Please contact for more information or to apply. Youth Theatre Acting & Voice Mentors, Duckegg Theatre Leeds Central, Wakefield and Selby. There are generally 3 – 4 concerts each season.Įly Consort is a well-established, auditioned and friendly chamber choir of around 40 singers we sing a wide repertoire to a high standard. The ideal candidate will be a confident pianist and good sight-reader experience accompanying choirs would be a distinct advantage, as would be the ability to deputise for the Musical Director on occasion. Whilst the most important aspect of the position is accompanying our rehearsals, for the right candidate it would also be possible to accompany our concerts when these involve piano (or organ, but there is no need for non-organists to be deterred from applying as we can engage organists as needed).įees are payable per rehearsal, and a separate concert fee would be paid as applicable. Rehearsals take place in central Ely on Thursday evenings from 8.00 – 9.45 during school term times. She also plays percussion for Welsh brass bands and has played xylophone solos with Abergavenny and Usk Brass Bands, including being televised during the National Eisteddfod in Abergavenny in 2016.The chamber choir Ely Consort is seeking to appoint a new rehearsal accompanist from November 2021, or as soon as possible thereafter.
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Prior to this, Alison had been the accompanist for the Garndiffaith based Apollo Singers for four years, and regularly helped out with the Garndiffaith Gleemen and Pontypool Male Voice Choirs.Īlthough she leads a busy life, teaching full time and with two children of her own, Alison enjoys the challenge of preparing a wide range of repertoire for the busy schedule of Risca Male Choir. They have performed with Risca Male Choir on a number of occasions and it was through this that she was invited to accompany Risca Male Choir in January 2017, after the retirement of their long term accompanist.
There she has built up her own choir of Junior children, regularly performing in and around the local community.
I just want to work in the music business. Special training or coursework in piano that would demonstrate expertise as a vocal coach and accompanist. Are you a Musician/Performer or are you just looking for a career in the Music Business I am a musician or performer. In 2007 she gained her PGCE Primary at Caerleon Campus, Newport University and started teaching Primary age children in the classroom.Īlison has been a classroom teacher and Music Co-ordinator at Risca Primary since 2012. Advanced skills as a pianist and accompanist. According to a revelation in the Daily Beast, Megan Zalonka, an alleged accompanist and part-time model on Instagram, compensated taxpayers for a profession. She secured a job as a specialist peripatetic music tutor for Gwent Music Support Services: in that role she travelled around Gwent schools for seven years teaching piano, keyboard, drums and class percussion to a range of 3-18 year olds. On her return to Wales, having married an Abergavenny percussionist, Alison settled in Cwmbran. Degree with Honours and spent the next four years working in London. She went on to study orchestral percussion, including xylophone and marimba, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London from 1991-1995. She got to perform at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod many times and hosted foreign competitors at her house.Īlison attended Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester for her sixth form studies, specialising in percussion and piano. Her father sang with the Rhos Orpheus Male Voice Choir and Alison went along to many concerts and rehearsals. In school she also learned violin, viola, guitar and percussion.
David’s High School in Wrexham, renowned for its excellent music department with whom she took part in many concerts and competitions in prestigious venues around the UK.Īlison learned piano from the age of 5 and passed Grade 8 at the age of 14 under the tutelage of local concert pianist Ruth Christine Parkinson. Alison grew up in Wrexham, North Wales and lived outside the town of Chirk on the Welsh border, not far from Llangollen.
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