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Music @ St Margaret's School Top Choir clinches Astonishing Fifth Award! Melisma, the Chapel Choir from St Margaret’s School, Exeter, triumphed for an astonishing fifth consecutive year at the Finals of the National Festival of Music for Youth. The girls’ choir received the top accolade – an Outstanding Performance Award – competing against 25 other choirs who had made it to the finals held this year at the prestigious Birmingham Conservatoire. The choir, conducted by St Margaret’s Director of Music, Miranda Ashe, performed an extraordinarily demanding programme including a new work composed by Brendan Ashe, the school’s composer-in-residence, and who also accompanied the choir. The work in question was a compelling setting of Psalm 24, and he also transcribed a riveting Bosnian song by Goran Bregovic. The choir’s grand finale was a stunning set of songs from Cabaret with polished choreography. Melisma - BBC finalists again Melisma – the renowned girls’ choir from St. Margaret’s School, Exeter- continued its outstanding run of success when it was selected as a finalist in the BBC3 Choir of the Year Competition, 2006. This confirms the choir as one of the top six Youth Choirs in Britain, and took the girls to the awesome surroundings of the Cardiff Millennium Centre on Saturday 11th November 2006, to compete for the prestigious title of BBC3 Youth Choir of the Year. The choir’s performance was subsequently broadcast School’s Prom Honour for St Margaret’s Choir Melisma, the nationally renowned girls’ choir from St Margaret’s School, Exeter, was invited to perform in the prestigious Schools’ Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in the Autumn Term 2005, comperèd by Richard Stilgoe and Howard Goodall. St Margaret’s School is extremely fortunate to have an expert composer-in-residence - Brendan Ashe – and to have sung in two professional world premières of his outstanding, large-scale cantatas: The Waters (2003) and The Light (2005). Last year, the choir asked Brendan to write an exciting new showpiece. The result was the powerfully exhilarating and stirring Sanctus – replete with novel percussive and sound effects - which Melisma was delighted to perform in the awesome surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall. The girls also romped their way through a show-stopping medley of Chicago songs. They received a rapturous reception from a packed Royal Albert Hall and came home to Exeter buzzing with confidence and excitement. |
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