - writer
Lori Lixenberg - singer
Gavin MacFadyen - writer/filmmaker
Simon Rae - writer
Julia Richter - repetiteur
Anne Rouse - writer
Pal Rullestad - singer
Dominic Saunders - repetiteur

Guest speakers
Elaine Kidd - producer/director
Michael White - music critic

Visitors
Jeremy Barlow - Music Director, London Contemporary Dance School
Cathy Bereznicki - Education Manager, NESTA
Edward Birch - Education Officer, Arts Council England, Education & Training Dept
Helen Bishop-Stephens - Administrator, English National Opera Studio
Prof & Mrs Eric Bolton
Henrietta Brougham - United Music Publishers
Patrick Dickie - Associate Director, Almeida Opera
Susan Dolton - Awards & Trusts, Musicians’ Benevolent Fund
Martin Freeth - Deputy Chief Executive, NESTA
Hilary Hodgson - PAL Trustee; Esmee Fairbiarn Foundation
Nicholas Payne - General Director, ENO
Sir John Tooley - Former General Director, Royal Opera House and PAL Trustee
Genista Mackintosh - Royal National Theatre

Funded by
Arts Council England
Britten Pears Foundation
Anon Foundation
Musicians’ Benevolent Fund
Elias Kulukundis
Garfield Weston Foundation
Sport and Arts Foundation