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Monday evenings 2009
Rehearsals on Mondays in Queen's Cross Church Hall - 7.30pm to 9.30pm
New members are always welcome to come and give us a try.
A special welcome awaits any tenors who enjoy singing and would like to meet a group of new friends!
Tuesday 16th March 2010 7.30 pm
In this concert the Aberdeen Choral and the University of Aberdeen Choral Societies combine to perform a programme, which will delight their many supporters.
Mendelssohn
Ruy Blas Overture
Lauda Zion.
Psalm 43
Mozart
Requiem
in the Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen
Conductor
Alistair Macdonald
with
Grampian Sinfonia
Leader
Dirk van Loon
Soloists:
Gillian Jack
SOPRANO
Gillian Jack was born in Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. She won the Mary D Adams Scholarship to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, gaining a BA(Mus Ed) and DipRSAMD. After graduation she joined Scottish Opera Chorus where she performed and understudied many principal roles alongside her busy concert career. She has guested with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera Sinfonia and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta as well as choral societies across the UK.
Gillian's love of teaching and her many singing teaching posts led her to become Head of Vocal Studies for the National Youth Choir of Scotland until a contract with English National Opera took her to London. She is married to the conductor Gordon Jack with two children aged 7 and 10 and they returned to Scotland 5 years ago.
Gillian is Singing Tutor at Aberdeen University. Since her return to Scotland she is delighted to be back on the vocal staff of NYCoS. Recent engagements include adjudicating the Vocal and Choral classes in the Fife Music Festival and Voice Specialist for the Association of British Choral Directors.
Colette Ruddy
Mezzo-soprano
Colette Ruddy studied singing with Patricia MacMahon at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she was a prize- winning graduate. She won the LASMO Staffa Music Award, a prestigious Wolfson scholarship and a Crabb Trust Award. Colette received a scholarship for three years for the Balfour Moray Foundation and was one of six young singers chosen to attend the Samling Foundation Masterclass led by Thomas Allen. She was a soloist with in the world premiere of Craig Armstrong's When Morning Turns To Light with the RSNO at the reopening concert at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. Colette has broadcast for BBC Radio 2, Radio Scotland, BBC Television and STV. Recently Colette recorded songs by the Scottish composer John Thompson with Camerata Orchestra. Oratario work plays a large part in Colette’s career and recent engagements have included Bach’s Magnificat (Barbican, London) Vivaldi's Gloria (Norwich), Bach’s St John Passion (Glasgow), Bach's B Minor Mass (Belfast) and Handel’s Messiah (Randes, Denmark). Solo concerts include Chausson's Chanson Perpetuelle (Cardiff), Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Ete (York) and Britten's Canticle II 'Abraham & Isaac' (Aberdeen). Future engagements include a solo recital at the Edinburgh Festival, engagements with duo Alma in Carlisle, Aberdeen and Dublin and guest soloist in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.
Iain Milne
Tenor
Iain Milne was born in Inverurie in Scotland and from a very young age showed promise as a singer winning many awards as a boy soprano in the Aberdeen music festival. Iain then joined the St. Andrews Cathedral Choir, Aberdeen as a chorister, becoming a Tenor Choral Scholar at only 14.
In 2002 he moved to Norwich to study at the University of East Anglia and to take up the post of Tenor Choral Scholar at Norwich Cathedral. Iain has since obtained a BA degree in Music and was awarded the Britten-Pears, Imogen Holst and Roy Walden Scholarships for outstanding performance.
He also studied at UEA with Baritone Geoff Davidson and performed solo lunchtime recitals at the Assembly House in Norwich.
Iain currently trains with Nicholas Powell and sings as a Vicar Choral in Wells Cathedral taking part in recordings, broadcasts and tours overseas with a solo appearance on their most recent Hyperion recording of music by Kenneth Leighton.
Iain’s soloist repertoire is expanding all of the time with recent appearances including Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Maunder’s Olivet to Calvary, Stainers Crucifixion, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossinni’s Petite Messe Solinelle, Puccini’s Messe Di Gloria and Bach’s St Matthew Passion, to name but a few, with local choirs and choral societies.
Paul Tierney
Baritone
Paul was born in Edinburgh in 1984. He graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2006 with a First Class BMus (lions.) degree. He is currently studying for a PhD in Musical Composition, also at the University of Aberdeen. Whilst studying Paul has been the recipient of many prizes and scholarships including the Ogston Prize for Music Making, the Ellie Pirie Scholarship awarded by the Aberdeen Bach Choir and the North East of Scotland Music School and most recently the Derek Ogston Postgraduate Music Scholarship. Paul also holds the Nora Bentley Chapel Scholarship for his work with Kings College Chapel Choir.
Paul has taken part in masterclasses with Raimund Herincx, Irene Drummond, Stephen Varcoe, Donald Maxwell, Margaret Cable and Cate Hughes.
Paul has appeared as soloist with many groups throughout the North East and further afield including the University of Aberdeen Choral Society and Chapel Choir, Peterhead Choral Society, Aberdeen Orpheus Choir, Concordia String Orchestra, Queens Cross Charity Concert and Hereford International Summer School Chorus in a production of Purcells 'Dido and Aeneas' singing the role of Aeneas. He has also appeared with the Gustavus Adolphus New Music Ensemble in Minneapolis, USA. He also gives numerous recitals of English Art Song and Lieder, having recently performed both 'The Songs and Proverbs of William Blake' of Britten and 'Die Schone Mullerin' of Schubert to rave reviews; "Tierney's singing was a revelation!"
Paul is also active as a composer and has studied with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sally Beamish and Alasdair Nicholson as part of the St. Magnus Composers Course. His music has been performed by the Kreisler Ensemble and the Edinburgh Quartet. He is currently completing two orchestral scores which will be given their first ,performance during 2009.
As a conductor, Paul works regularly with the University of Aberdeen Chapel Choir. He is also musical director of the University New Music Group who received a favourable review in the Herald for their performance of Maxwell Davies 'Eight Songs for A Mad King'. He is also conductor of the Learig Orchestra and the Inverurie Orchestra. In the past he has also assumed the role of musical director of the University of Aberdeen Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Tickets
Standard - £8
Senior citizen - £5
Under 16's - £2
Student- £2
Unemployed - £5
Disabled - £5
Companion - £5
Available from any Choral Society Member or
the Aberdeen Box Office
01224 620011
Music Hall,
Union Street
Aberdeen
Tuesday 15th December 2009 7.15 pm
Aberdeen Choral Society perform
Messiah,
by G F Handel
in the Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen
Conductor
Alistair Macdonald
with
Grampian Sinfonia
Leader
Dirk van Loon
Soloists:
To be announced
Tickets
Tickets price £14 and £12 will be available from
any Choral Society Member or
the Aberdeen Box Office
01224 620011
Music Hall,
Union Street
Aberdeen
