Chipperfield Choral Society

June 30th 2007

Diamond Jubilee Concert

with our patron - Emma Bell

Venue: St John’s Church, Boxmoor (click here for map)

Doors open at 7.00 pm

Concert starts at 7.30pm

Soloists

Emma Bell Soprano

EMMA BELL is at the forefront of the sopranos of her generation and is much admired for her richly coloured, beautiful voice as well as her sensitive musicianship and dramatic intensity in performance.

She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and National Opera School, and continues to study with Joy Mammen. Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Prize in 1998, she was a BBC New Generation Artist in 1999.

In 2002 she joined the Berlin Komische Oper, where she has sung Pamina / Die Zauberflöte, Micaëla / Carmen, Countess Almaviva / Le nozze di Figaro, the title role in Alcina, Agathe / Die Freischütz and Mimì / La bohème. She has performed the title role in Rodelinda (GFO, GOT, Châtelet, Bilbao, Barbican, Vienna Konzerthaus), Female Chorus / The Rape of Lucretia (Lausanne), Miss Jessel / The Turn of the Screw (Geneva), Vitellia / La clemenza di Tito (ENO, Montreal), Leonore / Maskarade (ROH) and Elettra / Idomeneo (La Scala). She has sung with Christie, Andrew Davis, Haim, Mackerras, Pappano, Slatkin and Tate.

Her most recent engagements include Rossini’s Stabat Mater (Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Dresden), Violetta / La traviata (ENO), Governess / The Turn of the Screw (Leipzig), St John Passion with Haim (Châtelet) and concerts at the Teatro Real Madrid and for the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. During an extensive concert and recital career she has sung at the RFH, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms and the Mostly Mozart Festival. Her recordings include Merab in Saul with Jacobs and two solo discs for Linn Records (Handel Operatic Arias and Lieder by Strauss, Walter and Marx), both supported by an award from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust for whom she has given recitals in London, Amsterdam and Vienna.

Future plans include Vitellia for ENO, a recital with Ax at the Wigmore Hall, Miss Jessel for Glyndebourne Festival, the title role in Alcina (Opéra National de Paris), Stabat Mater (Siena, Rome, BBC Proms with Pappano) and St Matthew Passion with Nézet-Seguin in Rotterdam, Female Chorus (Vienna); Elettra (Madrid, Barbican, Amsterdam and Lisbon); Donna Elvira / Don Giovanni with Mackerras (ROH) and Countess Almaviva (Barcelona and Metropolitan, New York).

James Fussey Trumpet

JAMES FUSSEY graduated in 2006 as a scholar at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) where he studied with Howard Snell, James Watson and Paul Archibald, as well as natural trumpet with Robert Farley.

Originally from Eton, James was awarded a full scholarship to study trumpet at the Berkshire Young Musicians’ Trust at the age of 11, before winning a place in the junior department of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, during which time he played soprano cornet with the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. Other awards include the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award, the Ian Smith Soloist Prize, the RAM Vice Principal’s Award for Notable Achievement and also Distinction in the ‘Computers in Personnel’ International Concerto Competition.

James has performed as Principal Trumpet with the RAM orchestras under such notable conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Christopher Eberle and Vernon Handley, whilst other recent performances have included work with the Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra, the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the National Musicians Symphony Orchestra.

ames has a keen interest in period performance and has performed with the RAM Becket Ensemble, Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment with conductors including Sir Richard Eggar, Harry Bicket and Sir Roger Norrington.

James’s solo work has included playing for HRH Duchess of Gloucester on her birthday, the 2006 Handel Festival in London and, more recently, with Aled Jones in Ely Cathedral.

As a teacher, James is currently Head of Brass at the Windsor Boys’ School and is the first musician to be ‘Artist in Residence’ at this Specialist Arts School.

Anna Beryl Cello

ANNA BERYL was born in 1984 and began learning the cello aged eight with Rhuna Martin. She studied with her until commencing at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is studying cello with Professor David Strange and piano with Graeme Humphrey.

When she was 15 Anna gained her piano diploma and won the Three Rivers Young Musician of the Year Competition. She has been a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for four years, has played in the English Schools’ Orchestra and held key positions in various orchestras within the Academy. Anna is also a keen chamber musician and has performed with many of the top players at the Academy.

Anna has taken part in master-classes with Steven Isserlis, Robert Cohen, Johannes Goritzki, Alexander Baillie, Herwig Tachezi, Felix Schmidt, Anna Shuttleworth and Tim Gill, in the Ticino Musica Festival in Switzerland with Johannes Goritzki and the Internationales Musikfest in Hartberg, Austria with Herwig Tachezi. She studied with Tachezi for a semester at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, on an Erasmus Exchange programme.

Anna was a quarter-finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2003. She has taken part in concerts at the Academy and recitals in Hertfordshire and Bristol and played in orchestras at many major concert venues, including the RAH, Barbican, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Anna teaches cello and piano in Leytonstone and has wide-ranging engagements throughout England and abroad, including Germany, Austria and Spain.

This year Anna was awarded a First in her Final Recital on graduating from the Academy. In September she will continue her cello studies with Steven Doane on a postgraduate course at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, for which she has been awarded a scholarship.

Anna has recently won a coveted place in the European Community Youth Orchestra and will take part in their European tour this summer, which includes a Henry Wood Promenade Concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Programme

I Was Glad Parry

Sonata No 1 for Trumpet, Strings & Continuo Purcell

Alma Virgo Hummel

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Bach

Exsultate Jubilate Mozart

INTERVAL (Refreshments are available)

Te Deum Haydn

Laudate Dominum Mozart

Suite No 4 for unaccompanied Cello Bach

Cantique de Jean Racine Fauré

Let the Bright Seraphim Handel

Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite Handel