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The choir with our President, David Eddowes, and Conductor, Jim Wrightson, before the spring concert, April 2008.
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It is with great sadness that we announce that, Michael Hamm, our
Deputy Music Director died on the
September 1st.
He will be greatly missed by the whole choir.
Michael Hamm
Michael Hamm was born in West Kirby. He sang in Blackburn
Cathedral
Choir as a treble and was educated at St Paul's School, London. He
studied conducting under
Norman Del Mar and Robert Barclay Wilson at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama, where he later became a Professor of Conducting.
Michael has conducted a wide range of orchestras and choirs in the
UK and in Continental Europe. He has directed Opera and Musicals, some
in the West End. He has conducted both the BBC Philharmonic and BBC
Scottish Symphony orchestras. He
had the honour of conducting before the Queen at the City of London
Festival. Michael was conductor for the Finchley Choral Society for
sixteen
years
before retiring from the London musical scene and returning to West
Kirby. Michael was deputy musical director of the Hoylake Choral
Society for over ten years. He conducted the choir on many occasions
when Jim, our director, was unavoidably absent. He seemed to take a
particular delight when he regularly conducted both choir and audience
at our annual carol concerts.
The funeral will take place at the Landican crematorium on Friday 10th of September at 10:30am.
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We are a
friendly, enthusiastic society and we have been singing in Hoylake
since 1948.
Our concerts, normally two per year, are
held locally and are a mix of traditional repertoire and more
modern works. We also sing a family carol concert every year before
Christmas.
If
you enjoy
singing, a warm welcome awaits you at our rehearsals on any Wednesday
evening (September-May) in Hoylake Chapel Hall. We are particularly in
need of more tenors and basses. We do not hold auditions. Enthusiasm
and love of
music is more important to us than technical excellence. Nevertheless
we strive to achieve quality performances and we like to think we are
usually successful. Details relating to joining and information for
members is given on the Membership page.
N.B. Rehearsals for the new 2010/11 season start on Wednesday, 8th., September at 8pm.
Even if you can't join us as a singer, an equally warm welcome awaits you as a member of the
audience at any of our concerts. For details of our forthcoming and past concerts see the Concerts page.
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The
Hoylake Choral society would like to acknowledge the kind assistance of
Information Services at Liverpool John Moores University who are
hosting this web site and who have provided expert technical advice to
help in its establishment.
This page updated 3-Sep-2010
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