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Guildford Philharmonic Choir

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Mahler
Symphony no 8 in E flat major

‘Veni Creator Spiritus’
Saturday 17th May 2003, at 7.30pm

Dates for your Diary
Saturday November 29th 2003
Guildford Cathedral
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Handel: Dixit Dominus

Albinoni: Adagio for strings and organ
Vivaldi: Gloria

Sunday December 14th 2003
Guildford Civic
Mayor of Guildford’s Christmas Concert

Saturday March 20th 2004
Guildford Cathedral
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Saturday May 22nd 2004
Guildford Cathedral
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Mahler Symphony No 8 in E flat major
‘Veni Creator Spiritus’

Claire Seaton

Magna Peccatrix

Soprano

Diane Atherton

Una Poenitentium

Soprano

Helen Neeves

Mater Gloriosa

Soprano

Vanessa Williamson

Mulier Samaritana

Alto

Teresa Shaw

Maria Aegyptiaca

Alto

Lee Hickenbottom

Doctor Marianus

Tenor

Colin Campbell

Pater Ecstaticus

Baritone

Michael Bundy

Pater Profundus

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Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse
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ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS
TUESDAY 17 JUNE 2003

A programme of all-Italian composers from Lotti and Allegri to Verdi
and Puccini, and including:-

SCARLATTI

Stabat Mater

PIZZETTI

Requiem

Conducted by Jeremy Backhouse

Tickets: St Martin in the Fields Box Office 020 78539 8362

(Monday to Saturday 10am — 5pm)

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Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia, on 7 July 1860. At the time,

Bohemia (later to form a major component of Czechoslovakia, and
later the Czech Republic) was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire,
then enduring its final crumbling decades, and the region where

Mahler spent

his youth was strongly associate with the Czech

independence movement.
Mahler was one of the most important and influential conductors of
the period. Although he had originally studied piano and composition,
he was not a virtuoso pianist and his student and youthful works were
already too forward-looking for him to win the conservatively judged
composition contests of the time. As a result, Mahler was forced into
a conducting career, the early part of which was spent at a series of
regional opera houses.

He rose to prominence after his appointment

in 1897 as Musical Director of the Vienna Opera, which reached its
zenith under his leadership. In 1907 Mabhler left Vienna to continue
his

conducting

career

in

the

USA,

serving

with

Toscanini

as

conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. He conducted two seasons,
and then accepted a 2-year contract from the Philharmonic Society

(now the New York Philharmonic). However, Mahler’'s time in New
York was not an enjoyable experience — he had a low opinion of
American concertgoers and musicians, did not get along with the
New York critics, and fought with the management of both the Met
and the Philharmonic Society.
As Mahler was forced to spend most of the year conducting, he was,

throughout his career, a summer composer. He conducted during the
autumn, winter and spring, and then retreated to the country to
compose. Mahler thus limited his composing to only two genres — the
symphony and lieder. He completed ten symphonies (nine numbered
works and Das Lied von der Erde) and died leaving sketches and two
completed movements of a tenth numbered symphony. Mahler is
known for the length, depth and painful emotions of his works. He
loved

nature

and

life

but,

based

on

early

unhappy

childhood

experiences, had a fear of and preoccupation with death. His music

drew heavily on Bach, Beethoven and Wagner (all three probably
having more influence than Bruckner, who is most consistently cited
as being Mahler's main influence).
The

Eighth

Symphony was written

in

an

extraordinary burst of

creativity, during 8 weeks in the summer of 1906 (it was orchestrated

the following year). For 4 years he withheld this most gigantic of all
symphonic scores from an increasingly curious world of musicians.
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Not until

1910 did he finally yield to the wishes of his concert

representative Gutmann and agree to its premiere. At its legendary

Munich

premier,

on

12

September

1910,

with

Mahler

himself

conducting, the Eighth proved to be the greatest and perhaps the
only unqualified triumph of his life, in front of an audience including

Erich

Wolfgang

Korngold,

Siegfried

Wagner,

Anton

Felix

Webern,

Leopold

Stokowski,

Willem

Mengelberg,

Weingartner,

Bruno
Walter, Clemenceau, Thomas Mann, Max Reinhardt and Henry Ford.
Mabhler's triumph as a composer was not to be repeated in his
lifetime. His health had steadily declined during his stay in the United

States, his attacks of angina being exacerbated by his conflicts in
New York, and he was already seriously ill with endocarditis at the

premiere; he died only months later in 1911.

The symphony is scored for huge a orchestra (including quadruple
winds with eight horns, as well as mandolin and harmonium), offstage brass of four trumpets and three trombones, eight soloists, a

double choir,

a childrens choir and concert organ. At the first
performance, there was an orchestra of 171 (including 84 strings)
and a chorus of 850, giving a total of 1029 performers — hence the

sobriquet ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ ascribed to the work by Emil
Gutmann, the impresario who mounted this ‘Barnum and Bailey’
affair (Mahler's epithet, he being unimpressed by Gutmann’s title).

The Eighth was the most immediately accepted of all Mahler's works

and, as he himself predicted to Willem Mengelberg, also the most
understandable. It is a statement of Mahler's personal

easily

aspirations: a belief in the ability of the inspired spirit to lift mankind to
the highest plain of achievement through love in all its aspects and

embodied specifically in ‘The Eternal Feminine’ which, for Mahler,
meant his wife Alma, to whom the work is dedicated. Within that
scheme there are other interconnecting ideas to do with faith, belief
and theology which find resonance in the texts chosen and the way

they compare and contrast.

Part | is a tight symphonic setting of the Latin Hymn ‘Veni Creator
Spiritus’; Part Il a more rhapsodic setting of the final part of Goethe's

Faust. These two texts fuse religion and humanism together, with
Faust symbolising mankind redeemed from wrongdoing through love.

In that sense, Part Il answers Part | both philosophically and also

musically, since there are thematic links to be found between the two.

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Part |
Hymnus: Veni, Creator Spiritus

Veni, creator spiritus,

Come, creator spirit,

mentes tuorum visita.

visit our souls.

Imple superna gratia,

Fill them with grace,

quae tu creasti pectora.

Thou that didst create them.

Qui Paraclitus diceris,
donum Dei altissimi,

Thou, that are called Counsellor,

gift of God most high,

fons vivus, ignis, caritas,

living fount, fire, love,

et spiritalis unctio.

and unction of the spirit.

