Sunday 3 December 2017 7–9pm Barbican Hall

LSO SING A CHORAL CHRISTMAS

Simon Halsey conductor Howard Goodall presenter

Eva Gheorghiu soprano LSO Brass Ensemble London Symphony Chorus LSO Community Choir LSO Discovery Choirs David Lawrence conductor,

LSO Community Choir & Discovery Senior Choir

Emily Dickens conductor,

LSO Discovery Junior Choir

The LSO Discovery Choirs are supported

by the John S Cohen Foundation and Slaughter and May Charitable Trust

A CHORALCHRISTMAS

2 Welcome 3 December 2017

Welcome

I am delighted that tonight's performance will be conducted by Simon Halsey, the LSO and LSC's Choral Director, with sterling preparation of the LSO Community and Discovery Choirs by David Lawrence and Emily Dickens in the months leading up to the concert. We are also very pleased to welcome presenter Howard Goodall, Patron of the LSC, and soloist Eva Gheorghiu, a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School.

I would like to thank all those who support our singing activities, including the John S Cohen Foundation, and Slaughter and May Charitable Trust, who generously support the LSO Discovery Choirs.

I hope that you enjoy the performance. In the run-up to Christmas, the LSO will give five more concerts at the Barbican, conducted by Nikolaj Znaider and Sir Simon Rattle. If you are not able to join us, I wish you a very happy Christmas, and I look forward to welcoming you back to a performance in the new year.

Kathryn McDowell CBE DL Managing Director

A warm welcome to the LSO's annual Choral Christmas concert. We are delighted to begin the festive season with an uplifting evening of music, including some traditional carols for everyone to join in.

The Barbican stage will be filled with over 300 singers of all ages tonight, many from the local community – the London Symphony Chorus, LSO Community Choir and LSO Discovery Choirs, accompanied by the LSO Brass Ensemble. This performance rounds off a fantastic year for our choirs and for our choral programme, LSO Sing. In July our Discovery and Community Choirs were part of the UK premiere of Andrew Norman's children's opera, A Trip to the Moon, and the LSC has given many notable performances in recent months, including Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust with Sir Simon Rattle.

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SIR SIMON RATTLE

Wednesday 13 December 2017 7.30pm Sunday 17 December 2017 7pm Barbican Hall

Strauss Metamorphosen Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Sir Simon Rattle conductor Simon O’Neill tenor Christian Gerhaher baritone

13 Dec 6pm Barbican Hall LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Free pre-concert recital

Thursday 21 December 2017 6.30pm Barbican Hall

HALF SIX FIX Bernstein Wonderful Town (concert version)

Sir Simon Rattle conductor Danielle de Niese Eileen

Alysha Umphress Ruth

David Butt Philip Lonigan Nathan Gunn Bob Baker Duncan Rock Wreck

London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director

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3Tonight's Programme

A Choral Christmas Tonight's Programme

3 And by the light of that same star, Three wise men came from country far; To seek for a king was their intent, And to follow the star wherever it went: Nowell etc

4 This star drew nigh to the north-west; O’er Bethlehem it took its rest, And there it did both stop and stay Right over the place where Jesus lay: Nowell etc

5 Then enter’d in those wise men three, Full rev’rently up-on their knee, And offer’d there in his presence Their gold and myrrh and frankincense: Nowell etc

6 Then let us all with one accord Sing praises to our heav’nly Lord, That hath made heav’n and earth of naught, And with his blood man-kind hath bought: Nowell etc

LOOK TO THE STABLE world premiere Joanna Gill, instrumental arr Lee Reynolds London Symphony Chorus Eva Gheorghiu soprano

SUSSEX CAROL Traditional arr David Willcocks London Symphony Chorus, LSO Community Choir, LSO Discovery Choirs

ESTA NOCHE (BE JOYFUL TONIGHT) Traditional arr John Rutter, instrumental arr Lee Reynolds London Symphony Chorus Eva Gheorghiu soprano

VENI EMMANUEL Traditional arr Anne Dudley, instrumental arr David Lawrence LSO Community Choir

AUDIENCE CAROL: THE FIRST NOWELL Traditional arr David Willcocks

1 The first Nowell the angel did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay; In fields where they lay, keeping their sheep, On a cold winter’s night that was so deep: Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Born is the King of Israel.

