Charlotte Tetley, a local mezzo soprano who is making herself known in the area for her song recitals and charity concerts. Charlotte studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music (at both a contemporary of George) and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and followed her studies with a position at Glyndebourne Opera. Charlotte sings as the mezzo soloist for choral societies up and down the country. She now lives in Headley with her four children and is taught by Christine Cairns.

George Humphreys was born in Oxford and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Music and the International Opernstudio Zürich. His recent Operatic appearances include Don Giovanni, Il Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro and Valentin in Gounod's Faust, all at the Salzburger Landestheater, Eugene Onegin at the Buxton Festival, Leporello in the Nederlandse Reisopera's production of Don Giovanni, and roles at English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Aldeburgh Festival and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has given Lieder recitals at Lille Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Oxford Lieder Festival and he was recently made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is currently a member of the ensemble at the Salzburger Landestheater.

The audience at Grayshott Concerts is used to hearing a really high standard of performance, aided by the international class soloists and performers that the series somehow manages to attract. But the audience at Grayshott Concerts event on 7th May experienced one of those all too rare evenings that stay in the memory for ever. The concert began with Ben Goldscheider giving a fine, stirring performance of Mozart's Horn Concerto no.4. Concert goers of a certain age will recall the amusing lyrics that Michael Flanders put to the third movement rondo of this work, but Goldscheider's mastery of his instrument needed no spurious additions to ensure the audience were fully gripped by his interpretation of the most famous horn concerto in the repertoire. Fine though this performance was, it was the next work on the programme that made the evening so unforgettable.

Ben Goldscheider was joined by tenor Laurence Kilsby in a performance that no one present will ever forget. Benjamin Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings is not an easy work to bring off, but the audience was treated to a performance that I'm sure I will never hear equalled, however many times I may hear it again in the future. The two soloists, supported with highly sensitive accompaniment from the London Mozart Players under the empathetic baton of Jonathan Bloxham, simply excelled themselves. Laurence Kilsby is one of Britain's finest young tenors, and on this performance, many would say THE finest! His pure, effortless tone was mellifluous when called for, but fired with dramatic power when the music demanded, as in the movement Dirge. His singing was complemented by Goldscheider's beautifully sensitive playing. I genuinely find it difficult to express how absolutely wonderful this performance was. It was a privilege to be present, and the buzz from the audience as they came out at the interval was palpable. Indeed, many of us discussed how much we would rather hear Laurence than Peter Pears, for whom the great work was originally written.