Summer Festival: Come and Sing! Vivaldi's Gloria - performance
- Date
- Sunday 3 July 2022, 4:00pm - 4:40pm
- Admission
- Free - no booking required
- Doors
- open from 3:30pm
Following a day of singing and rehearsals the Come and Sing Chorus performs Vivaldi's Gloria, led by School of Music associate professor Clive McClelland and accompanied by instrumentalists and soloists from Leeds Baroque.
Vocal Soloists: Clare Eccles, Imogen Creedy
Derek Revill & Susan Marshall (first violin) Ilias Devetzoglou & Caroline Goddard (second violin) Stephen Robinson (viola) Catherine Carr (cello) Jillian Johnson (violone) Chris Roberts (organ)
This concert will last approximately 40 minutes. There will be no interval, but do join is in the Clothworkers Foyer for refreshments after the performance.
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Graduate Profile
Clare Eccles
BMus, graduated 2011
Originally from Cumbria, Clare is a soprano, community musician and singing teacher. Now based in Ulverston, Clare continues to sing professionally across the United Kingdom, under the tutelage of Lorna Anderson.
Clare graduated from the Masters of Music course (Vocal Studies) from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2018. It was here that Clare founded her operatic ensemble ‘The Champagne Quartet.’ She continues to tour with them on a regular basis. Prior to this, Clare studied Music at the University of Leeds where she achieved a first-class honour degree. This involved a year at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln, Germany.
After graduating from Leeds, Clare worked for a short while with Opera North Education before becoming Music Development Officer at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal. Clare enjoys helping to bring singing to people in many walks of life. She has more recently enjoyed working with the development team of ‘The Promise Opera’ group, bringing opera to schools on the west coast of Cumbria, amongst other rural locations.
Clare has had the privilege of working with Louise Alder, Simon Lepper, Joan Rodgers, Joseph Middleton, Malcolm Martineau, Donald Maxwell and many more. Previous recital work has featured: The Creation, Fauré’s Requiem, Rutter Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Brahms’ Requiem, The Lotos Eaters (Parry), Handel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Graduate Profile
Imogen Creedy
BMus, graduated 2019
Imogen is a soprano originally from Newcastle and now based in York. She recently graduated from the University of York with a Masters in Vocal Studies with Distinction and continues to be mentored by Susan Young as she develops her professional portfolio as a soprano soloist, choral singer and a singing teacher. She received a BMus Performance (Hons) degree from the University of Leeds in 2019 and successfully gained a position to study with Agnès Mellon at the École Supérieure de Musique Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in Dijon, France. As an alumna of both Genesis Sixteen and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, where she was the soprano section leader, she has performed and recorded extensively across the UK and abroad. This includes recording at Abbey Road Studios and performing at The Royal Albert Hall as a backing singer for Kylie Minogue! She has also featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and recorded for the BBC Proms Young Composers scheme in partnership with BBC’s Created out of Mind project studying the link between dementia and the arts. Imogen has worked with In Harmony North-East helping to provide Music Education in primary schools in the west end of Newcastle and recently took on a new role at the University of York’s Department of Music as School Recitals and Administration Coordinator.
BMus, graduated 2011
Clare graduated from the Masters of Music course (Vocal Studies) from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2018. It was here that Clare founded her operatic ensemble ‘The Champagne Quartet.’ She continues to tour with them on a regular basis. Prior to this, Clare studied Music at the University of Leeds where she achieved a first-class honour degree. This involved a year at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln, Germany.
After graduating from Leeds, Clare worked for a short while with Opera North Education before becoming Music Development Officer at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal. Clare enjoys helping to bring singing to people in many walks of life. She has more recently enjoyed working with the development team of ‘The Promise Opera’ group, bringing opera to schools on the west coast of Cumbria, amongst other rural locations.
Clare has had the privilege of working with Louise Alder, Simon Lepper, Joan Rodgers, Joseph Middleton, Malcolm Martineau, Donald Maxwell and many more. Previous recital work has featured: The Creation, Fauré’s Requiem, Rutter Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Brahms’ Requiem, The Lotos Eaters (Parry), Handel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Graduate Profile
Imogen Creedy
BMus, graduated 2019
Imogen is a soprano originally from Newcastle and now based in York. She recently graduated from the University of York with a Masters in Vocal Studies with Distinction and continues to be mentored by Susan Young as she develops her professional portfolio as a soprano soloist, choral singer and a singing teacher. She received a BMus Performance (Hons) degree from the University of Leeds in 2019 and successfully gained a position to study with Agnès Mellon at the École Supérieure de Musique Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in Dijon, France. As an alumna of both Genesis Sixteen and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, where she was the soprano section leader, she has performed and recorded extensively across the UK and abroad. This includes recording at Abbey Road Studios and performing at The Royal Albert Hall as a backing singer for Kylie Minogue! She has also featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and recorded for the BBC Proms Young Composers scheme in partnership with BBC’s Created out of Mind project studying the link between dementia and the arts. Imogen has worked with In Harmony North-East helping to provide Music Education in primary schools in the west end of Newcastle and recently took on a new role at the University of York’s Department of Music as School Recitals and Administration Coordinator.
Clare has had the privilege of working with Louise Alder, Simon Lepper, Joan Rodgers, Joseph Middleton, Malcolm Martineau, Donald Maxwell and many more. Previous recital work has featured: The Creation, Fauré’s Requiem, Rutter Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Brahms’ Requiem, The Lotos Eaters (Parry), Handel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Graduate Profile
Imogen Creedy
BMus, graduated 2019
Imogen is a soprano originally from Newcastle and now based in York. She recently graduated from the University of York with a Masters in Vocal Studies with Distinction and continues to be mentored by Susan Young as she develops her professional portfolio as a soprano soloist, choral singer and a singing teacher. She received a BMus Performance (Hons) degree from the University of Leeds in 2019 and successfully gained a position to study with Agnès Mellon at the École Supérieure de Musique Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in Dijon, France. As an alumna of both Genesis Sixteen and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, where she was the soprano section leader, she has performed and recorded extensively across the UK and abroad. This includes recording at Abbey Road Studios and performing at The Royal Albert Hall as a backing singer for Kylie Minogue! She has also featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and recorded for the BBC Proms Young Composers scheme in partnership with BBC’s Created out of Mind project studying the link between dementia and the arts. Imogen has worked with In Harmony North-East helping to provide Music Education in primary schools in the west end of Newcastle and recently took on a new role at the University of York’s Department of Music as School Recitals and Administration Coordinator.
BMus, graduated 2019