2 They lookèd up and saw a star, Shining in the east, beyond them far; And to the earth it gave great light, And so it continued both day and night: Nowell etc

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A Choral Christmas Tonight's Programme continued

SHEPHERD’S JOY Mark Hayes, instrumental arr Lee Reynolds LSO Discovery Senior Choir

ANGEL’S CAROL John Rutter, instrumental arr Lee Reynolds LSO Discovery Junior Choir

GUIDING STAR Gordon Thornett London Symphony Chorus

AUDIENCE CAROL: HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING Felix Mendelssohn, arr David Willcocks

1 Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King; Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled: Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies, With th’angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem. Hark! The herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King.

2 Christ, by highest heav'n adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold him come Offspring of a virgin's womb: Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail th’incarnate Deity! Pleased as man with man to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel. Hark! The herald angels sing etc

3 Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, Ris'n with healing in his wings; Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die, Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth. Hark! The herald angels sing etc

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SLEIGH RIDE Leroy Anderson, arr Alan Fernie LSO Brass Ensemble

IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR Eddie Pola and George Wyle, arr Jay Althouse, instrumental arr Lee Reynolds LSO Discovery Junior Choir

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS Traditional, arr Louis Halsey London Symphony Chorus

AUDIENCE CAROL: GOOD KING WENCESLAS Traditional, arr Reginald Jacques, instrumental arr Lee Reynolds

1 ALL Good King Wenceslas look’d out On the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even: Brightly shone the moon that night, Though the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight, Gath'ring winter fuel.

2 MEN ‘Hither, page, and stand by me, If thou know'st it, telling, Yonder peasant, who is he? Where and what his dwelling?’ WOMEN ‘Sire, he lives a good league hence, Underneath the mountain, Right against the forest fence, By Saint Agnes' fountain.’

3 MEN ‘Bring me flesh and bring me wine, Bring me pine logs hither: Thou and I will see him dine, When we bear them thither.’ ALL Page and monarch forth they went, Forth they went together; Through the rude wind's wild lament And the bitter weather.

4 WOMEN ‘Sire, the night is darker now, And the wind blows stronger; Fails my heart, I know not how; I can go no longer.’ MEN ‘Mark my footsteps, good my page; Tread thou in them boldly: Thou shalt find the winter's rage Freeze thy blood less coldly.’

5 ALL In his master's steps he trod, Where the snow lay dinted; Heat was in the very sod Which the Saint had printed. Therefore, Christian men, be sure, Wealth or rank possessing, Ye who now will bless the poor, Shall yourselves find blessing.

O HOLY NIGHT Adolphe Adam arr Craig McLeish LSO Community Choir Eva Gheorghiu soprano

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A Choral Christmas Tonight's Programme continued

UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN Mark and Helen Johnson, instrumental arr Matt Beckingham LSO Discovery Senior Choir

THE LAMB John Tavener London Symphony Chorus

AUDIENCE CAROL: O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL John Francis Wade, arr David Willcocks

1 O come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, Born the King of angels; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

2 God of God, Light of Light, Lo, He abhors not the Virgin’s womb. Very God, Begotten not created. O come, etc

3 Sing, choirs of angels, Sing in exultation, Sing all ye citizens of heav’n above; Glory to God In the highest. O come, etc

4 Yea, Lord, we greet Thee, Born on Christmas morning; Jesu, to Thee be glory giv’n. Word of the Father, Now in flesh appearing; O come, etc •

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8 Artist Biographies

Simon Halsey conductor

Born in London, Simon Halsey sang in the choirs of New College, Oxford, and of King’s College, Cambridge, and studied conducting at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1987, he founded the City of Birmingham Touring Opera with Graham Vick. He was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir from 1997 to 2008 and Principal Conductor of the Northern Sinfonia’s Choral Programme from 2004 to 2012. From 2001 to 2015 he led the Rundfunkchor Berlin (of which he is now Conductor Laureate); under his leadership the chorus gained a reputation internationally as one of the finest professional choral ensembles. Halsey also initiated innovative projects in unconventional venues and interdisciplinary formats. •

imon Halsey holds positions across the UK and Europe as Choral Director of the London Symphony Orchestra

and Chorus; Chorus Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Artistic Director of Orfeó Català Choirs and Artistic Adviser of Palau de la Música, Barcelona; Artistic Director of Berliner Philharmoniker Youth Choral Programme; Director of the BBC Proms Youth Choir; Artistic Advisor of Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Choir; Conductor Laureate of Rundfunkchor Berlin; and Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Birmingham.

