aUTUMN shARING eVENT
Welcome
Our Sharing Events always prove to be a wonderful day of music making, in a fantastically supportive environment, so than you for coming and supporting our participants today, it really does make all the difference.
We’re so fortunate to have welcomed operatic tenor, choral conductor and singing teacher, David Wilkinson back to Cardiff once again for our Autumn Sharing Event, which sees each participant present a small recital of repertoire they have been working in lessons and throughout the day, to an invited audience of family and friends.
We’re always excited to have David join us. With his vast experience and intricate knowledge of the voice, he is always able to offer each participant gentle advice, tailored to their voice and always delivered with a smile.
Jonathan Preminger, Tenor
Homeward Bound - Keen
Shenandoah - Althouse
The Little Horses - Copland
At The River - Copland
Alex Clarke, Baritone
Let Beauty Awake - Vaughan-Williams
Silent Noon - Vaughan-Williams
Whither Must I Wander - Vaughan-Williams
Bless This House - Brahe
Rebecca Reilly, Soprano
O del mio dolce ardor - Gluck
À Chloris - Hahn
Go, Lovely Rose - Quilter
All I Ask Of You - Lloyd-Webber
Jack Chandrinos, Baritone
O What A Beautiful Mornin’ - Rodgers
What A Wonderful World - Weiss
Go The Distance - Menken
Ruby Williams, Soprano
The Winner Takes It All - Andersson
Hushabye Mountain - Rodgers
Stephen Allen, Tenor
Pure Imagination - Bricusse, Newley
Anthem - Lloyd-Webber
Both Sides Now - Mitchell
Bring Him Home - Schönberg
Love Changes Everything - Lloyd-Webber
David Wilkinson, Visiting Tutor
For thirty years, until the pandemic, David Wilkinson actively promoted singing. Whilst still singing professionally in concerts and oratorio, he would form bands and choirs in four primary and four secondary schools, usually simultaneously. Throughout this time, he conducted and ran his local youth choir: Pendle Youth Choir - up to fifty voices.
These choirs were always non-audition, all comers' choirs, as David believes that all people can sing, but, like any skill, some people require a little extra assistance. Usually, people never receive this help, instead, having to wait until they are at a football or rugby match!
David also conducted Accrington Male Voice Choir for twenty years. All the choirs and nearly all the individuals he taught, competed in festivals and concerts, very similar to Sharing Events. The Youth Choir toured constantly to Europe and Western Canada, and performed concerts to pay for these tours. They sang in churches, streets, synagogues, Markets, The Belgium Trenches, our Twin Towns Marl and Creil, and the Cathedrals of Cologne, Eindhoven, Barcelona, St Marks, St Pauls, Montserrat, Canterbury, to name but a few.
David, helped by friends, sponsors Jimba Primary School Choir in Kenya. He went to Mombasa to hear them compete this year. David's late wife Cherry was Kenyan. Whilst in Bangkok he recently assisted with singing at his grandchildren's school. Two of his daughters teach, and five grandchildren live there in Thailand.
As a "jobbing singer" for over twenty years before this, David, after studying for an AGSM and with Ettore Campogalliani in Italy, sang chorus and many understudies and small parts at Glyndebourne. He sang in eleven operas there, five of which were filmed, and an additional ten operas with Kent Opera, plus five blockbusters Aida, Mastersinger, Dutchman, Fidelio and Götterdämmerung at English National Opera. The conductors who led these included Rattle, Haitink, Pritchard, Braithewaite, Norrington, Goodall and producers included Hall, Miller, Hytner, Hertz, Lavelli.
With smaller touring companies, such as Opera Players, he performed many of the main lyric tenor roles: Rodolpho (twenty times), Alfredo (in three productions), Jose, Ramiro, Vacek, Lensky, Ferrando and many others.
David is President of KVU Singers with whom he now sings. David is very proud of his student, Jack Bowtell, whom he taught until he attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, back in 20214, and ten other former students that he knows of, who have chosen to make a living from singing.
Jack Bowtell, Singing Teacher
Originally hailing from the Ribble Valley in Lancashire, British baritone Jack Bowtell, graduated his BMus in Vocal Performance in July 2018, from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. After progressing on to The David Seligman Opera School, under the tutelage of Donald Maxwell, Jack graduated in July 2020 with distinction in MA Advanced Operatic Performance. Jack has been privileged to work with such eminent Welsh companies such as Music Theatre Wales and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Welsh National Opera and more recently Opera Holland Park and Longborough Festival Opera. Alongside his operatic work, Jack has an established a strong teaching base in the city, and is a sought-after singing teacher offering lessons from his Cardiff studio.
Amy Bishop, Accompanist
Amy grew up in the Wirral and started to play the piano at the age of five. After moving to Cardiff to study Music at University at the age of 18, she began to take singing lessons, whilst also using her piano skills to accompany friends in recitals. As well as enjoying singing in early music ensembles, ‘glee’ choirs and chamber choirs, she somehow ended up in a production of ‘Rambo: the Opera’, written by fellow students. Nowadays, she sings in a Cardiff-based chamber choir, ‘Cantemus’, as well as playing piano in her church, and teaching piano and singing to children and teenagers. She is also studying for a Masters in Music Therapy.