Bristol Beacon Spring Showcase Series: Online Concert Programme | 15 -17 March 2024
- Extended Concert Programme
Welcome to our Spring Showcase Series.
Please choose the concert you are attending below to read an extended programme and list of choir or ensembles members.
Bristol Beacon presents
Bristol Youth Choir Spring Showcase
Fri 15 March 2024, 7pm
This evening’s performance:
Directors: Lucy Hughes, Jenna Brown, Mircea Mutulescu and Ellie Rusbridge.
Accompanist: Sandie Middleton
Welcome
This performance feature singers from our Singing Sparks, Juniors & Intermediates, while also being Mini Singers first official concert! We’re delighted to be back at All Saints Church, in this fantastic acoustic, to showcase what our choirs have been working on this term.
Rhian Cocker,
Senior Ensembles and Choirs Coordinator, Bristol Beacon
Thank you
Thank you to all the tutors and staff who work with Bristol Youth Choir for their hard work and dedication; David Odgen, Martin Le Poidevin, Lucy Hughes, Jenna Brown, Mircea Mutulescu, Ellie Rusbridge, Sandie Middleton, Harry Creffield and Katie Axelsen.
Bristol Youth Choir will return to rehearsals after Easter.
Programme
Singing Sparks
Tue Tue – Trad. Ghana
Mini Singers
Baby Beluga – Raffi
Down By The Bay – Raffi
Shake Your Sillies Out – Raffi
Intermediate Girls
A Trio of Songs – Trad.
Hey Ho!, Ah Poor Bird, Rose
Panis Angelicus – Frank
Solo – Hattie Marlow
Junior Girls
Gaelic Blessing – Rutter
When Daisy’s Pied – Thomas Arne
Junior Boys
Lone Dog – Benjamin Britten
From A Railway Carriage – Nico Muhly
Junior Girls
She’s Like The Swallow – Trad. arr Cassils
Junior and Intermediate Girls
Early One Morning – Trad. arr Latham
Singing Sparks
Popacatapetal – Trad.
Banaha – Trad. Congo
Intermediate Girls
Five Eyes – Armstrong Gibbs
Junior Boys
If I Were a Rich Man – Harnick and Bock
from Fiddler on the Roof
Junior and Intermediate Boys
Switching it On – Watts
Eyes on the Sky – Wilson
Singing Sparks, Junior Choir & Intermediate Choir
When I Grow Up/Naughty – Tim Minchin
from Matilda
Revolting – Tim Minchin
from Matilda
Choir Members
Mini Singers
Beatrice Gormley
Charlotte Lloyd
Emma Guida
Ethan Norton
Kiana Neidinger
Lydia HU
Nathaniel Somers
Otis Watson-Walker
Sarah Li
Sarah Rojo Wei
Tamaki Boggon
Tilde Keeling
Singing Sparks
Alice Gormley
Amelie Salt
Ani Stewart
Arthur Zion Mutulescu
Asha Atkins
Ava Clarke
Bryn Keegan-Phipps
Carla Lica
Damaris Williams
Daniel Yang
Eleanor Blackman
Elodie Goodband
Emilia Gibbs
Emmie Skinner
Henry Cunningham
Isabel Crompton
Isabella Burleigh
Isla Griffiths-Oduoza
Issy Watten
James Houghton
Magdalena Belincheva-Yordanova
Martha Skinner
Nell White
Peter Harris
Rafael Yamaguti Ebner
Rocky Johnson Rubio
Sophie Blanchard
Stella Dowty
Zadie Ovink
Junior Choir
Aisha Mabrouk
Alberto Lanchester
Arianna Giovannoni
Arthur Bishop
Beatrix Talbot
Carys Weidner
Charlotte Harris
Ching Nga Ko
Chloe Chant
Clara-Rose Rimmer
Daisy Dawney
Ella Gardiner
Emilie Montgomery
Emma Li
Frances Blake
Gethin Lowe
Hui Yuet (Emma) Chin
Jake Minchin
Jess Clarke
Kaiya Dathan
Keighera-Leigh Buxton
Lilian Atkinson
Luna Castello
Olivia Cole
Oscar Clive
Peggy Laity-Gee
Phoebe Huston
Robert (Bobby) England
Rosa Stevens
Sion Dathan
Solomon Stuart
Summer Xiao
Taaryann Brobbey
Tristan Keegan-Phipps
Intermediate Choir
Anna Cunningham
Betty Mulligan
Brynmor Harris
Daniel Smith
Ella Fannin-Bonura
Eva Fletcher-Walsh
Francesca Blake
Harold Schwarz
Harriet Marlow
Isla Middleton
Nancy Ridd
Pearl McCormack
Rebekah Collins
Ridley Stewart
Saffi Lane
Sumire Chan
Bristol Beacon presents
Junior Ensembles Spring Showcase
Sun 17 March 2024, 1.30pm
This evening’s performance:
Directors: Rachel Killick and Katherine Denney
Supporting tutors in the concert today: Ian Vorley, Helen Pidoux , Helen Stevens, Sarah Williams, Joe Bradford and Tim Bowman.
