EMMA VERSTEEG

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 "...Her performances are every conductor’s dream..."
  - David Flood, Musical Director of the Whitstable Choral Society and Organist at Canterbury Cathedral

  2009
13th March
Concert with Cappella Nova
To include works by Craig Armstrong (world premier) and Robert Burns settings by James MacMillan and Robert Schumann
14th March
Concert with Cappella Nova
As above
15th March
Concert with Cappella Nova
As above
26th April           
Recital as part of
Sunday at Seven
at the West Kirk,Helensburgh
Programme to include Mozart, Wolf, Copland and Britten

  2008
January - June
Continuation of study with Helen Lawson at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama                            

15th March
Soprano soloist for Whitstable Choral Society
Bach St John Passion
20th March
Recital for Music in Hospitals
A programme of light classical, folk and cabaret
27th March
Recital for Music in Hospitals
Programme as above
7th June 
Recital for Music in Hospitals               
Programme as above
4th July
Concert with Cappella Nova in 
St Giles Cathedral
Voices Of Scotland
Scottish Music and Poetry from the
6th Century to the 21st
28th - 29th July
Concert tour to Argyll for Music in Hospitals Programme as for 20th March
7th August
Concert with Ludus Baroque, Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Bach Mass in B Minor 
18th August
Recital for Music in Hospitals Programme as for 20th March
21st August
Recital for Music in Hospitals
Programme as for 20th March
12th September
Recital in Rhu Parish Church
Samuel Barber Hermit Songs and Maurice Ravel
Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques
13th September
Concert tour to Aberdeen for Music in Hospitals
A programme of light classical music, folksong and songs from the shows
25th - 26th September
Concert tour to Dumfries and Galloway for Music in Hospitals - t.b.c.
 A programme of light classical music, folksong and songs from the shows
5th October
Recital as part of Balerno Music Festival
Programme to include Schumann settings of texts by Robert Burns, Britten arrangements of folk songs, arias from opera and operetta, Ravel Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques and a selction of popular numbers
29th November                     
Soprano soloist for the St Andrews Chorus
Bach Wachet Auf and Handel Dixit Dominus 
30th November
Soprano soloist for Glasgow Lyric Choir
Bach Christmas Oratorio parts I - III
6th December
Soprano soloist for Cupar Choral Society
Haydn The Creation 
16th December Concert with Ludus Baroque, Canongate Kirk Edinburgh
Bach Christmas Oratorio
19th December
Concert with Cappella Nova in Glasgow
Carols by Candlelight
20th December
Concert with Cappella Nova in Edinburgh
Carols by Candlelight
21st December
Concert with Cappella Nova in Brechin
Carols by Candlelight


  2007
January - August
completion of postgraduate diploma at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama  
 1st September
Song recital in Carnforth, LancashireProgramme to include Schubert, Caplet and Barber Hermit Songs
30th September
Song recital in Brechin Cathdral - finale of the Brechin Arts Festival
"Scotland in song" - including songs by Schubert, Schumann, Thea Musgrave and John Dankworth
25th October
Recital for Music in Hospitals
To include Gershwin, Kern, Porter and Rogers and Hammerstein
1st November
Song recital for the New Helvetic Society in the Swiss Embassy, London
Handel, Mozart, Duparc, Clara Schumann and Schoeck
1st December
Soprano soloist for the Cunninghame Choir
Opera Gala Evening
9th December
Recital as part of St. Giles at Six series in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
Programme to include Samuel Barber Hermit Songs
12th December
Recital for Music in Hospitals
Show songs and popular christmas tunes!
14th December
Choral singer for Ludus Baroque
Bach Christmas Oratorio
16th December
Soprano soloist for Ayr Choral UnionBach Christmas Oratorio
20th December
Recital for Music in Hospitals
Programme as for 12th December
21st December
Soprano soloist for the Cumbernauld Choir
Extracts from the Messiah