Chipperfield Choral Society
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Easter ConcertMarch 8th 2008Venue: The Barbirolli Hall, St. Clement Danes School, Chenies Road, Chorleywood (Start 7.45pm) (click here for map) Tickets: £10.00 (Children £5) (Programmes £1) ProgrammeFinlandia Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) A German Requiem Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) In tonight’s concert we will perform the work in English, using a new edition and translation by Michael Pilkington. INTERVAL Soft drinks are available in the foyer and the hall. Musical Director - DELIA MEEHANDELIA MEEHAN has been the Conductor and Musical Director of the Chipperfield Choral Society since 1991. On completing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music she returned to teach on the Junior Exhibitioners' Course, and also taught at Reading University, the Royal Holloway College (University of London), and for many years at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree. Throughout her teaching career Delia has worked in close association with both the Berkshire and Hertfordshire youth orchestras and wind bands. She is currently the Senior Instrumental Tutor and Woodwind Coach with the English Schools’ Orchestra, which undertook a tour of Australia during the summer of 2003 in conjunction with the Australian Youth Choir, giving concerts in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. As a member of the panel of examiners for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Delia has had the opportunity to travel to Malaysia and the Far East in this capacity. She was invited to adjudicate at the Kota Kinabalu Music Festival in Sabah, Borneo in August 2005, 2006 and 2007. Last summer she also adjudicated at the inaugural International Music Festival in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. A tour to Hong Kong is planned for April and May 2008 Delia is a regular adjudicator in this country, especially locally at the Chesham Festival of Music and the Three Rivers Young Musician of the Year competition, which takes place each summer. SoloistsSoprano - FFLUR WYNFFLUR WYN graduated with a Dip.RAM from the Royal Academy of Music Opera Course where she studied with Beatrice Unsworth and Clara Taylor. She has won many awards and scholarships, including First Prize and Audience Prize at the National Handel Competition 2005, the London Welsh Young Singer of the Year 2005, the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary, the Bryn Terfel Scholarship and the MOCSA Young Welsh Singer Prize and she was a finalist in the Welsh Singers Competition in St David’s Hall Cardiff in 2004. Her operatic performances include Clerida, The Fortunes of King Croesus – Opera North; Gretel, Hansel and Gretel – Opera North education; Papagena and cover Pamina, The Magic Flute – Opera North; Iphis Jephtha – Welsh National Opera; cover Papagena, The Magic Flute – English National Opera; Karolka, Jenufa – St Endellion Festival with Richard Hickox; Barbarina, Le Nozze di Figaro – Garsington Opera; Almirena, Rinaldo – Royal Academy Opera; Serpetta, La Finta Giardiniera – Royal Academy Opera; Cupid, Semele – British Youth Opera; Susanna, The Marriage of Figaro - Court Opera; creating the role of Adele in Michael Berkeley’s opera Jane Eyre with Music Theatre Wales, and also appearances at The Linbury Theatre Covent Garden (BBC Radio 3 / CD Recording); First Boy, The Magic Flute – RAO, under the direction of Sir Colin Davis and Young Vixen, The Cunning Little Vixen – RAO under the direction of Sir Charles Mackerras. Her oratorio and concert appearances include Handel’s Jephtha with Daniel Reuss and Holland Baroque in La Chaise Dieu and Utrecht, Haydn’s Creation with Paul McCreesh and The Gabrieli Consort, Mozart’s Thamos at Cadogan Hall in the Proms Saturday Matinee series, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Judas Maccabaeus and Bach’s St John Passion at the London Handel Festival, Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Handel’s Dixit Dominus at St James’ Piccadilly, Handel’s Messiah with The National Chamber Orchestra of Wales, Brahms’s and Fauré’s Requiem alongside Bryn Terfel, and Karl Jenkins’s Mass for Peace with the WNO Orchestra at St David’s Hall. Future performances include Pamina in The Magic Flute for Holland Park Opera, directed by Simon Callow, and Giulietta (cover) in I Capuleti e i Montecchi for Opera North. Baritone - GEORGE HUMPHREYS
GEORGE HUMPHREYS
was born in Oxford, and was educated at Christ Church He has performed widely as a concert and oratorio soloist, with highlights including Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and John Rutter, Bach's Christmas Magnificat and Cantata 36 with the English Concert in Valencia, Bach's B Minor Mass with Trevor Pinnock and Handel's L'Allegro under William Christie at the Spitalfields Festival. George has also collaborated with the Ossian ensemble on a number of contemporary projects, including Peter Maxwell Davies's 8 Songs for a Mad King in the presence of the composer, and a new realisation of Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals. In the past year he has performed Lieder Recitals in Norwich and Oxford, and recently made his debut at the Wigmore Hall. George is the Bursenhart Morgan-Evans Award Winner, is generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, the Countess of Munster Trust, and the Musician's Benevolent Fund and is the winner of a BBC Fame Academy Bursary, the Sir Elton John Scholarship and the Alfred Alexander Award. He currently studies on the Royal Academy of Music's Opera Course with Mark Wildman and Audrey Hyland. Rehearsal Accompanist - ROSEMARY VENNERROSEMARY VENNER has been the Society’s rehearsal pianist since 1994 and sings with the altos during performances. Following studies at the Royal Academy of Music, Rosemary was a freelance accompanist and coach for several years before moving into office administration. She now divides her time between business and music.
Rosemary is also a member of the BBC Symphony Chorus. Programme Notes For More Information Contact:
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