Welcome
This performance will feature the young musicians in our Junior String Orchestra and Junior Wind Band. It is very fitting that these groups will be performing in our brightly lit and beautifully restored Lantern Hall, as the programme features several pieces with themes of ‘Light’ and ‘New Beginnings’, see if you can
spot them!’
Tom Campbell
Junior Ensembles Coordinator, Bristol Beacon
Thank you
Thank you to all the tutors and staff who work with our ensembles for their hard work and dedication; Rachel Killick, Katherine Denny, Ian Vorley, Helen Pidoux, Helen Stevens, Sarah Williams, Joe Bradford, Harry Creffield & Andy Cowell.
Junior Ensembles will return to rehearsals after Easter.
Programme
Junior String Orchestra
Allegretto 1st mvt. from Palladio – K. Jenkins
‘Morning’ from Peer Gynt Suite no. 1 – E. Grieg arr. Killick
Touch the Sky – A. Mandel
Junior Wind Band
Augie’s Great Municipal Band – J. Williams
March from First Suite for Military Band – G. Holst
Defying Gravity – Stephen Schwartz
Junior String Orchestra
Allegro 1st mvt. from Symphony no. 1 – W. Boyce
Junior String Orchestra & Junior Wind Band
Ashokan Farewell – Ungar arr. Cerulli
Junior Wind Band
Battle Pavan – Tielman Susato
Soul Bossa Nova – Quincy Jones
Junior String Orchestra
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses arr. Killick
Junior String Orchestra & Junior Wind Band
Braziliana – Martin
Ensemble Members
Junior String Orchestra
Violin
Ann Sun
Beatrice Davies Ferguson
Cecily Talbot
Charlotte Shi
Daisy Mellor
Eden Forrest
Elodie Hirt
Emilia Brown
Ida-Mae Dietz
Kai Dhamari
Kitan Peters
Kyra Roy
Liam Harvey
Lottie Coulthard
Maita Simmons
Naima Sloan
Samuel Harvey
Siaana Shah
Sofia Davies
Stella Broadbent
Sylvana Chapman
Thesandi (Thesi) Edirisinghe
Thomas Ford
Yanran Cui
Zhi Yu Yiu
Viola
Esther Barton
Eunice Sum Yu Ho
Harry Shu
Lydia Phull
Cello
Adela Peiris
Alexandra Lewis
Esther Biggs
Helena Steggle
Matilda Kemp
Mesandu Edirisinghe
Rosie Davies Ferguson
Sunniva Scudder
Theo Phull
Junior Wind Band
Alice Reid
Amy Owens
Clara Lucking
Dilys Hardy
Eliza Wilson
Evelyn Riley
Hoi Long Adam Wu
Imogen Upton
Kai Norton
King Fung Otus Liu
King Kai Himus Liu
Livia Sokolaki Phillips
Mollie Baker
Naomi King
Ori Sivayokan
Osian Boggon
Rachel Taylor
Roderick Garrard
Theodore Harniman
Bristol Beacon presents
Senior Ensembles Spring Showcase
Sun 17 March 2024, 7pm
This evening’s performance:
Directors: Vince Ford, Adrian Morton, Lynne McCabe, Carole Fletcher and Craig Crofton.
Welcome
This performance will feature musicians from our Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, Bridge Orchestra and Jazz Ambassadors. For Bristol Beacon’s reopening season, our ensembles will include pieces with the themes of ‘Light’ and ‘New Beginnings’, and they get to perform these in the beautiful Lantern Hall.
Rhian Campbell
Senior Ensembles Coordinator, Bristol Beacon
Thank you
Thank you to all the tutors and staff who work with our ensembles for their hard work and dedication; Craig Crofton, Lynne McCabe, Adrian Morton, Vince Ford, Cathy Stewart, Laura Wilson, Alison Welch, James Gow, Raymond Yu, Carole Fletcher, Keith Morgan, Andy Hague, Tim Bowman, Rhiannon Bedford, Katie Whitfield and Anna Richardson.
