Recent events
Pictures and videos from some of our events are featured here, with the most recent ones listed first:
A Gospel Requiem
'A Summer Cocktail' A concert with Vox, the 18-30 Choir
'The Rhythm of Life' A concert with Middlesbrough Community Choir
Spring Concert with Ian Ramsey School Ensembles
Christmas Concert for Sponsors and Supporters
Christmas Cracker Concert 2010
Christmas Concert with VOX
Journey to Africa
Pictures from 2009 - 2010
A Gospel Requiem, Saturday 8th October 2011, Middlesbrough Town Hall.
This concert was a Voices for Hospices event, part of a global festival which takes place once every two years on World Hospice Day. Tees Valley Voices chose to support Zoe's Place, the children's hospice. Our contribution to the first half of the concert was 'I'm Gonna Ride That Train'.
'Gospel Requiem', which is based on spirituals, was composed by Andy Jackson, who also conducted the performance. About a hundred adult singers and an orchestra started the piece off. The children followed the music until it was time for them to walk down the aisles singing 'Fly Away Home' in a 3-part round. They had one other item to sing by themselves - 'Listen to the Lambs' - before joining the big choir and orchestra in 'This Little Light of Mine'. TVV's singing was both confident and moving, and a new member of the choir pronounced it their "best day ever!"
'A Summer Cocktail' A concert with Vox, the 18-30 Choir, on Saturday 9th July at St Peter's Church, Stockton.
The choir sings a 2-parts song - with actions!
This was Katie's last concert with Tees Valley Voices, at least for the time being. We will miss her very much, but hope her baby will love the present!
'The Rhythm of Life' A concert with Middlesbrough Community Choir, 30th June 2011.
The Trinity Centre was packed for the concert.
Stephanie Ross, trainee leader, conducted the choir in public for the first time.
The concert ended with David Pisaro conducting both choirs in 'The Rhythm of Life'.
Spring Concert with Ian Ramsey School Ensembles, Thursday 24th March 2011, Ian Ramsey School
Kate Robinson, who teaches in the Music Department of Ian Ramsey School, arranged this joint concert, and led the junior choir and orchestra - and played violin in the strings ensemble. She then changed hats to join Katie Hibbard in conducting and accompanying Tees Valley Voices in part songs including 'Adio Mama', 'This Little Light of Mine' and 'Man in the Mirror' - an evening of 'Music with a Feel-good Factor'.
Listening to the Ian Ramsey performance.
Our turn to perform. Kate Robinson conducts.
Christmas Concert for Sponsors and Supporters, Monday 20th December 2010, The Wilton Centre
The choir said thank you to all those who had helped them in the best way they knew - by singing to them. Katie Hibbard and Kate Robinson introduced each of the Christmas songs, and Joan Carter (Chair) spoke to the audience about how the choir had developed and used this opportunity to announce publicly the grant for the project 'Making an Opera'. The Wilton Centre generously gave the lecture theatre free of charge for the event, and provided a magnificent buffet lunch for all.
Singing at the Wilton Centre.
Mr. Dave Willis, Wilton Centre Site Manager, with Katie Hibbard, Kate Robinson (Music Directors) and Joan Carter (Chair, TVV) and the choir.
Above photographs courtesy of Marc Thorneycroft, Photoworks.
Christmas Cracker Concert 2010 with choirs and orchestra, Saturday 18th December 2010, Lingfield Point, Darlington.
This cracking Christmas event, traditionally on the Saturday before Christmas, raises funds for St Teresa's Hospice - about £5,000 this year. TVV had a solo spot, and joined the massed choirs in several items, all enthusiastically applauded by the audience of 400. TVV singers found their way round the complicated music and learned the songs in one rehearsal!
Christmas Concert with VOX (the '18-30' Choir), Saturday 11th December 2010, St Joseph's Church, Norton.
Carols and Christmas songs old and new were enjoyed by an audience who braved ice and snow to attend. An encore was demanded of one of the items - Little Train to Bethlehem - which had been arranged for the choirs to sing together by Jeremy Harbottle, VOX's conductor.
Journey to Africa - a concert with Darlington Youth Choir, Thursday 14th October 2010, Mill Lane Primary School, Stockton-on-Tees.
Directed by Katie Hibbard, Kate Robinson and Hilary Ions, the two choirs performed songs with an African flavour, raising funds to send two members of DYC to work in a school in Lesotho.
"It was great meeting Darlington Youth Choir and fantastic singing with them as one great big choir," said one of the Tees Valley Voices singers.
PICTURES FROM 2009 - 2010:
'Songs of the Sea' Concert, 17th July 2010, The ARC, Stockton.
Hartlepool Festival of Music and Arts, 8th May 2010. We came second in our class.
'Baroque to Beatles' Concert with VOX, the 18-30 choir, 20th March 2010, St John the Baptist Church, Stockton.
Concert with Tees Valley Youth Choir, 12th December 2009, St. Barnabas Church, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.
All the King's Men, the children's opera by Richard Rodney Bennett, was given two performances in the Hazel Pearson Theatre at Middlesbrough College on 11th October 2009. The final chorus. The King's large army, with its ambitious plan for bridging the River Severn, has been outwitted by the wits and hard work of the people of Gloucester.