HYC Showcase

Join us for a super Showcase of Henley Youth Choir talent! 

The Showcase takes place 6.30pm, Thursday April 30^th at d:two Community Centre, Marketplace, Henley. 

Tickets are £8.00. Under 18's FREE. 

This is a wonderful opportunity for children (and their parents) to experience HYC in action and decide if they would like to join.

See our wonderful Youth Choir performing a varied repertoire, both as a group, and in solo performance, complete with our "house band."

We also welcome our school partners, sponsors, supporters and all those who love to see children and young people in our local community sharing the joy of singing.  

We are also delighted that our two “Voices of the Future Choral Scholars” Elenor Vockins and Ruby Hewitt will be performing, especially as Ellie’s desire to pursue a career as a professional singer was inspired by being a member of Henley Youth Choir when she was a teenager.

Directed by Richard Harker, and with superb accompaniment from pianist Anita D’Attellis, Andy Crowdy on guitar, and Oli Butterworth on drums, the Showcase promises to be a very special occasion.

Richard Harker, Musical Director, Henley Youth Choir

Richard is musical director of The Hythe Singers, Henley Choral Society and Henley Youth Choir. He is a Chorus Master at Opera Holland Park, and a classroom music teacher. Richard also works extensively as an organist and accompanist. At Opera Holland Park Richard has worked on La Bohème, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin (Assistant Conductor & Chorus Master), Carmen, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro; Manon Lescaut and Un ballo in maschera (Chorus Master), Ruddigore and Pirates of Penzance (Chorus Master and Assistant Repetiteur). Other operatic engagements have included L’Elisir d’amore for West Green House Opera (Chorus Master), HMS Pinafore for Windsor and Eton Opera (Conductor), Terterian’s Fire Ring at the Grimeborn Festival with London Armenian Opera (Conductor), Schumann-devised opera Unknowing and Menotti’s The Telephone with Teatime Opera (Musical Director), and Jonathan Hervey’s Passion and Resurrection at the Voices of London Festival (Conductor).

Richard graduated with an MA in Choral Conducting from the Royal Academy of Music, receiving the Thomas Armstrong Prize. He read music at, and was organ scholar of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he received the Swinburne Prize.

Anita D’Attellis, accompanist, Henley Youth Choir

Anita has performed extensively as a solo pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, with recitals at the Brighton and Cheltenham International Festivals, Snape Maltings, the Royal Festival Hall and the Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Her repertoire spans across classical, romantic, and twentieth-century periods. Anita graduated with first class honours in music at the University of Birmingham, followed by Postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music. As concerto soloist, she has performed Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Shostakovich Piano Concerto no. 2, the Grieg Concerto, Mendelssohn's First and Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto, the Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Constant Lambert ‘The Rio Grande’ and Mozart Piano Concertos K.467, K.488 and K.491. She teaches piano at Royal Holloway university and at Eton College. She has been the accompanist for Henley Youth Choir since 2015.