London Symphony Orchestra Living Music
Wednesday 21 December 2016 7.30pm Barbican Hall
A CHORAL CHRISTMAS
Simon Halsey conductor Dave Neita presenter LSO Musicians London Symphony Chorus LSO Community Choir LSO Discovery Choirs David Lawrence conductor, LSO Community Choir & Discovery Senior Choir Lucy Griffiths conductor, London’s Symphony Orchestra LSO Discovery Junior Choir Concert finishes approx 9.30pm
LSO Sing is generously supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement, Barnett & Syliva Shine No 2 Charitable Trust, the John S Cohen Foundation, Slaughter and May Charitable Trust, and LSO Friends 2 Welcome 21 December 2016
Welcome Living Music Kathryn McDowell In Brief
A warm welcome to the final LSO concert of 2016, a NEW MUSIC IN TONIGHT’S CONCERT festive choral celebration that promises to raise the roof of the Barbican Hall. The stage tonight will be Tonight’s concert features performances of two filled with over 300 singers of all ages – the London new works. On This Wondrous Sea by Jonathan Symphony Chorus, LSO Community Choir and LSO Dove is a world premiere, commissioned by the Discovery Choirs – and the LSO String Ensemble and London Symphony Chorus on the occasion of the trumpeter Ryan Linham, with introductions from LSC’s 50th anniversary. There is a River by Deborah presenter Dave Neita. Conducted by Simon Halsey, Pritchard was commissioned by LSO Discovery for the LSO and LSC’s Choral Director, they will take us the LSO Community Choir, set to words written by through an evening of Christmas music, including this evening’s presenter, Dave Neita. Deborah was some favourite carols for everyone to join in. on the LSO’s Panufnik Composers Scheme in 2015, an initiative that offers six early-career composers A Choral Christmas concludes an exciting year for each year the opportunity to write a three-minute singing with the LSO, during which it was a particular piece for the LSO, under the guidance of composer joy to celebrate the London Symphony Chorus’ 50th Colin Matthews. The Scheme was devised by the anniversary. Tonight the LSC performs the world Orchestra in association with Lady Panufnik premiere of On This Wondrous Sea by Jonathan Dove, in memory of her late husband, the composer commissioned to celebrate this milestone. We will Sir Andrzej Panufnik, and is generously supported also hear There is a River by Deborah Pritchard, by Lady Hamlyn and the Helen Hamlyn Trust. who took part in the LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme in 2015. CHRISTMAS GIFTS FROM THE LSO I would like to thank those who support all of our singing activities: Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary If you’re shopping for some last-minute Christmas Settlement, Barnett & Syliva Shine No 2 Charitable gifts, the Barbican Shop on Level G will be open until Trust, the John S Cohen Foundation, Slaughter and 9pm, selling LSO Live CDs, along with design-led gifts, May Charitable Trust, and our LSO Friends. Thanks stationery and accessories. You can also purchase also go to our media partner Classic FM, who have an LSO Friends gift membership on our website. recommended tonight’s concert to their listeners. lso.co.uk/give-a-gift-membership I wish you a very happy Christmas and look forward lsolive.lso.co.uk to welcoming you back to a concert in the new year.
