"Singing in the City"

MANCHESTER YOUTH CHOIR FESTIVAL
29th, 30th June & 1st July 2012

 Perform in a Major Choral Festival

Perform in a Concert at the Royal Northern College of Music

Listen to Other Choirs in the Festival

Perform in a Massed Chorus at the Monastery with a Professional Orchestra
The Manchester Camerata

Perform with a Professional Conductor - David Lawrence

Master Classes in the RNCM Studios with leading Youth Choral Director - David Larence

Other Opportunities to perform throughout the weekend

Singing in the City is not a competition and is open to choirs of all standards

 Festival Programme

Friday Evening - choirs come together for a short performance in Albert Square followed by a "Welcome" from the Lord Mayor of Manchester (TBC). Leaders Briefing with David Lawrence.

Saturday - The opportunity exists on Saturday for each choir to book a masterclass with expert choral director, David Lawrence, at the RNCM Studios, and to give performances at venues in and around the city.  The evening concert, given in the Concert hall of Royal Northern College of Music, draws the choirs together, giving each one the opportunity to perform to the others in their own choice of repertoire.

Sunday - The Choirs move to Manchester's magnificent, architectural masterpeice, The Monastery, newly re-opened after a £6.5 million restoration, to prepare for a showcase final concert with the Manchester Camerata.  David Lawrence rehearses the choirs with the Orchestra, culminating in an afternoon concert in which participants sing as a massed choir.  David Lawrence has a special relationship with composer Bob Chilcott, hailed in The Observer as "A contemporary hero of British choral music", and has programmed two favourites for choir and orchestra in to the concert programme:-

SSA Choirs
Bob Chilcott:  "Spells"

SAB Choirs
Bob Chilcott: "Butterfly's Son

All Choirs
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Arr. Lawrence: You raise me up

With the Manchester Camerata
Guest Conductor David Lawrence

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