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The Star of Kings: Christmas Concert
Emily joins the Leighton Buzzard Festival Singers as a soloist for their Christmas Concert.
A Celebration of Contemporary British Choral Music for Christmas and Beyond
Join the Leighton Buzzard Festival Singers as we present a programme of beautiful British music from the last one hundred years, featuring music by Cecilia McDowall, Benjamin Britten, Lucy Walker and local composer Philip Stopford.
Programme to include:
Stopford - Festival Benedicite and The Star of Kings
McDowall - A Fancy of Folksongs
Britten - A Ceremony of Carols
Walker - In the Bleak Midwinter
Congregational carols with brass accompaniment
Venue: St Barnabus Church, Leighton Buzzard
Tickets available: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/VyPelXKsvREk
St. Saviours Lunchtime Concert
Emily Rooke and Apolline Khou perform beautiful German and French songs from the Romantic period at St Saviour’s Church, Pimlico for their lunchtime concert series.
Including music by: Strauss, R. Schumann, C. Wieck-Schumann, Brahms, Faure and Wolf.
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Bach Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Philip Stopford - 12 Days of Christmas arrangement
Berlioz – excerpts from L’enfance du Christ (The Shepherds’ Farewell and O My Soul)
Five Carols (arr. Willcocks) for Audience participation with Orchestra
Aurelian Ensemble
Conducted by Samuel Huston
Emily Rooke - Soprano
Richard Decker - Alto (countertenor)
Sebastian Blount - Tenor
Edward Price - Bass
Handel's Messiah
Come and hear Handel’s Messiah at St Mary’s Priory Church, Abergavenny.
Soloists:
Soprano - Emily Rooke
Alto - Annie George
Tenor - Matthew Bawden
Bass - Simon Pratt
Director - Tim Pratt
Academia Musica Choir and St Mary’s Priory Choir
Handel’s Cantata: Clori, Tirsi e Fileno
Join us for Apolline Khou’s Junior Fellow Showcase at the Royal College of Music for Handel’s Cantata: Clori, Tirsi e Fileno.
Clori - Emily Rooke
Tirsi - Sofia Kirwan-Baez
Fileno - Angelina Dorlin-Barlow
RCM Final Recital
Join Emily Rooke and Ella O’Neill for this recital to celebrate Emily’s time at the Royal College of Music, Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall.
V&A LOST VOICES | HANSEL AND GRETEL
Create a drawing of an opera singer in performance and be inspired by sound and movement in the glorious setting of the Medieval and Renaissance galleries. After the workshop, join us in the Creative Studio at 15:30 for a special talk where you can discover more about the process of costume design. This project is in collaboration with the London College of Fashion and the Society of British Theatre Designers for hello stranger: National Exhibition of Performance Design 2019 – 2023.
Performances will be at 11:30 and 13:30 and workshop at 15:30 in the Creative Studio, level 3.
Emily will perform the role of Dew Fairy.
RCM | GREAT EXHIBITIONISTS: WONDER
In the borderland between a dream and reality lies Wonder — an exploratory state where most artistic discoveries take place. This unique event does not have a defined structure: it's not a concert nor is it a drama. It is an artistic wonder, a dream that will only take place once and turn into a memory.
Emily will perform as soprano soloist.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | OPERA DOUBLE BILL
RCMIOS Spring Double Bill: Respighi La bella dormente nel bosco, Ravel L'enfant et les sortilèges.
Performances: 13th, 15th, 17th, 18th March 2022, 7pm
Emily will perform as part of the RCM Opera Chorus.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
To celebrate International Women’s Day, RCM students explore a programme of eminent women composers including Florence Price, Josephine Lang, Undine Smith Moore, among others.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | OPERA SCENES
Emily will perform the role of Griselda in Cinderella by Alma Deutscher as part of the Royal College of Music Opera scenes. Directed by Saffron Van Zwanenberg, and conducted by Jo Ramadan.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | OPERA SCENES
Emily will perform the roles of Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Damigella in L’incoronazione di Poppea as part of the Royal College of Music Opera scenes. Directed by Ella Marchment, and conducted by Michael Lloyd.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | MUSEUM CONCERT
Music by Handel
Cello: Rebecca Jansen
Harpsichord: Apolline Khou
WELSH NATIONAL YOUTH OPERA | CHERRY TOWN, MOSCOW
Emily will perform the role of Lucy in this production of Cherry Town, Moscow by Shostakovich with Welsh National Youth Opera. Directed by Daisy Evans, and conducted by Alice Farnham.
Performances: 3pm and 7pm, 9th October 2022.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | SHEPHERD ON THE ROCK
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock)
Clarinet: Samuel Huston
Piano: Jack Brown
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | OPERA SCENES
Emily will perform the roles of Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, and Miles in The Turn of the Screw.
Directed by Saffron Van Zwanenberg, and conducted by Gary Matthewman.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | THE FLY
More Powerful than the Sun, composed by Liz Gre. Soprano soloist.
ST JOHN PASSION | PADDINGTON ENSEMBLE
St. John Passion, Bach with Paddington EnsemblE, conducted by Edward Walters.