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St Michael’s Church
Mickleham
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Sunday 11th March at 7.30pm
With Guest Conductor Piers Maxim
family ticket £33,
season ticket £33,
available on the door,
or from Elizabeth Dobson
Tel. 01306 881 479
emddh7@hotmail.com
The Concert
A concert of choral, vocal and organ music, celebrating the similarities, differences and influences from across the pond. Copland and Barber are, alongside Gershwin and Bernstein, the best-known american composers of the 20th Century. Their music shows European influences while still being undeniably American in flavour. From this side of the pond, we present an elegiac work by Herbert Howells, mourning the death of John F Kennedy. In his turn, the contemporary British composer John Rutter wrote ‘Hymn to the Creator of Light’, to celebrate the music of Howells.
Piers Maxim
Piers Maxim is a former boy chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Having received his degree in Music at Cambridge University he continued his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
He has worked regularly in the opera houses and theatres of Europe, including Staatsoper Berlin, La Monnaie Brussels, Le Théâtre des Champs Elysées Paris, and the Netherlands Nationale Reisopera, with whom he conducted Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck), and performances of Così fan Tutte (Mozart) and Orfeo ed Euridice (Haydn).
As conductor of several choirs and choruses in England, Piers Maxim has conducted most of the choral and choral-symphonic repertoire, including Messiah and Saul (Handel), Mass in B minor (Bach), Mass in C minor (Mozart), Elijah (Mendelssohn), The Dream of Gerontius (Elgar), Sea Symphony (Vaughan Williams), Carmina Burana (Orff), A Child of our Time (Tippett)…