Performances

The Painted Fall was founded by classical musicians Imogen and Laura in 2023, It combines their instruments of harp, viola and voice with their love of pop, classical music and musical theatre.

 

Laura studied viola with internationally renowned violist Rivka Golani at Trinity Laban, and sang with a choral scholarship in the Old Royal Naval Chapel Choir under Ralph Allwood, where she was a soloist in Handel’s Dixit Dominus. She has since performed at the Cadogan Hall, at Ronnie Scott’s and in Oklahoma in the Theatre Royal.

 

Imogen is a professional harpist with a Masters degree from Trinity Laban Conservatoire and a Music degree at Oxford University singing with the Lady Margaret Hall college choir. She has freelanced with the London City Philharmonic, performing under several distinguished conductors. Her concerto debut was with the Oxford University String Ensemble, and she collaborated with composer Rebecca Castello Galian on several innovative compositions for harp.

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​​Gerard Lin is an international award-winning conductor, who has worked with many choirs, including the BBC Singers. He holds an MMus from the RAM and also from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore. 
Prior to moving to the UK, Gerard was for nine years director of music for a church choir and conducted several masses for the Archdiocese of Singapore. He is also co-founder of Chroma, a Singapore collective of singers presenting thematic choral programmes.
Gerard was conducting scholar at Westminster Cathedral from 2023-2024 and now conducts the Westminster Cathedral Junior Voices. He is Music Director of the London Concord Singers as well as the Arcadian Singers of Oxford.

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Bruce O’Neil is Head of Music for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been Music Director & Supervisor for over 50 RSC productions, including their global hit Matilda, and Shakespeare Live!, a BBC TV live broadcast from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, which was nominated for a BAFTA Television award.

Since 2013 he has been Music Supervisor of the RSC’s Music & Speech recordings, comprising music commissioned by the RSC for every Shakespeare play, including scores composed for the recent survey through the canon between 2013 – 2022 as well as music held at Shakespeare Birthplace Trust archive, composed for productions in Stratford throughout the 20th Century.

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​Murray Rosenthal received his dental degree in 1963 from the University at Buffalo. He served in Vietnam as a dentist receiving a Bronze Star in 1968 for setting up a clinic and treating civilians. He spent thirty years in public health dentistry with the highlight being the Director of Dentistry for New York City.  He may have come late to the creative world of theatre and opera, but during the last thirty years he has received three Tony Awards and co-produced for Pegasus Opera seven operas by composer Philip Hagemann.  And his enthusiasm for GBS has led him to become vice chair of The Shaw Society. For the Shakespeare in Music Festival he will compere the evening concert presenting Shaw’s play The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and introduce Hagemann’s opera based on the play. 

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