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NORTHERN SPIRIT CELEBRATE TEN FANTASTIC YEARS!

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The Choir celebrated the end of their 10th Birthday Year with a fantastic concert in Elvet Methodist Church, the venue for their first concert back in June 2001. Members of the current choir were joined by former members from the last 10 years, to perform choir favourites including Contre Qui Rose by Lauridsen, The Battle of Jericho and of course their competition winning Bogoroditsye Dyevo. They opened the concert in style with the hugely challenging “Spem In Alium”- Tallis’ famous 40 part motet, and after only a couple of hours rehearsal gave a truly spirited performance accompanied by the talented Matt Howes at the organ.  After an emotional encore of Billy Joel’s “And So It Goes”  founder and conductor Andy King thanked the audience in a packed out church for their continuing support, as well all of the members past and present for their commitment and dedication, expressing delight that so many close friendships have formed over the years. A fantastic night, and plans for the 15th Birthday are already underway!

  

IN OTHER NEWS- NSS TRIUMPH IN ITALY!

 Northern Spirit Singers can proudly call themselves an “international prize-winning choir” after their sucess in the “Venezia in Musica” choral competition in Venice and Lido de Jeslo over the May bank holiday weekend. While the rest of the country were watching the royal wedding, 25 current and former members of the choir took in 2 catagories and performed in a concert in one of Venices beautiful churches. On the final night they were invited to perform at the Grand Final, and took home 1st prize for “Mixed Choir Open Program” and reached second place in the sacred category. And to finish off they were given a special award for their outstanding performance of Rachmaninovs “Bogoroditsye Dyevo” As well as all the singing the singers had plenty of time to soak up the sun, sample the local cuisine, and see the sights, as well as meet a huge number of fantastic singers around the world. A hugely sucessful weekend was had, and what a way to celebrate a 10th Birthday!

Click HERE to read about the triumph on the Interkultur Website!

Click HERE to see our prize winning performance of “The Battle of Jericho” on You Tube