Infirma nostri corporis

Endow our weak flesh

virtute firmans perpeti;
accende lumen sensibus,

with perpetual strength,

infunde amorem cordibus.

pour Thy love into our hearts.

kindle our senses with light,

Hostem repellas longius,

Drive the enemy far from us,

pacemque dones protinus;

grant us lasting peace.

ductore sic te praevio

So, beneath Thy guidance,

vitemus omne pessimum.

we may avoid all ill.

Tu septiformis munere,

Thou, seven-fold in gifts,

dexterae paternae digitus.

finger of the Father’s right hand.

Per te sciamus da Patrem,

Grant us knowledge of the Father

noscamus Filium,

and of the Son

Spiritum credamus omni tempore.

through Thee, Spirit, grant that we
may always believe.

Da guadiorum praemia,

Grant us joy,

da gratiarum munera;

Grant us the gift of grace;

dissolve litis vincula,

loosen the chains of contention,

adstringe pacis foedera.

bind fast the covenants of peace.

Gloria Patri Domino,

Glory to God the Father,

Deo sit gloria et Filio

Glory to the Son

Natoque, qui a mortuis surrexit,

who rose from the dead,

ac Paraclito in saeculorum saecula.

and to the Paraclete for evermore.

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Part Il
Closing Scene of Goethe’s Faust, Part 2

CHOIR & ECHO

(Mountain ravines, forest, cliffs, wilderness. Holy Anchorites dwell
among clefts in the mountainside.)
Waldung, sie schwankt heran,

Felsen, sie lasten dran,
Wurzeln, sie Klammern an,

Forest sways towards us,
rocks weighing down heavily,
roots grapple their flanks,

Stamm dicht an Stamm hinan.

trunk close to trunk, pushing upward.

Woge nach Woge spritzt,

Wave chasing wave, foaming,

Héhle, die tiefste, schiitzt;
Léwen, sie schleichen stumm,

freundlich um uns herum,

ehren geweihten Ont,
heiligen Liebeshort.

deepest cave affords shelter.
Lions stalk silently,
amicably around us,

honouring the sacred place,
holy sanctuary of Love.

PATER ECSTATICUS

(soaring up and down)
Ewiger Wonnebrand,

glihendes Liebesband,
siedender Schmerz der Brust,
schaumende Gotteslust

Pfeile, durchdringet mich,
Lanzen, bezwinget mich,

Keulen, zerschmettert mich,
Blitze, durchwettert mich;

dafB ja das Nichtige
alles verfluchtige,

glanze der Dauerstern,

Eternal flame of bliss,
glowing bond of Love,

seething agony in the breast,
sparkling delight in God.

Arrows, pierce me!

Lances, subdue me!
Clubs, shatter me!

Lightning bolts, flash through me;
so that all vain things

should vanish,

that the everlasting star may shine
forth;

ewiger Liebe Kern!

kernel of everlasting Love!

PATER PROFUNDUS

(deep region)
Wie Felsenabgrund mir zu FiBen

auf tiefem Abgrund lastend ruht,
wie tausend Béache strahlend flieBen
zum grausen Sturz des Schaums der

Flut;

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As the rocky precipice at my feet
rests heavily in the deep abyss;

as a thousand streams flow radiantly
toward the dread falls of the surging

flood;

wie strack, mit eig’nem Kraft'gen

as straight upward, of its own might

Triebe,

urging,

der Stamm sich in die Lifte tragt:

the tree trunk raises itself into the air:

So ist es die allmacht'ge Liebe,

So it is almighty Love

die alles bildet, alles hegt.

who shapes all things, cherishes all

things.
Ist um mich her ein wildes Brausen,

als wogte Wald und Felsengrund!

Though all about me is wild roaring, as
if woods and rocky base were in
tumult!

Und doch stirzt, liebevoll im Sausen

Yet, full with love in its rushing,

die Wasserfille sich zum Schlund,

the mass of water hurls itself into the

berufen gleich das Tal zu wassern;

as though ordained to water the valley,

der blizt, der flammend niederschlug,

the lightning bolt flaming downward

gorge,

die Atmosphare zu verbessern,

to purify the atmosphere

die Gift und Dunst im Busen trug:

that bore poison and vapour in its

Sind Liebesboten, sie verkiinden,

These are Love’s messengers, they

bosom:
was ewig schaffend uns umwallt.

proclaim the ever-creating force that
surrounds us.

Mein Inn’res még’ es auch entziinden, O may it kindle my innermost being,
wo sich der Geist, verworren, kalt,

where now my spirit, confused and

chilled,
verqualt in stumpfer Sinne Schranken, languishes in the confines of my dull
scharfangeschloss’nem

senses,

Kettenschmerz.

locked fast in fetters of pain.
O Gott! beschwichtige die Gedanken, O God! calm my thoughts,
erleuchte mein bedurftig Herz!

enlighten my needy heart!

ANGELS

(soaring in the higher atmosphere, bearing Faust’s immortal soul)
Gerettet ist das edle Glied

Saved from evil is the noble limb of the

der Geisterwelt vom Bosen:

spirit world:

Wer immer strebend sich bemiht

Who ever ceaselessly strives,

den kénnen wir erlésen;

him we have power to redeem.
und hat an ihm die Liebe gar von oben And if love from on high

has also taken its part,
Teilgenommen

the blessed host

begegnet ihm die sel’'ge Schar mit

will greet him

herzlichem Willkommen.

with heartfelt welcome.

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CHOIR OF BLESSED BOYS

(circling around the loftiest peaks) singing with the angels
Hande verschlinget euch
freudig zum Ringverein,

the circle of union;

regt euch und singet

bestir yourselves and let your song add

heil'ge Gefihle drein!

Clasp one another’s hands joyfully in

holy sentiments thereto!

Géttlich belehret,

Divinely instructed,

durft ihr vertrauen;

you may rest assured;

den ihr verehret,

Him you worship

werdet ihr schauen.

you will behold.

THE YOUNGER ANGELS
Jene Rosen, aus den Handen

liebend-heliger BiiBerinnen,
halfen uns den Sieg gewinnen

Those roses from the hands

of loving-holy women penitents
helped us to achieve the victory

und das hohe Werk vollenden,
diesen Seelenschatz erbeuten.

to capture this treasured soul.

