The Summer Serenade Series at St Bartholomew's Church continues on Sunday, 28th June, with a recital by Wilmslow soprano Madelaine Williams.
Madelaine has been a member of the Halle Youth Choir for several years, performing at the First Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, and in Belgium and Paris. She is already well known in Wilmslow as a regular prizewinner at music festivals in Alderley Edge and Hazel Grove, and won Bowdon Young Singer of the Year earlier this year. Having studied with Anna Meadmore since the age of eight, Madelaine gained her Grade 8 singing with distinction, and will shortly give a full recital as part of her A.T.C.L. diploma.
This Sunday's recital spans a period of over three hundred years, with songs by Rameau, Schubert, Strauss, Finzi and Bernstein, and two of the virtuoso arrangements of Songs of the Auvergne. Madelaine will be accompanied by Tim Kennedy, who enjoys a successful solo singing career of his own, as a sought after tenor. He is a staff repetiteur for the School of Vocal and Opera Studies at the RNCM, playing for singing classes, assessments and recitals. He is a regular official accompanist at Alderley Edge, Bowdon, Hazel Grove and Heaton Mersey festivals, and is the rehearsal pianist for the Tatton Singers (Knutsford) and Unlimited Voices.
This will be the fourth recital in the Summer Serenade series, which are proving a great success, with the first three having raised around £750 towards the Organ Restoration Appeal.
The Summer Serenades continue every Sunday through to 26th July, all starting at 3pm and followed by afternoon tea. July recitals include many more familiar names - Manchester Grammar School's Director of Music and harpsichordist, David Francis; cellist, conductor and Director of Music at Chetham's School of Music, Stephen Threlfall; violinist and Course Director of Chamber Music at Manchester University, Louise Latham - all of whom enjoy busy recording, broadcasting and performing careers alongside their high profile work in music education.
Admission to the Summer Serenades is free, with a retiring collection for the church Organ Restoration Appeal. Click here for full details of the programme each week.
