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SPRING CONCERT 2025
Carmina Burana, Carl Orff
The Armed Man, Karl Jenkins
March 29, 2025 at 7:30pm
(Doors open at 6:45pm)
Landmark Arts Centre
Ferry Road
Teddington TW11 9NN
Teddington Choral Society and its Musical Director, Julian Collings, are delighted to announce their spring concert which will feature the well known pieces Carmina Burana by Carl Orff and The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins.
Featuring (see below for more details):
- Soprano, Eleanor Pennell-Briggs
- Tenor, Joseph Doody
- Baritone, Mark Nathan
- Piano, Peter Jaekel and Phil Culling
- Percussion Ensemble
Carmina Burana was originally a manuscript of 254 poems and songs (from 11th and 12th centuries) written in Latin by Goliards, mostly student clergy, whose intent was to satirise the Catholic Church. The collection of poems which was found in 1803 in Bavaria has been considered until now as one of the most important collection of Goliard and vagabond songs.
In 1936 Carl Orff set 24 of the poems to music. His composition very quickly became popular and has since been performed on many occasions by many ensembles.
Karl Jenkins composed The Armed Man in 1999. The work was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, to mark the museum's move from London to Leeds. The piece uses Latin, English, French and Arabic languages.
Tickets: £15 (under 16s free).
- Landmark website: www.landmarkartscentre.org
- Landmark Box Office: 020 8977 7558
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Eleanor Pennell-Briggs, Soprano
Soprano Eleanor Pennell-Briggs trained as an oboist at the Royal College of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Music, and then as a singer at Trinity Laban, with Dennis O’Neill at the Wales International Academy of Voice and at English National Opera as an OperaWorks artist.
Notable concert performances include the Villa-Lobos ‘Bachianas Brasileiras No.5’ at Cadogan Hall, Handel’s ‘Messiah’ at St John’s Smith Square, ‘The Ultimate Opera Gala’ with Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Paul Carr’s ‘Requiem for an Angel’ with the Orchestre de Opera de Toulon, and Mahler's '8th Symphony' with both the Orchestre National de Lille and the Cheltenham Music Festival. In the operatic field, Eleanor has worked as principal or cover with companies such as the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Garibaldi (Sicily), Orchestre National de Lille, English Touring Opera, Philharmonie Luxembourg, and has also workshopped new compositions with English National Opera.
The 2024-25 season sees Eleanor join the Royal Opera chorus as a full-time member, where she will also cover the role of Barena in Janacek’s ‘Jenufa’. This season includes performances of Strauss’ ‘Four Last Songs’ with the Peregrine Orchestra, Richard Blackford’s modern oratorio ‘Babel’ with Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, and the Brahms ‘Requiem’ at Royal Festival Hall.
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Joseph Doody, Tenor
Bradford-born tenor Joseph Doody made debuts this year at Salzburger Landestheater as Aufidio in Mozart’s Lucio Silla, and at the Wigmore Hall as Mordecai in Handel’s Esther with Solomon’s Knot. Other recent roles include Alessandro Il Re Pastore (Mozart) at Buxton International Festival, Mosquito The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček) with Welsh National Opera, Toby Robinson Crusoe (Offenbach) at West Green House, and a critically acclaimed Don Ramiro La Cenerentola with English Touring Opera. He features as Captain Trevor on the first complete recording of Stanford’s Shamus O’Brien, with the orchestra of Scottish Opera conducted by David Parry, and played Peter Pears in Jonathan Ainscough’s play A Letter from Ben at the Royal Opera House’s Clore Studios.
A graduate of Edinburgh University, the Royal College of Music, and the National Opera Studio, Joseph has sung Bach’s Johannes-Passion with both the Hanover Band and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Britten’s Serenade and Les Illuminations with Skipton Camerata, Monteverdi’s Vespers with the Dunedin Consort, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Southbank Sinfonia, and Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes with the Royal Choral Society.
Upcoming projects include the Johannes-Passion Evangelist at Southwark Cathedral, Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Longborough Festival Opera, and Ramiro La Cenerentola for Opéra de Québec.
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Mark Nathan, Baritone
Mark Nathan is a Surrey-born baritone. Recent performances include Schaunard LA BOHÉME and Maximillian CANDIDE for Welsh National Opera, Giuseppe THE GONDOLIERS and Mr Goldbury UTOPIA LTD for Scottish Opera, Hunter RUSALKA and Guglielmo (OperaFirst) COSI FAN TUTTE for Garsington Opera, as well as Wagner FAUST for Irish National Opera and Dancairo CARMEN for Waterperry Opera. He has also recently worked with English Touring Opera and West Green House Opera. He was a 2019-2020 Scottish Opera Emerging Artist.
Previous operatic roles include title-role DON GIOVANNI and Marcello LA BOHÈME with Opera Loki; Joseph de Rocher (cover) DEAD MAN WALKING WITH Welsh National and Israeli National Opera; Papageno DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE with Hampstead Garden Opera; Rabotnik THE FIERY ANGEL with Scottish Opera; Le Directeur LES MAMELLES DE TIRÉSIAS and Death SAVITRI at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; Dr Falke DIE FLEDERMAUS, Wagner FAUST and Counsel TRIAL BY JURY all with Winterbourne Opera; Morales CARMEN with Riverside Opera; Title role SWEENEY TODD, Dr Pangloss CANDIDE with London Musical Theatre Orchestra; Sir Joseph Porter HMS PINAFORE at the Harwich Festival; Koko THE MIKADO with Co-Opera
Mark studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Opera School with Scott Johnson, having graduated from the Royal College of Music. Earlier he completed a Music degree at Birmingham University.
When not singing, he can mostly be found writing musical theatre lyrics and children’s poetry.
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Peter Jaekel, piano
Peter Jaekel studied at the Royal Academy of Music where his tutors included John Scott (organ) and Geoffrey Pratley and David Willison (piano accompaniment). For seven years he was chapel organist at Bradfield College, Berkshire, since when he has been a freelance organist and piano accompanist. In 2007 he was appointed accompanist to Crouch End Festival Chorus and he regularly deputises for the London Symphony Chorus and London Philharmonic Choir. He has worked with some of the world’s finest conductors including Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, Michael Tilson Thomas and Edward Gardner. He has held appointments as organist at Tiffin School and St Paul’s Knightsbridge. Away from classical music Peter has performed as pianist with the Ben Sanders Scottish Country Dance Band throughout Britain and abroad.
Peter is in huge demand as a piano accompanist. He is also much sought after as a vocal coach for contemporary music; repertoire includes operas by Jonathan Dove, Stephen McNeff and Tansy Davies. He has been principal repetiteur for Eastern Opera and has also worked for European Chamber Opera.
He has given performances of Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass and Arvo Part’s Credo with Crouch End, Handel Organ Concerti and Saint-Saens’ Organ Symphony, and he has appeared at the Swaledale, Ryedale, Brighton and Deal festivals. His work has taken him to France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Norway, the Baltic States, Hong Kong and New York. Recent performances have included the piano part in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with Crouch End at the Barbican and Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year with the Arcubus Ensemble.
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SUMMER CONCERT 2025
Earth, Wind and Choir
July 5, 2025 at the Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington
7:30pm
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CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2025
December 6, 2025 at the Landmark Arst Centre, Teddington