Rachel NichollsRachel Nicholls studied at London’s Royal College of Music and made her professional début at Covent Garden under Sir Simon Rattle. She has worked in opera and concert under Thomas Dausgaard, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev and Richard Hickox, with orchestras including the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Bach Collegium Japan, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Le Parlement de Musique and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, as well as broadcasting for BBC radio and television.