Dear All
Please arrive on time tomorrow (19:45 latest) to help set up so we are all ready to go when Ed Bonner arrives. He will need to start right on 20:00. Bring your Brahms scores!
Once both auditions are completed and candidates departed, we will have chance to discuss what we think about each of them and the committee can field any questions you might have about their background and experience.
Following the discussion we will vote on our preferred candidate.
We repeat this pattern on 17/6 then hold an additional vote to chose between the favoured candidates from each night.
Hope all of that is clear. More information on tomorrow’s candidates may be found below.
Ed Bonner (20:00)
Some of you may remember Ed from when he deputised for Penny at one of our rehearsals before Christmas. He is the Musical Director of Surrey Heath Singers; professional choral singer, working with English National Opera and Philharmonia Chorus amongst others; church musician for several London churches including St Martin-in-the-Fields and teacher of singing and piano.
Kieran Morris (20:50)
Kieran got in touch with SGC when he heard Ben had died to offer his help in case we needed it – he knew Ben from his time at the National Youth Choir. Kieran is associate conductor of New London Chamber Choir; Conductor and Director of Sing Healthy Choirs in Berkshire and public speaking voice coach with Join the Dialogue.
Auditions 10th & 17th June:
We will be holding two audition evenings running at approximately the same time as our usual rehearsals. The format will be similar to when we did this last time. The time table for each evening is set out below. More details on each of the candidates will follow later.
Both audition evenings:
19:45 PROMPT arrival so everything can be set up and ready to go by 20:00
20:00 -20:40 first audition
20:40-20:50 break
20:50-21:30 second audition
21:30 discussion and vote
Tuesday 10th June:
Ed Bonner
Kieran Morris
1 vote to pick preferred candidate from this evening
Tuesday 17th June:
Neavan Lobban
Paul Jeanes
2 votes – 1st to pick preferred candidate from this evening, 2nd to pick between the two preferred candidates
The audition will consist of:
1.Warm up
2.Candidate teaches/directs us singing their choice of piece
3.Candidate directs us singing Movement IV from Brahms Requiem