Simon Halsey occupies a unique position in classical music. He is the trusted advisor on choral singing to the world’s greatest conductors, orchestras and choruses, and also an inspirational teacher and ambassador for choral singing to amateurs of every age, ability and background. Making singing a central part of the world-class institutions with which he is associated, he has been instrumental in changing the level of symphonic singing across Europe.

He is also a highly respected teacher and academic, nurturing the next generation of choral conductors on his post-graduate course in Birmingham and through masterclasses at Princeton, Yale and elsewhere. He holds

three honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, and in 2011 Schott Music published his book and DVD on choral conducting, Chorleitung: Vom Konzept zum Konzert.

Halsey has worked on nearly 80 recording projects, many of which have won major awards, including the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Echo Klassik, and three Grammy Awards with the Rundfunkchor Berlin. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2015, was awarded The Queen’s Medal for Music in 2014, and received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to choral music in Germany.

Since becoming Choral Director of the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in 2012, Halsey has been credited with bringing about a ‘spectacular transformation’ (Evening Standard) of the LSC. Highlights with the LSO in 2017/18 include Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder at the BBC Proms with Sir Simon Rattle and Halsey’s CBSO and Orfeó Català choruses; Liszt’s ‘Faust’ Symphony with Sir Antonio Pappano; Mahler’s Symphony No 2 with Semyon Bychkov; and performances of Berlioz and Bernstein with Rattle in his inaugural year as Music Director of the LSO.

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9Artist Biographies

Howard Goodall presenter

mark the 50th anniversary of the release of the iconic Beatles album. For his TV series he has been honoured with a BAFTA, an RTS Judges’ Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Education in Broadcasting and over a dozen other international broadcast awards. In recent years he has been England’s first ever National Ambassador for Singing and Classic FM’s Composer-in-Residence. He was appointed CBE in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to music education. He lives in West London and Southern Burgundy and is married to music agent Val Fancourt. •

oward Goodall's first West End musical, The Hired Man, based on Melvyn Bragg's book, opened in

the West End in 1984, when he was 24. It has since been performed all over the world and won many international awards. It was followed in 1987 by Girlfriends, Days of Hope (1990), Silas Marner (1993), The Kissing-Dance (1998), the dreaming (2001) (both written with Charles Hart for the National Youth Music Theatre), A Winter's Tale (2005), Two Cities (2006), Love Story (2010) and, in 2015, Bend it Like Beckham.

As well as writing musicals, Howard has composed some of the best-known British TV theme tunes of the last 30 years, including Mr Bean, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Q.I. and The Vicar of Dibley. His score for the HBO film Into the Storm won him a Primetime EMMY award for Original Dramatic Score in 2009.

His music has been commissioned to mark many national ceremonies and memorials and his choral works Psalm 23 and Love Divine are amongst the most performed of all sacred music, featuring on several platinum-selling CDs. His Eternal Light: A Requiem has had over 500 live performances throughout the world since its premiere in 2008, and won him a Classical BRIT Award for Composer

of the Year. His 2009 Enchanted Voices, a setting of the Beatitudes, was number one in the Specialist Classical CD chart for six months, winning him a Gramophone award. In June 2012 his Rigaudon formed part of the New Water Music that accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond Jubilee Regatta and he was musically responsible for Rowan Atkinson’s memorable performance with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. On 4 August 2014 his choral work Sure of the Sky-Des Himmels sicher, specially commissioned for the occasion, was performed by an Anglo-German choir at the St Symphorien Military Cemetery near Mons in Belgium to mark the anniversary of World War I, in the presence of heads of state of all combatant nations.

For the past 20 years he has written and presented his own TV documentary series on the theory and history of music. His books, Big Bangs: The Story of Five Discoveries That Changed Musical History and Howard Goodall’s Story of Music have been translated into Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Chinese, Spanish and Turkish and published in over 20 countries. His most recent TV film, Sergeant Pepper’s Musical Revolution was shown on BBC2 and simultaneously worldwide on 3 June 2017 to

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London Symphony Chorus on stage

he London Symphony Chorus was formed in 1966 to complement the work of the London Symphony

Orchestra and in 2016 celebrated its 50th anniversary. The partnership between the LSC and LSO has continued to develop and was strengthened in 2012 with the appointment of Simon Halsey as joint Chorus Director of the LSC and Choral Director for the LSO. It now plays a major role in furthering the vision of the LSO Sing initiative.