Bdse wichen, als wir streuten,
Teufel flohen, als wir trafen.

Evil gave way as we strewed them,
devils fled as we hit the mark.

Statt gewohnter Hollenstrafen
fihlten Liebesqual die Geister,
selbst der alte Satans-Meister
was von spitzer Pein durchdrungen.

Jauchzet auf! es ist gelungen.

and fulfill the lofty purpose,

Instead of the accustomed
punishments of Hell

the spirits felt pangs of love;
even the old Satan-master himself

was pierced by sharp pain.

Shout for Joy! it is accomplished.

THE MORE PERFECT ANGELS
Uns bleibt ein Erdenrest

To us remains an earthly residue

zu tragen peinlich.

painful to bear.

Und war er von Asbest

And though it were of asbestos,

er ist nicht reinlich.

Wenn starke Geisteskraft die
Elemente an sich herangerafft.

kein Engel trennte geeinte Zwienatur
der innigen beiden;
die ewige Liebe nur vermag’s zu
scheiden.

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yet it is not pure.
When the great might of the spirit
has clutched fast the elements to itself.

No angel could rend apart the dual
nature intimately conjoined;

everlasting Love alone is able

to divide it.

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THE YOUNGER ANGELS
Ich spur soeben, nebelnd um

| perceive at this moment,

Felsenhoh,

like a mist round the rocky heights,

ein Geisterleben, regend sich in der

a stir of spirits bustling nearby.

Nah'.

Seliger Knaben seh ich bewegte
Schar,

| see a stirring host of Blessed Boys,

los von der Erde Druck,
im Kreis gesellt,

freed from earth’s burden,

die sich erlaben am neuen Lenz

delighting in the new springtide and

und Schmuck der obern Welt.

adornment of the upper world.

in a circle joined,

Sei er zum Anbeginn,

Let him at first be joined to these

steigendem Vollgewinn

until finally he attain the highest gain!

diesen gesellt!

CHORUS OF BLESSED BOYS
singing with the younger angels
Freudig empfangen wir

Joyfully we welcome

diesen im Puppenstand;

this man in chrysalis form;

also erlangen wir

thus do we receive

englisches Unterpfand.

an angelic pledge.

Loset die Flocken los,

Free him of the tufts

die ihn umgeben!

which envelop him.

Schon ist er schén und gross

He is already tall and beautiful

von heiligem Leben.

with sanctified life.

DOCTOR MARIANUS
(in the loftiest, purest cell)
Hier ist die Aussicht frei,

Here the view is unobstructed,

der Geist erhoben.

the spirit exalted,

dort ziehen Frauen vorbei,

there women are passing by,

schwebend nach oben;

soaring toward the heights;

die Herrliche, mittenin,
im Sternenkranze,

the All-Glorious One in their midst,
with a coronet of stars,

die Himmelskonigin,

the Queen of Heaven’

ich seh’s am Glanze.

| behold her by her radiance.

Hochste Herrscherin der Welt!

Highest Mistress of the World!

Lasse mich im blauen,

Let me, in the blue, outspread vault of

ausgespannten

Heaven,

Himmelszelt dein Geheimnis schauen! behold thy mystery!

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Bill'ge, was des Mannes Brust
ernst und zart beweg't

und mit heil'ger Liebeslust

dir entgegen tragt!
Unbezwinglich unser Mut,
wenn du hehr gebietest;

plétzlich mildert sich die Giut,
wenn du uns befriedest.

Accept that which moves the heart of
man earnestly and tenderly,

and which, with the joy of holy love,
he offers up to thee!

Indomitable our courage
when thou, sublime, commandest;
at once the raging heat subsides
when thou givest us peace.

DOCTOR MARIANUS and CHORUS
Jungfrau, rein im schénsten Sinne,

Mutter, Ehren wiirdig,
uns erwahlte Konigin,

Géttern ebenblrtig.

Virgin, pure in the fairest sense,
Mother, worthy of honour,
over us chosen Queen,

equal to gods.

(Mater Gloriosa wafts into view)

CHORUS
Dir, der Unberthrbaren,
ist es nicht benommen,

Thou, unassailable,

daf die leicht Verfihrbaren

those easily led astray

traulich zu dir kommen.

In die Schwachheit hingerafft,
sind sie schwer zu retten.
Wer zerreif3t aus eig’ner Kraft

der Geliiste Ketten?
Wie entgleitet schnell der Fu3
schiefem, glattem Boden?

dost yet allow
in intimacy to approach thee.
Seized into weakness,

they are difficult to save.
Who, of his own strength,
can break apart the chains of desire?

How swiftly does the foot slip
on smooth, sloping ground?

CHORUS OF PENITENT WOMEN and UNA POENITENTIUM
Du schwebst zu Hohen
der ewigen Reiche,

Thou dost soar to the heights

vernimm das Flehen,

hear the supplication,

Du Gnadenreiche!

Du Ohnegleiche!

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of the everlasting realms;
Thou, rich in grace!
Thou, unequalled!

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MAGNA PECCATRIX
Luke 7:36
Bei der Liebe, die den FuBen
deines gottverklarten Sohnes
Tranen lie3 zum Balsam flieBen,
trotz des Pharisaer-Hohnes;
beim GefaBe, das so reichlich
tropfte Wohlgeruch hernieder;
bei den Locken, die so weichlich

By the love that at the feet
of thy divinely transfigured Son
let tears flow as balm,
despite the Pharisee’s scorn;
by the vessel which so richly
dripped down sweet fragrance,
by the tresses that so softly

trockneten die heil’gen Glieder.

dried the holy limbs.

MULIER SAMARITANA
John 4
Bei dem Bronn, zu dem schon
weiland Abram lie3 die Herde fihren;
bei dem Eimer, der dem Heiland
kihl die Lippe durft’ bertihren;

bei der reinen, reichen Quelle,
die nun dorther sich ergiefBet,
Gberflissig, ewig helle,
rings, durch alle Welten flief3t.

By the well, to which once of old
Abram drove his flock;

by the water-vessel which was suffered
to touch with its coolness
the Saviour’s lips;
by the pure rich spring
which pours forth from that place
overflowing, eternally bright,
coursing roundabout through all
worlds.

