Christine began choral training and conducting as a
student and has worked with many groups, from adult education classes
and children’s groups to choral societies, college and
university choirs and chamber choirs. As well as the standard choral
repertoire. Christine has extensive experience in music theatre
repertoire – musicals, opera and operetta – and in
the performance of choral arrangements of a wide variety of
music.
Christine’s current choral conducting
activities:
Choral
arranging
Christine has made a number of
choral
arrangements for her own choirs which have
also been performed and recorded by other groups.
Choral
repertoire
Christine has conducted a wide range of choral
repertoire
from renaissance through to contemporary
music and small-scale to
symphonic forces.
Previous choral
conducting activities
Previous choral conducting activities have included:
Portsmouth University Choral Society (1993-9) Christine
conducted the choir in various large-scale concerts and carol services
in both the anglican and catholic cathedrals
in Portsmouth.
Huntingdonshire Philharmonic (1987-1993)
Christine was
assistant conductor and accompanist for the Phil; her roles
there
included conducting the choir and orchestra in a broadcast performance
of Mozart Ave Verum for ITV Highway 1992 as well as considerable
orchestral piano playing, including Britten St Nicholas and Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms.
Epping Forest FE College choir (c.1990-1993)
St Anne's Singers (mid-1980's-1993) Growing
from a
church choir, this chamber group gave many concerts of smaller-scale
choral pieces, including an orchestrally-accompanied performance of J S
Bach St John Passion.
Other conducting
experience
Previous orchestral conducting experiences include:
University of Portsmouth Orchestra and Dramatic and
Musical Society
Royal Marines’ School of Music
orchestra
Jericho Players in all Mozart concert including the
Prague Symphony
Aurelien Ensemble in Mozart including Oboe Concerto
(soloist Sylvia Harper) and Exsultate Jubilate (soloist Jenny
Haxell)
Choral performances with orchestra including JS Bach ~
St
Matthew and St John Passions; Beethoven ~ Missa Solemnis; Bernstein ~
Chichester Psalms; Blackford
~ Mirror of Perfection; Brahms ~ Requiem; Haydn ~ Nelson Mass;
Mendelssohn
~ Elijah; Mozart ~ Requiem, Kyrie in D minor, Regina Coeli
and Mass
in C minor;
Directing from the keyboard: J S Bach Magnificat and
Concerto for Oboe and Violin
(soloists Sylvia Harper and Elizabeth Porter)
Music
theatre
Some highlights
Conductor/MD for premier performance of a new
translation of Brecht/Weill ~ Happy End, New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth
1994
MD, including devising incidental music, for a new
staged version of The Old Curiosity Shop
MD for many musicals (orchestrally accompanied)
including: South Pacific, West Side Story, The Most Happy Fella, High
Society, Sweet Charity, The Wizard of Oz, Show Boat.
MD for semi-staged version of Purcell ~ Dido &
Aeneas
MD for semi-staged excerpts of
Carmen, Suor Angelica, The Magic Flute, Pirates of Penzance,
Iolanthe
