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Accompanist - Barbara Manning
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Barbara Manning studied with Phyllis Sellick at the
Royal College of Music, winning the Borwick Prize and gaining ARCM and
LRAM performer’s and teacher’s diplomas for piano and violin.
She has given numerous recitals in London and the Home Counties,
including Hertford’s ‘Soundbites’ series, St Albans and Hoddesdon Music
Clubs, Cuffley Concert Club and Stapleford Church, and she has
performed many popular concertos with the Maltings Sinfonia of Ware and
Dulwich Symphony Orchestra.
She also enjoys performing with choirs and opera companies; her longest
association has been with Ware Choral Society, whose accompanist she
has been since 1974.
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She has accompanied Ware Operatic
Society since 1987, and has performed with the Camden, Carillon and QC
Chamber Choirs, Welwyn Garden Music Society, Figaro Opera and Opera
Moriarty. Her repertoire includes Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia, Constant
Lambert’s Rio Grande, David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus, Brahms’s
Liebeslieder Waltzes and Britten’s St Nicholas Cantata. She
has accompanied the award winning Lea Valley WI Singers at St John’s,
Smith Square, St Martin’s in the Fields and the Royal Albert Hall, and
appeared with them at the Round House in a Channel 4 documentary
directed by Sophie Fiennes, entitled ‘Because I Sing’.
Barbara has enjoyed accompanying Crispian Steele-Perkins in several
concerts in the Hertfordshire area, and has played for Julian
Williamson’s Choral Weekends at Benslow Music Trust since 1997. She is
also well known as a soloist and in bands for her Scottish dance
playing with her violin which has taken her to USA, France, Germany,
Luxembourg, Ukraine and Russia, as well as to Halsway Manor, the centre
for folk music and dance in Somerset, and the Summer School of the
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society at St Andrews.
Barbara’s most recent project has been to collaborate with the composer
John McLain and the tenor Gordon Pullin on a CD of light music |
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