FOUR aspiring conductors and an up-and-coming opera singer will be showcasing their burgeoning talent at a major orchestral concert in North Wales.
The Classical Masterpieces concert at St Asaph Cathedral at 7.30pm on June 10 is being organised by the Wrexham-based NEW Sinfonia Orchestra.
The performance is being put on in partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester as part of the orchestra's commitment to developing the next generation of star musicians and conductors.
The professional orchestra, led by Robert Guy, will be joined on stage by Leon Frantzen, Ann Miller, Philip Trudgeon and Xinjie Yang, four of the Manchester college's promising Master's Student Conductors in a concert that features the music of Mozart, Schubert, Debussy and Mahler.
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The soloist will be mezzo soprano Morgana Warren-Jones, who hails from Bangor, Gwynedd.
NEW Sinfonia was founded a decade ago by brothers Robert and Jonathan Guy, who hail from Wrexham and are both former students at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Robert Guy said: "They have been really supportive of the orchestra and our links have expanded significantly.
“They need orchestral opportunities for their current students so this concert will give their student conductors an opportunity to work with a professional orchestra and we get the opportunity to do that in North Wales.
"The conducting programme at the Royal Northern is amazing, it's really world renowned and it's great we get to link-up with their students.
“And with Morgana as soloist there is a stronger link with North Wales."
Morgana Warren-Jones will be performing Gustav Mahler's brooding Rückert-Lieder.
She is currently studying for a Master of Music at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Hilary Summers.
She previously read Music at the University of Leeds and spent a year studying voice at the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg.
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Last year Morgana performed the title role in Menotti’s The Medium at the RNCM and was a finalist in the Morriston Orpheus Choir Supporters' Association (MOCSA) Young Welsh Singer of the Year competition.
She finishes her course this summer and already has a full diary for the next few months.
Morgana added: "I have worked with Welsh National Opera running their youth and community events before I started my master’s course at the Royal Northern and I hope to be an opera singer and concert singer.”
The concert takes place at St Asaph Cathedral on June 10, with tickets available online at /www.newsinfonia.org.uk/event-details/classical-masterpieces, on the door or by calling Robert Guy on 07725 050510.
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