A THOROUGHLY Yorkshire flavour will be brought to Ampleforth Abbey this weekend with Harrogate Festival Chorus’s annual concert.
This is the third year the Harrogate Festival Chorus have appeared in Ampleforth with past performances including Haydn’s Creation and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Audiences can look forward to a programme featuring a work by Yorkshire-based composer Andrew Carter, which was commissioned in 1993 for the 50th anniversary of Otley Choral Society.
As the work is not available as a recording, this concert offers a rare opportunity to hear it performed.
Andrew has been based in Yorkshire for most of his professional life and is well known to Lynn Hudson and Thom Meredith, the founding Principals of Harrogate Festival Chorus.
He will be supporting them and the choir during the week before the concert as they develop their interpretation of his work. Andrew will also be present at the performance.
The soloists, all also Yorkshire based, are John Dunford (tenor) and Sarah Ogden (soprano), who have sung with HFCC before, together with Quentin Brown (bass baritone) and Lucy Appleyard (mezzo soprano).
The concert takes place at Ampleforth Abbey on Saturday, at 7.30pm.
Tickets, priced £15 (£12 concessions), are available at the door or in advance from Elijah Todd Newsagents, Helmsley, Summit Bakery, Kirkbymoorside and Pickering Tourist Information Centre.
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