Concert by Future Talent plus Emily Barden and Petworth Voices
15 June 2024
19.00 to 21.30
A concert of two halves. First, we’ll hear from some of the gifted young musicians that the Future Talent charity is helping to flourish. Then after the interval, local a cappella Choral group Petworth Voices – led by Emily Barden interspersed with songs performed by Emily Barden, who will have led the afternoon’s choral workshop in the Empire Hall .
Drinks and snacks will be available from 6.00pm.
A donation to St Giles Church will be welcomed.
Future Talent: Founded in 2004 by The Duchess of Kent and Nicholas Robinson, Future Talent aims to enable gifted young musicians from low-income backgrounds across the UK to flourish, offering programmes that provide unique opportunities for growing musicians to build confidence, develop personal skills, and enhance their musical experience.
It has two programmes, one focussing on teenagers and the other supporting younger musicians at an earlier stage of their musical development. A group of its leading students will open the concert’s bill this evening with an hour-long performance by soloists and playing together. Their programme is likely to include examples to come.
To find out more about Furture Talent, see www.futuretalent.org For video, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWoilE0f_s
During the interval drinks and snacks will be available. A donation to St Giles Church will be welcomed. Petworth Voices is an acapella community choir with around 50 members with a passion for singing. It has no auditions. Rehearsing nearby in Duncton Village Hall, it sings a wide range of repertoire in up to six parts, led by Emily Barden. Emily Barden. Singer Songwriter, Vocal Leader and Workshop Facilitator Emily currently works with a variety of organisations, leading workshops, projects and composing and co-creating large scale works that have been performed by thousands of young people.
These include Sing Up, Trinity College, BrittenPears Arts, West Sussex Music, Norfolk Music Hub, The Philharmonia Orchestra, Blackheath Prep School, The Benedetti Foundation and many other Music Education Hubs and establishments around the country. Inspired by artists including Joni Mitchell, Carol King, Paul McCartney, Norah Jones and Tom Waits, Emily is a contemporary pop/folk/country singer songwriter with a classic sound. She writes songs with stories, influenced by everyday life and encounters, as well as the landscape around her. She performs as a solo artist, playing guitar and piano, as well as working with varying band line ups. Emily regularly fronts her own original music project at gigs and festivals.
A love of harmony singing and a desire to bring contemporary, accessible choral singing to the masses has led Emily to establish several community choirs under the umbrella of West Sussex Sings. She is also one half of Umbria in Harmony, providing singing holidays in Italy and more recently, Northumbria where she grew up. Emily runs workshops and courses for singers/songwriters as well as composition and song-writing training sessions for teachers, choral leaders and people working with young voices. Helping unlock the creativity of others and inspiring young people to find their own compositional voice is one of Emily’s greatest joys.
Website: www.emilybarden.com www.westsussexsings.com www.umbriainharmony.com
