An all-female choir named after the ‘Swedish Nightingale’ and benefactor of education and the arts, the Jenny Lind Singers specialise in performing and promoting works by both female and local composers, as well as championing new music. This concert includes works by Sarah Quartel, Elizabeth Poston, Hildegard of Bingen, Elgar, Holst, and many more. Also included is the world premiere of ‘Nimrod Reimagined’ by award-winning composer Liz Dilnot Johnson, commissioned by the singers for Elgar’s birthday this year.
Saturday 1st at 3:30pm
Worcester Guildhall
High Street
Worcester, WR1 2EY
Or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427.
The Jenny Lind Singers
Lynne Lindner conductor
Anwen Mai Thomas harp
Tim Sidford piano
Elgar – Fly, Singing Bird Fly
Sarah Quartel – Songbird
Alec Roth – Humdrum, From A Time To Dance
Liz Dilnot Johnson – Anagram 3 – JIGBAREDOSH
Carol Jones – All shall be well
Hildegard of Bingen – O virtus Sapientie
Catrin Finch – Pictures
Elgar – Stars of the Summer Night, arr. Donald Hunt
Elizabeth Poston – An English Song-Book
A Charm Against the Bumble Bee
Interlude for Harp
Sweet Suffolk Owl
Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands, arr. Donald Hunt
Lullaby
The Dance
Holst – Choral Hymns from Rig Veda Op. 26 No 3
- Hymn to the Dawn
- Hymn to the Waters
- III. Hymn to Vena
Liz Dilnot Johnson – Nimrod Reimagined (world premiere)
Jenny Lind Singers
During her lifetime no performer was more revered than the Swedish soprano, Jenny Lind. On retirement, Lind and her husband purchased a house in Malvern at Wynds Point and she lived there until her death in 1887. She is buried in Great Malvern Cemetery and in 2022 a memorial to Lind was erected in Rose Bank Gardens at the instigation of Peter Smith MBE.
The Singers were founded in the 1970’s at Malvern Girls’ College by the Head of Music and Elaine Hugh-Jones and re-founded in 2013 by Lynne Lindner, then Director of Music at Malvern St James Girls’ School, at the invitation of the Malvern Civic Society. They present several concerts a year, including Britten’s Ceremony of Carols at Christmas for which alumnae return to their hometown to celebrate their unique musical legacy.
They are delighted to be joined by harpist Anwen Mai Thomas and pianist Tim Sidford for this concert, which has no interval and will last approximately 1 hour
The Jenny Lind Singers
Lara Bienkowska, Becky Moore, Rebecca Fisher, Vicky Henderson, Alison Houlbrooke, Saska Ingham, Catherine Jackson, Lynne Lindner, Catherine Shepherd, Anna Taylor, Philippa Wright