A WARM WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS
The Crown & Manor Association Sevenoaks Probus Group Kathryn McDowell CBE DL Managing Director lso.co.uk/groups lso.co.uk Tonight’s Programme 3
A Choral Christmas Tonight’s Programme
SIMON HALSEY CONDUCTOR AUDIENCE CAROL: ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY All DAVE NEITA PRESENTER HENRY J GAUNTLETT, arr DAVID WILLOCKS (Trumpet Descant by LEE REYNOLDS) RYAN LINHAM TRUMPET LSO STRING ENSEMBLE 1–2 Solo & Chorus LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS INJI GALLIET-JAKOBY SOLOIST (DISCOVERY JUNIOR CHOIR) LSO COMMUNITY CHOIR LSO DISCOVERY CHOIRS 3 And through all His wondrous childhood DAVID LAWRENCE He would honour and obey, CONDUCTOR, LSO COMMUNITY CHOIR & LSO DISCOVERY SENIOR CHOIR Love, and watch the lowly maiden, LUCY GRIFFITHS In whose gentle arms He lay: CONDUCTOR, LSO DISCOVERY JUNIOR CHOIR Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. REJOICE! All GORDON THORNETT 4 For He is our childhood’s pattern, INCORPORATING THE ADVENT HYMN ‘O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL’ Day by day, like us, He grew, He was little, weak and helpless, 1–5 Solo, Discovery Choirs, Chorus, Community Choir Tears and smiles, like us, He knew: DEBORA YOHANNES SOLOIST (DISCOVERY SENIOR CHOIR) And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness. 6 O come, Desire of nations, bind In one the hearts of all mankind; 5 And our eyes at last shall see Him, Bid thou our sad divisions cease, Through His own redeeming love, And be thyself our King of Peace. For that child so dear and gentle Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Is our Lord in heav’n above; Shall come to thee, O Israel. And He leads His children on to the place where He is gone. A MAIDEN MOST GENTLE Chorus TRADITIONAL, vocal arr ANDREW CARTER 6 Not in that poor lowly stable, Accompaniment arr LEE REYNOLDS With the oxen standing by, We shall see Him, but in heaven, IN DULCI JUBILO Community Choir & Discovery Choirs Set at God’s right hand on high, TRADITIONAL, arr KARL JENKINS When like stars His children crowned All in white shall wait around.
WHAT CHILD IS THIS? Chorus TRADITIONAL, arr LOUIS HALSEY
SAVIOUR’S DAY Discovery Senior Choir CHRIS EATON, arr DAVID LAWRENCE 4 Tonight’s Programme 21 December 2016
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AUDIENCE CAROL: IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR All ON THIS WONDROUS SEA Chorus TRADITIONAL, arr JONATHAN RATHBONE JONATHAN DOVE (world premiere, commissioned by the LSC) (Trumpet Descant by LEE REYNOLDS) DANIEL OWERS TENOR SOLOIST
1 It came upon the midnight clear, AUDIENCE CAROL: HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING All That glorious song of old, FELIX MENDELSSOHN, arr DAVID WILLCOCKS (Trumpet Descant by LEE REYNOLDS) From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold: 1 Hark! the herald angels sing ‘Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, Glory to the newborn King; From Heaven’s all gracious King.’ Peace on earth and mercy mild, The world in solemn stillness lay, God and sinners reconciled: To hear the angels sing. Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies, 2 Still through the cloven skies they come With th’angelic host proclaim: With peaceful wings unfurled, Christ is born in Bethlehem. And still their heavenly music floats Hark! the herald angels sing O’er all the weary world; Glory to the newborn King. Above its sad and lowly plains, They bend on hovering wing, 2 Christ, by highest heav’n adored, And ever o’er its Babel sounds Christ, the everlasting Lord, The blessed angels sing. Late in time behold Him come Offspring of a Virgin’s womb: 3 Yet with the woes of sin and strife Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, The world has suffered long; Hail th’incarnate Deity! Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Pleased as man with man to dwell, Two thousand years of wrong; Jesus, our Emmanuel. And man, at war with man, hears not Hark! the herald angels sing, etc The love-song which they bring; O hush the noise, ye men of strife, 3 Hail the heav’n-born Prince of Peace! And hear the angels sing. Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all He brings, 4 For lo! the days are hastening on, Ris’n with healing in His wings; By prophet-bards foretold, Mild He lays His glory by, When with the ever circling years Born that man no more may die, Comes round the age of gold; Born to raise the sons of earth, When peace shall over all the earth Born to give them second birth. Its ancient splendours fling, Hark! the herald angels sing, etc And the whole world give back the song Which now the angels sing. INTERVAL – 20 MINUTES lso.co.uk Tonight’s Programme 5
CAPRIOL SUITE – LSO String Ensemble Thou and I will see him dine, BASSE-DANCE; PIEDS-EN-L’AIR; MATTACHINS When we bear them thither.’ PETER WARLOCK ALL WASSAIL Community Choir Page and monarch, forth they went, TRADITIONAL, arr JONATHAN WILLCOCKS Forth they went together, Accompaniment arr LEE REYNOLDS Through the rude wind’s wild lament And the bitter weather. I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS Discovery Junior Choir JOHN ROX, arr MATTHEW FORBES WOMEN 4 ‘Sire, the night is darker now, AUDIENCE CAROL: GOOD KING WENCESLAS All And the wind blows stronger, TRADITIONAL, arr REGINALD JACQUES (Trumpet Descant by LEE REYNOLDS) Fails my heart, I know not how; I can go no longer.’ 1 Good King Wenceslas looked out On the Feast of Stephen, MEN When the snow lay round about, ‘Mark my footsteps, good my page; Deep and crisp and even. Tread thou in them boldly, Brightly shone the moon that night, Thou shalt find the winter’s rage Though the frost was cruel, Freeze thy blood less coldly.’ When a poor man came in sight, Gathering winter fuel. ALL 5 In his master’s steps he trod, MEN Where the snow lay dinted; 2 ‘Hither, page, and stand by me, Heat was in the very sod If you know’st it, telling, Which the saint had printed. Yonder peasant, who is he? Therefore, Christian men, be sure, Where and what his dwelling?’ Wealth or rank possessing, Ye who now will bless the poor WOMEN Shall yourselves find blessing. ‘Sire, he lives a good league hence, Underneath the mountain, STARLIGHT Discovery Choirs & Community Choir Right against the forest fence, KEITH THOMAS, arr DAVID LAWRENCE By Saint Agnes’ fountain.’ THERE IS A RIVER Community Choir MEN DEBORAH PRITCHARD 3 ‘Bring me flesh and bring me wine, WORDS BY DAVE NEITA Bring me pine logs hither: (commissioned by LSO Discovery for the LSO Community Choir) 6 Tonight’s Programme 21 December 2016
A Choral Christmas Tonight’s Programme continued …
AUDIENCE CAROL: GOD REST YOU MERRY, GENTLEMEN All Each other now embrace; TRADITIONAL, arr DAVID WILLCOCKS (Trumpet Descant by LEE REYNOLDS) This holy tide of Christmas All others doth deface: 1 God rest you merry, gentlemen, O tidings of comfort and joy, etc Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour AUDIENCE CAROL: O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL All Was born upon this day, JOHN FRANCIS WADE, arr DAVID WILLCOCKS To save us all from Satan’s power When we were gone astray: 1 O come, all ye faithful, O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy, Joyful and triumphant, O tidings of comfort and joy. O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, 2 From God our heav’nly Father Born the King of angels; A blessed Angel came, O come, let us adore Him, And unto certain shepherds O come, let us adore Him, Brought tidings of the same, O come, let us adore Him, How that in Bethlehem was born Christ the Lord. The Son of God by Name: O tidings of comfort and joy, etc 2 God of God, Light of Light, 3 The shepherds at those tidings Lo, He abhors not the Virgin’s womb. Rejoicèd much in mind, Very God, And left their flocks a-feeding Begotten not created. In tempest, storm and wind, O come, etc And went to Bethlehem straightway This blessèd babe to find: 3 Sing, choirs of angels, O tidings of comfort and joy, etc Sing in exultation, Sing all ye citizens of heav’n above; 4 But when to Bethlehem they came Glory to God Whereat this infant lay, In the highest. They found Him in a manger, O come, etc Where oxen feed on hay; His Mother Mary kneeling, 4 Yea, Lord, we greet Thee, Unto the Lord did pray: Born on Christmas morning; O tidings of comfort and joy, etc Jesus, to Thee be glory giv’n. Word of the Father, 5 Now to the Lord sing praises, Now in flesh appearing; All you within this place, O come, etc And with true love and brotherhood lso.co.uk Artist Biographies 7
