Topsham Music Festival - James Connolly, Baritone

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Programme

Three songs from 'Five Mystical Songs' Vaughan Williams
1. Easter
2. I got me flowers
3. Love bade me welcome

Look Through the Port - from Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten

Four Serious Songs op 121 Brahms

Hai gia vinta la causa Mozart

Biographies

James Connolly is a Baritone studying on the Postgraduate Vocal Studies course at the Royal Northern College of Music. During his tenure at the RNCM, he has been awarded First Prize in the Frederick Cox competition for singing and the Bessie Cronshaw Song cycle prize. James was also awarded the Williams Howard Honourable mention and was a finalist in the Joyce and Michael Kennedy competition for the singing of Strauss.

James is a regular solo performer on both the concert and stage platform. He has performed in concerts for RNCM songsters, London Concertante, Didsbury Coffee concerts and for the Gilbert and Sullivan society centenary weekend. James has performed the roles of Edmund Bertram in Jonathan Doves chamber opera Mansfield Park and Byermyata in Rimsky-Korsakovs The Snow Maiden. James was recently a Young Artist with the Buxton International Festival, which involved performing in the chorus of Verdis Ernani and one of the extras for Ethel Smyths The Boatswains mate.

James holds the position of Bass Lay Clerk at Manchester Cathedral, with whom he sang for the funeral of Sir Bobby Charlton. Additionally, James regularly sings for BBC Radio 3 broadcasts with the Daily Service singers and in various projects with Kantos Chamber choir.