Join us for our Young Voices Series! We will be joined by esteemed musicians from the Royal Academy.
Ella Orehek Coddington (Mezzo) & Benjamin Markovic (Piano)
Ella Orehek Coddington is in her first year in RAM’s opera school, under the tutelage of Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Jonathan Papp, and supported by a Bicentenary Scholarship, the Carr-Gregory Trust, the Tait Memorial Trust, Help Musicians UK and The Ian Potter Foundation and the Blyth-Buesst Operatic Award.
Ella was awarded a DipRAM and MA degree from RAM in 2024. She graduated Sydney Conservatorium in 2023 with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) and a Diploma of Language Studies. Ella studied with Barry Ryan OAM. She has performed die Mutter in Hänsel und Gretel, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mrs Grose in The Turn of the Screw, and Dido in Dido and Aeneas.
Ben Markovic is a Masters student in Ensemble Piano at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with James Cheung and Joseph Middleton. He read music and held the organ scholarship at Queens’ College Cambridge, and has held scholarship positions at Worcester Cathedral and St Stephen’s, Walbrook with St Martin-in the-Fields. Alongside his degree, Ben is active as a freelancing keyboard player, teacher and conductor, working frequently with the Rodolfus Foundation and National Children’s Choir of Great Britain, and has performed with ensembles including the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the St Martin Chamber Ensemble and London Choral Sinfonia. He also holds the post of Director of Music at St Mary’s, Barnes, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Away from the piano, Ben enjoys reading, cooking, exploring the countryside on long walks and wearing funky socks.
Performance: 1PM
Doors will open at 12:30 for refreshments.
Venue: St Marylebone Parish Church
