Newsletter 2
Hello all,
I hope you are all keeping well. Welcome to the Spring/Early Summer Newsletter of 2025. This newsletter is slightly more belated than I would have liked to have released it, but so much more happened that I thought just had to be put into this letter. Going forward, newsletters will be released quarterly; one for each of the four seasons.
Firstly, I would like to congratulate some of my students for their recent results with ABRSM music exams. A very well done to Angelina Gonnella for passing her grade 2 singing, Rose Lovering-Carr for her grade 3 singing, Ella Anderson for her grade 2 piano, and Deena Patel for her grade 4 piano exam. It always brings me such joy to see my students passing their exams and flourishing in their musical journeys. I plan on creating a post that breaks down all the information that you need for ABRSM and Trinity exams in the future, so that you can decide which exam board suits you best, and whether in-person or digital exams are the right ones for you.
Secondly, Good Friday was a very exciting one for me this year - I made my concert debut at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Choral Society! We were accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and had four incredibly talented professional soloists singing with us. We sung Handel's Messiah, an oratorio in three parts being an extensive reflection on Jesus as the Messiah called Christ. Part 1 focuses on prophecies by Isaiah and other prophets, part 2 focuses on the Passions of Jesus, and part 3 focuses on Paul the Apostle's teachings on the resurrection of the dead and Christ's glorification in heaven.
Singing Handel's Messiah is a tradition that the Royal Choral Society have practiced annually on Good Friday for 149 years, so next year's performance of will surely be a special one - a whooping 150 years! To be performing on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall has been something that I've dreamt of doing since a very young age, now I get to do it annually! We recently performed Ein Deutsches Requiem ("A German Requiem") by Johannes Brahms with the incredibly talented and accomplished Academy of St Martin in the Fields orchestra at the Anvil in Basingstoke. Soprano soloist Verity Wingate and baritone soloist Jerome Knox sang with us too. We also sang Felix Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer, and the orchestra played his concert overture, The Hebrides. You can head to the Royal Choral Society's website (link in the above paragraph) to find out more about our upcoming concerts and venues and how to book tickets. There is always something for everyone to enjoy!
Thirdly, I was very excited to have been able to record some tracks for an album at the end of May. It was for a group called Natural Six, who host their own series in which they play Dungeons and Dragons. They host their episodes on all streaming platforms and they have led their own panels at comic conventions. It was a very exciting project to be involved with; singing dark Latin chants, whispering, and vocalising. If I have permission to share it, of course I will do that when it's ready so that you can all have a listen!
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Take care and best wishes,
