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Welcome
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Cumbernauld Choir
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The 2010-2011
season's rehearsals will begin on Tuesday 24th August with an open evening.
Rehearsals are between 7.30pm and 9.30pm
with a short break for tea
or coffee at about 8.30pm.
To contact The Cumbernauld Choir please phone
Valerie Fleming
on 07810751916 or email vem.fleming@gmail.com
About our Choir
We have about 50 members who live mostly in Cumbernauld, but we have some who travel from Airdrie, Motherwell, Wishaw, Strathaven, Stirling, Falkirk, Kirkintilloch, Bishopbriggs, and Linlithgow. We are a choir of mixed voices, SATB, and sing a range of mainly classical music. We rehearse weekly from the end of August through to late May or early June.
We present an annual Christmas Concert, usually with some participation of the local Ravenswood School Choir and one or two professional soloists. Our other annual concert is usually in May or early June. We alternate the content of this concert between performing a major sacred work with orchestra one year and a lighter opera chorus or songs from the shows type concert the following year.
We have recently introduced a 'Sing-a-long' event with fund-raising in mind and we intend to keep this in our programme for the year. Another annual fund-raiser is our Musical Coffee Morning in March. We also raise money is by offering our group of 12 or so 'Wedding Voices' to perform and enhance the general singing at weddings.
Locally we visit Residential Homes at Christmas and raise money for the hospice movement from time to time.
About our Conductor
Susan Dingle B Mus (hons) M Mus
We are fortunate to have such a highly qualified conductor. Susan was brought
up in Edinburgh, leaving there for Sheffield to complete her first degree B Mus
(hons) in French horn. She then completed a post graduate qualification in
administration at Napier University, followed by seven years arts
administration with Edinburgh Festival, Scottish Opera and Welsh Opera.
Deciding that conducting was her thing she set off for The State Conservatory
of St Petersburg for two and half years followed by a year at RSAMD in Glasgow.
Along the way, Susan has won The Hugh S. Roberton Prize 1998 for conducting
plus the 1997/8 Post Office Young Conductors Award. She has worked with The
Leicester Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Opera on a Shoestring, Paragon,
Lontano and the Kelvin Ensemble. Susie is Principle Conductor of Highland
Region Youth Orchestra and Principle Conductor of The Kentigern Ensemble.
Her experience of studying in Russia allows her to teach the language and has
led to her being Principal Russian Language coach for the Scottish Opera
production of The Queen of Spades. For up to date information see Susan's own
website
www.geocities.com/susiedirizhor
About our Accompanist
Susanna Wapshott
Susie graduated from Manchester University in 2003. Prior to this she won Shropshire's 'Young Musician of the Year 2001', performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in Boston, performed Grieg's Piano Concerto for a radio broadcast and took part in Manchester's International Piano Festival 2003. Since graduating, Susie has worked in Honduras, acquired an masters degree in Piano Accompaniment with Distinction at the Royal Northern College and since coming to RSAMD, has taken part in many courses, and won several prizes. She is presently working with Scottish Opera and has plans for future events in Scotland and Glasgow in particular.
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