MARIA AEGYPTIACA
Acts of the Saints
Bei dem hochgeweihten Orte,
wo den Herrn man niederliB3,
bei dem Arm, der von der Pforte
warnend mich zurlcke stief3;
bei der vierzigjahr'gen BuBe,
der ich treu in Wisten blieb;

By the sublime and holy place
where the Lord was laid to rest,
by the arm which from the gate
warning, thrust me back;
by the forty years’ penance
to which | remained faithful in
the deserts;

bei dem sel'gen ScheidegruB3e,
den im Sand ich niederschrieb.

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by the blessed farewell
| wrote in the sand.

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MAGNA PECCATRIX, MULIER SAMARITANA and MARIA

AEGYPTIACA

Die du groBen Siinderinnen
deine Néhe nicht verweigerst,
und ein bussendes Gewinnen
in die Ewigkeiten steigerst,
gonn auch dieser guten Seele,
die sich einmal nur vergessen

die nicht ahnte, dass sie fehle,
dein Verzeihen angemessen!

Thou, who dost not deny thy presence
to women who have sinned greatly
and the reward gained by penitence
dost raise to eternity,
grant also to this good soul,
who forgot herself but once,

not suspecting that she erred,
thy just pardon!

UNA POENITENTIUM

(elsewhere called Gretchen, entreating the Virgin)
Neige, neige,

du Ohnegleiche,

du Strahlenreiche,
dein Antlitz gnadig
meinem Gliick!

Der frih Geliebte
nicht mehr Getriibte,
er kommt zuriick.

Incline, incline,

Thou unequalled,

richly-radiant,
thy countenance favourably
upon my happiness!

The beloved of my youth,
no longer tarnished,
is returning.

BLESSED BOYS (circling near)
Er Gberwachst uns schon
an macht'gen Gliedern,

wird treuer Pflege Lohn
reichlich erwidemn.

Wir wurden friih entfernt
von Lebechéren,

doch dieser hat gelernt:
er wird uns lehren.

He outstrips us already
on mighty limbs;

he will richly repay
our faithful care.

We were taken away early
from the choir of the living,

but this man has learned:
he will teach us.

UNA POENITENTIUM
Vom edlen Geisterchor umgeben

Surrounded by the noble choir of
spirits,

wird sich der Neue kaum gewahr

the newly arrived is scarcely aware of

er ahnet kaum das frische Leben,

barely perceiving the fresh life within

himself,

him,

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so gleicht er schon der heil'gen Schar. so much does he already resemble the
Sieh, wie er jedem Erdenbande
der alten Hulle sich entrafft,
und aus atherischem Gewande
hervortritt erst Jugendkraft!

sacred host.
See how, of all the earthly bonds

of his former husk, he divests himself,
and from the ethereal raiment
steps forth in the pristine strength of
youth!

Vergénne mir, ihn zu belehren!
Noch blendet ihn der neue Tag!

Allow me to instruct him!
He is still dazzled by the new day!

MATER GLORIOSA
Komm! Hebe dich zu héhern

Come! Raise yourself to higher

Sphéren!

spheres!
When he apprehends you,

Wenn er dich ahnet, flogt er nach.

he will follow.

DOCTOR MARIANUS
(bowing in worship)
Blicket auf zum Retterblick,
alle reuig Zarten

euch zu sel’'gem Glick
dankend umzuarten!
Werde jeder bess’re Sinn
dir zum Dienst erbdtig;
Jungfrau, Mutter, Konigin,
Géttin, bleibe gnadig!

Lift your eyes to the redeeming gaze,
all beings, repentant, frail,
that in gratitude you may be
transformed to blessed destiny!
May every nobler thought
be in readiness to serve you;

Virgin, Mother, Queen,

Goddess, ever be merciful!

CHORUS MYSTICUS
Alles Vergangliche
ist nur ein Gleichnis;
das Unzuléangliche,
hier wird’s Ereignis;

das Unbeschreibliche,

Everything transitory
is but an image;

that which is imperfect
here takes place;
the inexpressible

hier ist’s getan;

here is seen;

das Ewig-Weibliche
zieht uns hinan.

the Eternal-Feminine
draws us upward.

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Claire Seaton
Claire was born in Staffordshire and studied at the
Birmingham School of Music and later in London at

the Royal Academy of Music with Kenneth Bowen.

¢ Her operatic

roles include the Countess in The
Marriage of Figaro, Metella in La Vie Parissienne and

Ellen in Peter Grimes. Claire made her Glyndebourne

debut

in

1999

singing

Clemenza Di Tito.

the

role

of

Vitellia

in

La

She has worked in opera and as an oratorio soloist all over Europe
and in Singapore and Korea. Claire recently made her debut at

London’s Barbican Hall singing Strauss’ Four Last Songs. Claire has
just performed the world premiere of The Far Theatricals of Day by
Jonathan Dove and is in the middle of recording that and other works
by Dove, as well as a new piece by Tim Jackson.
Future engagements include Mahler's Symphony No 8 in the Usher
Hall, Edinburgh and Mozart's C Minor Mass in Newcastle.

Diane

has sung in almost every major concert

. hall in the British Isles. From London's Barbican

$ and Royal Festival Hall to Belfast's Waterfront

B and

B

Manchester's

Bridgewater

Hall.

Career

highlights include Mendelssohn's A Midsummer

# Night's Dream with Tamas Vasary and the
Bournemouth
Sinfonietta,
with
whom
she
subsequently sang Handel's
Messiah and
Bach's Christmas Oratorio; Italian debut in Aldo
Clementi's Rhapsodia in Naples; Purcell's Fairie Queen touring in
Spain (also recorded for Naxos); Carmina Burana with Mark Ermler
and the London Philharmonic Choir at the QEH; Handel's Messiah
for HTV and a recording of Janacek's The Diary of One who
Disappeared for EMI, with lan Bostridge. Diane has sung extensively

in opera, most notably in Verdi's Rigoletto as Gilda in the Linbury
Studio, Royal Opera House. Other performances include Tytania at
the Hampton Court Festival; Helena under the baton of Steuart
Bedford at Aldeburgh; Susanna in the Linbury Studio and at Holland

Park; Adele in France with ECO; 32 concerts on a UK tour as guest
soloist with Christopher Warren Green and the Strauss Gala. Future

performances include Despina in Ireland, and Haydn's The Creation

in Oxford.