The LSC has also partnered many other major orchestras and has performed nationally and internationally with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Championing the musicians of tomorrow, it has also worked with both the National

Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the European Union Youth Orchestra. The Chorus has toured extensively throughout Europe and has also visited North America, Israel, Australia and South East Asia.

Much of the LSC repertoire has been captured in its large catalogue of recordings featuring renowned conductors and soloists, which have won nine awards, including five Grammys. Recent releases include Britten’s War Requiem with Gianandrea Noseda and Mahler’s Symphonies Nos 2, 3 and 8 with Valery Gergiev. The Seasons by Haydn, Belshazzar’s Feast by Walton, Otello by Verdi, and the world premiere of the St John Passion by James MacMillan were all under the baton of the late Sir Colin Davis. The recent recording of Götterdämmerung with the Hallé under

Sir Mark Elder won a Gramophone award and the recording of the Grande Messe des Morts by Berlioz with the LSO conducted by Sir Colin Davis won an International Music Award in the Choral Works category. In June 2015 the recording of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Tenth Symphony, commissioned by the LSO and recorded by the LSO and the LSC with Sir Antonio Pappano, won a prestigious South Bank Sky Arts award in the Classical category.

The 2016/17 season included performances of Verdi’s Requiem with Gianandrea Noseda in the Barbican and at the Lincoln Center in New York, a semi-staging of Ligeti’s Le grand macabre with Sir Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars, and Brahms’ Requiem with Fabio Luisi. The LSC also collaborated with the CBSO and Orfeó Català choruses for Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder at the BBC Proms with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in August. Highlights of 2017/18 include Liszt’s ‘Faust’ Symphony with Sir Antonio Pappano and Mahler’s Symphony No 2 with Semyon Bychkov.

The LSC is always interested in recruiting new members, welcoming applications from singers of all backgrounds. Interested singers are welcome to attend rehearsals before arranging an audition. For further information, visit lsc.org.uk. •

President Sir Simon Rattle om cbe

President Emeritus André Previn kbe

Vice President Michael Tilson Thomas

Patrons Simon Russell Beale cbe Howard Goodall cbe

Chorus Director Simon Halsey cbe

Associate Director Matthew Hamilton

Chorus Accompanist Benjamin Frost

Chairman Owen Hanmer

Concert Manager Robert Garbolinski

LSO Choral Projects Manager Andra East

11London Symphony Chorus

Sopranos Greta Astedt Frankie Arnull Faith Baxter Anna Byrne-Smith Laura Catala-Ubassy Carol Capper * Jessica Collins Eve Commander Harriet Crawford Rebecca Dent Katharine Elliot Elisa Franzinetti Kara Florish Maureen Hall Isobel Hammond Jenna Hawkins Josefin Holmberg Alice Jones Marylyn Lewin Rose Littlewood Christina Long Aine MacDonald Meg McClure Gill O'Neill Andrea Persman Louisa Prentice Carole Radford Jasmine Spencer Giulia Steidl Deborah Staunton Winnie Tse

Natalia Vargas Lizzie Webb Olivia Wilkinson Rachel Wilson Alice Young

Altos Elizabeth Boyden June Brawner Gina Broderick Jo Buchan * Elizabeth Campbell Maggie Donnelly Lynn Eaton Linda Evans Amanda Freshwater Joanna Gill Kate Harrison Kristi Jagodin Christine Jasper Jill Jones Vanessa Knapp Gilly Lawson Belinda Liao * Anne Loveluck Aoife McInerney Dorothy Nesbit Siu-Wai Ng Susannah Priede * Lucy Reay Lis Smith Erika Stasiuleviciute Margaret Stephen Linda Thomas Claire Trocme Zoe Williams

Tenors Jorge Aguilar Paul Allatt * Erik Azzopardi Paul Beecham Raymond Brien Oliver Burrows Colin Dunn John Farrington Matt Fernando Anthony Madonna Alastair Mathews Tom McNeill Dan Owers Michael Scharff Christopher Straw Simon Wales Robert Ward *

