Alice Halstead is a London-based soprano.

Halstead has recorded solos for John Rutter's Visions and Requiem (2016) and for Karl Jenkins' Stella Natalis (2009) [1]

From 2012 to 2016 Halstead sang under Graham Ross (musician) in the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.

As a chorister at St. Alphege's Church, Solihull, she won the title of "BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year 2008" in front of an audience of over 1,000 people in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, in October 2008.[2] Halstead has since performed on UK national radio and television.

Halstead appeared on BBC One Songs of Praise on 22 February 2009,[3] and 16 August 2009[4] singing "Ave Maria" by Michael Head and appeared on September 27, 2009, singing "He Shall Feed His Flock" from Handel's Messiah.

She recorded excerpts from the Messiah for BBC Radio 2 in St. Paul's Cathedral with the BBC Concert Orchestra in front of an audience of over 2,000 people, which was broadcast on Good Friday 2009.[5] She has made several recordings for BBC Radio 2 Good Morning Sunday with Aled Jones, Sunday Half Hour and Friday Night is Music Night in London, Belfast, Manchester and Wells Cathedral. She sang "O for the Wings of a Dove" live in Birmingham Town Hall as part of BBC Radio 3's Mendelssohn weekend in May 2009 [6] and has led the singing for BBC Radio 4’s The Daily Service and Sunday Worship.

References

  1. ↑ "Sir Karl Jenkins". Karljenkins.com. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "BBC - Radio 2 - Events - Radio 2 Young Choristers 2008". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "BBC One Songs of Praise Archive". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "BBC - BBC One Programmes - Songs of Praise, Young Musicians". Archived from the original on 17 August 2009. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "BBC - BBC Radio 2 Programmes - at the Foot of the Cross". Archived from the original on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
  6. ↑ "BBC - BBC Radio 3 Programmes - in Tune, 08/05/2009 Mendelssohn Weekend". Archived from the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
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