Simon Halsey Conductor
Simon Halsey occupies a unique position in classical Ligeti’s Le grand macabre with Sir Simon Rattle. music. He is the trusted advisor on choral singing In June 2016, the LSC and LSO Discovery Choirs to the world’s greatest conductors, orchestras and performed the world premiere of The Hogboon, choruses, and also an inspirational teacher and the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ new children’s ambassador for choral singing to amateurs of every opera, with Sir Simon Rattle and students from the age, ability and background. Making singing a central Guildhall School of Music. In Summer 2017 the LSO part of the world-class institutions with which he is Discovery and Community Choirs will premiere a associated, he has been instrumental in changing new opera by Andrew Norman, which Rattle and the level of symphonic singing across Europe. Halsey will also take to Berlin to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic and their youth choir, of which He is also a highly respected teacher and academic, he is Artistic Director. nurturing the next generation of choral conductors on his post-graduate course in Birmingham and Born in London, Simon Halsey sang in the choirs through masterclasses at Princeton, Yale and of New College, Oxford, and of King’s College, elsewhere. He holds three honorary doctorates from Cambridge, and studied conducting at the Royal universities in the UK, and in 2011 Schott Music College of Music in London. In 1987, he founded the Choral Director published his book and DVD on choral conducting, City of Birmingham Touring Opera with Graham Vick. London Symphony Orchestra Chorleitung: Vom Konzept zum Konzert. He was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio London Symphony Chorus Choir from 1997 to 2008 and Principal Conductor Artistic Director Halsey has worked on nearly 80 recording projects, of the Northern Sinfonia’s Choral Programme Orfeó Català Choirs many of which have won major awards, including from 2004 to 2012. From 2001 to 2015 he led the the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Echo Klassik, Rundfunkchor Berlin (of which he is now Conductor Artistic Advisor and three Grammy Awards with the Rundfunkchor Laureate); under his leadership the chorus gained Palau de la Música Catalana Berlin. He was made Commander of the British a reputation internationally as one of the finest Chorus Director Empire in 2015, was awarded The Queen’s Medal for professional choral ensembles. Halsey also initiated City of Birmingham Symphony Music in 2014, and received the Officer’s Cross of the innovative projects in unconventional venues and Orchestra Choruses Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in interdisciplinary formats. 2011 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Conductor Laureate choral music in Germany. Rundfunkchor Berlin
Artistic Director Since becoming Choral Director of the London Berlin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in 2012, Halsey Youth Choral Programme has been credited with bringing about a ‘spectacular transformation’ (Evening Standard) of the LSC. Director Highlights with the LSO in 2016/17 have included BBC Proms Youth Choir Verdi’s Requiem in London and at the Lincoln Center Artistic Advisor White Lights Festival with Gianandrea Noseda, Choir Academy of the and El Niño with John Adams in London and Paris. Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Forthcoming performances this season include 8 London Symphony Chorus 21 December 2016
London Symphony Chorus On stage
