International interest in Thame Chamber Choir’s Contest

THAME Chamber Choir’s 20th anniversary Choral Composition Competition has attracted more than 60 entries from as far afield as the USA, Canada and Australia.

Judges Bob Chilcott, James Burton, Duncan Aspden and Anna Markland now have the difficult task of picking a winner, whose piece, a setting of a poem by former Thame resident W.B. Yeats, will be given its world première at the choir’s concert in St Mary’s Church on Saturday, October 19, as part of the 2019, Thame Arts and Literature Festival.

This concert, Poetry in Motion, which marks the start of the choir’s 2019-2020 season, will be followed by its ever-popular Christmas concerts on December 21, in which it will be joined, not only by Thame Children’s Choir, TCC2, but also by local schoolchildren in the culmination of a project supported by a grant from the Midcounties Co-operative Community Fund.

Next March there will be a concert of music written in honour of St Mary – to be given in St Mary’s Church – and in June the choir returns to Exeter College, Oxford for a concert in celebration of flowers.

In the meantime, Thame awaits a puff of white smoke to indicate that the judges have selected their winner!

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SOURCE: Contributed