A new professional choir based in Ripon that performs everything from choral music to opera is putting on a local concert.
Jervaulx Singers was founded by Charlie Gower-Smith and Jenny Bianco, who are based in North Yorkshire and perform across the UK.
The eight members of the group all work in the country’s top opera houses and professional choirs. They perform all forms of vocal music, including choral, sacred and secular, opera, and song.
On Saturday March 4, they will sing French choral music at St John’s Church in Sharow.
The diverse programme takes choral works from across the years and intersperses them with some of Francis Poulenc’s greatest songs for solo voice and piano.
Mr Gower-Smith said:
“We present a wide range of repertoire, putting sacred and secular choral music side by side, as well as exploring the great solo and ensemble repertoire from the opera stage in gala performances.
“Our choral concerts are typically eight solo voices, singing either one or two to a part, bringing an exciting vibrancy to the group’s sound.
Group members include baritone Edmund Danon, who has performed at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, Opera North, Cadogan Hall and the London Southbank; Yorkshire-born mezzo-soprano Beth Moxon has performed as ‘L’enfant’ in Ravel’s ‘Lenfant et les sortilèges’ for Opéra de Lyon and Royal Opera House Muscat; bass Laurence Williams, who has toured the Messiah solos with Stephen Layton to Australia, singing with the Auckland Philharmonic and soprano Eleanor Garside, who was described in The Guardian as giving a ‘standout performance’ in Waterperry Opera’s Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove.
Further details of the Sharow event are available here.
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