Artists.
Artists.
Meet our co-founders, Natalie Burch and James Way:
Natalie Burch
An alumnus of Chetham’s School of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Natalie Burch is a Gramophone Award dedicated song pianist, programmer and writer, and advocate for female collaborative pianists. She was Associate Artistic Director of the Oxford International Song Festival in 2024 and has contributed a chapter on the songs of Elizabeth Maconchy to an upcoming Cambridge University Press compendium on the composer’s life.
Recent and future projects include her debut at Leeds Lieder Festival alongside Kitty Whately, a performance of ‘Schwanengesang’ with Roderick Williams at the Oxford International Song Festival and her debut at the Barbican Centre alongside a line-up of emerging talent including Lotte Betts-Dean, James Way and Hugh Cutting. She recently released two disks with Delphian Records: ‘Our Indifferent Century’ and the complete Britten Canticles and has a third on the way in 2026.
James Way is fast gaining international recognition for the versatility of his voice and commanding stage presence. His work spans a variety of music both as performer and artistic director. Having followed his initial passion for baroque music through the young artist programmes of Les Arts Florissants and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment he immediately became in demand as a soloist for conductors including William Christie, Rene Jacobs, Harry Bicket and Trevor Pinnock.
James has a growing discography including Handel L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie and Stanford Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, on Hyperion, ‘Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense,' a disk of Stanford songs recorded with Roderick Williams and Andrew West, Purcell's Fairy Queen with Gabrieli Consort, conducted by Paul McCreesh and King Arthur, which won BBC Music Magazine's Recording of the Year. His latest album with Delphian alongside pianist Natalie Burch of Britten’s Canticles has been nominated for a 2025 Gramophone Award.
James is a former Britten-Pears Young Artist, and was awarded an Independent Opera Voice Fellowship. He was the winner of the Second Prize in the 62nd Kathleen Ferrier Awards at Wigmore Hall.
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