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Helen Neeves
Helen Neeves gained a BA (Hons) in Music at

the University of York, where she became a
member of the Yorkshire Bach Choir. Having
completed a two-year postgraduate course at

the Royal College of Music, she is now based

in London, where she is currently studying with

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Helen has experience as a solo and consort
singer embracing concert work, CD recordings
and

radio

Dbroadcasts.

engagements
and

Mozart's

Vespers with the

include

Guildford

Recent

Haydn’s

solo

Nelson Mass

Philharmonic

Choir in

Guildford Cathedral, and a Christmas concert in the Blackheath
Concert Halls with the

English Cornett and

Sackbut

Ensemble.

Having performed and recorded works by Dupré with the Vasari
singers to critical acclaim, Helen joined them earlier this year to sing
Brahms’ Requiem in St John’s Smith Square.
Helen regularly works with Yorkshire Baroque Soloists and Corona

Coloniensis, with whom she recently recorded early English verse

anthems for West German Radio. She will be joining the group again
in July at the York Early Music Festival.
Other

recording

includes

Handel

Cantatas

and

Duets.

Having

recently made a CD recording with the Clerks group, Helen will be

joining them in September for a late night prom.

Vanessa Williamson
Vanessa Williamson

studied at the Royal

Northern College of Music in Manchester, and
won

prizes

for opera,

Lieder,

French

and

English Song. She remains the only singer to
have graduated with
degree.

a first class

honours

Vanessa has an extensive concert

and oratorio repertoire which

encompasses

familiar and less familiar works from the early

Baroque to the present. She has been a soloist with many major
orchestras including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the City of

Birmingham Symphony and the Bournemouth Symphony. A popular
soloist with choral societies throughout Britain, she sings

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regularly in major venues and has performed in several summer
music festivals including Bath, Chester and Cheltenham. She has
appeared at the Three Choirs Festival and sung with the Performing

Arts Symphony Orchestra at their outdoor classical concerts held at

historic country houses.

Vanessa often performs throughout Europe. With Pro Cantione
Antiqua, she has toured in Poland, France and Italy, singing the
Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas. Vanessa has travelled throughout

Israel on a tour with the Israel Camerata and sang the Verdi Requiem
at the Church of the Madeleine in Paris. She is a soloist on a CD of

Messiah on the Carlton label and has performed it at the Flanders
Festival in Bruges.

Vanessa also performs with the Kegelstatt Trio in concerts with viola
and clarinet. At the Purcell Room they recently premiered Voices in
the Tide, a specially commissioned work by Paul Drayton.

Recent

engagements have included Dvorak’s Requiem in Nimes,

concerts with the Kegelstatt in The Midlands and Scotland, Elgar’s

Sea Pictures for Malvern Festival Chorus and The Music Makers for
the Leeds Philharmonic Society at Leeds Town Hall. Future dates
include Tippett's A Child of our Time in Exeter Cathedral, Bruckner's
F minor Mass, Mozart's Solemn Vespers in Aberdeen and Bach’s
B Minor Mass in Malvern.

Her latest CD release is of Haydn choral works for Meridian.

Teresa Shaw
Teresa studied at Manchester University and the

Royal Academy of Music, winning many makor
awards and scholarships. Since completing her
studies she has developed an international

career in opera, oratorio and recitals, performing
in all the major London venues, and visiting many

British and international festivals.

Teresa has appeared with English National
' Opera playing Hope in Orfeo, with Opera North
as the second Lady in The Magic Flute; for

Castleward Opera, Komponist from Ariadne auf Naxos, and with the
City of Birmingham Touring Opera playing the second witch in

Macbeth. Her other operatic roles include Dorabella, Cherubino,
Rosina, Carmen, Mercedes, Suzuki and Sesto. Her repertoire

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recently
includes a number of contemporary operas and she
appeared in Nixon in China with the London Symphony Orchestra,
and in John Woolrich’s The House of Crossed Desires in Stuttgart.
She has performed a number of world premiers including The
Wildman by Nicola Lefanu at the Aldburgh Festival, East and West
by lan McQueen at the Almeida Festival and The Death of
Klinghoffer by John Adams in Vienna and Lyon. Other roles include
Helen in King Priam, Beauty in Beauty and the Beast and Woman in
Triptych by Alexander Goehr.

Recent concert performances have included Castiglioni's Cantaus
Planus with The London Sinfonietta, Berios’ Sinfonia with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra, Stravinsky’s Cantata and Kurt Weil's Der
Silbersee for the Proms. Engagements for last season included

Tagebuch by Eisler, La Demoiselle Elue by Debussy, Messiah with

the Huddersfield Choral Society and concerts with Electric Phoenix in
Strasbourg and Hannover.

Teresa’s concert repertoire is wide-ranging and includes The Dream
of Gerontius, St Matthew Passion, B Minor Mass, A Child of our Time
and the Glagolitic Mass. She broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 3
and has made a number of recordings including Dido and Aeneas
with John Elliot Gardiner, a CD of English Choral music with Richard
Hickox and a forthcoming Christmas CD with the Taverner Consort.

Engagements during the forthcoming season include Mozart's
Requiem with the London Mozart players, Verdi's Requiem with the
Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra and The Christmas Oratorio with
the Britten Sinfonia. Teresa will also be undertaking a solo vocal
cantata, Hagomo, with the London Sinfonietta.

Teresa is a lecturer in Voice at Trinity College of Music, an examiner
for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and a regular
voice coach for choral societies and summer schools.

