Beethoven Coriolan Overture;
Symphony No.9 in D minor Choral
Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region
£30.00 / £20.00 / £15.00
In aid of Crisis*
Darren returns to Italy to sing Pirelli in the first Italian production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. Performances are 8th and 10th of November at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and 15th and 17th of November at the Teatro Comunale di Piacenza.
Darren begins part 2 of his training in Somatic Experiencing. Somatic Experiencing® is a body-awareness approach to trauma being taught throughout the world. It is the result of over forty years of observation, research, and hands-on development by Dr. Peter Levine. Based upon the realization that human beings have an innate ability to overcome the effects of trauma, Somatic Experiencing has touched the lives of many thousands. SE® restores self-regulation, and returns a sense of aliveness, relaxation and wholeness to traumatized individuals who have had these precious gifts taken away. Peter has applied his work to combat veterans, rape survivors, Holocaust survivors, auto accident and post surgical trauma, chronic pain sufferers, and even to infants after suffering traumatic births.
Darren hopes to use this modality to inform his work with traumatised individuals and in his work as an animateur and workshop leader, especially with regard to Circular Sounds, the transformative training programme he has devised with Joellen Lily.
Darren returns to Bosnia and Herzegovina to spend a week with Nigel Osborne at the Arts for Wellbeing summer camp.
Every year volunteers travel to various locations in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to assist at residential holiday camps, led by Professor Nigel Osborne of the University of Edinburgh, which are held for young people who have been directly affected by recent conflicts in these areas. These camps provide arts, sports and games activities for the children, with a focus on music as a means for healing. Artistic outlets like these offer young people of all ages, stages and abilities a restorative holiday, which gives them the space and time to relax, have fun and develop.
The main camp is held in a beautiful 15-acre mountain retreat that has been created and developed, over the past 10 years, through the efforts of Jean Claude Carreau. The Land of friendship and peace is a mountain retreat that specializes in recreational and therapeutic horseback riding for children who have suffered from the many post-war traumas and losses. Mr. Carreau has dedicated his energies and resources to developing the centre and welcomes our group each year, giving us a wonderful space where the children can be creative and free.
This is Darren’s fourth visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Whilst there he will be working directly with the children making music and running a training workshop for youth workers from Srebrenica to teach them skills to use in their own work.
To mark the bicentenary of Haydn’s death, LDSM (Lake District Summer Music) presents a programme of some of his greatest works under the authoritative baton of Denis McCaldin, Director of the Haydn Society.
Northern Chamber Orchestra, LDSM Festival Chorus
REPERTOIRE
Tickets £14, £17, £20.50 book online at www.ldsm.org.uk
An evening of songs inspired by Salthouse 09, a contemporary art exhibition taking place within the historic Church at Salthouse on the North Norfolk Coast. Darren and Lindy Tennent-Brown have responded to this year’s theme, Salt of the Earth and directly to many of the pieces commissioned with songs ranging from the Baroque to the West End stage. Surrounded by the art works themselves, Darren and Lindy hope that this will bring the exhibition to life in unexpected and enjoyable ways, adding the missing dimension of music to complete curator Simon Martin’s theme. We hope to see you there.
Repertoire includes: If Music Be The Food of Love – Purcell; Les Berceaux – Fauré; Moondance – Van Morrison; Finishing the Hat – Sondheim.
Artists exhibited include: Maggi Hambling, Colin Self, Ana Maria Pacheco and Marcela Trsova.
Tickets £8 – available from mid-May from Holt and Wells Tourist Information Centres, on the door on the night, or email a request to: salthouse09@googlemail.com
For more information go to http://www.northnorfolk.org/salthouseartandevents/
Darren will be returning to Ashbourne to sing the tenor solo in Karl Orff’s CARMINA BURANA with the Derbyshire Singers. The first half of the concert will include classical arias and duets by Rossini, Lehar and Puccini sung by Darren, Owen Gilhooly (baritone) and Sarah Redgewick (soprano).
Darren is appearing in two operas at the 57th Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland this October. He will be singing the role of Leshy in Rimsky-Korsakov’s SNEGUROCHKA (THE SNOW MAIDEN) and Florville in Rossini’s IL SIGNOR BRUSCHINO.
SNEGUROCHKA 16th, 19th, 22nd, 25th, 28th, 31st October – Wexford Opera House
IL SIGNOR BRUSCHINO 18th, 21st, 24th, 27th, 30th October – Dun Mhuire Theatre
For more information go to www.wexfordopera.com
November 29th
Handel’s Messiah, Lancaster University