About this Event
Burgh House presents Sunday Sounds, our recital series showcasing emerging musicians.
Cerys MacAllister is an award-winning soprano from Ireland. She graduated with first-class honours from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance. Cerys is also a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London. During her time at RAM, she was selected to be part of the Song Circle and the Preparatory Opera Course.
In 2025, Cerys won the Birr Lions Bursary in the Trench Award at the Birr Festival of Music. In 2020/21, she was a finalist for the Veronica Dunne International Singing Bursary and also a finalist in the Glenarm Festival of Voice. She is a multi-award winner at the Feis Ceoil and won the Song Prize in RIAM’s Irene Sandford Competition.
Cerys has participated in various operas at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, including Banished by Stephen McNeff, La Liberazione di Ruggiero by Francesca Caccini, and the international debut of DreamCatcher by Kevin O'Connell. At the Royal Academy of Music, she covered the role of Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and performed as the First Bridesmaid. She made her professional debut as the Dew Fairy in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel for HGO.
In 2025 Cerys made her debut at Wexford Festival Opera, performing the role of Modestina on the main stage at the National Opera House in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims. She also performed the role of Ceresita in Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg and joined the chorus for The Magic Mountain by Delius and La Trouvère by Verdi. This years upcoming engagements include her first main stage role at Wexford Festival Opera as La Dame Bariolee in Prokofiev’s The Gambler. Cerys will also be performing as part of the chorus for Mascagni’s Iris.
She was selected as a Leeds Lieder Young Artist in 2024, and in 2025, she was chosen as a Camerata Young Artist, performing at the Clandeboye Estate.
Megan Humphries is an award-winning young harpist based in London and Yorkshire who has performed across the United Kingdom in venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and The Barbican. A regular performer for social events, she has played at events like London Fashion Week, at venues like Leeds Castle and Spencer House and for names like the Duchess of Gloucester, the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu and Jacob Collier.
An impassioned orchestral player, Megan has played under the batons of celebrated conductors, including Sir Mark Elder, John Wilson, and Kirill Karabits. Recently, she recorded with the world-famous Black Dyke Brass Band, played with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and she regularly works alongside multiple London and Yorkshire orchestras. Working in the pit, she has also performed in productions such as Wagner's Ring Cycle, Guettel’s A Light in the Piazza, Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and worked with new composers to premiere new operas.
As well as her orchestral playing, Megan is a keen chamber musician, leading her to perform several premieres, working with renowned composers and arrangers such as Skaila Kanga, Chris Marshall and Paul Patterson. A notable highlight of her chamber music career includes a performance at Wigmore Hall with one of her ensembles, The C String Trio, among many performances with multiple ensembles in a range of events, including the Northern Aldeburgh Festival, Regent’s Hall and the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers' livery dinners.
Megan was chosen as one of just four Open Academy Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music for 2025-2026, where she worked in community and participatory music around London, including work with Wigmore Hall, City of London Sinfonia and At St Martin in the Fields in projects working with a huge variety of people from nursery-age children to people living with dementia to the homeless community.
Megan was announced as the Mrs Sunderland Huddersfield Young Musician of the Year 2024, and in 2020, she was announced as one of the Pendle Young Musician’s Bursary winners. She’s very grateful for their ongoing support. Megan was a Royal Academy of Music scholar for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies, where she studied with Suzy Willison-Kawalec. She previously studied with Claire Jones, former harpist to HRH Prince of Wales and best-selling Classic FM artist.
Doors open: 12.50pm
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