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2000 - 2007 |
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| ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS 2007 - | ||
| Peter Sproston |  | Soloist 29 November 2007 |
Peter Sproston studied piano with Sheila Smith, Cyril Salmons and Alexander Youngman in Rugby and Kurt Neumüller in Salzburg. With wide experience in chamber music and as an accompanist, he has appeared three times in Hull with the Allegri String Quartet, and regularly accompanies his wife, Pam Waddington Muse, in song recitals. He has performed concertos by Beethoven and Mozart in Newcastle and in Hull, and has played orchestral piano parts in major twentieth-century works including Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Lambert’s The Rio Grande, Mahler’s Symphony No 8, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Symphony in Three Movements (in Hull), and Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Berg’s Altenberg Lieder and Stravinsky's Les Noces (under Pierre Boulez at student summer schools in Bayreuth).Peter studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and was a Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of Hull, until his retirement in 2004. For many years he has been Secretary of the Hull Chamber Music Society, which promotes six concerts of chamber music given by international artists each winter season in the Middleton Hall at the University of Hull.
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| Gordon Mumby |  | Soloist 20 March 2008 |
| Born in Cleethorpes but very much a Scunthonian, having been educated at Scunthorpe Grammar School. Married with one daughter. Being born into a house full of musical instruments he began learning the violin at age 7 and won many prizes at music festivals. He has been leading senior orchestras since age 13. He continued his violin studies under the professional leadership of the late Laurance Turner (a founder leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and leader of the Halle Orchestra for many years under Sir John Barbirolli). Whilst continuing his studies with Laurance Turner, Gordon studied music at the Huddersfield School of Music (now part of the University of Huddersfield). He taught music privately for many years, and has given performances throughout Great Britain at venues as diverse as cathedrals, churches, schools, concert halls, theatres, working mens clubs, and even a fire station. He has also played at Carnegie Hall (the one in Dunfermline, not New York !!). Gordon's musical experiences have been wide ranging including leading symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, playing jazz, folk, As well as appearing in concert halls, Gordon is equally at home in the theatre having done opera, musicals, and pantomime. Whilst doing cabaret he appeared on bills with artistes as diverse as Roy Orbison, Frank Ifield, and George Hamilton IV. Gordon currently leads his own string quartet (the Chancel String Quartet) playing at concerts and functions such as weddings and receptions. He is a singer with a fine bass-baritone voice, and he also plays the mandolin. Gordon considers it an honour that he was invited to become the leader of the Isle of Axholme Orchestra. | ||
| Rebecca Catley |  Soloist
3 July 2008
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| Pam Waddington Muse |  Soloist
3 July 2008
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| Pam obtained an honours degree in Music and Theatre from York University and a Masters degree in Elizabethan Renaissance Music and Poetry from Hull. A Licentiate in Singing (Performance and Teaching) and a Fellow in Voice of Trinity College London, she has broad experience as a recitalist in many genres. Recent solo engagements include concerts at Burton Agnes Hall, Aldby Park and Cottingham Methodist Church, appearances with Hull University Orchestra at Beverley Memorial Hall, The Lawns, Cottingham and at Hull City Hall in a performance of Jenkins's The Armed Man, and singing in Hull Bach Choir's performance of Monteverdi's Gloria a 7 voci and Haydn's Nelson Mass. David Ashbridge composed a song cycle for her, which she performed with the Hessle Sinfonia to great acclaim. Pam is Administrator in Music at the University of Hull. Pam is always most generous and cheerful in her support of other musicians, including her husband, Peter Sproston, who played with the Isle of Axholme Orchestra in our November concert, and in working with us tonight. | ||
| Chloe Ashbridge |  Soloist
3 July 2008
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Chloe is fourteen and lives in Kingston-upon-Hull, where she attends Pickering High School. Her singing and theatre tutor is Nina Lloyd-Hirst, who has presented her as soloist in concerts in Yorkshire. She also enjoys dancing and membership of the Hull Amateur Operatic Society, where she has taken solo roles. She looks forward to a career on the stage centred on Broadway. Make a note of her name! | ||
| Rachel Sellars |  Soloist
3 July 2008
