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London Recording Days

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Audio/video recording sessions for opera singers and other classical musicians. We organise everything - pianist, recordist, venue. You just turn up and perform! The easiest way to produce audition tapes and video demos in London. We offer two main types of Recording Day:


Collaborative Recording Days

With 60 minute slots, usually at St Stephen's Church in Dulwich, organised by collaborative pianist Florent Mourier, and engineered by Jan Capiński or Joseph Porter-Bolger these sessions focus on giving you all the freedom and support you need to perform at your best. There’s enough time to have a rehearsal and approach the recording in a thoughtful way. The setting looks great on camera and singers often comment on how much they enjoy the generous acoustic of St Stephen’s. Florent is an excellent collaborative pianist (regularly working with the ROH, GSMD, NOS) and puts a lot of care and preparation into these recordings.

The basic package includes post production of single camera audition tapes. Multi-camera fully edited video demos are an optional extra and will be charged separately.


Drop-In Recording Days

With 45 minute slots, held at St Mary's church in Merton Park, organised by Jan Capiński, these are shorter sessions, so efficiency is key. A black backdrop delivers a clean, neutral look (though does constrain the amount of movement that’s possible to capture), and an acoustic drier than most churches produces a well-controlled sound. Jan uses a variety of pianists, many of whom are stalwarts of the opera scene in London and have played for countless auditions and rehearsals, so in general they turn up and play (though they do get the rep list in advance, so will practice anything that needs it).

The session fee for these slots does NOT include editing, which is added on according to clients’ needs.


We operate waiting lists for all our dates. If the 'Book Now' page shows no slots available on your chosen date, please email londonrecordingdays@gmail.com to be added to the reserve list.

If you have any questions please email us.


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Harpsichord Recording Day 415Hz (Joseph Porter-Bolger)

Collaborative Recording Day (Florent Mourier / Joseph Porter-Bolger)

Collaborative Recording Day (Florent Mourier / Jan Capinski)

Drop-In Recording Day (Jan Capinski)

Collaborative Recording Day (Thomas Ang / Joseph Porter-Bolger)

Collaborative Recording Day (Florent Mourier / Jan Capinski)

Collaborative Recording Day (Florent Mourier / Joseph Porter-Bolger)

Drop-In Recording Day (Jan Capinski)

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Drop-in Recording Day Slot

45 min

Video recordingSession length: 45minsIncludes piano accompaniment, recordist fee, piano tuning and room hire.Editing is NOT included in the price of this booking. It is charged on top at a rate of £30-70 per standard-length piece, depending

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Harpsichord Recording Slot (415 Hz)

45 min

Video recording at baroque pitch (a=415Hz)Venue: St Stephen's DulwichSession length: 45 minutesIncludes harpsichord accompaniment, recordist fee, tuning and room hire.Editing is NOT included in the price of this booking. It is charged

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Option A

60 min

Video recording (all included)Option A  - 1 hour - 2 arias/songs (single take, single camera videos)Includes piano accompaniment, recordist fee, room hire, and editing of the videos listed above.Multiple cameras use is possible but editing for t

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Option B

60 min

Video recording (all included)Option B  - 1 hour - 3 arias/songs (single take, single camera videos)Includes piano accompaniment, recordist fee, room hire, and editing of the videos listed above.Multiple cameras use is possible but editing for t

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