Meet the Artistic Team
Jeremy Haneman BMusEd MMus (Cantab) FRSA
Artistic Director
“Anyone…will testify to the remarkable work of Jeremy Haneman. In and around London, Haneman is a choir training icon who rescued the Royal Opera project from oblivion and created the Thames Opera Company… who have flourished under his artistic leadership” Mark Valencia, Opera Magazine, July 2024
Jeremy Haneman is a conductor and musical director who specialises in choral and operatic repertoire. Jeremy Haneman was the Community Chorus Director for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden 2011-2020 and is the Artistic Director of Thames Opera Company. He is also the Co-Director of Together Productions that produces ground-breaking work using music and the arts to inspire social change including the Singing Our Lives project that works every year with hundreds of singers from refugee and local backgrounds to compose and perform new music.
As well as musical director for the prize-winning Taylor Wessing and Linklaters choirs, he is the co-founder and conductor of the Mixed Up Chorus and he has led many other choirs including the National Symphony Chorus of Ireland, Morley College Choir and The London Gay Men’s Chorus. Jeremy has also been the musical director for One Day One Choir, a global annual movement for World Peace Day that involves over a million singers from all around the world, and he has been visiting Professor of choral conducting at the Guildhall School of Music working with vocal and composition students. Jeremy is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and he did the inaugural Master of Music in choral conducting at the University of Cambridge. He is a Practitioner Council member of the Association of British Choral Directors and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Adrian Salinero
Assistant Music Director
Adrian Salinero is a London-based Basque Spanish pianist, versatile in his roles as repetiteur, vocal collaborator, music director, and piano teacher. His recent operatic engagements include Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) with Grange Park Opera, L’Elisir d’Amore (Donizetti) and The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) with English Touring Opera, Acis and Galatea (Handel) with Opera Holland Park, Two Widows (Smetana) with Birmingham Opera Company and the world premieres of Masque of Vengeance and The Duchess of Padua by Edward Lambert. Adrian has worked as Music Director in St Paul’s Opera’s production of L’Elisir d’Amore, which received 5 OffWestEnd Awards nominations, including the Sound and Music category for his work as Music Director.
In 2026 Adrian joined Thames Opera Company as Assistant Music Director and comes back to St Paul's Opera as Music Director for their summer production of La Traviata (Verdi). He will also be making his Spanish debut as repetiteur in Calixto Bieito's semi-staged production of Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony in Teatro Arriaga.
As a 2022/2023 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio, Adrian worked in residencies with Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera and English National Opera as well as having his debut performance at Wigmore Hall.
Katie Kim Hackman
Chorus Manager
Katie is a Korean-British director and facilitator working across opera, musical theatre and youth arts. She graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Music (Honours) from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Vocal and Operatic Course, where she developed a strong focus on opera directing.
She has worked as both a director and assistant director on a range of productions. In 2024, Katie was selected as Young Artist Director at Waterperry Opera Festival. Recent assisting credits include The Marriage of Figaro for Opera North, Winnie-the-Pooh's Songbook for Waterperry Opera Festival and Turandot for the Royal Ballet & Opera. She recently directed Hip Hip Horatio with Jubilee Opera, a children's opera company based in Suffolk, performed at Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh.
Alongside her directing work, Katie has extensive experience in youth arts and music education. She has held roles within national youth organisations, including Pastoral Team Leader for the National Youth String Orchestra and Pastoral Team Lead for British Youth Music Theatre. Katie also works as a freelance singing teacher and has led opera workshops at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for students from Birmingham Ormiston Academy.
Katie is passionate about making opera accessible to wider audiences and is excited to be working with the team at Thames Opera Company to share the joy of opera with more people.