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| Rachel (10) is a pupil of Willerby Carr Lane Junior School. She also studies flute and composition with Alan Edgar, dance at the Skelton-Hooper School, pianoforte with Jan Windass, drama with Beverley Operatic Society at Tickton and singing with Nina Lloyd-Hurst, Kirk Ella. She enjoys making greetings cards and playing with the Saints and Singers Orchestra. Her ambition is to appear on the West End theatre stage. Remember--you heard her here first! | ||
| Kim Jameson |  Soloist
19 March 2009 | |
| Kim Jameson began playing the clarinet at the age of seven, under the instruction of Debbie Oades and later with Kate Hart and Colin Honour (Principal Clarinet of Opera North). She is now in her third year at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester studying under Nick Cox (Principal Clarinet RLPO) and Chris Swann (freelance and member of Zephyr Wind Quintet). In her local area of The East Riding she played for the Hull Gramophone Society and Hull Music Recital Club and was Principal Clarinet for 2 years with the East Riding Youth Orchestra. During her time at the RNCM, Kim has played in master classes for Barnaby Robson, Lindsay Marsh, John Bradbury and Antonio Salguero. As well as solo work, she has also played in The RNCM Concert Orchestra and Brand New Orchestra and in the past year has been a member of The RNCM Wind Orchestra, who produced recordings by Stephen McNeff and Adam Gorb. Kim is also a member of the Annata Wind Quintet, who formed over a year ago and has received coaching for performances over the past year by Chris Swann, Ursula Leveaux (Bassoon with The Scottish Chamber Orchestra), Richard Davis (Principal Flute, BBC Philharmonic) and Tim Reynish. She has been awarded several scholarships and prizes. Kim has given her time generously in organising and performing in numerous charity events in and around her home town of Hessle, and in playing Clarinet and Bass Clarinet in our own concerts. | ||
| Sean Shibe |  Soloist
2 July 2009
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| Conductor Alan Edgar writes: On a quiet evening, on holiday in the small Scottish town of North Berwick in the summer of 2007, I noticed there was a recital in the local church. With nothing better to do, I took my wife to this. There was a lad of fifteen, alone with his guitar, giving his first full recital. I have never heard a more superb and well-presented performance--all from memory, varied, exciting, virtuosic, beautiful, utterly gripping, immaculate, breathtaking. Always thinking of the Isle of Axholme Orchestra, I eventually tracked Sean Shibe through his school and asked him to perform with us. By then, only three months later, he was far too expensive for us, but generously agreed to come tonight on our terms, and play any concerto! Meanwhile, The List says "Sean Shibe...has angels at his fingertips", Classical Guitar Magazine calls him "spectacularly talented" and Graham Devine, professor of guitar at Trinity College, London, described him as "the best young guitarist I have ever heard". Educated at City of Edinburgh Music School and Aberdeen City Music School, he gained scholarships at three distinguished colleges and last year became the youngest ever music student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he studies with Allan Neave. and has already won the Chanterelle Guitar Prize. A Donald Dewar Arts Award helped him acquire his Kwakkel guitar. He has assisted composers such as Hallgrimsson, collaborating with him at The Fringe and for the BBC, and one of his teachers, Marek Pascieczny has composed for him. A veteran of many performances and competitions throughout Europe, Sean muses about performance in his blog: "Performance is like a meditation...performance...is proof that what you do is worth something, that the work you put in when you practise has amounted to something bigger than yourself". | ||
Penelope
Roskell
Soloist 26 November 2009
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Penelope Roskell is Professor of Piano at Trinity College London, and an acclaimed international soloist, heard in major concert halls in England and in more than thirty countries and four continents. She has appeared as concerto soloist with distinguished orchestras and conductors including the London Mozart Players, The Philharmonia, Manchester Camerata and Simon Rattle. "A beautifully accomplished performance, stimulating, dignified..." The Times "Penelope Roskell has light, nimble fingers and an imagination to match. Everything, in fact, is minutely thought through and faultlessly achieved" The Times. | ||
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| ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS 2000 - 2007 | ||
| David Tonkin |
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David
Tonkin studied with Sydney Ellison at The Royal Academy of Music and won the Sidney
Langston Brass Prize in his second year. He played for the European Community
Youth Orchestra under Abbado and Solti and on leaving college, played for the
Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra. He has played Soprano
Cornet for Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band.
