New Members
The Shoalhaven Lydian Singers are always happy to welcome new members.
We don’t have a
formal audition and ask only that prospective members have a
pleasing singing voice. An ability to read music
is helpful but not essential. We
suggest that
interested prospective members come along and sing with us for
a few rehearsals so that we can see
how we fit with each other’s needs. Our
rehearsals are 6.30pm to 9.00pm every Wednesday at St Andrews
Church
Hall, Nowra.
The choir is warm,
friendly and supportive with a repertoire which covers both
sacred and secular choral
works such as madrigals, masses, show tunes and
modern jazz (both ‘a
Capella’
and with accompaniment).
Interested? Call Lesley on 02 4232 2726 or 0425 231 486.
We
welcome the new members that have recently joined our group and
members who have
returned.
Introducing our Musical Director:
Lesley
Lesley took up the
position of Musical Director of the Lydian Singers mid 2006.
Lesley was
trained in oboe, piano and singing at the
Sydney Conservatorium of
Music. Lesley's time is spent teaching in her private studio in Kiama, at
Nowra Anglican School and Chevalier College, Bowral. Her work also includes
directing choirs and accompanying
other musicians, choirs and students.
Lesley enjoys working as a freelance musician, playing oboe in numerous
solo,
orchestral, chamber and theatrical
performances.
Lesley has played recorder,
crumhorn and oboe in Early Music Ensembles and
currently is a member of the
Baroque
Chamber Ensemble, Les Amis. Lesley has been Choral Director and
organist at
various Sydney churches and Musical
Director of community, school
and church choirs.
The
theatre is another area in which Lesley has been involved. She has
performed
both leading roles and in the chorus of
musicals and plays. In recent
years she has become more involved in the directing side of theatre. Lesley
directed Nowra Anglican School's production of My Fair Lady in 2007.
This production
won First Place in the Arcadian
Theatre's award for
School
Productions in the Illawarra, South Coast and Southern Highlands
regions.