Lea SingersSummer Singing Festival

Lea SingersSummer Singing FestivalBenjamin Goodson Lea Singers conductor

Where local singers meet, discover and sing together

You would be amazed by the sheer number of singers in this area.

From the cathedral choirs at St Albans Abbey (where I sing every

weekend), to the choral societies, chamber choirs, Barbershop

groups, folk groups, award-winning children’s choirs, and

nowadays a whole tranche of community choirs, rock choirs and

glee clubs, group singing has never been more popular.

I’m passionate about the power singing has to bring people

together, and I’m delighted that this inaugural Singing Festival

gives me the chance to share my love of singing with you.

The Festival gives you the chance to discover more about your

voice and how to sing with others at our workshop afternoon.

You can hear the next generation of soloists – all talented,

local young singers – being coached by one of the UK’s

leading baritones. You can experience first-hand the unique

power of live performance in Marcus Farnsworth’s solo

Schubert recital, and in my own choir’s concert in celebration

of music itself. I look forward to welcoming you, your friends

and your family to one or more of our Festival events.

TICKETS

Passes Full price Friends Under-18s

Weekend Pass £40 £37 £28

(all events) Sunday Pass £25 £22 £18

(three events)

Single events Full price Friends Under-18s

Saturday Workshop £15 £13.50 £10

Sunday Lunchtime Lieder £15 £12 £10

Sunday Masterclass * £10 Free £5

Sunday Concert £15 £12 £10

* Free to Sunday Lieder bookers and Lea Singers Friends

Book by phone George Darley on 07766 238416, by email

tickets@leasingers.co.uk or online wegottickets.com

CONTACTS

General enquiries secretary@leasingers.co.uk

Choir membership chair@leasingers.co.uk

Mailing list kempcardy@btinternet.com

Rothamsted Manor House

AL5 2JQ

St Nicholas Church,

Church Green

(off Rothamsted Ave)

AL5 2TP

leasingers.co.uk

Lea Singers Registered charity no 1099155

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Discover more and get involved

Live performance To bring the whole family to

Saturday 28 June 2–6.30pm

Rothamsted Manor

Singing workshopsBenjamin Goodson

Lea Singers conductor, from Potters Bar

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange

Jazz singer and ex-Swingle Singers MD, from Wheathampstead

Joyce Moholoagae

South African singer and workshop leader, from London

Open up your singing horizons with a fun afternoon of singing

and good company at the hands of three inspiring workshop

leaders. Take part in three varied sessions exploring classical,

jazz and world music, and then end the afternoon with

everyone singing together. It’s easy, great fun – anyone can

do it – so come along and have a go!

No previous singing or sight-reading experience required.

Sunday 29 June 2014 2.30-3.30pm

Rothamsted Manor

Young Singers Masterclass Nina Vinther soprano 16, Harpenden, Lea Singers intern 2012/13

Caspar Singh tenor 18, Kings Langley Hannah Bennett mezzo-soprano 20, Luton, Lea Singers intern 2012/13 Helen Charleston mezzo-soprano 21, Harpenden

Expect hot tips on vocal technique and how to tell stories in

song, as baritone Marcus Farnsworth – winner of the 2009

Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and the

Song Prize at the 2011 Kathleen Ferrier Competition –

gives public masterclasses to four local wannabe solo singers.

Free to ticket-holders of the Lunchtime Lieder Recital.

Sunday 29 June 2014 1–2pm

Rothamsted Manor

Lunchtime LiederSchubert Die schöne Müllerin

Marcus Farnsworth baritone

James Cheung piano

‘It was the emotional intensity of the delivery that kept the audience rapt … sung by Farnsworth with heartbreakingly fragile masculinity.’Kate Molleson, The Guardian Feb 2014

Here’s a chance to hear a world-class soloist singing right

on your doorstep. Prize-winning 30-year-old British baritone

Marcus Farnsworth has already made appearances at some

of Europe’s most prestigious concert venues. For us he sings

one of Schubert’s greatest and most moving masterpieces,

the cycle of 20 songs, Die schöne Müllerin.

Young Singers Masterclass free to Lunchtime Lieder bookers

Sunday 29 June 2014 7.30–9.30pm

Rothamsted Manor

Lea Singers ConcertBenjamin Goodson conductor

A dazzling summer evening of light-hearted unaccompanied

singing from Harpenden’s local chamber choir, with a concert

celebrating the special power of music itself, from Britten to

Brahms, madrigals to pop songs. There will also be a bar and

a chance to enjoy the gorgeous gardens of the Manor.

Sunday 29 June 2014 9.30–11am

St Nicholas Church

Festival EucharistIncluding

Langlais Messe solennelle

The Lea Singers

Robert Dixon organ

Benjamin Goodson conductor

Reverend Dennis Stamps invites you to raise the roof of

St Nicholas Church. Join in the stirring hymns and experience

the uplifting music of the Anglican Eucharist service in this

special Festival celebration, in which The Lea Singers lead

the congregational singing and worship.

‘I sing like I feel …’

Ella Fitzgerald

Lea Singers nationalLea York Minster ∙ Coventry Cathedral ∙ Brandenburg Choral Festival ∙ St Martin-in-the-Fields London ∙ St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle Lea Singers localLea St Lawrence Bovingdon ∙ Harpenden Public Halls ∙ St Nicholas Harpenden ∙ St Albans Abbey ∙ Rothamsted Manor ∙ Rudolph Steiner School Kings Langley

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