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Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell was born in London and
studied at the Royal Northern College of
B

Music. He has appeared as a concert
soloist
throughout
the
UK,
including
London’s South Bank, Royal Albert Hall, St

John’s Smith Square and the Barbican;
Snape
Maltings,
Symphony
Hall,
Birmingham and in numerous festivals on
the continent, the USA and the Far East. He
has broadcast on RTE Television, BBC
Television, Radios 2 and 3, and Classic FM.
His

discography

is

growing,

having

recorded on the Hyperion, Decca, Naxos, Philips and Deutsche
Grammophon labels. Under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner,
Colin has sung the bass solos in Monteverdi’'s Vespers in Cremona
and Milan and the Voice of Christ in John Taveners The World is
Burning, recorded by Philips Classics. Recent recordings include the
award-winning Grainger collection entitled The Londonderry Air,
again with Gardiner and Philips, and Howells’ A Spotless Rose with
Stephen Layton and Polyphony for Hyperion.
Concert engagements have included several appearances with the
Gabrieli Consort, City of London Sinfonia, Trevor Pinnock and The
English Concert, Collegium Musicum '90 under Richard Hickox,

Christopher Hogwood and The Academy of Ancient Music, the viol
consort Fretwork, and appearances with The King's Consort in
Purcell programmes at the Wigmore Hall and at the BBC Proms.
Recent performances include Messiah in Israel and Poland;
appearances in Beethoven’s Leonore at the Lincoln Center, New
York, the Salzburg Festival and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw;
Mozart's Requiem in Santiago de Compostela; Handel’s Atalanta at

the Hallé Festival; Christus in Bach's St Matthew Passion in
Tampere, Finland; Mendlessohn's Eljjah at the Trondheim Festival,
Norway; Brahms' Requiem at the St Endellion Easter Festival;
Bach's B Minor Mass in Japan and Korea with the English Baroque
Soloists under Gardiner and Handel's Judas Maccabaeus in Vilnius,
Lithuania, with Nicholas McGegan.

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Michael Bundy
@

Michael

was

educated

at

Trinity

College,

Cambridge, where he gained an honours degree

in music, and at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama, London, studying on the post-graduate
singing and opera courses. Further study was
undertaken at the
Britten-Pears school
in
Aldeburgh,
with
Hugues
Cuenod,
and
subsequently with the late Erich Vietheer.
Since turning professional he has performed
widely in very diverse genres, ranging from the early Baroque period
to musicals, from grand opera to contemporary music. He has
appeared as soloist with groups as varied as The Sixteen, The
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Futurum Ensemble of
Sweden, and was for nearly five years a member of the BBC Singers.
With an operatic repertoire in excess of forty roles, he has travelled
extensively, appearing twice at the opera house in Mauritius, as
Escamillo and Germont Pere, and he has been under contract to
English National Opera, Kent Opera and the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden. More recently he sang the roles of Maestro (in
Salieri’'s Prima la Musica, Poi le Parole) and Buff (in Mozart’'s Der
Schauspieldirektor) - alongside the renowned Fenella Fielding - in a
production which opened the new opera house in Spitalfields Market,
East London.

As a recitalist he has appeared at a number of English festivals and
at St. John’s, Smith Square, specialising in the French mélodie; he is
shortly to release two series of commercial recordings featuring
songs of Parisian organists: The Songs of Saint Sulpice covers the
songs of Widor, Vierne and Dupré and The Songs of Sainte Clotilde
those of Franck, Pierné and Tournemire.
In the field of oratorio he has a wide and varied repertoire, and has
sung in most of the cathedrals and major concert halls in this country,
including all the venues in London’s South Bank, Symphony Hall
Birmingham (narrating
Tubby the Tuba) and the Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall, in such works as Beethoven’s Choral Symphony,
Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and The Kingdom and Walton's
Belshazzar’s Feast. He recently broadcast for BBC Radio 3 (as part
of their Choir Works series) the oratorio Poéemes Franciscains by the

organist-composer Bonnal (one-time organist of Sainte Clotilde), a
recording which will shortly be issued as a commercial CD. Future

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engagements include performances of Mahler's Symphony No 8 in
The Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Work with Trevor Pinnock and The
English Concert recently has included performances of the arias from
Bach’'s St Matthew Passion in concerts around Europe and also
Istanbul and Japan. In June of last year he sang Handel's Israel in
Egypt for Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi Choir and The
English Baroque Soloists (repeated as a BBC Promenade Concert
last summer) and toured Spain with this same conductor in a
programme of Bach Cantata’s and Lutheran Masses. Recent work
with these same musicians has included performances of Haydn's
Nelson Mass in Athens and the Barbican Concert Hall. Other
recordings include the 2001 Ravenna Festival performance of
Purcell’'s The Fairy Queen, with the Accademia Bizantia conducted
by Ottavio Dantone.

He recently appeared with Theater Basel in Actus Tragicus - a new
staging of some of Bach’s church cantatas by the renowned director
Herbert Wernicke, and will be returning for further stagings of
baroque oratorios.

Michael maintains a strong interest in contemporary music, and was
involved in the Contemporary Music Network tour of Jonathan
Harvey’s opera-oratorio Passion and Resurrection. He premiéered the
chamber opera Flowers, by the composer John Hardy, which was
widely and favourably reviewed by the National press, and recently
undertook a tour of Helen of Braemore, by the Scottish composer
Eddie McGuire.

On a lighter note, he frequently broadcasts for BBC Radio 2, and, in
addition to once singing a duet with Sarah Brightman, has performed
the roles of Olin Britt (Music Man) and Mr. Lindquist in Stephen
Sondheim’s A Little Night Music as part of their series of Great
American Musicals. He makes regular appearances on the longrunning variety show Friday Night is Music Night as a ‘Star Singer’.
He is currently researching and writing two books: One covers the
unknown French song repertoire (outlined above) and the other, by
way of complete contrast, the organs constructed by the 19th century
builder William Thynne.

Lee Hickenbottom

Born in Nottinghamshire, Lee followed his
musical education as a church chorister by
studying BA (Hons) at the Birmingham
Conservatoire
under
John
Wilbraham
(Trumpet) and Dr Elizabeth McKay (Piano).

Having maintained an interest in singing
throughout his youth he regularly participated

.

in choral concerts in the Midlands with the
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and, upon relocating to
London, joined the London Symphony Chorus and BBC
Symphony Chorus. After embarking on a professional
freelance singing career Lee now regularly sings with the
chorus of the Royal Opera House, BBC Singers, London
Voices, European Festival Chorus, and the Geoffrey Mitchell
Choir.
He has performed and recorded with the leading
conductors and orchestras, both in the United Kingdom and
abroad and appears regularly in the South East and Midlands
as a soloist with the Regions’ Music Societies. He is also
frequently in the recording studios as a backing singer for film
soundtracks and for Opera Rara and Chandos’ Operas in
English series.

Highlights of the last year have been appearing in the chorus
of Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, Il Trovatore and Queen of
Spades at Covent Garden, in addition to being an Apprentice
in Die Meistersinger.

