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An afternoon of Song, Scena and Spirituals...
Andrew McIntosh - Baritone, Yolanda Grant-Thompson - Mezzo Soprano
with Jonathan Pease on Piano
Sunday June 3rd, 4pm
Full Programme
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Et Exultavit (Magnificat) Johann Sebastian Bach
Meine Liebe is Grün Die Mainacht Johannes Brahms Siete Canciones Populares Espagñolas Asturiana Jota Manuel de Falla Le Manoir de Rosamunde Chanson Triste Henri Duparc Le Jet D’Eau Claude Debussy My dearest, my fairest Henry Purcell |
Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific) Rodgers and Hammerstein The Man I Love George Gershwin arr. Percy Grainger So in Love (Kiss me Kate) Cole Porter I loves you Porgy (Porgy and Bess) George Gershwin Spirituals Medley Anon. |
4pm-5pm. Tickets: adults £6.00, concessions £5.00, children £2.00. Tickets available at the door. Crèche facilities available.
Andrew McIntosh - Baritone
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Born in London, Andrew studied at Trinity College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music London and was also a Peter Moores Foundation scholar.
He has performed with Royal Danish Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera and Grange Park Opera and Opera Holland Park. Notable operatic roles include; Luddud (Treemonisha) Pegasus Opera, Dancairo (Carmen) Kentish Opera, Silvano (Un Ballo in Maschera) Surrey Opera, Sciarrone (Tosca) Opus 1 Opera, Raimbaud-cover (Le Comte Ory) Opera South and Valentin-cover (Faust) Swansea City Opera. |
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As a vocal soloist, Andrew has sung with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, National Orchestre de Lyon, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Southbank Sinfonia.
Andrew has performed in the 'Aldeburgh Festival', Tete a Tete and Grimeborn Festivals, 'Tilford Bach Festival' with Laurence Cummings, and the Festival Internazionale di Musica 'Cinque Terre' - Liguria, Italy. He has also sung with some of the country's leading vocal ensembles including Polyphony, Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, London Voices and Philharmonia Voices.
For television, he appeared on the Bafta Award winning BBC TV documentary 'The Choir' with Gareth Malone, as well as featuring on the soundtrack of the Marvel film ‘The Black Panther’.
Recent opera engagements include Nelson (Porgy and Bess) Royal Danish Opera, Sharpless (Madam Butterfly) OperaUpClose, Antonio (Le Nozze di Figaro) Opera de Baugé and Schuanard (La Bohème) Opera 24/Grimeborn Opera Festival.
2018 engagements will include Brahms ‘Deutsche Requiem’ with the Philharmonia Chorus, along with vocal recitals for the London Mozart Festival and Royal Naval Chapel Greenwich.
In the autumn, Andrew will be taking up a post as Head of Vocal Studies at the Dubai English Speaking College in the United Arab Emirates.
Andrew has performed in the 'Aldeburgh Festival', Tete a Tete and Grimeborn Festivals, 'Tilford Bach Festival' with Laurence Cummings, and the Festival Internazionale di Musica 'Cinque Terre' - Liguria, Italy. He has also sung with some of the country's leading vocal ensembles including Polyphony, Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, London Voices and Philharmonia Voices.
For television, he appeared on the Bafta Award winning BBC TV documentary 'The Choir' with Gareth Malone, as well as featuring on the soundtrack of the Marvel film ‘The Black Panther’.
Recent opera engagements include Nelson (Porgy and Bess) Royal Danish Opera, Sharpless (Madam Butterfly) OperaUpClose, Antonio (Le Nozze di Figaro) Opera de Baugé and Schuanard (La Bohème) Opera 24/Grimeborn Opera Festival.
2018 engagements will include Brahms ‘Deutsche Requiem’ with the Philharmonia Chorus, along with vocal recitals for the London Mozart Festival and Royal Naval Chapel Greenwich.
In the autumn, Andrew will be taking up a post as Head of Vocal Studies at the Dubai English Speaking College in the United Arab Emirates.
