Festival Singers 2020 plans

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We have resumed Monday night rehearsals at Newlands Christian Assembly.

If you are looking for a choir to sing with in 2020 we’d love hear from you.

Here is a summary of our plans for the remainder of 2020:

• Festival Singers are performing the first two movements of Jonathan Berkahn’s A Hopkin’s Gloria as part of the  St James Anglican Church choir’ s concert at 1:30pm on Sunday 26 July 2020. 71 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt.

• Video and Audio Recordings: July to September 2020
  We will record a promotional video of the choir performing a movement of Jonathan Berkahn’s Hopkin’s Gloria, and a documentary video of Jonathan discussing his compositional process and related clips about rehearsals.

We will record audio at St James Anglican Church Lower Hutt, of the entire Hopkin’s Gloria for commercial release.

In late August or September we hold a launch concert/event for the release of the audio recording.

• Early music concert – 2:30pm Saturday 1o October 2020 at St Andrews on the Terrace

• December 2020: Christmas Concert.
  

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  For more information, please contact:

• Ingrid Schoenfeld (Musical Director)
  ingrid.s@outlook.co.nz, 027 240 6669  or

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• Philip Garside (Secretary)
  bookspgpl@gmail.com, 475 8855

Our Last Concert

High Summer Holds the Earth

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Our Musical Director

We welcomed Ingrid Schoenfeld as our Musical Director in July 2019.

Ingrid Schoenfeld is a classical pianist and accomplished teacher. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Classical Performance with first-class Honours at the New Zealand School of Music.

She has learned primarily from Richard Mapp as well as Dr. Jian Liu, and has played in masterclasses for Diedre Irons, Janos Cegledy, Paul Rickard-Ford, Natalia Sheludiakova, and the New Zealand String Quartet, among others. In addition to piano, she also studied harpsichord for three years under prominent early music specialists Dr Erin Helyard and Douglas Mews.

She made her orchestral debut in 2016 with the Nelson Symphony Orchestra, playing Shostakovich’s 2nd piano concerto.

Ingrid studied conducting at the New Zealand School of Music under Kenneth Young, and has conducted and accompanied multiple choirs around Wellington, including the Northern Chorale, St. James church choir, and the St. Mary of the Angels Youth Choir.

She sang with the St. Mary of the Angels church choir for two years, was a reserve member in the New Zealand Youth Choir, and currently sings in the Wellington Cathedral Choir under Michael Stewart.

In addition to performing regularly in solo, chamber, and choral concerts, she runs a successful teaching studio.

Ingrid has many exciting, creative ideas and the choir has a bright future under her leadership.

Ingrid was Festival Singer’s Accompanist from the start of 2018 to mid-2019.

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