The London Symphony Chorus was formed in 1966 to complement SOPRANOS ALTOS TENORS BASSES the work of the London Symphony Orchestra, and this year marks Liz Ackerley Lauren Au Jorge Aguilar Simon Backhouse * Anneke Amalie Lara Bienkowska Paul Allatt * Chris Bourne its 50th anniversary. The partnership between the LSC and LSO was Louisa Blankson Liz Boyden Erik Azzopardi Gavin Buchan strengthened in 2012 with the appointment of Simon Halsey as joint Christina Buciucci Gina Broderick Oliver Burrows Andy Chan Chorus Director of the LSC and Choral Director for the LSO. Anna Byrne-Smith Jo Buchan * John Farrington Matthew Clarke Jessica Collins Sarah Clowry Matt Fernando Giles Clayton Katherine Elliot Maggie Donnelly Matt Flood Edward Cottell The LSC has partnered with many other major orchestras and has Naomi Fletcher Diane Dwyer Patrizio Giovannotti Damian Day Emma Harry * Lynn Eaton Euchar Gravina Peter Deane performed nationally and internationally with the Berlin and Vienna Jenna Hawkins Linda Evans Alastair Matthews Joe Dodd Philharmonic orchestras, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Championing Josefin Holmberg Amanda Freshwater Matthew McCabe Thomas Fea the musicians of tomorrow, it has also worked with both the NYOGB Claire Hussey * Christina Gibbs Tom McNeill Ian Fletcher Beth Irving Kate Harrison Daniel Owers Robert Garbolinski * and the EUYO. The Chorus has toured extensively throughout Europe Ruth Knowles-Clark Lis Iles Davide Prezzi Daniel Gossellin and has also visited North America, Israel, Australia and South East Asia. Mimi Kroll Kristi Jagodin Brais Romero-Breijo John Graham Rose Littlewood Jill Jones Peter Sedgwick Owen Hanmer Meg Makower Vanessa Knapp Chris Straw Anthony Howick Much of the LSC’s repertoire has been captured in its large catalogue Jane Morley Gilly Lawson Richard Street * Thomas Kohut of recordings, which have won nine awards including five Grammys. Fiona Mortimer Olivia Lawson Brad Warburton Stefan Magier Jessica Norton Belinda Liao * Robert Ward * George Marshall In June 2015 the recording of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Symphony Maggie Owen Anne Loveluck * Hugh McLeod No 10, commissioned by the LSO and recorded by the LSO and the Frances Pope Liz McCaw Henry Stokes LSC with Sir Antonio Pappano, won a prestigious South Bank Sky Arts Louisa Prentice Aoife McInerney Richard Tannenbaum Liz Reeve Jane Muir Robin Thurston award in the Classical category. Jasmine Spencer Caroline Mustill Liam Velez Deborah Staunton Siu-Wai Ng Highlights from last season included Haydn’s The Seasons with Rattle, Tabitta van Nouhuys Susannah Priede * Rebecca Vassallo Lucy Reay Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Sir Mark Elder, and Sir Peter Maxwell Lizzie Webb Emma Recknell Davies’ The Hogboon. In 2016/17 the LSC has celebrated its 50th Alice Young Annaliese Sayes Jane Steele anniversary with performances of Verdi’s Requiem in London and Margaret Stephen * denotes LSC New York, and this will be followed in 2017 by Ligeti’s Le grand macabre Curzon Tussaud Council Member with Sir Simon Rattle, Brahms’ Requiem with Fabio Luisi and Bruckner’s Te Deum with Bernard Haitink.
President Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE President Emeritus André Previn KBE The London Symphony Chorus is generously supported by: Vice President Michael Tilson Thomas The John S Cohen Foundation, The Helen Hamlyn Trust, The Revere Charitable Trust, Patrons Simon Russell Beale CBE and Howard Goodall CBE The Welton Foundation, LSC Friends, Members of the LSC Chorus Director Simon Halsey CBE Associate Directors Neil Ferris and Matthew Hamilton Want to sing with the LSC? Find out more about life in one of London’s Chorus Accompanist Roger Sayer leading choirs, and how to apply, at lsc.org.uk/join-us Chairman Owen Hanmer lso.co.uk LSO Community Choir 9
LSO Community Choir On stage
In March 2003 the LSO Community Choir performed the first concert in LSO St Luke’s, the Orchestra’s newly established venue. Comprising 30 singers living and working in the local community, it was an ambitious start. Led by LSO workshop leader and presenter Rachel Leach, the Choir sang arrangements of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence commissioned specially for the occasion.