David was employed by the Doncaster Music Support Service for 6 years. He taught for seven years at Kirton Lindsey Primary School and took his school orchestra to the 'Youth and Music Festival' at the Royal Festival Hall, London. David now teaches in Doncaster. He is a frequent guest player in local orchestral and choral society concerts.
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| David Whiston |  ............................Soloist
29th November 2001 | |
| David
Whiston grew up in South Yorkshire, making an early television appearance at 12,
and at 13 winning the open class at the country's leading music festival (Blackpool).
At the age of 14 he was the youngest student ever to win a major scholarship to
the Royal College of Music. By the time he was 17 he was working regularly with
the London Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he did a world tour in the early 60s. He
moved to the London Symphony Orchestra, and over the next two decades played with
all the major London orchestras, becoming co-leader of the Royal Philharmonic.
Consequently, he worked with many of the world's greatest musicians such as Sir
John Barbiroli, Sir Adrian Boult, Yehudi Menuhin, Benjamin Britten, Stravinsky,
Aaron Copland and Andre Previn. For a time he worked in light music and as leader of the London Palladium Orchestra he played for many artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Tony Bennett, Count Basie and Marlene Dietrich. At the same time he was on call as a session player with groups such as the Rolling Stones. He was then appointed leader of the Royal Ballet Orchestra at Covent Garden in the days of Nureyev and Fonteyn. In the late 70s he moved to Switzerland as Concertmaster of the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, where he now lives in semi-retirement. David's violin was made by Nicolaus Amati, a member of one of the great violin-making families of Cremona. The maker's name and the date 1680 appear on the label inside the instrument. Scratched into the varnish on the back of the violin is the name of an early owner.
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| Kathryn Price |  ............................Soloist
21st March 2002 | |
| Internationally-acclaimed
Welsh cellist, Kathryn Price began studying cello with Lily Philips, winning a
scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London and to the Piatigorsky Studio
in Los Angeles, where she was a student of Lynn Harrell. She also worked with
the legendary cellist, William Pleeth in London. Kathryn
has given recital and concerto performances throughout Britain, the USA, Spain
and the Seychelles, and has broadcast for American and British radio and television.
After her Wigmore Hall debut she received a rave review from The
Strad magazine, which stated that she 'seems destined for greatness'. She
performed Walton's Cello Concerto in the presence of Lady Walton in London. In
January 2000 she gave the world premiere of the George Lloyd Cello Concerto in
New York. At the beginning of March, Kathryn performed a highly successful recital
of music by Barber, Hoddinot, Rachmaninov and Schumann. The day after her performance
with the Isle of Axholme Orchestra, Kathryn played the Elgar Cello Concerto in
Wales. Kathryn's cello was made by Francesco Rugeri in 1705. | ||
| Judith Hartley |
Soloist 27th June 2002 | |
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Judith
Hartley is a graduate of the Royal Manchester College of Music where she studied
singing and piano. She now teaches singing for the Music Support Service of North
Lincolnshire and at the University of Hull, where she earlier studied Renaissance
music and poetry, obtaining an MA degree. Judith is a member of the Yorkshire
Bach Choir, with whom she frequently performs as a soloist, as well as Musica
Dea Sacra, based at Tewkesbury Abbey, and with the East Yorkshire based ensemble,
Voices in Concert. She is in demand as a soloist with many choirs throughout the
country, particularly enjoying music from the Baroque and the Classical periods
and from the twentieth century. As a recitalist, Judith performs in a wide range
of styles, including lute songs, lieder and cabaret. She studies with Honor Sheppard
in Manchester.
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| Ian Denley | 
Soloist 28th November 2002 | |
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Ian Denley is recognized as one of the most accomplished flute-players in the north of England. He trained at the Royal Northern College in Manchester, followed by advanced tuition in London and Berlin. He is principal flute with the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and has has been principal flute in the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra for 28 years. He has also played with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and as a soloist with the Allegri Quartet. Ian has frequently appeared as a concerto soloist and chamber musician, as well as giving numerous recitals with his accompanist of long-standing, Anthony Hedges. The span of his other musical activities is unusually wide: as a conductor, he has guided many orchestras and is currently musical director of the Cleveland Philharmonic. A highly experienced teacher, he has produced the very best of the East Riding's woodwind players over the years: some have been members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and finalists in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition; many enjoy professional careers in both performing and teaching. Ian is also flute tutor and Head of Woodwind at Hull University. Ian has examined for the Associated Board for 16 years, producing over 20 editions for its publishing company. He is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary (on the real Engelbert Humperdinck!) and is currently working on a new project for Oxford University Press, Flute Time, a three-part tutor, which will be published next summer (2003).
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| Stephen Hopwood |
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Stephen Hopwood trained at the Royal Northern College of Music under Terry Taylor, and studied chamber music and accompaniment with John Wilson. There were masterclasses from Kendal Taylor and his postgraduate study was with George Hadjinikos. Since the mid-1970s he has pursued a successful career as a piano soloist, accompanist and teacher. He was the festival accompanist at the annual West Pennine Music Festival in Oldham for ten years and has appeared at festivals in Harrogate, Whitby, Southport, Barnsley and Lincoln. Stephen has given recitals for music clubs and societies all over the country with his repertoire of some of the most exciting and beautiful piano pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries. His concerto repertoire of mainstream works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Grieg also includes Brahms' 2nd piano concerto and Rachmaninov's 3rd, performances of which he describes as 'life shortening but fun'. In a performance of Schumann's A minor concerto, "Stephen Hopwood showed warmth, technical brilliance and deep musical understanding" Manchester Evening News
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| David Campbell |
Soloist
27th November 2003
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| David Campbell enjoys an international career as clarinet soloist and teacher. His solo engagements have taken him to over forty countries and he has performed a wide-ranging repertoire with many orchestras including: the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, English Chamber, London Mozart Players, BBC Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square and many abroad. As a chamber musician David has a particular love of the repertoire for clarinet quintet, and is a regular guest-artist with some of the county's finest string quartets including the Alberni, Bingham, Emperor, Endellion, Maggini, Schidlof, Sorrel, an Vanburgh. To celebrate the composer Gerald Finzi's centenary in 2001, and instigated by David, the Five Bagatelles (for clarinet and piano) were newly arranged by composer Christian Alexander, for clarinet and string quartet. David Campbell has had many significant works written for him, including concertos by Graham Fitkin, Carl Davis, Charles Camilleri and Peter Lieuwen and quintets by Roger Steptoe, Charles Camilleri and Martin Butler. As a teacher and conductor, David Campbell is motivated by a passionate dedication to Music Education and his skills in this field have led to invitations to give all over Great Britain and in many other countries. He conducts and coaches the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain and his own 'SoundWood Ensemble'. He is Artistic Director of the Aberystwyth International Festival and Summer School, "Musicfest". David regularly features at the International Clarinet Association's Clarinetfest both in concert and on the Young Artists' Competition jury and was recently appointed the British ICA Representative. As a regular David has appeared on radio and television both here and abroad. In addition to numerous concerto performances, chamber music concerts and recitals for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM, he devised and recorded the first series of chamber music masterclasses - 'The Finishing Touch', and was featured in Radio 4's 'Musical Dynasties' series in Spring 2000, in conversation with Jack Brymer. In 1997/8 he served as Warden for the Performers and Composers section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and in 1994 was made a Knight of the Order of St John. Brilliant and persuasive soloist" (Yorkshire Post) "Finest player of his generation" (Jack Brymer OBE) "An eloquent clarinettist... a wonderful range of timbres and dynamics." (The New Yorker Magazine) "...bright star among bright stars... supple, subtle, leaping, living sound." (Adelaide Advertiser)
