Deliberately targeting young people who have not yet had access to specialist tutoring, the programme assesses personal statements alongside any musical work complete or incomplete before hand-picking 10 deserving state-school students and pairing them with a composer who provides up to 10 hours of guidance and teaching. In addition, 20 apprentices will be selected and enrolled in a series of workshops, led by emerging composer, Rory Wainwright Johnston. Applicants can submit either a video, sound file or score to showcase their music, with the deadline of 11pm, on Monday 8th February Please visit the website at www.
Questions and applications can be sent to Competition Manager, Natalie Docherty, at competition orasingers. This meant that with the Adventist Vocal Ensemble, Voquality, and Vocal Creation, he was able to keep the word 'vocal' as a consistent part of his ad hoc session ensembles.
As a result of his breadth of musical experience, he has been able to create the different groups with different musical emphases and styles. When reading music, he was a first study pianist, and second study singer, studying under the late baritone Charles Corp. The study repertoire was largely in the field of oratorio, lighter opera, and art songs.
Missing this particular branch of his musical life, he adapted a hymn arrangement he had originally done for congregation, for a trio-solo format, inspired by the Classical male trio format popularised by opera singers 'The Three tenors', and 'Three Mo' Tenors'.
Arranging traditional hymns, dividing the verses between the soloists, with occasional choreography gave birth to Dixon, Burton and Billett, where he joins two members of the bass section of his Croydon SDA Gospel Choir - David Billett, and Everol Dixon, in a crossover 'gospel meets Classical' sound.
Someone once joked that Burton 'has a vocal ensemble for every day of the week'. Burton's mindset is not just simply to have groups that perform, but wherever possible to think entrepreneurial.
As a result, most of the groups have recorded with recordings distributed by labels set up, either for profit, or not for profit. The Voquality company deals mostly with supplying services to the commercial music and film industry, but also acts as a publisher for Burton's self-published music.
Burton is a regular adjudicator for Choir Of The Year - the very competition where, in , he had his two regular choirs in the same final, the London Adventist Chorale winning. He appeared in the credits, as choirmaster, in the multiple Oscar and Grammy winning Marvel film Black Panther , and has also been credited as a choral conductor in other films including Jingle Jangle.
He has contributed as a conductor, contractor, and singer to a number of film soundtracks. His roles on the programmes have included performing, vocal contracting, conducting, arranging, musical directing, and production.
In he was one of six invited choral figures to guest present on BBC Radio 3's The Choir , where he explored the changing face and settings of gospel music.
Ken has contributed extensively to numerous programmes on The Hope Channel, an international television channel owned and operated by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church organisation. In and he presented two nine-part series programmes of Music In My Life: With Ken Burton for Life Connect TV, where he interviewed and made music with a number of established and aspiring gospel and contemporary Christian music artists from across Europe.
His work, however, is not confined to the genre of gospel music. He also has a strong background of and actually studied Classical music, and has worked as a chorusmaster training choirs to sing large-scale works such as Verdi Requiem , and Brahms Deutsches Requiem. In , he had his original music performed on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival, in the form of a choral prelude entitled You Saved Me, which preceded the performance of Blinded By Your Grace, by British artist Stormzy.
In addition to his regular performance based activities, he has been involved with the Kijani Kenya Trust - a UK based charity which raises funds for HIV and conservation projects in Kenya. His work, however, is not confined to the genre of gospel music. In addition to his regular performance based activities, he has been involved with the Kijani Kenya Trust - a UK based charity which raises funds for HIV and conservation projects in Kenya.
His trips to Kenya have involved visits to a large number of orphanages, where music education work is carried out with the orphans, who often have the opportunity to perform on stage as part of the major music festival. Artist descriptions on Last. Feel free to contribute! All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. View all similar artists. View all trending tracks.
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