Adrian and Noel will perform songs by Stanford, Ireland and friends.
Adrian Green is a music graduate of Royal Holloway, University of London and recipient of the Dame Felicity Lott Bursary. He is Director of Convivium Records and Convivium Singers. Convivium Records has worked for a number of high profile clients including The Baltic Exchange, London, and The Royal School of Church Music and Convivium Singers have worked with many notable composers and conductors and performed at a number of international choral festivals. In response to their recording of Jonathan Dove’s choral music for NAXOS, They were recommended on BBC Radio 3’s ‘CD Review’ as ‘an extraordinarily good choir to listen to’. Guest conductors of the group have included Neil Ferris, David Price, Malcolm Archer, and Eamonn Dougan.
Adrian has been a member of Portsmouth Cathedral Choir and has administrated their Chorister Outreach Programme since 2008, taking a teaching role that he continues with funding from the Diocese of Portsmouth. Alongside this, he is a vocal coach at Portsmouth Grammar School and St James Senior Boys’, (London). He performs regularly as a soloist with various choirs across the country and Europe and gives solo recitals and occasional workshops. Adrian currently studies with Andrew King.
Noel Skinner won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and studied with Leslie England and the accompanist Rex Stephens. As a student, he won many prizes including the Harold Samuel Bach Prize and the McFarren Prize (at that time the highest award for Piano). He has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St John’s Smith Square and in several recitals at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles. Noel has wide experience as an accompanist, operatic repetiteur and teacher.