OLI DONEY CONCERT

Date: September, 16th 2018 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

STUART HOUSE CONCERT SERIES

Sunday 16th September, 2.30pm.

Tickets £7
including refreshments and opportunity to talk to the musicians

Oli Doney (counter-tenor)Oliver Padel (‘cello)
Chris Howarth (harpsichord/organ)

Music by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Oli Doney discovered singing by accident, being obliged to sing in a choir to make up some university credits, but didn’t find his niche until he found the lofty territory of the male alto! He has performed solos with various local choirs, and spent ten months as a choral scholar at Truro Cathedral. He deputises for lay clerks in Buckfast Abbey’s professional choir and joins Voces in their occasional appearances at services and concerts there. His ambition is to sing the transcendent alto solos of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, but for now he concentrates on becoming a ‘real’ singer!

Chris Howarth gained a music degree at Exeter University and studied the organ at the Cathedral. He trained as a music teacher at Bretton Hall, Yorkshire and after 20 years in the classroom, he left to work first as a music teacher-trainer for the Open University and an A-level music examiner and then a National Coordinator for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Chris has been director of music at several churches and is now organist and choir director of St Martin’s Liskeard. He also conducts the East Cornwall Bach Choir.

Oliver Padel is an amateur cellist and singer, who lives in St Neot and has been playing the cello for more years than it would be gallant to record here. His particular interest is in chamber music, especially string quartets of the Classical and Romantic periods, so in playing Purcell he is happy to be stretched outside his zone of greatest familiarity.