Basses Chris Bourne Gavin Buchan Andy Chan Steve Chevis Matthew Clarke Giles Clayton Damian Day Joe Dodd Thomas Fea Ian Fletcher Robert Garbolinski * Daniel Gosselin Owen Hanmer * J-C Higgins * Nathan Homan Anthony Howick Peter Kellett George Marshall Hugh McLeod Jamie Patrick Alan Rochford Richard Tannenbaum Daniel Thompson Robin Thurston Liam Velez Jez Wareing Tyler Wert Anthony Wilder

* denotes LSC council member

LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS IN 2018

Sunday 4 February 2018 7pm Barbican Hall

Mahler Symphony No 2, 'Resurrection'

Semyon Bychkov conductor Christiane Karg soprano Anna Larsson alto London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director

Sunday 20 May 2018 7pm Barbican Hall

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Toby Spence tenor Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director

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12 LSO Community Choir

LSO Community Choir on stage

n March 2003 the LSO Community Choir performed the first concert in LSO St Luke’s, the Orchestra’s

then 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 were 80 singers in the Choir’s ranks – its membership now totals 110.

The Community Choir has open access at its heart – anyone is welcome as long as they live or work in the area, and no audition is necessary. The Choir’s director, David Lawrence, tailors the music-making for a broad mix of people: from those who know their sharps from their flats to those who have no experience of musical notation.

The Choir sings three concerts a year at LSO St Luke’s and performs special concerts at the Barbican with the LSO, including an impressive list of performances under three directors – Gareth Malone, David Knott and

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Sopranos Jasmine Allen Rosemary Anger Alison Archibald Jenny Bell Martha Bicket Julie Bruscini Nevo Burrell Berrak Buyukavci Kim Caplin Sandrina Carosso Rosy Cheetham Liz Cunningham Eilish Dempsey Elizabeth Emmanuel Mary Flude Laura Gladwin Annie Hawker Laura Lucas Fiona MacCorquodale Esther Murphy Jan Newbigin Selena Ng Zina Nour Sheila Ogilvie Rosaline Ogunro Ruth Paker Liz Patterson Pauline Pearson Alessandra Sarnari Vaishali Shah Anna Standley

Anne Stansfield Rachel Starling Carol Stewart Jacqueline Swanson Maggie Tyler Tracy Wait Elizabeth Whittaker

David Lawrence. The Community Choir has worked with Hugh Masekela, celebrating his 70th birthday; performed a partially staged version of Britten’s St Nicolas with tenor Ian Bostridge; and took part in two new operas, Jonathan Dove's The Monster In The Maze and Andrew Norman's A Trip to the Moon, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. The Choir has sung in St Paul’s Cathedral, at the annual Whitecross Street Festival and at the Royal Academy of Music.

Above all, the Choir is about the joy of singing and remains open to everyone. For those who claim they can’t sing, the Community Choir has proved in the best possible way that anyone can get involved in music-making and find their voice. •

The Community Choir is open to people who live or work in EC1, but there is currently a waiting list. For further information, or to be added to the list, please email andra.east@lso.co.uk.

13LSO Community Choir

Altos Daphne Alexander Iris Bachmann Adrienne Banks Jane Bickerton Annie Blackmore Nathalie Blondeau Sherrie Brar-Sacha Sue Bristow Elzbieta Chandrasena Jacqueline Chow Emma Coften Tania Cohen Anne Corbett Linda Crow Donna Cullen Claire Deakin Yiting Feng Christine Finlan Janet Fitch Bernadette Hancock Beverley Heath Alison Hunter Marie-Helene Jeeves Pauline Jenkins Jacqueline Kestenbaum Penelope Parkinson Grace Payne Sue Pearson Tessa Sheridan Ellen Sinclair Anna Sun

Hilary Sunman Louise Tennant Jane Tully Marianne Viola

Tenor Nick Brittain Jill Courtnell Craig Givens Rory Guy Helen James Neville Kay Caryn Mackenzie Lily O'Brien Mena Rego Riad Safo Steven Smith Milan Stamenkovic Roy Sully Tony Valsamidis Karen Wheeler Sarah Winman Peter Wylie

Basses Chris Baalham Jeremy Barraud John Bryant Edward Burns Neil Campbell Adam Dale Gabriel Diaz- Emparanza Will Ellsworth-Jones Maurice Flude François Guibourgeau Darrel James Simon Jones Darragh Kilroy Tim Kitchin Dan Knight Stuart Midson Pete Sutton Richard Taylor Paul Tilley Paul Turley Paul Downing

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14 LSO Discovery Choirs

LSO Discovery Choirs on stage

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he LSO Discovery Choirs consist of over 100 young people aged eight and above who live or go to school in

Hackney, Islington or the City of London (Junior Choir) or any London borough (Senior Choir).

