Zoe Silkstone

Zoë Silkstone – Music Profile Francis Holland School: • Senior Chamber and Senior Choirs performing in regular school concerts and joining with Harrow Boys’ School for annual concerts of major choral works including: - Bach Mass in B Minor – which I also performed with Ben Gunner’s choir the Royal Free Singers at Windsor - Bach Matthaeus Passion - Handel Messiah - Walton Belshazzar’s Feast - Brahms A German Requiem - Elgar Dream of Gerontius (semi-chorus) - Handel Dixit Dominus – with David Bates and La Nuova Musica - Haydn’s The Creation Merbecke Choir at Southwark Cathedral (since January 2011): • Three main concerts at Southwark Cathedral (March, July and December) • St. Vedast-Alius-Foster Church in conjunction with Saddlers company (solo of Messiah recit “And the angel…” and first verse of Once in Royal David’s City) (2011) • Soprano solo in the first performance of Alexander Campkin’s Sent From God (December 2012), also recorded for the most recent Merbecke Choir CD (June 2013) • Joining with the Hanover Choir in their performance of The Creation as the soprano soloist (July 2014) Rodolfus Choir (since October 2011): • A group of nine performed to members of and special guests at Clivedon House (December 2011) • St. Mary Ascot Windsor (Windsor Society Concert) (December 2011) • New Year Tour 2012 - Cheltenham College concert - Evensong at Hereford Cathedral - Evensong at Eton Chapel, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 • Floreat Cantus Concert (extension of Eton Choral) at St. Dunstan-in-the-West • New Year Recording 2013 - Concert at Douai Abbey, Reading – soprano solo For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry in Rejoice in the Lamb - Evensong at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 - CD recording at Keble College, Oxford – included Rejoice in the Lamb • various Westminster Abbey services with Collegiate choir • La Bohème performance at Cadogan Hall (in chorus) (Dec 2013) • New Year 2013: - 30th anniversary Gala Concert - BBC Radio 3 Broadcast, evensong at St. Gabriel’s Pimlico Inner Voices Choir (mentor for sopranos since October 2011): • Launch concert at Westminster Hall (January 2012) • Joined with Orlando Gibbons choir for a Christmas concert (2011) • Youth Music Event (March 2012) • Spem in Alium – Southbank Centre (May 2012) • Concert in conjunction with Voce led by Susie Digby (2012) • Inner Voices’ invitation to sing at Keble College Oxford (2012) Choral Scholar at St. Mark’s Hamilton Terrace (since January 2013) • Singing Mozart’s Requiem with St. Mark’s Consort at St. Martin’s-in-the-Field (Jan 2014) Other Musical Experience: • Attended two Eton Choral Courses – Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge • Achieved Distinction in RSCM Bishop’s award (Nov 2010) • Achieved Distinction in RSCM Gold award (October 2012) • Achieved Distinction in ABRSM Grade 8 Singing (Nov 2011) • Achieved Diploma ABRSM Singing (July 2013) • Achieved Merit in ABRSM Grade 8 Piano (Nov 2010), working towards Diploma • Achieved Trinity Guildhall Grade 6 Guitar (April 2012), working towards ABRSM Grade 7 • Director of Francis Holland School Acoustic Group (2011-12) • Assisted with school Junior Choir • Head Chorister of St Marylebone Parish Church Youth Choir until the age of 16 and also Sacristan at the church until June 2011 • Member of St. Gabriel’s Pimlico choir • Composed and performed music for school production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (2009) • Performed in school dramas/musicals including: -Two solo’s in Amadeus (December 2012) - Et in carnatus est - In uomini • Annual performance at the Lansdowne Club and the Butterworth Centre • “Best of British” Jubilee Celebration Concert, Great Missenden –duet from Britten’s Ceremony of Carols (July 2012) • Solo recital at St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Great Missenden (October 2012) • Soprano Soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater (April 2014) • Soprano Soloist in performance of Haydn’s ‘The Creation’ (July 2014) Cambridge: • Choral Scholar at Robinson College, head of soprano section - Soprano soloist in Faure’s Requiem - Soloist in Allegri’s Miserere - Soloist in Rutter’s Requiem • Occasional accompanist to singers in concerts and conductor of choral scholar chorus • President of the Music Society (beginning end of Lent term 2014) • Part of the Cambridge University Chamber Choir • Chorus member in: - Shostakovich’s Cheryomushki - Dove’s Tobias and the Angel - Tavener’s Mary of Egypt • Assistant Stage Manager in the production of Britten’s Albert Herring