Suzanne Jones

1st Soprano

Day job Business manager

Aspires to sound like Elin Manahan Thomas

Choral highlight Meeting his blondness Eric Whitacre backstage at St David's Hall.

Random fact I've sung backing vocals in a band with Adele's granny...

Favourite Spectrum piece Pearsall's

'Lay a Garland' never fails to send tingles down my spine!

Emily Scaglioni

1st Soprano

Day job Music teacher

Aspires to sound like Eva Cassidy

Choral highlight Being the conductor of a delightfully enthusiastic junior choir in Manchester.

Random fact I was the founder and leader of a Ukulele Society at York University for two years.

Favourite Spectrum piece 'Song of the Dawn' from the 1930s' film King of Jazz.

Mary Bidnell

2nd Soprano

Day job Reiki therapist. Retired counsellor

Aspires to sound like Joan Baez

Choral highlight I loved singing in Karl Jenkins' 'The Armed Man'.

Random fact I have 10 grandchildren to keep me busy.

Favourite Spectrum piece 'Top of the World', from when the choir first started, but I love all the pieces and could name a dozen more.

Helen Turner

1st Alto

Day job HM Inspector of Health and Safety

Aspires to sound like Katherine Jenkins

Choral highlight Being in the visiting choir at Chester Cathedral for a week. Sleep, sing, repeat: bliss.

Random fact I have performed with Hinge and Bracket at the Wimbledon Theatre.

Favourite Spectrum piece 'Northern Lights' by Ola Gjeilo. At last, a composer who likes altos!

Shelagh Greenland

1st Alto

Day job RNLI fundraiser. Retired teacher of the deaf

Aspires to sound like Kathleen Ferrier

Choral highlight Singing evensong in Tewkesbury Abbey.

Random fact I played Queen Eleanor giving birth to Edward, first Prince of Wales, while 9 months pregnant. The large bump was still there after the recording; fortunately it was BBC radio!

Favourite Spectrum piece I enjoy most of the music; there are just a few I'd rather send to Room 101!

Julia Nasrallah

2nd Alto

Day job English teacher

Aspires to sound like Norah Jones

Choral highlight Singing Brahms' Requiem in the University of Beirut's Assembly Hall.

Random fact When studying in Utah, USA, I was part of the only all- women crew-racing yachts on Salt Lake.

Favourite Spectrum piece I mainly love the variety of secular and religious pieces, which keeps things interesting.

George Speed

1st Tenor

Day job Bus driver

Aspires to sound like Any proper tenor, preferably a Welsh one! (I'm Scottish.)

Choral highlight Singing in St Davids' Praise at St David's Hall with Cambrensis choir and orchestra.

Random fact I've played the organ in Westminster Abbey (very loudly!).

Favourite Spectrum piece 'Christmas Medley' and any Swingle-style arrangements of Bach and Handel.

Benjamin Gait

2nd Tenor

Day job Composer/Local Authority Officer

Aspires to sound like Scott Walker

Choral highlight Playing first horn in a performance of Elgar's 'Dream of Gerontius'.

Random fact I own roughly 50 Miles Davis albums.

Favourite Spectrum piece 'Clew Ein Llef'.

Simon Booth

2nd Tenor

Day job Administrator

Aspires to sound like Cat Stevens

Choral highlight Hearing Josquin des Prez for the first time; there were real tears!

Random fact I moved house using only a sack truck. It took a week.

Favourite Spectrum piece 'I Carry Your Heart' by Toby Young. 

David Bacon

Baritone

Day job Policy and project development for Welsh refugee sector

Aspires to sound like Elvis Presley

Choral highlight The first time I saw Mozart's 'Magic Flute' was incredible; it made my spine tingle!

Random fact I partnered the King of Lesotho in a tennis doubles match in the 1970s...

Favourite Spectrum piece The melodic, slower ones (because I can sing them!) especially 'Ave Verum' by Saint Saens.

Carsten Muller

Bass

Day job Researcher and lecturer, University of Cardiff

Aspires to sound like Ivan Rebroff

Choral highlight Performing 'Carmina Burana' with Cardiff University Choir and Orchestra in St David’s Hall, 1996.

Random fact I steered a 45m merchant vessel through Kiel canal aged 17.

Favourite Spectrum piece

One of my favourites is 'Pokarekare', the harmonic equivalent of strawberries and cream...