Wintersong
Tonight (West Side Story)
Leonard Bernstein
Some day my heart will awake (King’s Rhapsody)
Ivor Novello
Signore ascolta (Turandot)
Giacomo Puccini
The flower duet (Lakmé)
Leo Delibes
On my lips every kiss is like wine (Giuditta)
Franz Lehár
You are my heart’s delight (The Land of Smiles)
Franz Lehár
O del mio dolce ardor (Paride ed Elena)
Willibald Gluck
Some enchanted evening (South Pacific)
Richard Rogers
O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
Giacomo Puccini
Oh, why must you refuse me? (The Marriage of Figaro)
W.A. Mozart
~ INTERVAL ~
Bess, you is my woman now (Porgy and Bess)
George Gershwin
Proud of your boy (Aladdin)
Alan Menken
Losing my mind (Follies)
Stephen Sondheim
Wishing you were somehow here again (The Phantom of the Opera)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Empty chairs at empty tables (Les Misérables)
Claude-Michel Schönberg
I could have danced all night (My Fair Lady)
Frederick Loewe
The most wonderful time of the year
Edward Pola & George Wyle
O, holy night!
Adolphe Adam
White Christmas
Irving Berlin
Performers
Helen Bailey, Izzy Stoddart (soprano)
Maggie Cooper (mezzo-soprano)
Jim Clements, Theo X (baritone)
Martyn Clements (piano)
Leonard Bernstein
Some day my heart will awake (King’s Rhapsody)
Ivor Novello
Signore ascolta (Turandot)
Giacomo Puccini
The flower duet (Lakmé)
Leo Delibes
On my lips every kiss is like wine (Giuditta)
Franz Lehár
You are my heart’s delight (The Land of Smiles)
Franz Lehár
O del mio dolce ardor (Paride ed Elena)
Willibald Gluck
Some enchanted evening (South Pacific)
Richard Rogers
O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
Giacomo Puccini
Oh, why must you refuse me? (The Marriage of Figaro)
W.A. Mozart
~ INTERVAL ~
Bess, you is my woman now (Porgy and Bess)
George Gershwin
Proud of your boy (Aladdin)
Alan Menken
Losing my mind (Follies)
Stephen Sondheim
Wishing you were somehow here again (The Phantom of the Opera)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Empty chairs at empty tables (Les Misérables)
Claude-Michel Schönberg
I could have danced all night (My Fair Lady)
Frederick Loewe
The most wonderful time of the year
Edward Pola & George Wyle
O, holy night!
Adolphe Adam
White Christmas
Irving Berlin
Performers
Helen Bailey, Izzy Stoddart (soprano)
Maggie Cooper (mezzo-soprano)
Jim Clements, Theo X (baritone)
Martyn Clements (piano)
Helen Bailey was born in Middlesbrough and graduated from Liverpool JMU with a first-class degree in English Literature before training as a teacher. She then studied on postgraduate courses at Trinity Laban and later won a full scholarship to study at The Royal Academy of Music, where she completed a Masters in Vocal Studies and trained on the Royal Academy Opera course.
Performance highlights include Magda (La Rondine, Midsummer Opera), Micaëla (Carmen, Opera South East), Elizabeth I (Mary Queen of Scots, Opera Up Close), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana, Kentish Opera), Jenufa (Jenufa, Midsummer Opera), Angel/Flight Commander (Apollo’s Mission, The Music Troupe), First Lady (The Magic Flute, Bath Festival Opera), Susannah (Susannah, Hampstead Garden Opera), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito, Red Earth Opera), and Dama (Macbeth, Buxton International Festival).
Helen enjoys a busy schedule as a soloist for many choral societies and music festivals around the country. This year, she was soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with The Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society, Kentish Opera’s 70th anniversary gala concert, and the Last Night of the Bexhill Proms.
When not singing, Helen can be found running, playing the piano, or with her head in a book. She lives in Kent with her husband and their two young children. Please visit www.helenbailey.org for more information.
Jim Clements started writing and performing music at a young age; the choir of Rochester Cathedral, in which he was a chorister, premièred his first choral composition when he was just twelve years old. A decade later, he graduated from Manchester University with a first-class degree in music and decided to pursue a career of singing and composing.
Jim has since enjoyed a busy career as a consort singer and oratorio soloist, performing with many of the world’s finest vocal ensembles, including the BBC Singers, Ex Cathedra, Opera Rara, and the choirs of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. He was a member of the GRAMMY-nominated vocal ensemble Stile Antico for seven years, with which he performed extensively around the globe, including engagements at the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He has sung on numerous radio and television broadcasts and made over thirty commercial recordings.
In addition to singing, Jim is an accomplished composer and arranger whose music has been performed in venues from the Royal Albert Hall to the Sydney Opera House. He is Arranger in Residence for VOCES8, who have performed and recorded more than seventy of his arrangements over the last fifteen years. He has also written for artists including The King’s Singers, Bryn Terfel, Paul Simon, Tom Jones, Tim Minchin, Heritage Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent collaborations include a recording project with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and orchestrations for Raye's My 21st Century Blues concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Jim’s music is published by Hal Leonard and Edition Peters and recorded on Decca Classics, Signum Classics, and Universal Records.
Please visit www.jimclements.co.uk for more information.
Performance highlights include Magda (La Rondine, Midsummer Opera), Micaëla (Carmen, Opera South East), Elizabeth I (Mary Queen of Scots, Opera Up Close), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana, Kentish Opera), Jenufa (Jenufa, Midsummer Opera), Angel/Flight Commander (Apollo’s Mission, The Music Troupe), First Lady (The Magic Flute, Bath Festival Opera), Susannah (Susannah, Hampstead Garden Opera), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito, Red Earth Opera), and Dama (Macbeth, Buxton International Festival).
Helen enjoys a busy schedule as a soloist for many choral societies and music festivals around the country. This year, she was soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with The Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society, Kentish Opera’s 70th anniversary gala concert, and the Last Night of the Bexhill Proms.
When not singing, Helen can be found running, playing the piano, or with her head in a book. She lives in Kent with her husband and their two young children. Please visit www.helenbailey.org for more information.
Jim Clements started writing and performing music at a young age; the choir of Rochester Cathedral, in which he was a chorister, premièred his first choral composition when he was just twelve years old. A decade later, he graduated from Manchester University with a first-class degree in music and decided to pursue a career of singing and composing.
Jim has since enjoyed a busy career as a consort singer and oratorio soloist, performing with many of the world’s finest vocal ensembles, including the BBC Singers, Ex Cathedra, Opera Rara, and the choirs of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. He was a member of the GRAMMY-nominated vocal ensemble Stile Antico for seven years, with which he performed extensively around the globe, including engagements at the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He has sung on numerous radio and television broadcasts and made over thirty commercial recordings.
In addition to singing, Jim is an accomplished composer and arranger whose music has been performed in venues from the Royal Albert Hall to the Sydney Opera House. He is Arranger in Residence for VOCES8, who have performed and recorded more than seventy of his arrangements over the last fifteen years. He has also written for artists including The King’s Singers, Bryn Terfel, Paul Simon, Tom Jones, Tim Minchin, Heritage Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent collaborations include a recording project with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and orchestrations for Raye's My 21st Century Blues concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Jim’s music is published by Hal Leonard and Edition Peters and recorded on Decca Classics, Signum Classics, and Universal Records.
Please visit www.jimclements.co.uk for more information.