Gareth Malone – now a television personality – was one of the singers in that first concert, and by 2004 he had taken over directing the Choir. In the programme for the Choir’s Christmas concert in 2004, he wrote ‘we regularly have 40 to 45 people at our rehearsals … I would like to see the choir grow to about 60 members’. His vision was surpassed by those wanting to take part, and by the time he left five years later there SOPRANOS ALTOS TENORS BASSES were 80 singers in the Choir’s ranks – its membership now totals 110. Jasmine Allen Daphne Alexander Nick Brittain Neil Campbell Rosemary Anger Adrienne Banks Jill Courtnell Adam Dale Alison Archibald Jane Bickerton Tara Frances Gabriel Diaz- The Community Choir has open access at its heart – anyone is welcome Jenny Bell Annie Blackmore Craig Givens Emparanza as long as they live or work in the area and no audition is necessary. Julia Bruscini Sherrie Brar Rory Guy Kimmett Edgar The Choir’s director, David Lawrence, tailors the music-making for Nevo Burrell Emilia Brumini James Hill Will Ellsworth-Jones Berrak Buyukavci Laura Burnell Yvonne Jacobs-Jones Chris Hill a broad mix of people: from those who know their sharps from their Sandrina Carosso Elzbieta Chandrasena Helen James Simon Jones flats to those who have no experience of musical notation. Maria Coonick Jacqueline Chow Kevin Lei Tim Kitchin Liz Cunningham Madeline Church Caryn Mackenzie Dan Knight Eilish Dempsey Emma Coften Deirdre McQuillan Matthew Miller The Choir sings three concerts a year at LSO St Luke’s and performs Laura Gladwin Tania Cohen Lily O’Brien Philip Ormston special concerts at the Barbican with the LSO, including an impressive Annie Hawker Linda Crow Mena Rego Robert Shutes Helen Kogan Donna Cullen Riad Safo Pete Sutton list of performances under three directors – Gareth Malone, David Knott Aoife Ledwidge Claire Deakin Steven Smith Richard Taylor and David Lawrence. The Community Choir has worked with Hugh Jan Newbigin Yiting Feng Roy Sully Paul Tilley Masekela, celebrating his 70th birthday; performed a partially staged Zina Nour Christine Finlan Tony Valsamidis Paul Turley Sheila Ogilvie Janet Fitch Karen Wheeler version of Britten’s St Nicolas with tenor Ian Bostridge; and, most Rosaline Ogunro Mal Gilliam Sarah Winman recently, took part in a new opera, The Monster In The Maze, conducted Ruth Paker Beverley Heath Peter Wylie Francesca Papadakis Alison Hunter by Sir Simon Rattle. The Choir has sung in St Paul’s Cathedral, at the Liz Patterson Marie-Helene Jeeves annual Whitecross Street Festival and at the Royal Academy of Music. Pauline Pearson Pauline Jenkins Alessandra Sarnari Patricia McGeough Vaishali Shah Mel Palmer Above all, the Choir is about the joy of singing and remains open to Anna Smoliar Grace Payne everyone. For those who claim they can’t sing, the Community Choir Anna Standley Sue Pearson has proved in the best possible way that anyone can get involved in Rachel Starling Tessa Sheridan Carol Stewart Jane Tully music-making and find their voice. Nalini Trivedi Marianne Viola Maggie Tyler Fortini Vergottis The Community Choir is open to people who live or work in EC1, but Isabel Walters there is currently a waiting list. For further information, or to be added Natalie Whittle to the list, please email [email protected]. 10 LSO Discovery Choirs 21 December 2016
LSO Discovery Choirs On stage
