SOUTH COTSWOLD CHORAL GROUP Event host Bach B Minor Mass Workshop Registration Form

Please do use this form for multiple bookings – just give all names and the voice sections; consolidate the fee onto 1 cheque if possible. Thank you!

I am a member of Choral Society Registered Charity no. 277013

Name(s)

A Choral Workshop with Voice(s) SATB Soprano … Alto…. Tenor …. Bass ….

Contact Address Nigel Perrin and Postcode Inspirational choral director

Telephone / Email

Cost How many Total £

Workshop £15

Music Hire £2

J S Bach --- B minor Mass Grand Total £ Please make out your cheque to Thornbury Choral Society “Have fun, tackle new vocal challenges, go home exhausted!”

Please complete this form and send together with your payment to: At The Castle School, Thornbury, South Glos. BS35 1HT Julia O’Connor-Beach, 86 Manor Lane, Charfield, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos,GL12 8TY Phone: 01454 260877 E-mail: [email protected] On Saturday 26 May 2012 10.30am – 5pm

Confirmation of booking: this will be sent by email (if available). Otherwise, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope if you wish to have your booking confirmed. We regret that £15 per singer (including cake!) refunds cannot be made in the event of your non-attendance. Thank you.

[email protected] Julia O’Connor-Beach 01454 260877

SOUTH COTSWOLD CHORAL GROUP Nigel Perrin The seven group members are Cirencester, Fairford and District, Stroud, Thornbury, Tyndale, Wycliffe and Yate Choral Societies. This event will raise funds to assist the group in its work to provide a forum for mutual support, lobbying, and co-operation on events. We are very grateful to Thornbury Choral Society for acting as event host. An internationally renowned In the ‘off year’ between Big Sings in 2011 and 2013, we hope that this choral musician and former boy workshop will allow us to meet old friends and make new ones across our chorister of Ely Cathedral, Nigel societies, and to have fun in our music-making. We shall be singing all Perrin was a choral scholar at the choruses from the fabulous B minor Mass (or as time allows). King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied under Sir Nigel Perrin will work us hard, stretch and challenge us, and send us . home tired and happy – and musically wiser. Those who sang in the 2011 Verdi Big Sing at Tewkesbury Abbey will know exactly On leaving Cambridge, he first became well known as the high voice of what to expect! The King’s Singers and for eleven years travelled the world on concert tours, recording some twenty-five albums and appearing in countless Score: Novello television shows with artists as diverse as and Sir Cliff Richard. Venue: The Castle School, Park Road, Thornbury, BS35 1HT This background and experience formed the basis of his current career, Timetable: Saturday, 26 th May 2012 conducting, directing choral workshops and summer schools, adjudicating 10 am Arrival and registration and teaching. 10.30am – 5pm Workshop, with a sing through of choruses at 4pm, which will be free to the audience. Nigel Perrin has been a specialist choral adjudicator for many years and is much in demand for his instructive and encouraging masterclasses. 1-2pm lunch break PLEASE BRING A PACKED LUNCH Having established Bath Camerata as one of the country’s leading Morning drinks break and afternoon tea and cake break chamber , he is greatly sought after as an inspiring choral Complimentary coffee/tea/juices etc provided conductor.

Tickets: £15 He directs the City of Bath Bach and Junior Choir, the Bath Festival Chorus, the Exeter Festival Chorus and the Choir and Score Hire: £2 works regularly as consultant and motivator to many other choral groups around the country. Booking: Numbers are limited, and SATB sections will be balanced. Please book your place early to avoid disappointment. In recent years Nigel has conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and has worked with the London Mozart Players on several occasions.

We thank you for your support, In 2011 Nigel was the guest conductor for the SCCG Verdi Requiem at and look forward very much to seeing you on the day! Tewkesbury Abbey, with the Bristol Concert Orchestra and WNO soloists.