Formed in 2004 by Gareth Malone, the Choirs have sung at Windsor Castle for His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, with Dave Brubeck, with the LSO at the Barbican, and in the premiere of Edward Rushton’s oratorio Cicadas alongside the LSO Community Choir and LSO players. The Choirs also performed at the Olympic Torch Relay for Islington Council in July 2012 and were part of the UK premieres of Jonathan Dove’s children’s opera The Monster in the Maze (2015) and Andrew Norman's A Trip to the Moon (2017, pictured above), and the world premiere of

Junior Choir Miran Akalin Arden Akalin Ameera Aldaraji Tristan Archbold Jael Balgobin Imogen Bates Ellen Blann Esme Boydell Esther Brauner-Cave Neena Brokenshire Marni Burton Olwen Burton-Spence Marcos Butler Gomez Roberta Centi Arthur Clack Megan Crooks Benoit Danzin Agathe Danzin Cosima Davies Martha Denby Beulah Emmanuel Saoirse Exelby Sophia Franca Wilcken Lara Goktepe Honor Goodsir Imogen Goodsir Noah Hardy Molly Heaphy Juri Hirose Hermione Holloway Niamh Hood Caleb Hunter

Sienna Hunt-Montoya Hannah Hutton Fred Jacques Jasmin Kallow Marnie Kennedy Mikael Khaliq-Rattray Daisy King Matilde Larsen Megan Lee Gabriella Mackinnon Ruqaya Mason Agnes McIntosh Beatrice Meaker Esme Mellor- Stephenson Chantelle Munguli Connie Nasmyth Rose O'Connell Isobel Quinn Pearl Roure Smalling Alex Rowsell Ryan Eva Ryan-Stewart Marc Salek Camara Scott Samuelsson Hake Annachiara Senatore Flore Servant Jiyaa Shah Theo Smith Zachary Smith Lou von Lucius Eben Watson Golnar Zandi

Senior Choir Orchid Balgobin NDea Balgobin Rosa Brennan George Carrington- Johnson Marnie Clark Course Poppy Dawid Lorenzo Dennis Romario Dennis Skye Fitzgerald McShane Inji Galliet-Jakoby Caitlin Heaphy Persephone Holloway Neo Hunt D'Carlos Ikuomola- Andre Mario Ikuomola-Andre Sumia Ismaili Kevin Jara Aced Ruby Johnson Isla Kallow Kitty Kelly Nissa Khaliq-Rattray Anna Law Henocq Jessica Magnus Evelyn-Rose Masol Aiyana Mason Lakshmi Maslen Maeve McAllister Clementine Parker

Orla Prendergast Lyra Robinson-Winning Topsy Sallows Killian Scortichini Elizabeth Simpson Tessa Roe-Stanton Lara Torkar Festenstein

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Hogboon (2016), all conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

The Junior Choir is conducted by Emily Dickins and Lucy Griffiths, and the Senior Choir is conducted by David Lawrence. •

Email youthchoir@lso.co.uk for more details. The LSO Discovery Choirs are generously supported by the John S Cohen Foundation and Slaughter and May Charitable Trust.

LSO DISCOVERY CHOIRS IN 2018

Tuesday 27 March 7.30pm, LSO St Luke's The Choirs bring their talents to the world of rock and pop in this concert of hits. lso.co.uk/whatson

15Artist Biographies

David Lawrence Conductor Emily Dickens Conductor

avid Lawrence is one of the UK’s most versatile conductors, working with orchestras, symphony choruses

and national youth choirs. Conductor of the LSO Community Choir and LSO Discovery Senior Choir, he was nominated for a Gramophone Award for his conducting and currently holds the Guinness World Record for conducting the UK’s largest choir – 6,846 singers!

