The Barnby Choir Singing Day

Saturday 12 June 2010

with Keith Orrell

We will spend the day preparing and then performing
the following pieces to an audience of invited friends and family:

Jenkins Te Deum

Mathias Let the people praise thee O God.

Jenkins' Te Deum was recently commissioned for the Liverpool Welsh Choral

To book your place please call 01625 581321.

The venue is likely to be Wilmslow Methodist Church.

Anticipated cost will be around £20 including tea and coffee: it does not include lunch.

We normally cater for up to 80 participants on our Singing Days, including Barnby Choir members and guests, and we would be delighted if you would also invite family and friends to the "mini" performance at the end of the day.

Programme of the Day

About Keith Orrell

Keith Orrell, a Lancastrian, is the Director of the Liverpool Welsh Choral. He was Chorus Master of the Hallé Choir in Manchester for seven years, and has acted as a guest Chorus Master for other symphony choruses in the UK, including the BBC Symphony Chorus, most notably training this choir for one of their 2004 Summer Prom concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. He directed the Beaumaris Singers until 2004, a chamber choir which he founded in the 1980’s, and more recently he worked as Director of Music at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral.

Keith has also led children’s choirs, youth choirs and larger mixed adult choirs including the Birmingham Singers, Stone Choral Society and the Staffordshire Youth Choir. He continues to lead choral workshops, conducting courses for ABCD (the Association of British Choral Directors) and is a long-standing choral tutor at ISSMUS, formerly known as Hereford International Summer School, which has its new base at Shrewsbury School.

In January 2006 Keith was appointed as Vocal Projects Leader for Wigan Borough, a post which involves the development of singing in all schools in the region. In this capacity he also directs Wigan Youth Choir and Wigan Junior Youth Choir. He is also the director of Wigan Youth Orchestra and the Director of Music at the church of St Agnes and St Pancras in south Liverpool. He also continues to sing occasional baritone solos on a professional basis.

In September 2009, Keith will also take up the directorship of one of the north-west’s prestigious chamber choirs, the William Byrd Singers of Manchester.

Singing Day March 2009 with Frances Cooke

Last season's Singing Day with leading vocalist trainer Frances Cooke was a great success. 

After a warm up session, Frances coached our voices through an enjoyable mix of light and more challenging vocal pieces, including Bruckner Motets, Parry's Songs of Farewell and the Stanford Magnificat.