Dates for your diary...
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Opera Spectacular, Tuesday 18th May, 1pm, Morley College, London
Saffron Walden Arts Festival, 14th June 2010
PAST HIGHLIGHTS
Association of English Speakers and Singers, Armstrong Gibbs Concert, Sunday 7th February, Ongar, Essex.
Handel's Saul, Saturday 14th November 6pm, St Peters Church, Belsize Park, London
The Bartered Bride, 16th - 19th December, 7.30pm Morley College
Morley Opera Scenes, Bridewell Theatre, London. Performances July 1st - 4th at 7.30pm (Saturday Matinee 2.30pm)
Debden Music Club, Recital, Debden Church, Nr Saffron Walden. 11th July 7.30pm (donations to SNAP charity)
Saffron Walden Arts Festival, 13th June at 3.30pm
Sing UK and Beds Music, Conducting Celebration concerts, 10th - 17th June
Soprano Soloist, Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Saturday 30th May
Morley Opera Scenes, Threepenny Opera, La Rondine, March 24th - 27th
English National Opera Baylis, Hansel and Gretal, January/February
2008
Soprano Soloist, Purcell - Fairy Queen, Saturday 26th April, University College, London.
Vocal Animateur, Little Red Riding Hoody, Brady Arts Centre, Spittalfields, London
Wedding Fayre, Sunday 20th April, Parklands, Quendon, Essex.
Soprano Soloist, Haydn - Seasons: Saturday 19th April, Maldon Choral Society, Maldon, Essex
Recitalist: Friday 29th February, The Knack Singers, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London.
Vocal Animateur: Spittalfields Education project, Phoenix Special School, London
Music Director: Youth CREATE, Peter Pan Pantomime, Harlow
2007
Producer: The Freedom Code, Youth CREATE, Sawbridgeworth. A
frican Drumming Workshop, Sawbridgeworth.
Soprano Soloist Vivldi Gloria, Linton Church
Solo MPhil Final Recital: 'A Bit of What you Fancy', Drama Studioi, Sheffield University
Solo Recital: 'Spring Songs', St Botolph's Church, Hadstock, Saffron Walden
Outreach Worker: 'Slavery, what's it all about?', Takeley Christian School, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford
Assistant Conductor: (outreach worker for Royal College of Music) Enfield International Children's Choir, Enfield, London
Vocal Animateur: Gough, 'We Turned on the Light', BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London
Wedding Soloist: Elizabethan Church of St Michael the Archangel, Woodham Walter, Maldon, Essex.
'Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your singing was so beautiful. So many guests have commented on your performance and many were moved to tears.'
Opera Soloist: Knotts, Purcell - His Ground, Clore Studio, Covent Garden (see picture left)
Soprano Soloist: Handel, Messiah, Enfield, London
2005
Double Prize Winner: David Clover Competition, Sheffield.
Wedding Soloist: St Mary's and All Saints Church, Debden, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex
'You knocked everyone in the church sideways with such a fantasric rendition of our song.'
Recitalist: 'English Song and More', Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield
Director and Concert Soloist: 'Spring', Sheffield Music Festival, Sheffield
Hansel: Humperdinck, 'Hansel and Gretal', Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield
2003/4
Soprano Soloist: Pergolesi, 'Stabat Mater', Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield
Adonis: Calderon, 'Purpura de la rosa', Sheffield University. UK, Ireland and Teneriffe tour (see picture)
'Penelope Manser....produced a marvellous, highly competent singing performance of considerable energy and diversity'
(Galway Advertiser)