Senior Ensembles will return to rehearsals after Easter.
Programme
Bristol Beacon Bridge Orchestra
Conducted by Vince Ford
Take On Me – Ah Hah
Michael Jackson Medley for Orchestra
Bristol Beacon Concert Band
Conducted by Adrian Morton
Fanfare for the Common Man Copeland – arr Robert Longfield
Song for Hope – Micheal Sweeney
Bristol Beacon Chamber Orchestra
Directed by Lynne McCabe and Carole Fletcher
Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky – Arensky
Theme, Variation 1, Variation 4
Merry-Go-Round of Life – Joe Hisashi arr Hai Mai
Theme from Howl’s Moving Castle
INTERVAL
Bristol Beacon Jazz Ambassadors
Directed by Craig Crofton
Ham – Alfred ‘Pee Wee’ Ellis
Comin Home Baby – Ben Tucker / Ben Dorough
Sleeping Dancer Sleep On – Wayne Shorter
Walk Spirit Talk Spirit – McCoy Tyner
Bristol Beacon Chamber Orchestra
Directed by Lynne McCabe and Carole Fletcher
Suite in E minor – Burges
Ostinato, Minuet, Intermezzo, Sarabande, Bagatelles
Bristol Beacon Concert Band
Conducted by Adrian Morton
Best of The Beatles – arr John Moss
Hawaii Five-O – arr Micheal Sweeney
Bristol Beacon Bridge Orchestra
Conducted by Vince Ford
Nimrod – Edward Elgar
Saturday Night’s Alright – Elton John
Ensemble members
Bristol Beacon Jazz Ambassadors
Saxophone
Ben Robinson
Blenne Abate
Daisy Peake
Jethro Evan
Trumpet
Charlie Douglas
Gracie Rees
Trombone
Zippy Baum
Keys
Evan Gard
Bass Guitar
Chris Parker
Percussion
Ben Sayers
Corey O’Rourke
Bristol Beacon Bridge Orchestra
Violin
Ahmed Zayn Essafi
Arianna Harris
Ayansa Dharmarathna
Bahar Solhjoo
Beth Foster
Brynmor Harris
Ellie Slator
Evelyn Richards
Finley Beacon
Keira Howdle
Leighton Sun
Livia O’Keefe
Lucas Lee
Niamh Chivers
Saffi Lane
Sarah Hoviat – Doust
Sebastian Ford
Theadora Caudery
Viola Veronesi
Viola
Chloe Davies
Cello
Elena Shlimon
Gemma Davies
Leila Nadin
Sophia Davies
Flute
Alice Minns
Jocelyn Ng
Ruby Cormack
Clarinet
Alvis Wu
Ruby Defries
French Horn
Rachel Hall-Green
Trumpet/Cornet
Ace Reynolds
Joseph Tingay
Peter Burley
Sophia Miles
Thomas Owens
Trombone
Elliot Spencer
Percussion
Buck Reynolds
Zuri Ho
Bristol Beacon Concert Band
Flute
Eleanor Rose Grey
Emma Beasley-Suffolk
Robert Steggle
Sin Nga Chan
Oboe
Hebe Talbot
Clarinet
Chin-Yue (Mavis) Tsang
Trumpet
Ernest Boggon
Isabelle Rea
Tom Pugh
Wing Tung Wu
Xanthe Budden
Trombone
Sophie Van Hoeve
Percussion
Isaac Pawsey
Miro Ivanovich
Bristol Beacon Chamber Orchestra
Violin
Boaz Cheng
Eva Bourlard-Rodriguez
Evan Ridd
Freddie Liew
Isabel Nyaruwa
Jemma Wong
Joy-Ching Gabrielle Ho
Likla Mayanglambam
Lily Heath
Mairi Carver-Brown
Miranda McCarthy
Molly Blundell
Molly Cao
Moses Beckley
Rosie Pitts
Thomas Pratt-Walters
Tin Yu Yiu
Yan Shun Jonathan Cheung
Ziling Guo
Viola
Oliver Polkinghorne
Cello
Anaiya Shah
Anya Matthews
Niamh Barton
Pippa Gibbs
Sam Tozer
Oboe
Hebe Talbot
Clarinet
Chin-Yue (Mavis) Tsang
Trumpet
Ernest Boggon
Isabelle Rea
Tom Pugh
Wing Tung Wu
Xanthe Budden
Trombone
Sophie Van Hoeve
Percussion
Isaac Pawsey
Miro Ivanovich