David’s work has taken him to Singapore, Colombia, Canada, the United States, Dubai, India and throughout Europe, and this year he will make his 13th and 14th visits to Australia. His positive and engaging manner makes him a popular guest conductor, and

he is an experienced and respected trainer of choral conductors. David teaches regularly alongside Ghislaine Morgan in Portugal, and provides leadership and team building skills to the corporate sector.

He has worked with the London Philharmonic Choir, the Hallé Choir, London Symphony Chorus, CBSO Chorus, for whom he is an Associate Conductor, as well as the National Youth Choirs of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. David has adjudicated at international choral festivals, as well as for the BBC Choir of the Year and Young Musician of the Year competitions, and has conducted for BBC Television’s Songs of Praise for the past 15 years.

As Principal Conductor of Young Voices, David directs massed choirs in an annual series of concerts, with some choirs incorporating more than 8,000 singers. He continues to work with Sinfonia Viva as their Choral Advisor, a project leader and conductor, and has also directed large-scale education projects with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. •

nglish soprano and conductor Emily Dickens is an internationally established singer, performer

and educator. A full-time member of vocal ensemble VOCES8 for eight years, Emily has performed music from Renaissance England to contemporary commissions and American pop all over the world.

Emily was born in Winchester and was a founder member and Head Chorister of the Winchester Cathedral Girls' Choir. She read music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she held a choral scholarship, graduating in 2009. Emily began her professional career in the same summer as her final

exams, performing in the Beijing National Centre for Performing Arts in China with VOCES8. She has performed in many of the world's leading concert halls including the Royal Albert Hall, Tokyo Opera City, Tel Aviv Opera House, Mariinsky Theatre, Wiener Konzerthaus, National Concert Hall Taipei, Dijon Opera House, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg and the Cité de la Musique, Paris. Emily is heard regularly on international TV and radio including MPR, the BBC and Classic FM; recent highlights include performing Bach's Motets live on BBC Radio 3 for the Cambridge Early Music Festival and Jonathan Dove's The Passing of the Year at St John's, Smith Square for BBC Radio 3. A Decca Classics Recording Artist, she has had three albums reach the top of the classical charts.

As a conductor and vocal coach Emily is known for her interesting arrangements and versatility. She is the Choral Conducting Fellow at St Martin-in-the-Fields, an adviser to the Rhinegold Music & Drama Education Expo and directs singing workshops and courses in the UK and abroad.

Emily studies with Gary Coward and Jessica Cash and is the grateful recipient of a Career Development Award from Help Musicians UK. •

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16 Artist Biographies

Eva Gheorghiu soprano LSO Brass Ensemble on stage

3 December 2017

merican soprano Eva Gheorghiu is a second-year postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music &

Drama. In spring 2015 she graduated from The Juilliard School with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music as a student of Edith Wiens. Whilst at Juilliard, Eva performed as Susanna in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (2013) and as Geraldine in Barber’s A Hand of Bridge (2014). Additionally, she covered the role of Young Vixen in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (2013), and 3rd and 4th Spirit in Massenet’s Cendrillon (2014).

In 2013 Eva was a soloist with the Olympia Symphony Orchestra and attended The Franz-Schubert Institute in Baden

bei Wien, Austria. In 2014, Eva attended Songfest in Los Angeles, California, where she was made a SongFest Colburn Fellow. In 2016, she won First Prize (Tier II) in the James Toland Vocal Arts Vocal Competition in Oakland, California.

During the summer, Eva worked on a series of workshops with primary and secondary school children on Mozart’s The Magic Flute for Longborough Festival Opera.

Eva has been a proud recipient of the Cecilia Entner Scholarship, Edwina Eustis Endowed Scholarship, Joan and Robert Arnow Scholarship, Mary E Birsh Scholarship, PJ Hoyland Memorial Scholars, R Maurice Boyd Scholarship for Vocal Studies, and the William R Hearst Scholarship at The Juilliard School. This year, she is generously supported by The Behrens Foundation as a Behrens Foundation Scholar at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. •

Horn Timothy Jones

Trumpets Philip Cobb Gerald Ruddock Niall Keatley Robin Totterdell

Trombones Dudley Bright James Maynard Rebecca Smith

Bass Trombone Paul Milner

Tuba Peter Smith

Timpani Nigel Thomas

Percussion Neil Percy Glyn Matthews

Piano Catherine Edwards

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