AfterWords

Hal Cazalet is a British tenor opera singer trained at the Juilliard School in New York. He has created leading roles in World Premieres for composers Philip Glass (Les Enfants Terribles), Roxanna Panufnik (The Music Programme) and Tod Machover (Death and the Powers). He has worked much of his life in the USA performing at various prestigious venues including the Santa Fe Opera and the Lincoln Centre. As a composer/lyricist, his musical of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince was presented at The Place Theatre, London. His Play of Words is a musical celebration of his step great-grandfather PG Wodehouse on Broadway.

Simon Beck is a musician, conductor and singer. He has collaborated on a series of legacy concerts with Lorna Luft celebrating her mother, Judy Garland, Hal Cazalet celebrating his step-great grandfather, PG Wodehouse and Liz Robertson celebrating her late husband, Alan Jay Lerner. As an educator he has led masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He also coaches and mentors in private practice.