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Jeremy Backhouse
Jeremy Backhouse began his musical career in
Canterbury

Cathedral

where

he

was

Head

Chorister, and later studied music at Liverpool
University. He spent five years as Music Editor

at the Royal

National

Institute for the Blind,

where he was responsible for the transcription
of print music into Braille. In 1986 he joined EMI
Records as a Literary Editor and since April
1990 he has combined his work as a Consultant

Editor for EMI Classics with his career as a

freelance conductor and record producer.
Jeremy

is

also

the

conductor

of

the

Vasari

Singers,

widely

acknowledged as one of the finest chamber choirs in the country.

Since

winning

the

prestigious

Sainsbury’s

Choir

of

the

Year

competition in 1988, they have performed regularly on the South
Bank and at St John’s, Smith Square in London, as well as in the
cathedrals of Canterbury, Chichester, Winchester, Hereford, Ely and
Peterborough.

Their

list

of

CDs

is

lengthening

annually.

In

February 2002 the Vasari Singers performed the UK Premiere of
Dupré’s

oratorio

La

France

au

Calvaire,

followed

by

a

World

Premiere CD recording, on the Guild label. As a new departure, the

Vasari Singers’ latest Guild label CD, Our love is here to stay is a
collection

of close

harmony,

blues

and jazz numbers,

including

several arrangements by Ward Swingle, their Patron.
In

January

1995,

Jeremy was

appointed

Chorus

Master of the

Guildford Philharmonic Choir, working closely with conductors such as
Jonathan Willcocks, En Shao and Vernon Handley, as well as regularly

conducting concerts with the choir and orchestra alike. In 1998, he
conducted

a

memorable

performance

of

Elgars

The

Dream

of

Gerontius in Guildford’s Civic Hall, the first public performance to be
promoted by the choir itself, and in March 1999 gave a “masterly”
performance of Bruckner's Mass in E minor and Mahler's Symphony
No.2 in Guildford Cathedral.

Jeremy has worked with a number of the leading choirs in the country,
including the Philharmonia Chorus (preparing for Sir Colin Davis), the
London Choral Society (for Ronald Corp) and the Brighton Festival

Chorus (for Carl Davies). In September 1998, Jeremy became the
Music Director of the Wooburn Singers, only the third conductor in the
distinguished 30-year history of the choir, following Richard Hickox and
most recently, Stephen Jackson.
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The Forest Philharmonic Orchestra
The

Forest

Philharmonic Orchestra was founded

in the London

Borough of Waltham Forest in 1962 and has since become this
country’s

leading

community

orchestra.

Rivalling

the

highest

professional standards, it uniquely combines the talents of London’s
best amateur musicians with those
students.

The orchestra

has

of

its

been joined

up-and-coming

music

by many international

artists, such as pianists John Lill and Ronan O’Hora, violinists Gyorgy
Pauk and Tasmin Little, cellists Robert Cohen and Natalie Clein, and
singers Lesley Garrett, Della Jones and Patricia MacMahon.
The

Forest

Philharmonic

perform

around

Borough

of

the

Orchestra

country,

Waltham

acting

Forest

and

is

also

regularly

as

an

ambassador for the

broadening

the

invited

to

orchestra’s

repertoire of orchestral and choral works.
Guildford Philharmonic Choir warmly welcomes the orchestra back

for their fifth concert in what is becoming an eagerly anticipated and
challenging annual event. Since our first joint and memorable concert
of Mahler's Symphony No 2 ‘Resurrection’ in May 1999, subsequent
programmes

comprised

Walton’s

Belshazzar's

Feast,

Vaughan

Williams’ Sea Symphony and last season, Mendelsohnn’s Eljjah.

The Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Director: Jeremy Backhouse
The Guildford
Borough

of

Philharmonic Choir was founded

Guildford

to

perform

major

in

1947 by the

works from

the

choral

repertoire with the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra. Since this time,
the Choir has grown both in stature and reputation and can now
rightly claim its place as one of the foremost Choruses in the country.
The Choir grew to prominence under the batons of such eminent
British musicians as Sir Charles Groves, Vernon Handley and Sir
David Willcocks. Sir David remains in close contact with the Choir as
its current President, and the Choir is now independent from the
Borough of Guildford.
In March 1999 the Choir gave a widely acclaimed performance of two
works which must surely rank among the greatest choral works of all

time, Mahler's Symphony No.2 — Resurrection and Bruckner's Mass
in E minor. The Choir enjoyed a challenging programme for the
2000/01

season,

with

Mozart's

Mass

in

C minor,

Brahms’

Ein

deutsches Requiem and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony.

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The 2001/02 season included a performance of Handel's Messiah, a
charity concert for the Guildford Prostate cancer project (Mozart’s
Vesperae Solennes de Confessore and Haydn's Nelson Mass) and,

most recently, a patriotic and thrilling concert to celebrate the
Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Last season the choir also performed with
the tenor Russell Watson in two concerts: at the Royal Albert Hall,
London, and at Brighton. This season started with a powerful
performance of Verdi's ‘Requiem’, having combined forces with
Wokingham Choral Society for the annual Guildford Borough concert.
The Choir is always searching for new members to maintain its high
standard and auditions are held throughout the year. For further
details about joining the Choir or for information about any of our
future concerts, please contact Noreen Ayton, tel: 01932 221918.
Rehearsals are held on Monday evenings throughout term time in
central Guildford and prospective members are most welcome to
attend rehearsals on an informal basis before committing to an
audition.

The Grey Coat Hospital Chamber Choir
Director: Caroline Lenton-Ward

The Grey Coat Hospital Chamber Choir has a busy performance
schedule. Its members are selected specially from the school’s four
choirs and they regularly sing mass at the school's services in
Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Westminster. They have
performed at the Royal Albert Hall, the National Eisteddfod
Llangollen, for LWT, Radio 2, the Lord Mayor of London and Her
Majesty the Queen. The girls recently sang in the National Festival
for Youth and Music, where the judges commented on their
"impressive performance” and ‘“excellent attention to detail".
Caroline Lenton-Ward is Head of Vocal Studies at The Grey Coat
Hospital, Westminster, where she is responsible for rehearsing and
conducting the school's choirs as well as teaching singing. She
rehearses some 200 girls each week and has conducted all
of the choirs in Westminster Abbey, the Royal Albert Hall, at the
Eisteddfod in Llangollen, as well as on tour in the USA. Caroline
also has a very successful career as a soprano and is in great
demand as a soloist, as well as performing regularly with the Royal
Opera and BBC Singers.

