He is busy as a soloist, accompanist, teacher and conductor, and has been an examiner of both paperwork and playing for the Royal College of Organists, and of A-level Music for the AQA. In York his role in the school involves – in addition to teaching – responsibility for the Chamber Choir, String Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra. He has an especial interest in seventeenth-century church music and the organ’s role in it, and carried out research in the Durham Chapter Library which resulted in new editions, recordings and broadcasts, some involving the Early English Organ Project instruments (two replicas of early sixteenth-century organs), of which he has been a trustee. In Durham Keith taught Harmony, Keyboard Skills, Performance and Conducting in the University’s music department, and directed a chamber choir (Palatinate Voices) and period-instrument orchestra (Durham Baroque) with whom he performed the major Bach works (the two Passions, the B-minor Mass, the six motets, the Magnificat and many cantatas) in addition to works from over six centuries. Prior to his arrival in York, he was successively Assistant Organist at Wakefield Cathedral and Sub-Organist at Durham Cathedral, with whose choirs he recorded and broadcast dozens of times, and toured in Europe, Scandinavia, Brazil, the USA and Canada. A native of Yorkshire (he sang as a boy in Wakefield Cathedral Choir), he was educated at Edinburgh University under professors Peter Williams and Kenneth Leighton, and studied the organ at St Paul’s and Southwark cathedrals with John Scott. Keith Wright has been Director of Music at St Olave’s Church in York since 2011, and is also Assistant Director of Music and Head of Keyboard at St Peter’s School. Please contact the Director of Music for further details by emailing or by using the button below. There is a short audition, consisting of a few scales and ear-tests, along with a guided rehearsal of a straightforward piece from the choir’s repertoire. For older singers, we recommend firstly coming to a service to see and hear the choir in action, and then talking to the Director of Music over coffee after the service. Although the choir sings every week, attendance can be flexible, to allow for other commitments all we ask is that good notice is given, and an online diary system helps us all to keep track.įor junior singers (aged 7-13), we suggest coming along to a junior choir rehearsal on Tuesday after school, to see how they like it. We are always happy to welcome new members to the choir of St Olave’s. A fee is usually charged for the musicians’ time and expenses. The choir is sometimes available to sing for weddings and funerals. In the course of this they rehearse music for forthcoming services and also learn some (less churchy!) pieces. The junior members of the church choir (up to age 13) meet in the choir room after school on Tuesdays to develop their singing, and to work on general musical skills. The choir prepares for our weekly 10:30 Sung Eucharist with a rehearsal commencing at 9:30 every Sunday morning. The choir has also been joined by the orchestra for notable concert performances of Britten’s St Nicolas in 2014 and Bach’s St John Passion in 2016, as well as a hugely successful ‘come-and-sing’ performance of Handel’s Messiah for the York Residents’ Festival in 2015. The orchestra draws together players including local professionals, some of whom are members of the independent Academy of St Olave’s (directed by Alan George). An important part of the yearly cycle is a sung Requiem on Remembrance Sunday (those by Fauré, Duruflé, Mozart, Brahms and Howells have been performed in recent years), for which the choir has on occasion been joined by the Orchestra of St Olave’s Church. Highlights such as the major festivals of Christmas and Easter – and concerts – give the choir a prominent profile. Tags : sexy A.I.The core work of our church choir is to enhance the Sunday morning Sung Eucharist, which it does with a wide range of music. Remember, all Art Sexy Girl are beautiful and sexy. This Art is stylistically curated NFTs that exist on the Ethereum Blockchain. This Collection is Digital art of Woman (vedeo, Image ) with face randomly generated. Discover A collection of pictures of beautiful women that don't exist in real life.
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