A Cambridge Timeline Choir Workshop to Celebrate Shakespeare 400:
Join composer Kerry Andrew for an afternoon of Renaissance-meets-modern vocal escapades, reinventing songs from Shakespeare’s time with an experimental 21st century twist and delving into Kerry’s imaginative and unusual singing techniques. As well as learning some beautiful vocal music, you will be creating your own musical soundscapes based on Shakespearean texts, discovering inspiring new ways to use your voice and developing your confidence, aural perception skills and creativity.
Saturday 9th July
1:30pm–5pm
The old school hall, st barnabas centre, cambridge CB1 2bd
Book Tickets
The workshop is free to Timeline Choir members and non-members are also warmly invited to attend, in exchange for a small donation towards our annual concert. Choose from a range of options (from £10) and pay what you would like to contribute. RESERVE YOUR PLACE HERE. If you prefer, you can choose to pay on the day – bring along your cheque book and pay during the session, but make sure you still reserve your place by selecting the ‘pay on the day’ option. If you have any difficulty reserving a place online, just drop us an email and we’ll save you a space. Booking is essential as space is limited.
About Kerry Andrew
Kerry Andrew is a freelance composer, performer and writer based in London. Her work has been heard on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC 6Music and Classic FM and is performed internationally. She is the winner of three British Composer Awards for a choral work and for two chamber operas. She was 2010-12’s Composer in Residence at Handel House Museum and is visiting China in 2016 with on a British Council Musicians in Residence scheme. She is a Visiting Professor at Leeds College of Music in 2015/16.
Kerry has a PhD in Composition from the University of York and choral work is published by Oxford University Press and released on several labels. She has created work for the London Sinfonietta, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall, Art on the Underground, the Tete a Tete Opera Festival, twenty-five simultaneous community performances for the Landmark Trust, and 600 young singers, orchestral players and the Animate Orchestra at the Schools Prom in 2014.
Kerry performs as alt-folk soloist You Are Wolf, sings with Juice Vocal Ensemble, plays keys and vocals with DOLLYman and jazz vocals with Metamorphic. She occasionally writes for the Guardian and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and presented a monthly podcast for Sinfini Music in 2015. She made her short story debut in BBC Radio 4’s Stories From Songwriters series in 2014 and is currently working on her first novel.
You can check out Kerry’s recent piece ‘Who We Are’ performed by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain below: