July 16...Congratulations to Highcliffe Junior Choir, who came 3rd in the Senior Choirs competition at last week's Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Mary Denniss's last appearance after 28 years in charge. Double-click on "play" to see a video of their performance (double-click on the image for full screen, ESC to return)
I have been involved with the choir for over thirty years and have performed with them at Llangollen on nine occasions as singer, pianist and conductor.
Peterhouse Choir
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Listen to members of Peterhouse Choir performing Dowland's "Come Again" & Morley's "My Bonnie Lass" at the 1986 May Week Concert (D.Seifert, D.Nesbit, R.Goodrich Sopranos, R.Mortishire Alto, M.Hammond Tenor, S.Healy, C.Hawkins Bass. (Realplayer required)
PEOPLE MADE CONTACT SO FAR
In the twentieth anniversary of my final year as Organ Scholar at Peterhouse, I am attempting to contact as many choir members as I can with a reunion being a possibility. I shall be posting what I find on this page.
UPDATE...August 4th 2007....Simon Healy (Middle row, Eleventh from Left) found at last! A historian at the Houses of Parliament, he is currently finishing off a PhD at Birkbeck which he hopes to submit in October - 11 replies
UPDATE...October 28th 2006....Double figures at last. Dr Justin Cross (Middle row, First from Left), is a Neuroradiologist at Addenbrookes Hospital and interestingly also teaches at Peterhouse
UPDATE...October 27th 2006....Still here! Still no news of the final eight so please get in touch if you are or know of Simon Healy, Jim Lloyd, William Hutchings, Justin Cross, Chris Hawkins, Charlotte Dahms, Ros Goodrich or Dagmar Seifert
UPDATE...November 6th 2005....Reply number nine comes from Renee Early. Although she is not pictured on the photograph as she had returned to America at the start of the 1985-86 academic year, she is most welcome to be part of our celebrations. She is currently teaching at a secondary school near San Francisco.
UPDATE...November 4th 2005....Reply number eight comes from Dr Jenny Wallace (Middle row, Seventh from Left), who is Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse
UPDATE...November 2nd 2005....My seventh reply comes from Neil Hartman (Back row, Second from Left), who is Chief Radiopharmacist in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. UPDATE JAN 2007-NEIL HAS MOVED TO ST BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL IN LONDON IN THE DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE.
UPDATE...November 1st 2005....Reply Number Six! Martin Robinson (Back row, Fourth from Left) is a software consultant with DAI and plays the organ at St Mary's Church, Watford. Martin married Stefanie earlier this year.
UPDATE...October 31st 2005....Two replies today! Dr Andrew Goldsbrough (Back row, First from Left) is Manager of the East of England Relay Centre in Cambridge, which promotes technology transfer across European borders. He sings with both Choir 2000 in Histon and with CUMS. Rachel Mortishire (Middle Row, Fifth from Left) is living in Stansted Mountfitchet with husband and two sons, teaching part-time in two primary schools. UPDATE JUN 2007-RACHEL AND FAMILY HAVE MOVED TO ANTWERP IN BELGIUM.
UPDATE...October 28th 2005....No more replies but an offer of help with a possible reunion from the Peterhouse Chaplain, Michael Ward. This evening I attended Choral Evensong at Peterhouse, my first service there for a number of years. I enjoyed the experience and it brought back lots of memories. Wouldn't it be nice to perform in chapel again.
UPDATE...October 27th 2005...Reply number three from Elsbeth Dixon (Middle Row, Eighth from Left). She is Executive Director of the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management in Johannesburg.
UPDATE...October 26th 2005...My second reply! This has come from John Sellgren (Middle Row, Fourth from Left). He is Director of the County Councils Network which promotes the interests of the thirty-seven English Shire Counties. UPDATE AUG 2007-JOHN IS NOW DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AT HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. I have also emailed another possible contact. This leaves just five people without leads.
UPDATE...October 25th 2005...Today I received an e-mail from Olive Murray (Front Row, Sixth from Left). She is still singing and has just returned from a couple of months studying in Italy. I was also fortunate to hear her give a lunchtime recital in August and afterwards we caught up with the gossip over a pub lunch. This Saturday (October 29th) she is participating in a Scratch Messiah at her old college, Emmanuel. I have emailed a further nine people, although in several cases I am not 100% certain that I have the right person. We'll just have to wait and see! The other six are proving rather elusive and are not giving any internet presence!
Peter Symonds College
This picture appeared in the Portsmouth Evening News following a performance by members of the Hampshire Specialist Music Course at the Central Library in Portsmouth on June 10th 1981. On the left is the original newspaper cutting while the photograph is on the right.
OTHER PEOPLE ON THE HAMPSHIRE SPECIALIST MUSIC COURSE 1980-1982 Only includes those people I have information on Helen Boisclair: Teaching music at an Independent School in Leicester (listed in "Friends Reunited" PSC 1982) Joanna Creighton: (Listed in "Friends Reunited" PSC 1983) Neil Kelley: Parish Priest of St Faith, Great Crosby in the Diocese of Liverpool. Chris Rawden: Executive Director of Moore Stephens Europe in Brussels. Plays trumpet in the Bruocsella Symphony Orchestra. Katie Wilkinson: Professor of Viola at the Royal College of Music. David Wythe: Plays French Horn in the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Christchurch Priory
This picture was taken in the early seventies during a filming for a Southern TV programme "Songs of Celebration"
July 16...Congratulations to Highcliffe Junior Choir, who came 3rd in the Senior Choirs competition at last week's Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Mary Denniss's last appearance after 28 years in charge. Double-click on "play" to see a video of their performance (double-click on the image for full screen, ESC to return)
