Our Team

Christian Curnyn

Artistic Director

Christian is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Early Opera Company. Full biography

Helen Wills

General Manager

Helen Wills joined EOC as General Manager in 2018,following over twenty years’ experience in artistic administration at the Royal Academy of Music. Her work at the Academy was wide-ranging, overseeing the operations of several departments including Historical Performance, Composition, Jazz, Open Academy (the Academy’s outreach programme) as well as the Alumni Network. She managed several high-profile collaborative projects including with organisations such as Juilliard School, OAE, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia, BBC Singers, RADA, Southbank Centre, Southbank Sinfonia, Spitalfields Festival, and others, in addition to several of the Academy’s International Composer Festivals. When not working for EOC, Helen enjoys choral singing and organises singing holidays in Europe.

Oscar Faulkner

Marketing and Social Media Manager

Oscar Faulkner freelances as a marketing and social media manager for the Early Opera Company as well as working as marketing executive for magazine publishing company Mark Allen Group, working with titles such as Gramophone, Opera Now, Jazzwise and Musicals. Oscar attended the Royal Northern College of Music where he studied vocal and opera studies.