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Whitehaven Male Voice Choir's Annual Concert in Whitehaven Civic Hall
June 2012 Photo courtesy of Jan Fialkowski Annual Concert - 8th June 2013
 The Choir are delighted to announce that the guest soloist for their 2013 Annual Summer Concert will be Welsh soprano
Catrin Aur.
Catrin hails from West Wales. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Royal Academy of Music, London and most recently at the prestigious International Academy of Voice in Cardiff with Dennis O'Neill supported by the Retreats Foundation Grant. Whilst at the Royal Academy she was the recipient of the RAM English Song Prize, Sir Geraint Evans Scholarship, Elias Soprano Prize and the first Dame Shirley Bassey Vocal Award. In 2009, she won the Towyn Roberts Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, represented the UK in the final rounds of the Montreal International Singing Competition and was named MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of the Year. Other awards include the DISS Advanced Opera Scholarship. Catrin was a finalist in the BBC Welsh Singer Competition in 2010. Her operatic roles include title-role Aida, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme, title-role in Madama Butterfly, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, title role in The Merry Widow, Elisetta in Il Matrimonio Segreto, Danubia in ‘Ten Belles’. She has also understudied the role of Dew Fairy in Hansel & Gretel for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. She has an extensive oratorio repertoire including Verdi’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation and Nelson Mass, Handel’s Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Schubert’s Mass in G. Concert highlights include performances at Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva, in Kyoto, Japan for Japanese Royalty and a St David’s Day reception held at the Foreign Office, London. She recently embarked on a UK wide Strauss Gala tour and has also performed in America, Italy and Canada. She has performed numerous Lieder and Welsh song recitals and has taken part in masterclasses with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Ileana Contrubas, Sir Jonathan Miller, David Syrus, Malcolm Martineau and Roger Nichols. Engagements last season included understudy
Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and understudy Helena in
A Midsummer Night's Dream for English National Opera. This season, she sang Musetta in La Boheme
for Opera Project, Aida and High Priestess in Aida at the Royal Albert
Hall in London and gave concerts in Hong Kong with the City Chamber Orchestra Hong Kong conducted by Gareth Jones. Future
plans include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Mid Wales Opera and concerts at the Royal Albert Hall,
Cadogan Hall, London, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and St David’s Hall in Cardiff. Future Concerts
PREVIOUS ANNUAL CONCERT GUEST ARTISTS 1980 - PRESENT
1980 - CHOIR AND LOCAL GUEST ARTIST 1981 - ST BEES ORCHESTRA 1982 - FLIMBY SILVER SAXHORN BAND 1983
- WHITEHAVEN CHILDREN'S CHOIR 1984 - TYNESIDE
LADIES BARBERSHOP HARMONY CHORUS 1985 - EHENSIDE
SCHOOL BAND WITH PIANIST SAM HEYWOOD & CAROLE WILSON 1986 - JOAN RODGERS 1987 - CHRISTOPHER
UNDERWOOD 1988 - CALIFORNIA GIRLS CHOIR 1989 - JANE HARRISON 1990 - IDA-MARIA TURRI 1991 - VANESSA WILLIAMSON 1992 -
PATRICIA PICTOR 1993 - TYNESIDE LADIES BARBERSHOP
HARMONY CHORUS 1994 - CALIFORNIA GIRLS CHOIR 1995 - ANGELA PARKER 1996 - MARYETTA MIDGLEY 1997 - VERNON MIDGLEY 1998 - DONNA
BATEMAN 1999 - CHARLES NGANDWE 2000 - TYNESIDE LADIES BARBERSHOP HARMONY CHORUS 2001 - ROS EVANS 2002 - DEWI WYN 2003
- KATE WOOLVERIDGE 2004 - OWEN WEBB 2005 - JOANNE THOMAS 2006 - LOUISE INNES 2007 - KATE
WOOLVERIDGE 2008 - JO APPLEBY 2009 - THE GIBSIDE SINGERS 2010
- RHIAN LEWIS 2011 - MARGARET KEYS
2012 - GWAWR EDWARDS A Selection of Previous Choir
Guest Artists
Gwawr Edwards
 Rhian Lewis
Kate Woolveridge
Louise Innes
Donna Bateman
Maryetta Midgley
Keri Farish |
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