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| Society Name |
English Arts Chorale M & F Association |
| Contact Name |
Miss Rosemary Scott |
| Society Type |
Choir |
| Society Website |
www.englisharts.org.uk |
| Contact Email |
rosemary.scott@watsonwyatt.com |
| Contact Telephone |
01737 274344 |
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| Society Notes |
| The English Arts Chorale is an ambitious, auditioned choir of some 70 members based in Reigate, Surrey.
Founded by its conductor, Leslie Olive, in 1980, the EAC has broadcast for BBC radio, sung at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican, and worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under conductors including Klaus Tennstedt and Sir Roger Norrington. Its soloists have included a galaxy of highly-regarded names including Sir Willard White, Susan Gritton, Sheila Armstrong, and Ian Bostridge.
It has also sung Messiah in a muddy field (at the Greenbelt Festival), Carmina Burana in a public park (at Reigate Summer Music Festival), and all three Elgar oratorios (The Apostles, The Kingdom, and The Dream of Gerontius) in the same week. It has sung Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim's Progress in Dorking and A Sea Symphony at Snape Maltings and The Dream of Gerontius in the spectacular Smetana Hall in Prague. It has been coached by Brian Kay, Jeremy Jackman and Robert Dean.
It has raised thousands of pounds for charity, and ran one of the first community-based choral training programmes for adult beginners, "Inroads", introducing hundreds to choral singing.
The English Arts Chorale routinely performs at least one major work per season entirely from memory, creating performances of immense energy and focus. In October 2008 autumn, the Chorale will begin a series of recordings, starting with Brahms' original two-piano version of Ein Deutsches Requiem. On 2 November, it will be appearing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Hawth Theatre in Crawley in a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
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