Brentwood Arts Festival 2014 Tuesday, 8 July, 1pm Brentwood Cathedral

Brentwood Cathedral Music Department presents

Songs for Soprano &

Piano

Julia Wilson-James - Soprano

Tim Smith - Piano Andrew Wright - Piano

Brentwood Arts Festival is supported by

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Julia Wilson-James (soprano) studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Parricia Clark and Clara Taylor, and won the Benjamin Britten Prize and a St Marylebone scholarship. She now studies with Patrizia Kwella. Julia has performed for many celebrated conductors for both concerts and recordings, including the late Richard Hickox, and. regularly with the BBC Singers, Nicholas Kraemer, Sir Simon Rattle, the Kings Consort, Richard Cooke, Roger Norrington, John Rutters Cambridge Singers and the Monteverdi Choir. Julias international solo performances have included Mozarts Coronation Mass and Requiem on tour with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Bach Mass in B Minor with the same orchestra in Israel. In Norway, she sang Faures Requiem with the Norwegian Soloists Choir and has worked for several seasons with the London Opera Chorus in Lyon and Vienna. Julia is a frequent soloist for choral societies and has appeared at Sc Martin in the Fields. Norwich Cathedral, The Purcell Room and Brentwood Cathedral. In addition to her professional singing engagements, Julia is currently Director of Vocal Studies at Brentwood School and. Head of Vocal Tuition for the boy choristers at the Cathe­dral, She is also a Lay Clerk in Brentwood Cathedral Choir.

Andrew Wright (piano) Andrew Wright enjoys an extensive career as a church musician, conductor, teacher, organist and composer. .After graduating from Oxford University, he was appointed Assistant Master of Music at Westminster in 1979 under Stephen Cleobury, and in 1982 became Cathedral Director of Music in Brentwood and Director of Liturgical Music for the Diocese. At Oxford he was a member of The Tallis Scholars and the Oxford University Chamber Or­chestra and continued advanced, piano studies at the Royal College of Music under John Barstow. He has worked widely through broadcasts, recordings, many major events, and orchestral perfor­mances of works extending from the Monteverdi Vespers to Elgar's Dream ofGerotittus. In recent years has conducted a wide variety of music at the Cathedral, including Britten s Noye's Fludde, Messiah, and Brahms' German Requiem. He has composed much for the liturgy and for choirs and. organ with works published, in the U K and USA. In 2009 a C D was published which included his song cycle Bliss ofSolitt-ulc\h tenor soloist Richard Dowling, His Requiem of Peace has been widely performed locally, nationally and in the USA, including in Los Angeles Cathedral.

Tim Smith (piano) has a wide ranging musical career which spans Choral music, Opera, Recital and Musical Theatre. His work with opera companies include accompanying The Carl Rosa Opera Company, Cameo Opera, Hatstand Opera and The New Savoyards of London, and has performed at venues throughout the U K including Goldsmiths Hall, "The Barbican and St. Mar­t in in the Fields in London. He regularly appears on the concert platform in recitals with singers and intrumentalists, per­forming a wide variety of chamber music and Lieder. He is an orchestral keyboard player taking part in performances of many large scale choral works, and has worked with pit orchestras in musical theatre. He has also performed at the Players Theatre, London, T im is also a very successful solo pianist, performing recitals i n his own right across the South East.

P r o g r a m m e

By a Bierside In Flanders Sleep

Ivor Gurney Ivor Gurney Ivor Gurney

Silent Noon The Sky Above the Roof

Ralph Vaughan Wil l iams Ralph Vaughan Wil l iams

W o r l d P r e m i e r e

War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon Music by Andrew W r i g h t

To My Brother Secret Music Thrushes Memory Absolution

Piano Solo Puck's Birthday

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John Ireland

If there were Dreams to Sell Spring Sorrow

John Ireland John Ireland

Where he lies asleep Love went a'riding

Frank Bridge Frank Bridge

There will be a retiring collection at the end to help meet the costs of this concert.

Brentwood Arts Festival

Events taking place at Brentwood Cathedral E j

Wednesday 9 July 1pm

Wednesday 9 July 6.30pm

Wednesday 9 July 7 30pm

Thursday 10 July 1pm

Friday 11 July 8pm

Lunchtime Organ Recital Prof David Graham f rom the Royal College o f Music plays music by Parry, Elgar and others. Admission free.

Festival Vespers Sung by the Brentwood Cathedral Choir. All welcome.

Music from the World of Opera Members o f Brentwood Cathedral Choir pe r f o rm a selection o f popular opera arias. Admission free.

Lunchtime Organ Recital Music associated w i t h WW1 and other conflicts by German, French and English composers played by Michael Frith. Admission free.

Echoes of War Bra-vissima in concert Tickets: £ 1 0 / £ 7 . 5 0 / £ 5

A B R E N T W O O D trn

Full details of all the Festival events can be found at brentwoodartsfestival.org.uk

Tickets can be purchased through the website or from 01277 200305 be­tween 10am and 4pm or in person at Brentwood Theatre

15 Shenfield Road Brentwood CM 15 8AG