The LSO Discovery Choirs consist of over 100 young people aged JUNIOR CHOIR SENIOR CHOIR seven and upwards who live or go to school in Hackney, Islington or Leo Adjaye Sam Lewis Ameera Aldaraji Teodoro Lopez-Prieto SOPRANOS BARITONES the City of London (Junior Choir) or any London borough (Senior Choir). Jael Balgobin Grace Malaver Orchid Balgobin D’Carlos Ikuomola- Imogen Bates Aiyana Mason Kristin Benson Andre Formed in 2004 by Gareth Malone, the Choirs have sung at Windsor Ellen Blann Maeve Mcallister Rebecca Collett Mario Ikuomola-Andre Rosa Brennan Agnes Mcintosh Olivia Ferrari Andreas Salcedo Castle for His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, with Dave Brubeck, Neena Brokenshire Connie Nasmyth Josie Howe Killian Scortichini with the LSO at the Barbican, and in the premiere of Edward Rushton’s Marni Burton Rose O’Connell Kira Howe Sebastian Veliz Boguski Marc Camara Clemmie Parker Sumia Ismaili oratorio Cicadas alongside the LSO Community Choir and LSO players. Arthur Clack Kriya Patel Kitty Kelly The Choirs also performed at the Olympic Torch Relay for Islington Marnie Clark Course Orla Prendergast Anna Law Council in July 2012 and were part of the UK premiere of Jonathan Megan Crooks Lutia Prokofiev Jessica Magnus Agathe Danzin Dmitri Prokofiev Evelyn-Rose Masol Dove’s children’s opera The Monster in the Maze (2015) and the Cosima Davies Isobel Quinn Topsy Sallows world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Hogboon (2016), Hawi Ensermu Ruby Robinson Elizabeth Simpson both conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Saoirse Exelby Neave Roe-Stanton Imogen Smith Inji Galliet-Jakoby Abel Segaye Debora Yohannes Lara Goktepe Sharon Segaye The Junior Choir is conducted by Lucy Griffiths and the Senior Choir is Marcos Gomez Annachiara Senatore ALTOS Molly Heaphy Flore Servant Kevin Aced conducted by David Lawrence. Applications to join the Choirs in 2017/18 Caitlin Heaphy Jiyaa Shah N’dea Balgobin open in late spring. Email [email protected] for more information. Lucas Hetherton Gaia Siddle George Carrington- Persephone Holloway Theo Smith Johnson Niamh Hood Zachary Smith Skye Fitzgerald Mcshane The LSO Discovery Choir is supported by Rothschild Charities Committee, Neo Hunt Esme Stephenson Daniel Hutton Slaughter and May, The Barnett & Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust and LSO Patrons. Caleb Hunter Sophia Sutliff Lakshmi Maslen Fred Jacques Tehya Teo Georgia Renvoize Jasmin Kallow Eleni Veliz Boguska Tessa Roe-Stanton Isla Kallow Eben Watson Julia Willers Marnie Kennedy Sophia Wilcken Nissa Khaliq-Rattray Alexander Willers Daisy King Golnar Zandi Darcy Lamb Natania Zewdie lso.co.uk Artist Biographies 11
David Lawrence Lucy Griffiths Conductor, LSO Community Choir Conductor, & LSO Discovery Senior Choir LSO Discovery Junior Choir
David Lawrence is one of the Lucy Griffiths is much in demand UK’s most versatile conductors, as a conductor, workshop leader working with orchestras, symphony and vocal animateur. She is choruses and national youth choirs. Assistant Director of Music at the Conductor of the LSO Community University of Warwick, where she Choir and LSO Discovery Senior conducts many of the university’s Choir, he was nominated for ensembles and motivates a Gramophone Award for his music-making amongst students, conducting and currently holds staff and members of the local the Guinness World Record for community. She is also Musical conducting the UK’s largest choir – Director of Severn Trent Water, 6,846 singers! a post which was created for her after she led their choir to victory David’s work has taken him to in the BBC’s first series of Sing Singapore, Colombia, Canada, While You Work. the United States, Dubai, India and throughout Europe, and next year he will make his 13th and 14th visits to Australia. His positive and Lucy is a leading expert in the field of music education and engagement, engaging manner makes him a popular guest conductor, and he is specialising in vocal outreach. As Associate Conductor of the London an experienced and respected trainer of choral conductors. David Symphony Orchestra’s Community and Discovery Choirs, she is teaches regularly alongside Ghislaine Morgan in Portugal, and responsible for the LSO Discovery Junior Choir. She was formerly provides leadership and team building skills to the corporate sector. Director of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Training Choirs and lectured