Upcoming events:

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Monday 7th June 2010
Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall – 7.30pm

Ad Solem performs a selection of ‘Music from the New World’ with a programme of music with American connections including Michael Tippett’s 5 Negro Spirituals and Morten Lauridsen’s Ubi Caritas.

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Ad Solem will also be singing on BBC Daily Service on 28th April.



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There is a recently recorded CD of 20th Century Choral Music from the British Isles that is available to buy from the choir manager, Scott Bowley at: adsolem@mumusicsociety.co.uk

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Calum is currently in his final year of a music degree at The University of Manchester, before which he was a gap student at St. Paul’s Cathedral School. He has sung in Ad Solem for the last two years and is enjoying his first year directing the choir, which has recently included an overseas tour and a CD recording. Calum was formerly a member of the London Philharmonic Choir and a deputy with the choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently sings with the National Youth Choir of Scotland, with whom he will be performing as a bass soloist on its tour to Germany this summer. Calum formerly directed The Martin Harris Singers, which he founded in 2007. With them, he conducted performances both in Cambridge and Manchester. Calum has also been involved in taking sectional rehearsals with The University of Manchester Chorus in the lead up to their concert in the Bridgewater Hall in 2009.

Also a flautist, Calum studies with Alan Lockwood, and was a student of Sarah Newbold at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was principal flute with The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, and has also played with Camerata Scotland and NYOS Futures, chamber ensembles of the National Youth Orchestras. In 2007, Calum won the Edinburgh Festival Concerto Competition playing Malcolm Arnold’s Second Flute Concerto accompanied by the Festival Orchestra while this year he performed Hindemith’s Concerto for Winds and Harp with The University of Manchester Chamber Orchestra. Calum also conducts various orchestral performances within the university. Recent highlights have included Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano & Trumpet, Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Ecce Manus Tradentis by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with the composer in attendance.

In Manchester, Calum studies conducting with Mark Heron and choral direction with Martin Bussey. He has attended the renowned Canford conducting course, receiving tuition from George Hurst and Rodolfo Saglimbeni, and most recently participated in a masterclass with the esteemed opera conductor Richard Bonynge.

 

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