Join the vibrant CitySound Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, to celebrate their 5th Anniversary concert featuring their top 10 favourite songs including Bruckner, Rutter, Karl Jenkins and Queen plus the World Premiere of their specially commissioned anniversary piece That Music Always Round Me by Mark David Boden.

 

Clara Cecilia Atkins

Clara studied music at Bath Spa University specialising in jazz voice, and over the past ten years has performed in many venues in Bath including Green Park Brasserie, Moles, The Holburne Museum and Bath Abbey. She regularly appears as a guest vocalist in the popular 20th Century Foxes Cabaret events at Chapel Arts. Often likened to Ella Fitzgerald, Clara takes inspiration from the greats as well as contemporary vocalists including Liane Carroll and Clare Teal. Known for her clear and expressive tone, Clara performs with emotion and a touch of drama, bringing the music of the American Songbook to life.

She recently performed to two sell-out audiences with the Gorgeous Big Horns Big Band at Wiltshire Music Centre and Chipping Sodbury Music Society.

As well as singing with her jazz band, Clara is a classical soloist, performing with Cantamus Chamber Choir and Freshford Singers. She also runs Clarity Community Choir who rehearse in Bath and Trowbridge.

 

CitySound Voices is delighted to announce the commission of That Music always Round me composed by Mark Boden to celebrate our fifth anniversary.

The world premier performance will take place on Saturday 6th May as part of our anniversary concert in St Stephen’s Chruch, Bath, conducted by Ruth McKibbin.

That Music Always Round Me

About Mark Boden

Mark David Boden graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2008, continuing his studies as a scholar at the Royal College of Music studying with Ken Hesketh and graduating with Distinction from the MMus course in 2011.

During his time at RWCMD, Mark was the recipient of several awards including the Dr David Harries Memorial Award (2006), the Eirwen Thomas Scholarship (2007) and the Composition Prize (2008). He has since been awarded a Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal (2008), the Composer’s of Wales William Mathias Composition Prize (2009), the British Composer Awards (BASCA) Student Competition (2010) and the University of St. Andrews 600th Anniversary Composition Competition (2011). In 2015 he was awarded the prestigious John Clementi Collard Fellowship from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Mark has been commissioned ensembles including London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hebrides Ensemble, Sinfonia Cymru and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Several works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, including Six Degrees, Siegfried Stanzas, Fuochi Distanti and Ghyll. His music has been performed in festivals across the UK and Europe by a variety of musicians and ensembles including Camerata Nordica (Sweden), NEXUS Reed Quintet (Switzerland), Quatour Tana (Belgium) and violinist Bartosz Woroch (Poland).

Mark is currently a lecturer in music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and was Sir William Walton Trust Junior Fellow in Composition between 2012 and 2014.

He is published by Cadenza Music
https://cadenza-music.com

http://www.markdavidboden.com

@MarkDavidBoden

 

 

CitySound Voices are delighted to be invited to perform with Turramurra Concert Band from Sydney, Australia…

at 2pm on Saturday 1st October!

Looking forward to raising the roof in St Michaels in the grand finale performance of Bohemian Rhapsody!

 

 

CitySound Voices will be featured on

BBC Radio 3 The Choir programme in Meet My Choir.

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Tune in on

Sunday 24th January 2016

4.30pm

to hear us!

Click here to listen to our performance on BBC Radio 3 after the show.

We are delighted to be sharing this concert with KES Soul!

KES Soul – Conductor Mark Boden

James Brennan, Will Denny, Mathew Chapman, Emma Jones, George le Coyte, Molly Phillips, Isabella Tann, Theo West, Benji Heffer, Adam Dudley-Friar, Charlotte Ghali, Bella Antcliff, Max Antcliff, Billy Harman, Bea Jones, Alba Hubbard, Edward Satterthwaite, Sophie Mayhew, Holly Davies, Gemma Roper, Lottie Phillips, Alasdair Meehan, Louis Miltion, Fran Barrett, August Pemberton, Jack Morgan Alex Llewellyn.

We are CitySound Voices, around 30 singers who decided in 2012 that we wanted to form ourselves into a new choir. It has been an exciting journey. We knew that we wanted to sing as varied a repertoire as possible – everything from Monteverdi to Bohemian Rhapsody. We hope that our name CitySound shows that we are not rooted in any particular musical tradition.

We also knew that we wanted to be as good as possible, and were prepared to work hard at our rehearsals. We were lucky to persuade Australia-born Ruth McKibbin, now an enthusiastic resident of Somerset, to take us on. As our Musical Director she brings together her own experiences as chorister, operatic soloist and teacher, and insists on wasting no opportunity to develop our vocal technique and our musical sensitivity.

Joining together to make music is surely one of the finest things a community can do. We like to perform with other choirs, especially young musicians.

CitySound Reviews

Ben Cullum – CitySound Review

“CitySound was formed 3 years ago and their repertoire consists of a wide range of songs. From Billy Joel, Mercury to Mancini, Carol King to Jamie Cullum, Pucini, Verdi to Lauridsen – they certainly sing from an impressive and varied songbook.

I was very happy to be part of the audience at two Christmas concerts where I heard them perform secular pieces and even pop & jazz in the first half, followed by traditional and more unusual seasonal items in the second. I was extremely impressed by their ability and range. Though a relatively new choir they always strive to deliver a professional performance, whilst their ultimate desire is to entertain. And entertain is certainly what they do!”