Holywood Music Festival 2018 Patron Barry Douglas OBE
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Holywood Music Festival 2018 Patron Barry Douglas OBE Affiliated to the British and International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech Charity No. NI102098 Wednesday 14 NOVEMBER – Saturday 24 NOVEMBER 2018 Main Venue: Queen’s Leisure Complex, Holywood Patron Barry Douglas President Michael Alexander Chairperson John Young Honorary Treasurer Brian McConville Honorary Secretary Marianne Underwood Tel: 028 9076 0545 Section Secretaries: Piano & Instrumental Marianne Underwood Tel: 028 9076 0545 Vocal and Choral Kim Marston Tel: 07825 151 062 Music Theatre Gillian Pitt Tel: 028 9042 1395 Stewards Joanne Boyd Tel: 028 9076 1472 Trophies Judith Rebbeck Tel: 028 9042 2591 Vision: Music is recognised as essential to the well-being of society. Mission: Providing opportunities for the community to enjoy engagement with music. General Adjudicator: Donal McCrisken Music Theatre: Andrea Calladine Traditional Music Adjudicators: Jeremy Kinnen William Fox-Roberts www.holywoodmusicfestival.com 1 SPONSORS Holywood Music Festival is very grateful to its sponsors for their support throughout the year and during the Festival in November. Ards and North Down Borough Council Arts Council of Northern Ireland The Enkalon Foundation George Best Belfast City Airport d’Arcy Family Benny Crawford & Son Matchetts Music Ken McNally 2 www.holywoodmusicfestival.com Greetings from the President Michael Alexander Welcome to Holywood Music Festival 2018! I am delighted to welcome you to Holywood Music Festival 2018, our 70th anniversary!! This year particularly, we reflect on the great vision and energy of E. Godfrey Brown who founded the Festival back in 1948. We are proud that we continue to provide a professionally run Festival which offers the opportunity for everyone in the community to participate. Our thanks are due to the wonderful Festival committee, our fabulous army of voluntary stewards but mostly to you, our participants and supporters. I hope that you will have a rewarding experience spending time with us again this year. Michael Alexander Greetings from the Chairman John Young Whether you are reading this syllabus for this year’s Holywood Music Festival for the first time or have read it for more years than you might want to think about, I very much hope that you will find it both interesting and attractive. It sets out what is being offered this year and even a very quick glance will show you that we have tried to provide opportunities for as wide a range of music-makers as we possibly can. There is reason for this. The Festival is committed to offering music- makers of all kinds and ages the chance to enter and perform in front of an audience, to compete for awards and, critically, to hear what our independent – and very experienced - adjudicators have to say to them about their performances and how they might improve. Our aim, in other words, is broadly educational. If only one of those who enters comes away having shown that he or she can perform in public and feels more self- confident as a result, we will be more than satisfied. This is the 70th year of the Holywood Music Festival, so it is a little bit special. We hope to mark it in a number of ways, but we would be especially pleased if were able to celebrate our birthday with a record number of entries. I hope you will be able to help us to achieve our aim. John Young www.holywoodmusicfestival.com 3 SPECIAL AWARDS, CUPS, SHIELDS AND TROPHIES Awards will be made to competitors with the most outstanding performance in each of the following categories: 1. d’Arcy Cup + £250, £100, and £50 for the three most promising instrumentalists in the Festival: 2017 awarded to Jamie Howe, Colm Mohan, Saoirse Sturgeon Rippon 2. McWhirk Cup + £100 for the performer with the highest mark in the Instrumental Section: 2017 awarded to Jamie Howe 3. Cattogs Cup + £50 for the best performance in classes F11-F17: 2017 awarded to Sofia Meredith 4. Foster Award for Vocal Solo for the most promising singer from classes B10, B12, B17, B20, B21, B23: 2017 awarded to Teddy Geddis 5. Foster Shield and Award for Music Theatre for the singer with the highest mark in Music Theatre: 2017 awarded to Katie Quinn 6. Rowel B Friers Memorial Trophy for the performer with the highest mark in Piano Classes A16 – A23 2017 awarded to Jamie Howe 7. Joan Thompson Trophy for the most promising pianist 12 years and under: 2017 awarded to Saoirse Sturgeon Rippon 8. Barry Douglas Cup for the most accomplished pianist over 12 years: 2017 awarded to Lucia Corrigan 9. Montmartre Cup for the most promising singer under 15 years: 2017 awarded to Cassie Mallon 10. Maurice Foster Memorial Cup for the best Primary School Choir: 2016 awarded to St Patrick’s PS Holywood Choir 11. Burnside Shield for the best Secondary School Choir: 12. Buckley Shield for the Senior Traditional Music Group that gives the most accomplished and mature performance of Traditional