James Bingham
Studio and Outreach Producer at Irish National Opera
James Bingham joined the team at Irish National Opera in 2018 as their Studio and Outreach producer, aiming to build a wide variety of projects to engage new audiences with opera. James has previously worked as project co-ordinator in the education department at Glyndebourne, and as a choral delivery artist for Leeds-based Opera North where he conducted around a thousand students a week on a variety of different projects for the company. James has also worked as a freelance choral conductor and animateur for organisations including Brighton Festival Youth Choir, Sheffield Cathedral, Only Boys Aloud and The National Children’s Choir of Great Britain. James also currently sings as a tenor with New Dublin Voices.
Full Episode
In this episode, James Bingham, Studio and Outreach Producer at Irish National Opera, talks to us about how he got involved in classical music and opera. He outlines some approaches which have helped him to motivate young people to get involved in singing. James describes his current role and some of the outreach projects he is working on. He shares his own interests in opera and gives advice on how, as teachers, we might encourage students to engage with the medium of opera.
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