MARITA PHILLIPS -  book and lyrics

As a lyricist, Marita has written songs for artists such as Peter Skellern, Demis Roussos, William Lovelady and Art Garfunkel.   She has written the libretto for the opera “The Poet and the Tsar”, based on the lives of her great, great, great grandfathers, Alexander Pushkin and Nicholas I, to be performed by Helikon Opera in Moscow in 2007.  She has also written a play on Pushkin, entitled “Song from a Cage.”

Marita Phillips studied acting at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and ballet at the Nesta Brooking School before training as a mime with Adam Darius, with whom she founded and ran The Mime Centre, London.

HARRIET PETHERICK - composer

Harriet’s recent projects include TV documentary scores for BBC 2, the Community Channel and Channel 4, the soundtrack for the art-film Discoveries, a new organ work, Crom Lake, for celebrated organist Robert Munns, choral and instrumental pieces and currently a new concert-opera ‘1856: Long Walk Home’, about the western migration by

handcart across America. Harriet has written the scores for “The Invisible Monkey”(New End Theatre, 2003/4) and “The Rhythm Method” (The Venue, 2006).

Future projects include the film score for a major feature film aboutthe American Indian Shoshone tribe.

Harriet studied at the Royal Academy of Music and then in Europe. A solo pianist, she then focused on chamber music, touring with the Medici, Brindisi and Edinburgh Quartets and many others, often performing her own compositions.