SATURDAY, 2 MARCH 2024
CLOSING DATE: 31 JANUARY 2024
Redland Hall, Redmaids’ High School, Westbury Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9 3AW
CHOIR SECTION INFORMATION
DAVID HOULT
MusB(Hons), MPhil, FRNCM, FRCM, GRSM, FLCM, ARMCM
Professor David Hoult has been an adjudicator member of the Federation for over forty years. He studied at Manchester University, the Royal Northern College of Music and Lancaster University, and is a former professional singer and brass player, and regular broadcaster on BBC Radios 3 and 4. He was Principal of Leeds College of Music from 1993–2008, having previously been Head of Music at University College Salford and Director of Music at Cheadle Hulme School, Cheshire.
As a horn player, David performed with many UK orchestras, including Sadlers Wells Opera, the Hallé, and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra. From 1975 until 1990, he was a member of the BBC Northern Singers, giving countless concerts and broadcasts throughout the UK and Europe, and also in Australia, Hong Kong and South East Asia. He has performed at most of the major British festivals, including the Proms, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh and Cheltenham. As a soloist, he has sung much of the standard concert and oratorio repertoire, as well as a number of operatic baritone roles, including Figaro in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Leporello in Don Giovanni.
David is well known as an adjudicator of music festivals and competitions, appearing at UK events such as the National Festival of Music for Youth and the Granada Television National School Choirs Competition, and further afield at festivals in Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Trinidad.
MusB(Hons), MPhil, FRNCM, FRCM, GRSM, FLCM, ARMCM
Professor David Hoult has been an adjudicator member of the Federation for over forty years. He studied at Manchester University, the Royal Northern College of Music and Lancaster University, and is a former professional singer and brass player, and regular broadcaster on BBC Radios 3 and 4. He was Principal of Leeds College of Music from 1993–2008, having previously been Head of Music at University College Salford and Director of Music at Cheadle Hulme School, Cheshire.
As a horn player, David performed with many UK orchestras, including Sadlers Wells Opera, the Hallé, and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra. From 1975 until 1990, he was a member of the BBC Northern Singers, giving countless concerts and broadcasts throughout the UK and Europe, and also in Australia, Hong Kong and South East Asia. He has performed at most of the major British festivals, including the Proms, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh and Cheltenham. As a soloist, he has sung much of the standard concert and oratorio repertoire, as well as a number of operatic baritone roles, including Figaro in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Leporello in Don Giovanni.
David is well known as an adjudicator of music festivals and competitions, appearing at UK events such as the National Festival of Music for Youth and the Granada Television National School Choirs Competition, and further afield at festivals in Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Trinidad.
- Please read the Festival Rules and the following Choir Rules carefully.
- Junior Choir classes are open to performers aged 19 years and under as at 1 March of the Festival Year.
- Choir song(s) are the performing choir's own choice.
- A choir can choose to enter any class on a non-competitive basis. The fee remains the same. Please state at the beginning of the performance if you wish to perform non-competitively. You will receive adjudication for a non-competitive entry.
JANE ENGLISH
36 Copley Gardens
Lockleaze
Bristol
BS7 9YE
[t] 07752 332278
[e] choir@bristolfestival.co.uk