Final soloist line-up for Fringe 2011 confirmed
It is with great pleasure that we announce our full line-up of soloists for the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival concert on Saturday 27th August, which includes at least one familiar face for Edinburgh audiences, and two up-and-coming young singers who are already gaining fine reputations.
Soprano Wilma MacDougall has performed several times with Cadenza, most recently at our 2009 Fringe concert, when she thrilled our capacity audience in Mozart’s “Great” Mass in C minor and Mendelssoh’s “O for the Wings of a Dove”. We are delighted to welcome her back.
Dundee-born Colette Ruddy will undertake the mezzo soprano and alto solos in our programme. This is her only her second appearance with Cadenza, but her extensive oratorio, recital and concert work has taken her to all the major concert halls in Britain and Ireland, performing as soloist with all the major orchestras, choral societies and choirs, as well as touring overseas.
Tenor Andrew Nunn is a relative newcomer, currently a postgraduate student on a full scholarship at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he studies singing with Gordon Wilson. Andrew has extensive orchestral experience, but he says that choral music has been a large part of his life and a major passion. An alumnus of the National Youth Choir of Scotland and a member of the RSAMD Chamber Choir, he is now building his career as a tenor soloist.
Bass Jon Stainsby was a choral exhibitioner at Cambridge University and is now also a postgraduate student at the RSAMD, where he will progress to the Opera course next year. He is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, has sung with the Dunedin Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Please join us on Saturday 27th August to hear this exciting quartet of soloists. Tickets will be available soon, but can be pre-ordered immediately by contacting our Concert Manager via the webform or tel: 0131 337 5914.
Posted: Sunday 29 May 2011 at 8:02 pm