 Eleanor Dennis- soprano
Eleanor is a young soprano from the North-east of Scotland. She has recently completed her undergraduate at the Royal College of Music, graduating with first class honours. She is to continue her training there on their postgraduate course from September 2009. She is generously supported by the Musician's Benevolent Fund, Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Josephine Baker Trust.
Eleanor is delighted that she has recently been awarded the prestigious Maidment Scholarship (administered by the Musician's Benevolent Fund) which is given to the most outstanding singer heard in the audition process. She has also just been awarded a generous scholarship from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and is to be a performer on their 2010 Recital Scheme.
 Rosie Aldridge- alto
Born in Hertfordshire, Rosie is currently a scholar at London’s
Royal College of Music, where she studies with Kathleen Livingstone.
As a sixth-form vocal scholar at Haileybury Imperial College,
Rosie performed many different roles including, Dido in Purcell’s
Dido and Aeneas; the Baker’s Wife in Sondheim’s Into The Woods,
and Carmen in excerpts from Bizet’s opera performed in concert
with the College Orchestra. She also performed the role of
Speranza in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, with The Opera Group.
Rosie has enjoyed extensive oratorio and concert experience,
performing the mezzo-soprano solos for many works including
Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Vespers, Copland’s In
The Beginning, Lambert’s The Rio Grande, Elgar’s Sea Pictures
with the Corinthian Chamber Orchestra at St James’s, Piccadilly,
Holst’s The Cloud Messenger, several Schubert Masses, Haydn’s
Marie Therese Mass, Nelson Mass and St. Nicholas Mass, Dvořák’s
Stabat Mater at the Cadogan Hall with the Brandenburg Sinfonia
and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at the Queen Elizabeth
Hall with the Concordia Young Artists’ Foundation.
Rosie has taken part in many prestigious master classes with
artists such as Dame Sarah Walker, Michael Chance, Stephen
Varcoe and Patricia Macmahon. She recently won the R.C.M. English
Song Prize and is also a Josephine Baker Trust scholar. Rosie’s
recent solo performances have included Bach’s Mass in B Minor
with the Welsh Baroque Orchestra, Haydn’s Maria Theresa Mass
and Duruflé’s Requiem in Chichester Cathedral with Jonathan
Willcocks, performances of Verdi’s Requiem in Godalming, Eton
and Oxford and a further performance of Elgar’s Sea Pictures
conducted by Leon Lovett at the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge.
Future projects include Elgar’s The Music Makers and Vivaldi’s
Gloria with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Winchester
Cathedral.
 David Webb- tenor
David began his musical career as a chorister at Exeter Cathedral, later becoming Head Chorister.He won a music scholarship to Plymouth College where he studied with Lynton Atkinson.Whilst there, he won a Bursary to study at Dartington International Summer School with Ester Saloman.
David was a Choral Scholar at Truro Cathedral from 2002-05, and whilst there recorded a number of CDs, toured Europe and appeared as soloist on television and radio.
David is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust
 Dawid Kimberg- bass.
Dawid Kimberg was born in Johannesburg in 1981. He showed an interest in music from a young age and subsequently attended the Drakensberg Boys' Choir School. He excelled as a young soloist and toured extensively with the choir to five continents. At the age of 18 he appeared with the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra for performances of the Messiah by Handel and Nelson Mass by Haydn.
He moved to the UK in 2001 and is now a scholar at the Royal College of Music where he studies with Ryland Davies. Last year he performed in Bach's Weinachts Oratorium at St John's Smith Square under the direction of Peter Schreier. He also performed the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven in Wells Cathedral with the London Mozart Players.
Other performances around the UK and in South Africa include the St John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Magnificat in D and the Mass in B minor by Bach, Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff and Puccini's Messe di Gloria. He has recently performed in the opera Parthenogenesis by James MacMillan in Canterbury Cathedral under the direction of Nicholas Cleobury, in the presence of the composer and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dawid recently gave his first performance of Die Schöne Müllerin in the Mitchell Hall in Aberdeen. Future appearances include Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and the Cantor in Ernest Bloch's Sacred Service. |
Not only is this a great opportunity to share the joy of singing you will have the privilege of being directed by the Watford Phil’s world famous conductor and chorus master, Terry Edwards. The noted local organist Alan Vening will be playing and four young professional singers will be joining as soloists.
To take part in this memorable concert you will attend a rehearsal in the afternoon ready for the evening performance starting at 7.30pm. Many of you will have sung this work before whilst for others it will be a new experience – you are all welcome.