Jessica Kneeshaw
Soprano
Jessica is a soprano who comes from Beverley, East Yorkshire. She is in her final year of undergraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music as a scholarship student, and learns with Professor Kate Paterson. At RAM, she is the recipient of the Warne Family Award for 2023-27. In January 2025, she was selected to be an Academy Baroque soloist and perform in RAM's performance series, Resounding Shores, which celebrates Purcell and his music. She also sings with York Oratory consort when she is back in Yorkshire. Previously, Jessica was one of the soloists in Mozart's Requiem with The London Oratory school.
In December 2025, Jessica performed Handel's Messiah with The English Baroque Choir and Hull Choral Union as a soloist. She has performed recitals at the RNCM, Appleby in Westmoreland, St John the Baptist Church, Chester, and at Cottingham Methodist Church. More recently, Jessica was a soloist in Handel's Israel in Egypt with The Angmering Chorale and performed a recital with Libby Burgess in the New Paths Music Festival.
Jessica is looking forward to completing her LRAM in April 2027, performing in RAM's Opera Scenes and delving into some more challenging contemporary music, which has become a recent passion of hers, as well as opera after being a Spirit in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. She is excited to be singing with Thames Philharmonic Choir and to performing some incredible music.
Jessica
Partington-West
Soprano
Jessica is a British soprano currently studying with Raymond Connell and Gavin Carr.
She graduated from King’s College London in 2023 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music, having completed a dissertation on three Britten operas, a lecture-recital on gender performance in Mozart’s soubrette roles, and a final recital including Britten’s On This Island alongside other songs and arias. While at King’s, she studied singing with John Lattimore at the Royal Academy of Music through the university’s Advanced Performance Studies programme. She also performed operatic roles including Susanna (Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro)/Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito) in opera scenes, Flora (Britten, The Turn of the Screw), and Shepherdess/Bat (Ravel, L’Enfant et les Sortileges), and Sandmann (Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel), and sang in a masterclass with Fleur Barron.
In 2023, Jess was chosen for Glyndebourne Academy, where she received movement and acting coaching, and language coaching in German and Italian. She performs regularly with the Philharmonia Chorus under their Student Scheme. Personal highlights including Handel’s Samson at the BBC Proms, Puccini’s La bohème in Lille with the Orchestre National de Lille and Verdi’s Requiem under the baton of Riccardo Muti. She has been selected for Vox Urbane’s Next Gen mentoring scheme for 2026/7.
She is excited to join Thames Philharmonic Choir and return to her choral roots, having begun singing as a teenager with the Berkshire Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir.
Amelia Chambers
Alto
Amelia first sang as a chorister at Rochester Cathedral, where her love of choral music began. She then continued her musical education through Eton Choral Courses, Junior Trinity Laban, The National Youth Choir and the Royal School of Church Music. Amelia went on to study at the University of Bristol, gaining a BA in Liberal Arts with a major in Music. During her time in Bristol, Amelia performed in a variety of ensembles, and as a soloist for the Clevedon Music Club. She sang with the University of Bristol Madrigal ensemble, a 16-strong choir of auditioned singers who perform unaccompanied part-song from across the ages, from Renaissance madrigals and polyphonic masses to contemporary art song and jazz arrangements. Amelia was also involved with the operatic society’s performance of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, where she took on the role of Assistant Director.
After completing her studies as a mezzo‑soprano at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Amelia continued her vocal development with Aurore Lacabe. She now sings as an alto choral scholar at Holy Trinity Dartford and performs regularly with the Solis Choir and East London Singers. She has also enjoyed deputising in a wide range of churches and cathedrals across London and Kent while establishing her early portfolio career.
Amelia is looking forward to developing her skills under the mentorship of Harry and Richard!
Hugo Williamson
Tenor
Hugo is a current Master’s student at the Royal College of Music and a recent first-class music graduate of Cambridge University, where he latterly was a lay clerk with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Winner of both the 2025 Clare College Song Competition and the Donald Wort Prize for the highest final recital mark at the university, he has since performed recitals at Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields and West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. Recent highlights include his Evangelist debut in Bach’s St John Passion with St Neot’s Choral Society, the Prologue/Peter Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with Sidney Sussex Music Society, The Madwoman in Britten’s Curlew River with Clare College Opera Society and Orpheus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld with Cambridge University Opera Society.
Hugo is an alumnus of the Cambridge University Lieder Scheme (2023-25) run by Joseph Middleton, the 14th cohort of Genesis Sixteen, a 2025-26 Voces8 Scholar and has toured as an Emerging Artist with the King’s Consort. He is excited to begin his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music from September 2026 with a scholarship and support from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, alongside being an Emerging Artist with the Brighton Early Music Festival 2026 and choral scholar at Temple Church.
Gabriel Huc-Hepher
Baritone
Based in South London, Gabriel’s musical journey began as a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral under Andrew Carwood. After having worked and sung with the choir of St Thomas’ 5th Avenue in New York City, he studied music at Royal Holloway, specialising in performance; he was also a choral scholar under Rupert Gough. He took part in numerous performances, including solos in Bach’s St John’s Passion at St George’s Bristol, and in several CD recordings, often working with living composers such as Ola Gjeilo, Matthew Coleridge and George Arthur. He subsequently became a choral scholar at Norwich Cathedral where he was able to teach singing and piano in local schools. Continuing his own solo singing he performed in Handel’s Messiah with Norfolk Camerata and in Haydn’s Nelson Mass with Crowthorne Choral Society.
In 2025, Gabriel took part in the Glyndebourne Academy opera course and is now enjoying being a lay clerk at Rochester Cathedral, singing regularly in services and concerts. Gabriel also sang with Vox Urbane Next Gen under Dan Ludford-Thomas, which included collaborating with groups such as the BBC Singers. Gabriel is continuing his solo endeavours, recently singing Mozart’s Requiem solos with Hurst Green Singers. He currently studies with Stuart MacIntyre.
Gabriel is thrilled to be beginning his time as a choral scholar with Thames Philharmonic Choir where he is sure he will be able to delve deeply into the fantastic repertoire they will be covering. He also looks forward to becoming a member of TPC’s especially warm and welcoming community.
"We are all absolutely delighted to welcome our new cohort of Choral Scholars to the Choir!" says TPC Chair Lyn Keay. "We’re a friendly lot, and our Scholars are very important to us both musically and socially, and we very much hope that they are as excited about the singing year ahead as we are about getting to know them all, and of course to hearing them, not least in the Scholars’ Recitals throughout the year. I send them every good wish for a happy and fulfilling time with us".