Music: 13. Laiseran Senior Trophy for the most outstanding performance of the senior soloists in Traditional Music: 2017 awarded to Ciaran McKenna 14. Laiseran Junior Trophy for the most outstanding performance of the junior soloists in Traditional Music: 2017 awarded to Olivia-Rose McLaughlin 15. Godfrey Brown Cup for the person or persons who contribute/s most to the Festival: 2017 awarded to Joanne Boyd 4 www.holywoodmusicfestival.com Donal McCrisken MA, BMus, MTD, LTCL, Adv Cert Ed Donal McCrisken is a Belfast-based musician with many years experience as a pianist, accompanist, conductor, examiner and adjudicator. He holds a BMus degree from Queen's University, Belfast and a Masters in Music Theory and Analysis from University of Ulster. Since 1999 Donal has been conductor of Cappella Caeciliana, one of Ireland's most exciting chamber choirs. Under his direction Cappella has given concerts and sung liturgies all over Northern Ireland, in Dublin, Germany, Austria and Italy. The choir has recorded four highly successful CDs and has broadcast frequently on BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, Radio Ulster and RTE. In April 2011 Cappella toured the USA giving highly successful concerts in Philadelphia and singing a choral evensong at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. In 2012 they gave the premiere of a new work by Ian Wilson and were part of Philip Hammond’s Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic on 14th April in St Anne’s Cathedral. Cappella Caeciliana marked its 20th anniversary with the commission of a new work from Sir James MacMillan which incorporates parts for the highly successful trio ‘The Priests’ – three founder members of the choir. The work was performed in Edinburgh and Glasgow in November 2015 and had its Belfast premiere in March 2016. Donal is committed to the development of choralism and singing in Northern Ireland and has studied singing with Russell Smythe, one of London’s leading vocal teachers. With Russell he has organised vocal workshops in Belfast involving members of the British Voice Association. He has also organised and delivered many vocal workshops himself, working with voices of all ages and stages of development. He works extensively with Northern Ireland Opera as repetiteur, accompanist and workshop facilitator and teaches classes in performance in the music department of Queen’s University Belfast. Donal was for six years, 2005 – 2011, head of music in St Malachy's College, Belfast - Northern Ireland's first specialist music school, whose students he led in concert tours to Washington DC, Philadelphia, England and Rome. A qualified British and International Federation of Festivals adjudicator, Donal has adjudicated festivals throughout Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and the UK. In 2004 he visited Hungary to study at the renowned Kodaly School in Nyiregyaza under the tutelage of Denes Szabo. He founded the Cavehill Community Choir in February 2013, a non-audition choir which currently numbers 160. CCC is in great demand locally to sing at concerts and has already featured in the 2013 Belfast Festival at Queens and broadcast on Radio Ulster. Donal was the choral director and repetiteur for the exciting Belfast Opera project which culminated in performances in June 2016. For his work with this project he was awarded the Classic FM/ Musicians Union Inspiration Award and the whole project was nominated for the best Classical Music Education Initiative Award. www.holywoodmusicfestival.com 5 Andrea Calladine ARCM, ABSM, FISM Andrea Calladine has a varied career as performer, teacher, conductor, coach and adjudicator in the main genres of singing to Musical Theatre. She studied initially at the Birmingham School of Music (now the Birmingham Conservatoire) gaining honours in Diplomas and was awarded many major prizes. As a singer, she has travelled widely at home and in Europe performing from her wide concert and oratorio repertoire including performances of The Messiah and The Creation through the Mozart Masses to Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, the Requiems of Brahms, Fauré and Rutter, and she has made radio broadcasts. Today, she is happiest teaching Music Theatre where her skills in singing, acting and language can be combined. Andrea’s teaching commitments now are divided between a very busy private practice, where she coaches many professional singers, and a leading Independent School. Andrea is an active adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals, where she hopes to bring not only her wealth of experience as both teacher and performer, but also her love of singing, encouragement of the performers and, above all, a sense of humour! She is looking forward to adjudicating and being part of the Holywood Festival of Music's 70th Anniversary Celebrations and also to hearing some wonderful singing from all of the performers. Jeremy Kinnen LLB, LLM, CPLS – Traditional Music Adjudicator Composer and arranger, choir and band director.