Yolanda Grant-Thompson - Mezzo-Soprano
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Yolanda Grant-Thompson trained at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, receiving an Entrance scholarship, the Lord Pitt and Wingate Awards.
Operatic engagements include: Sir Trevor Nunn’s production of Porgy and Bess with Sir Willard White at the Royal Opera House. She went on to play the role of Annie in the subsequent BBCTV film of that production. Charlotte in Werther at the Royal Northern College of Music; Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte excerpts at the Aix-en-Provence Music Festival; Third Lady in The Magic Flute and Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana; Nabucco, Madame Butterfly, La Boheme and Don Giovanni with New Decade Opera at the Kenneth More Theatre and Third Witch in Verdi's Macbeth with Brent Opera. |
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Concert solo and recital engagements include: the role of Elizabeth in the world premier of ‘Consider the Lilies’ by John Barber with soprano Elin Manahan Thomas at St Martin-in-the-Fields, highlights of which was also broadcast on BBC Radio 3; 'Paco Peña’s Requiem for the Earth’ with Paco Peña and soprano Joan Rodgers at the Royal Festival Hall; Shirley J Thompson’s ‘Spirit of the Middle Passage’ with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and ‘The Woman Who refused to Dance’ Abolition of Slavery Bicentennial at Palace Hall, Westminster; The Maya Angelou Tribute concert at the Royal Festival Hall and Verdi’s Requiem with the Redbridge Music Symphony Orchestra at the London Borough of Redbridge Town Hall
Jonathan Pease - Piano
Jonathan graduated from Cambridge University in 2010, before undertaking further study as a pianist with Graham Fitch. As a repetiteur, he has worked for groups including the Royal Opera House, Garsington Opera, Glyndebourne Youth Opera, Opera Holland Park and Chelsea Opera Group, as well as innumerable choral societies and theatre groups. As an accompanist, working primarily with oboist Nicola Hands, he has given recitals at such venues as St. Martin in the Fields, Waltham Abbey, St. Mary’s Perivale, St. Pancras Church, Peterborough, Winchester and Bury Cathedrals and the Schott Recital Rooms. Further plans for 2018 include recitals at St. James Piccadilly and the International Double Reed Society convention in Granada, as well as five performances on the Queen Mary II cruise to New York with saxophonist Alastair Penman.
Jonathan is musical director of the semi-professional East London Evensong Choir, committed to bringing quality liturgical music to the East End but also undertaking visits to Cathedrals, and the Aldersbrook Community Choir. He is also a prolific composer and librettist: due for performance within the next year are a children's opera about a shipwreck, a full-length opera about the suicide of a 1960s architect, a new chamber opera commissioned by Teatime Opera about political culture wars, and a set of church anthems.
Jonathan is musical director of the semi-professional East London Evensong Choir, committed to bringing quality liturgical music to the East End but also undertaking visits to Cathedrals, and the Aldersbrook Community Choir. He is also a prolific composer and librettist: due for performance within the next year are a children's opera about a shipwreck, a full-length opera about the suicide of a 1960s architect, a new chamber opera commissioned by Teatime Opera about political culture wars, and a set of church anthems.
Location
Acton Hill Church
Corner of Woodland Avenue, High Street, Acton, Greater London, W3 9BU
Corner of Woodland Avenue, High Street, Acton, Greater London, W3 9BU
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We are on the corner of the Uxbridge Road and Gunnersbury Lane, W3, opposite Acton police station. Ten minutes walk form Acton Town tube station – District (Ealing Broadway) and Piccadilly lines. Front main entrance is on Gunnersbury Lane, turn right and walk down to the T-junction, turn right and the church is a twenty yards on your right.
Parking in Morrisons’ car park diagonally opposite (up to 1 hour before 4pm and unlimited thereafter). Street parking on Steyne Road (opposite), limited parking in Woodlands Avenue down the side of the church. Beware of the dropped curb at the end as parking tickets are issued on Sundays! |
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