Simon Irwin set to perform in Lyme Bay Chorale’s spring concert

Simon Irwin is a Hampshire based singer, actor, writer and director. After time as a chorister at Portsmouth Cathedral, he went on to train as an actor/musician at The Rose Bruford College, and later at Goldsmiths College.

Alongside his acting work Simon began increasingly to perform with leading choirs including St Paul’s Cathedral Choir and the Richard Hickox Singers and to develop and train as a solo singer.

He now sings both freelance, and as a permanent Tenor Lay Clerk with Winchester Cathedral Choir, with which he has made numerous recordings, broadcasts and international tours. He also directs two Hampshire choirs of his own.

Simon frequently writes and directs performances in Winchester and the south of England. He wrote and directed the fringe shows at The Southern Cathedrals Festivals of 2002, 2005, 2008 and 2011, and will do so again in 2017. Christmas 2016 saw him performing A Dickensian Christmas, a musical show he devised around the evergreen story of A Christmas Carol. As a Tenor soloist over the last few years he has performed The Light of Life (Elgar), Psalmus Hungaricus (Kodaly) and For St Cecilia (Finzi). Of late Simon has made something of a habit of tackling challenging works with small forces; as he has sung one-to-a-part performances of Messiah, The B Minor Mass (Bach) and most recently The Vespers (Monteverdi).

Local children and choir-soloists will join visiting professional soloists for Lyme Bay Chorale's Spring Concert.

The concert will feature classics such as Duruflé's Requiem, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Stanford's For Lo, I raise up.

It will be held at St Michael's Parish Church, Lyme Regis at 4pm on Sunday. (14)

Tickets cost £15 on the door or £13 in advance from Lyme’s Tourist Information Centre, Penny Black’s Tearoom in Lyme and from choir members. Under 19s are free. The ticket includes LBC’s famous post-concert buffet.

See lymebaychorale.co.uk for more information.