The Arcadia Quintet is a clarinet quintet, founded in 2009. Made up exclusively of Sidney musicians (Lydia Green, Anne Leone, Olivia Hanks, Rici Marshall and Iain Blackwell), their performance of the Mozart quintet at the Sidney Arts Festival will be their debut recital.
Ben Atkinson is Junior Organ Scholar at Sidney Sussex where he reads Music. His musical training started at the Birmingham Conservatoire Junior Department, aged 9, where he trained as a classical pianist before starting the organ. Ben studies organ with David Sangar and as well as having a passion for the organ and piano, Ben has a keen interest in Musical Direction and Conducting.
The Lady Frances Singers is a new and exciting consort group founded at Sidney Sussex in Lent 2009. Named after the College's foundress, the Lady Frances Singers comprises some of the top singers from around the University with the aim of exploring repertoire that covers the whole choral-music spectrum.
Maud Millar and James Henshaw are Choral Scholars at Clare College, where Maud is reading English and James is reading Music. Both have sat on the Clare College Music Society Committee this past academic year, James as President and Maud as Publicity Officer. They have been playing and singing together for almost two years, undertaking such joint ventures as the comic operas "Gianni Schicci" and "La Canterina", by Puccini and Haydn respectively, as well as numerous joint recitals around Cambridge.
Miri Gellert is a Choral Scholar at Sidney Sussex where she is in her final year reading Theology. Past credits include Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Domina), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rosa), Kiss Of A Spider Woman (Mother), and Hero. She also played the lead in this year's Cambridge Michaelmas Musical 'Parade' and will be performing this Summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the musical 'Baby'.
The Pfigliano 5 are an all-male Sidney-based close-harmony group which formed in 2006. Though the line-up has changed, the spirit remains the same. Their repertoire covers everything from classic barbershop numbers to Disney arrangements to quaint, mildly xenophobic music-hall songs from the 1920s.
Sidney Baroque Ensemble is part of Sidney Sussex's next generation of new and exciting ensembles. Founded by the outgoing Senior Organ Scholar, Jamal Sutton, the ensemble features Elin Gosby, Paul Kilbey, Caroline Whiting, and Anna Leone, and performs Bach, Corelli, Purcell and other music from the Baroque era.
The Violettes, formed in 2007, are an all-female close-harmony group at Sidney Sussex who specialise in jazz and classic pop song arrangements.
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