Show off your vocal skills while celebrating 50 years since the founding of the North Wales International Music Festival and 10 years since St Asaph became a city.

That's the call from Wrexham-based professional orchestra, NEW Sinfonia.

It is offering the opportunity for the public to sing with their professional brass group, comprising of musicians from the Royal Philharmonic, Hallé, and BBC Philharmonic, as part of the newly formed vocal ensemble, NEW Voices.

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Those who wish to partake will work with Wrexham-based internationally renowned conductor Robert Guy and esteemed choral conductor and singing coach Jenny Pearson.

The concert will launch the festival's 50th year, taking place at St Asaph Cathedral on June 4 – the weekend of the Platinum Jubilee. 

NEW Voices is made up of members from all over North Wales with singing experience ranging from total beginner to regular choir goer.  Whatever your choral experience, background, age, or knowledge of Welsh, come along and experience the wholesome and compelling sensation of singing with a choir in a professional setting. 

The singers will also get to sing alongside the esteemed North Wales chamber choir Kana and St Asaph Cathedral Choir.

This celebration of North Wales’s wealth of music and culture will include an assortment of poignant and powerful music.

 In acknowledgment of the ongoing atrocities being committed in Ukraine, and as a gesture of support for innocent victims, the choir will sing the Ukrainian choral anthem ‘A Prayer for Ukraine.’

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The concert would not be complete without an acknowledgment and celebration of the Welsh language. It will include the Welsh hymn ‘Blaenwern’, an arrangement of the beautiful traditional song ‘Lisa Lan’, and Robat Arwyn’s incredibly moving ‘Anfonaf Angel’ (I’ll Send an Angel).

Well-loved classical composers such as G.F Handel, Vaughan Williams and Hubert Parry will appear in the programme, giving all singers the opportunity to tackle some iconic choral repertoire (including ‘Zadok the Priest’!).

To sign up email voices@newsinfonia.org.uk or call 07725 050510 to find out more.