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| Robin Tait |  Soloist
24th June 2004
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| Robin was born in Dunfermline, Fife and took up the French Horn while at Marr College, Troon. After graduation as Master of Arts in French and Music at the University of St. Andrews and a year of research at Exeter University, he returned to St. Andrews to research "The Musical Language of Gabriel Fauré" and tutored at the university in counterpoint and aural training. (His thesis was published in New York and his article on Fauré's String Quartet was published in the 1984 edition of "Etudes Fauréennes", edited by Jean-Michel Nectoux.) During this time he became involved as co-musical director of two chamber operas, was assistant conductor of the Scottish Universities Orchestra and conductor of the New Chamber Orchestra (made up of young Scottish musicians). He worked as a horn player with the Scottish National Orchestra before taking up his first teaching appointment in Conisbrough. Here he was fortunate to be able to work with John Ellis, now director of the Northern Jazz Centre in Doncaster. His subsequent career move to Bridlington School in 1985 as Head of Music, then later Head of Performing Arts and more recently as Head of Key Stage 3 has also seen further development of his conducting and composing skills. Among his many achievements is a full-length musical that he co-wrote, Something Big. He was appointed music consultant to Lincoln and Humberside Arts in 1987 and he founded the Bridlington Youth Orchestra in 1988 setting up orchestral masterclasses with East of England Orchestra and workshops with the London Sinfonietta. The song "Children are The Future" which he co-wrote as the finale of the 1988 Bridlington Arts Festival received such acclaim that a record was made with the help of local sponsorship and was subsequently performed several times on television. An appearance on the BBC's Blue Peter programme led to a BBC recording contract and the resulting record was linked to the Blue Peter Christmas Appeal for 1988. Whilst resident conductor of East Yorkshire Brass (1994-99), the band became North of England area champion in 1996 and competed in the National brass band finals that same year. More recently he has decided to devote more time to horn playing and as well as playing regularly with the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra, he is a very busy freelance player for the various choral societies and orchestras of Hull and East Yorkshire. Later this year Robin and his wife, Caroline, will perform a joint horn and piano recital for the Hull Chamber Music Club. | ||
| Caroline Siriwardena |
 Soloist
10th March 2005
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| Caroline Siriwardena was born in Ipswich. She began playing the violin at eight and her early studies were with Winifred Small. She was a pupil of David Martin and Kenneth Sillito at the Royal Academy of Music where she gained her LRAM. Since moving to Lincoln she has performed regularly as soloist and leader with Lincoln Pro Musica and is also guest leader with Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and Lincoln Chamber Orchestra. She has also played with Viva, the Orchestra of the East Midlands and has freelanced with other Midlands orchestras. Solo performances have included the Lark Ascending, Beethoven Romances and the Mozart and Bach violin concerti. She has also performed numerous recitals for violin and piano with Geoffrey Greed. She formed the Usher Piano Trio in 1994 with Geoffrey Greed anddre Bencsik. The trio have performed many of the major works for piano trio from Mozart and Beethoven to Shostakovich, Ravel and Bridge. They have also performed the Beethoven Triple concerto and Brahms Double Concerto at Nottingham Town Hall with Nottingham Symphony Orchestra. As well as performing Caroline enjoys teaching violin and organises the Midday Concert series at the Usher Gallery. Caroline plays a violin by Eugenio Degani of Venice made in 1874.
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| Steven Billinger |
 Soloist
24th November 2005
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The Lincolnshire pianist, Steven Billinger, passed his Grade 8 with distinction at the age of 13. He then accepted a place for five years at Chetham's School of Music, in Manchester, where he studied piano with David Hartigan and Ryszard Bakst and performed concerts across the country. He was a televised semi-finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1988 and performed in the inaugural concert for the new Steinway piano at Grimsby Town Hall. Moving to London, he gained a first class BMus degree at the University of Surrey and spent 12 years working as a piano teacher and accompanist. He has attended courses and masterclasses with such distinguished international pianists as Jorge Bolet and Martino Tirimo. Steven returned to Lincolnshire to live in Louth where he worked as a music teacher, piano teacher, performer and accompanist and was appointed accompanist to the Louth Choral Society in 2002. He has taught in Manchester since 2004, but earlier this year, gave a brilliant account of the Liszt Piano Concerto with the Eastern Sinfonia in Louth. We look forward to hearing that same work here tonight.
