Soloists
in the December concert

Saturday 3 December 2005  at 7.30 pm  in St John's Church, Preston village, Brighton

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Sally Harrison  (soprano)

Sally Harrison trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and at the National Opera Studio. She is currently studying with Gerald Martin Moore. For English National Opera her roles have included Giannetta in The Elixir of Love, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Pamina in The Magic Flute, and the Flowermaiden in Parsifal. She has sung the tragic role of Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, the earthy Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera and coquettish Musetta in Puccini's La boheme. She is currently singing the part of Carlotta in the long-running production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre, London. Her recordings include Mercédes in Bizet's Carmen for Chandos.

Concert engagements have included St John Passion at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Messiah with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Mozart Mass in C Minor at the Harrogate Festival and Carmina Burana at the Hallé Proms. This year's concert engagements have included Friday Night is Music Night for BBC Radio 2, singing in Elgar's The Kingdom for Folkestone Choral Society, and on 12 November she was in Brighton to sing Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra.

Sally also shines in contemporary music She has sung Boulez's Improvisations sur Mallarmé with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has specialised in the music of Hans Werner Henze - reviewing a performance of Being Beauteous with the English Chamber Orchestra, The Times wrote "...her sheer purity of tone and accuracy of pitch were spellbinding."

 Sally Harrison

Adrian Powter

Adrian Powter  (baritone)

Born in Cambridge, Adrian Powter studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. On graduating, Adrian started his career in opera. He joined Glyndeboume Festival Opera where he sang the Naval Captain in Manon Lescaut. In 2000 he created the role of Philip in Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin. Other roles have included The Abbot in Benjamin Britten's Curlew River, in a production taken by the Aldeburgh Foundation to Japan. He has taken a wide variety of other parts for companies including Opera Restor'd, Surrey Opera and the London Opera Players, and by contrast played in Gilbert & Sullivan roles in The Gondoliers and The Mikado for Carl Rosa Opera.

In concert, Adrian Powter has sung throughout the UK and abroad in several European countries and in Singapore, singing with the Academy of Music, the Darmstadt Hofkapelle, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment among others. He has been on tour with the Rambert Dance Company singing Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - a review of this performance described how Adrian's "deep melodious tones conjured up the sombre atmosphere of a young man's failure to find happiness in his search for love and his subsequent acceptance of his fate."

Recent engagements have included Cosi fan tutte for Stowe Opera, the Brahms Requiem for Kilkenny Choral Society, two of Elgar's oratorios - The Apostles for the Chichester Festivities and The Kingdom in Ripon Cathedral, and in Arundel Cathedral William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast.

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