The 2010 Cumbria Rural Choirs Concert -
60th Anniversary Concert

 will be on Saturday 13th March 2010, 7.30 pm at The Sands Centre, Carlisle.

Programme

Ian Hare - A Cumbria Canticle

David Fanshawe - African Sanctus

David Fanshawe - Dona Nobis Pacem

conducted by Nigel Perrin  with Backbeat and choristers from Carlisle Cathedral, and

Soloist:  Lesley Jane Rogers

Nigel Perrin

Nigel Perrin initially went to work for the Church Army after leaving The King's Singers in an effort to promote and encourage music in churches around the country. However, after two years, he felt that he would prefer to return to the world of professional music and so set out on a freelance career. He has made two solo recordings with lutenist David Parsons; established his own chamber choir, Bath Camerata; taken over as Musical Director of the City of Bath Bach Choir and the Chamber Choir of the Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he is also on the teaching staff and is Head of Singing at Marlborough College. As an adjudicator for the National Federation of Music Festivals, Nigel travels all around the country and somehow manages to fit in the odd singing engagement, particularly his one-man show "The Secret Diary of a Counter-tenor!" Any spare time he has left is more than taken up with private singing pupils, choral workshops, judging national and international choral competitions and, occasionally, seeing his family!