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Tim Dickinson & James Sherlock 

 

“From Bach to Broadway” 

 

Tonight we present the voice of TIM DICKINSON, a voice that extends from Opera through to the hottest Broadway hits via the more intimate world of folk music when Tim accompanies himself at the guitar.   With award winning pianist JAMES SHERLOCK, this varied and engaging programme has something for everyone, from popular opera arias to songs from the shows and well loved folk music, and will enchant all music lovers.

JAMES SHERLOCK studied the piano and organ at Chetham's School of Music and Eton College, and later as an organ scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated from  CambridgeUniversity in 2007 and has since been pursuing further research into music and autism whilst continuing his piano studies with Joan Havill, Senior Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was a winner of 2007's BBCFameAcademy: The Next Generation as pianist and conductor, and took gold medal in the Marcello Galanti International Organ Competition in 2005. His recent CD of chamber music by David Earl on the Divine Art label won the new music "disk of the year" award in International Piano Magazine. He has performed at the festivals of Windsor , Cambridge , Ravenna , La Verna, Olomouc, on BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4, and on cruise ships around the world. He is now part of the Live Music Now scheme, the largest outreach group of its kind in the UK, set up by Yehudi Menuhin, which he combines with the post of organist at St Bartholomew the Great in  London, and musical director of the Figaro Opera Project.

TIM DICKINSON started his singing career aged 6 as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, where he spent six years. After this, he won a music scholarship to EtonCollege, where he sang with the chapel choir and began to develop his bass voice with Margaret Humphrey Clark. Tim then moved on to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he held a Choral Scholarship for two of his three years, concentrating more in his third year on Opera, Theatre and solo singing, which he studied with Ashley Stafford. Opera credits at Cambridge included Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress), Pluto (Orpheus in the Underworld) and Polifemo (Aci, Galatea e olifemo). Outside of Cambridge  he has sung Truffaldin/Lakai (Ariadne auf Naxos), Seneca (L'incoronazione di Poppea) and Sarastro (The Magic Flute). Tim has recently appeared as a soloist in Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle, Durufle's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem and Haydn's Creation. He sings regularly with Polyphony, Philharmonia Voices and other London-based ensembles and, in a very different vein, sings with the rock band, Enamel, and writes and performs solo material around  London. He is currently studying with Robert Rice.

 

February 16^th – “FROM BACH TO BROADWAY” allows us to enjoy the versatile TIM DICKINSON whose voice extends from opera through to the hottest Broadway hits via the more intimate world of folk music.  Tim accompanies himself on the guitar with award winning pianist JAMES SHERLOX in this varied and engaging programme.  

Evening sponsored by Wingham Wyatt Financial Services