in choral conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He has worked with the London Philharmonic Choir, the Hallé Choir, London Symphony Chorus, CBSO Chorus, for whom he is an Associate Recent work has included projects with the Royal Opera House, English Conductor, as well as the National Youth Choirs of Scotland, Northern National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, City of Birmingham Ireland and Wales. David has adjudicated at international choral festivals, Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Hippodrome, Sing Up, Jersey Symphony as well as for the BBC Choir of the Year and Young Musician of the Year Orchestra, Newham Young People’s Chorus, Music in Offices, Cranleigh competitions, and has conducted for BBC Television’s Songs of Praise Choral Week, Choir of the Year, London Symphony Chorus, London for the past 15 years. Philharmonic Orchestra and Crisis. Lucy has a particular interest in the role of music in development; she recently spent time working As Principal Conductor of Young Voices David directs massed choirs in in prisons across Uganda for African Prisons Project, and this summer an annual series of concerts, with some choirs incorporating more than led a music project in Mumbai for the charity Songbound. 8,000 singers. He continues to work with Sinfonia Viva as their Choral Advisor, a project leader and conductor, and has also directed large- Lucy studied music at the University of Bristol and McGill University scale education projects with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, in Montreal. She was then awarded the prestigious Sinfonia Viva the English Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducting scholarship, which allowed her to complete her masters Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. in conducting at the Birmingham Conservatoire. 12 Artist Biographies 21 December 2016
Dave Neita London Symphony Orchestra Presenter On stage
Dave Neita is a published poet, FIRST VIOLINS VIOLAS CELLOS TRUMPET lawyer, presenter and motivational Carmine Lauri Leader Malcolm Johnston Rebecca Gilliver Ryan Linham Lennox Mackenzie Anna Bastow Alastair Blayden speaker. He is a commentator Gerald Gregory Julia O’Riordan Jennifer Brown on the arts, politics, race, mental Jörg Hammann Carol Ella Amanda Truelove health, and he is an advocate for Maxine Kwok-Adams Caroline O’Neill Claire Parfitt Felicity Matthews DOUBLE BASSES human rights. Dave’s work is vast Harriet Rayfield Colin Paris and diverse and he has collaborated Colin Renwick Patrick Laurence Sylvain Vasseur Joe Melvin with NASA and delivered a sermon Eleanor Fagg at St Paul’s Cathedral. SECOND VIOLINS Thomas Norris He has an MA in Cultural Sarah Quinn Leadership, volunteers his time Miya Väisänen Julian Gil Rodriguez in the community and served as the UK ambassador for the European Andrew Pollock Year of Equal Opportunity for All: Face of the Year Campaign. Known for Paul Robson his success as a member of the legal team behind a class action suit Richard Blayden Hazel Mulligan against a major multinational corporation on behalf of thousands of injured South African Miners, Dave continues to work as an advocate for underprivileged, exploited or disenfranchised people, wherever he travels.
Dave, a fellow of the King’s Fund, has spoken at the House of Commons and delivers the keynote and presents annually on behalf of Prince Philip at the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Ceremony. As a lawyer and college-level educator, David is involved in NASA’s programme to encourage the next generation of students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM subjects). He has completed a stint co-leading a training programme for young people in Scotland, England and Wales alongside a team of US astronauts, and has written words for the London Symphony Orchestra.
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