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|  | Soloist 29th June 2006 Jeffrey was unable to perform due to injuries suffered in a road traffic accident three weeks before this concert. The orchestra hopes to feature him in a future concert. |
Jeffrey Blewett is a professional musician teaching privately and in schools across North Lincolnshire. He has been singing professionally for many years performing as a soloist throughout England and singing in Germany, Canada and the United States. He has broadcast on radio and national television and his recordings include a programme of Victorian and Edwardian ballads and with massed male voices as a soloist. He conducts the Scunthorpe Male Voice Choir and until recently, Goole Choral Society and the Isle District Choral Society. He has composed and arranged music for many choirs. His vocal group, Fourum, was formed late in 1998 when four members of Scunthorpe Male Voice Choir met to sing together. Since that time the group has toured the south eastern states of the USA in 2001, 2003 and 2005. Fourum have entertained audiences in the north of England, appeared on television in the UK on several occasions and in the USA. They have performed at corporate events, countryside shows, wedding fairs, Christmas markets, a diamond wedding and a hundredth birthday celebration, after dinner entertainments and concerts in both the UK and USA. Fourum will be touring the USA in May 2007, including an invitation to perform at America's 400th Birthday Party in Jamestown, Virginia. More locally you can hear Fourum singing at the Angel Hotel, Brigg with The Wold Singers on July 12, 2006. Jeffrey has composed and arranged extensively for Fourum and they have just recorded their second album Set in Stone which is due for release later this summer.
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| David Parkins |  | Soloist 29th June 2006 |
David Parkins is a familiar name to concertgoers throughout the East Midlands and particularly in the Nottingham area. His many concert performances include Bach's St John Passion, Rossini's Petit Messe Solenelle, Handel's Judas Maccabeus, Mendelssohn's Elijah and numerous Creations and Messiahs. His operatic roles include Ottavio (Mozart's Don Giovanni), Rodolfo (Puccini's La Boheme), Nadir (Bizet's The Pearl Fishers), Nemorino (Donizetti's L'Elisir D'amore), Basilio (Mozart'sThe Marriage of Figaro), The Count (Rossini's Barber of Seville) and - significantly for tonight's performance - Don Jose (Bizet's Carmen), He sang the title role in Britten's Albert Herring at Nottingham Playhouse and Pong (Puccini's Turandot) at Nottingham Theatre Royal, both for Nottingham Festival Opera. He has also sung most of the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire. David is also a regular soloist in Lincolnshire and his many solo engagements have brought him to such local choral societies as those of Market Rasen (Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha), Lincoln (concert of baroque music and Handel's Messiah), the Lincoln Chorale (Messiah and Britten's St Nicholas) and the Lincoln Male Voice Choir. David is an illustrator and cartoonist and occasionally (when Steve Bell is on holiday) produces the editorial cartoon in The Guardian.
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| Graham Quilter |  | Soloist 23 November 2006 |
| Graham Quilter studied clarinet with John Davies and Richard Addison at the Royal Academy of Music and with Jack McCaw at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies (1981-82). Since then he has enjoyed a colourful playing career working with the orchestras of The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera and Opera North as well as with the English String Orchestra under Yehudi Menuhin, the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Geoff Love Orchestra with Brian Kay. As a long-standing member of twenty years with the Ben Sanders Scottish Dance Band, he has toured Hong Kong, Manila and Bangkok in addition to performing at many Scottish castles and for the Royal Family in London. He has toured Norway with Evita and toured Greece with Ballet Creations of London. For the last eighteen years he has played for the Scarborough Spa Orchestra and finally moved to Scarborough in 2002. He formed the London Wind Quartet in the 1980s which, in addition to performing all over the country and touring Wales gave twoalmost unprecedented, sell-out recitals at the Purcell Room. He first performed the Weber Clarinet Concerto No.1 at the age of 17 with the Westmoreland Orchestra in Kendal and his solo repertoire extends to the concertos by Mozart, Krommer, Finzi, Copland and the three solo works by Weber. Graham plays clarinet, saxophone, flute and piano and has entertained more diversely on the "chordomonica" and on the wing for the London Symphony Orchestra Football team. | ||