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Lewisham Choral Society
Director: Stefan Reid
The biggest and brightest choir in Lewisham Borough, and rapidly
becoming one of the most renowned in London, Lewisham Choral

Society traces its origins back to 1950.
Under the direction of Stefan Reid, the choir tackles many diverse
and

challenging

works,

from

contemporary compositions.

Recent

Renaissance

polyphony

concerts

included

have

to
the

world premiere of Jonathan Rathbone’s Requiem for the Condemned
Man, sell-out performances of Messiah and Britten’s Saint Nicolas,
and

an

exceptionally

successful

rendering

of

Paul

Patterson’s

Magnificat.
As well as performing in venues throughout the borough and outside,
the choir has established relationships with the South West Essex

Choir and the Maitrise Sainte Marie from Antony, Lewisham’s twin
municipality in Paris.
Lewisham

Choral

Society

Ensemble,

one

the

of

works

most

regularly

well-known

with

the

professional

Aurelian
orchestral

groups in the London area. More recently the choir has also formed a

close connection with the Orchestra of St Bartholomew, the resident
orchestra at the newly refurbished Broadway Theatre in Catford.
In addition to three principal concerts each year, a variety of other
musical and social events are organised.

The choir has almost 100 members, many of whom found us through
the Lewisham Library and Arts Service information database. We

don’t audition, so even if you're a beginner, or haven’t sung for years,
come and try us out.

We rehearse on Monday evenings from 8.00

pm prompt to 10.00 pm in the Methodist Church, 123/125 Stanstead

Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 1HH.
Interested in joining us? Contact Penny Berryman (020 8852 1329)
or Brenda Scanlan (020 8692 3988).
Visit our website at www.lewishamchoral.org.uk

South West Essex Choir (SWEC)
Director: Stefan Reid
The South West Essex Choir is a large and well-respected choir with
a membership of over one hundred, drawn mainly from South Essex
and the London Boroughs of Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
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Established over 60 years ago in Leyton, the choir has seen many

changes. However, the last 15 years have provided a period of
consolidation and expansion under just two gifted Musical Directors,
David Temple, who was appointed in 1987 (when Tessa Wright also
became

SWEC’s

accompanist),

and

now

Stefan

Reid,

who

succeeded David in 1996.

The

spirit

of

innovation

and

adventure,

begun

under

David’s

leadership, continues with Stefan. To mark the Millennium the choir
commissioned a work, Requiem for the Condemned Man by
Jonathan
Rathbone,
and
gave a very successful
premier
performance in July 2000. SWEC demonstrates its commitment to
choral development by arranging workshops open to non-members,
and is also working to establish its own Youth Choir. This began in
2001 when SWEC obtained a grant to run a series of free workshops
for 11- to 15-year-olds — ‘The Big Sing’.
Highlights of the choir's 2001-2002 season were a sparkling opera
gala evening and a very successful performance of Bach’s Mass in
B Minor. This season, as well as its usual three concerts at local
venues in North East London, SWEC is spreading its wings. In
addition to joining forces with the Guildford Philharmonic Choir,
Lewisham Choral Society and the Grey Coat Hospital Chamber to
perform Mahler Symphony No 8, in the summer SWEC travels to
Derbyshire to give a second performance of Brahms’ Ein deutsches
Requiem with the Derbyshire Singers, following its own performance
of the work on 5th July at Walthamstow Assembly Hall.

If you would like more information about the South West Essex Choir
please contact our General Secretary Janice Wilson, telephone 020
8923 4416.
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GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR (Choir 1)
FIRST SOPRANOS

FIRST ALTOS

FIRST TENORS

Joanna Andrews
Noreen Ayton

Marion Adderley

Bob Cowell

Penny Baxter

Dan Burgess

Helen Bates

Jane Brooks

lan Landsborough

Nicola Balzar

Anna Cowell

Nick Manning

Helen Beevers

Margaret Dentskevich

Chris Robinson

Mary Broughton

John Trigg

Elaine Chapman

Linda Duncalf
Valerie Edwards

Victoria Cross

Ingrid Hardiman

David Baxter

Sara Dann
Lenelle Davis

Susan Hinton

Bob Bromham

Monika Jost

Douglas Cook

Rachel Edmondson

Valerie Leggatt

Tony Cousins

Christine Hagge

Mairi McCuish

Calli Hayes

Mo Kfouri

Kay McManus
Christine Medlow

Fiona McWilliams

SECOND TENORS

Mary Moon

Leslie Harfield
Kristian Hoejland
FIRST BASSES
Stephen Arthur

Hilary Minor

Penny Muray

John Britten

Susan Norton
Robin Onslow

Jacqueline Norman
Penny Overton

Philip Davies

Margaret Parry

Kirstene Sandoe

Margaret Perkins*

Lesley Scordellis

Michael Dudley
lan Duncalf
Geoffrey Forster

Kate Rayner

Catherine Shacklady
Jane Sweaney

Vaidotas Gerikas
Michael Golden

Jacquie O’'Reilly
Judy Smith
Carol Terry

Hilary Trigg

Laurie James

Tessa Wilkinson

Chris Newbery

Daniela Topolarova

Pamela Woodroffe

Chris Peters

SECOND

Elisabeth Yates

David Ross

SOPRANOS
Jacqueline Alderton

SECOND ALTOS
Marion Arbuckle

Kieron Walsh

Anna Arthur

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Jennifer Cant
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Susan Daniel
Eric Doig
John Edwards
Janet Elphinstone
Brian Gracey
Malena Liedholm
David Mears
David Moir
Rachel Moore
Brian Morris
David Rolfe
Robert Young
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John Bridger
Tony Cunningham
Stephen Fellows
Norman Goodeve
Ken Howland
Mike McKinley
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Forest Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Jeremy Backhouse
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Saturday 17th May 2003 at 7:30 pm

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Dates for your Diary

Saturday August 30" 2003, Hever Festival Proms - Fauré Requiem etc.
Saturday November 29" 2003, Guildford Cathedral - Berlioz Programme
Sunday December 14th 2003, Guildford Civic - Mayor of Guildford’s
Christmas Family Concert