A memorable summer evening of classic music lies in store for audiences in Frodsham on Saturday, July 2.
Frodsham and District Choral Society will be performing the Magnificats by Buxtehude, Cimarosa, Vivaldi and Rutter while the Ave Maria by Schubert and Caccini will be performed by soprano soloist Heather Heighway.
The concert will take place at St Laurence’s Church in Frodsham at 7.30pm and tickets are priced £10.
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Chester born soprano Heather Heighway graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire in 2013 and is now based in Chester and studies with Lorna Rushton.
She has played many operatic roles including Rose Maurrant in Street Scene by Kurt Weill, Cobweb in Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten (Opera Excerpts), Second Niece in Peter Grimes by Britten (Opera Excerpts), Emperor Nerone in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (Opera Excerpts), First Witch in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, Susannah in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, Adele in Die Fledermaus by Strauss, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffman by Offenbach, Tatyana inEugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky and Micaela in Carmen by Bizet.
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In August 2014 Heather played the Frog and Frantik in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janecek with Co Opera Co in London.
While singing with Co Opera Co she also performed in a production of Carmen at the Roof Top Proms.
She also took part in the British Youth Opera summer opera workshops working with director Michael Fry in 2015.
Heather has won many prizes across the North West including a recital prize at the Mrs Sunderland Music Festival in Huddersfield and she was the Chester Young Musician of the Year in 2011.
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While at the conservatoire Heather won The Reginald Vincent Lieder Prize, second place in The Edwards Brooks English Song Prize and was a finalist in the Mario Lanza Opera Prize.
She was also awarded the Ella Cheshire Scholarship and The Gordon Clinton English Song Prize.
Heather has been the soprano soloist in many choral works including: In Terra Pax by Finzi, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, St John Passion by Bach, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, Mozart’s C Minor Mass and Rutter’s Mass of the Children.
The evening is conducted by Howard Kane and accompanied by Robert Woods.
