Hope Heaven – piano and voice

Programme

Caro Mio Ben – Giordani
An die Musik – Schubert
Morgen – Strauss
Apres un rêve – Fauré
Si mes vers des ailes – Hahn
Adieu, My Dear – Tosti
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park – Tom Lehrer
I’ve Never Been in Love Before – Guys and Dolls
I Dreamed a Dream – Les Miserables
Thank You for the Music – ABBA

Artist Bio

Hope Heaven is a BMus Vocal Performance graduate from Chichester Conservatoire, based in Wimbledon. She is currently studying MMus Music Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. She is passionate about teaching, performing, and about making music with others. Hope has run many local choirs and choral workshops in and around Surrey, is the current Tenor Choral Scholar at St James Piccadilly, and was the 2017-21 Tenor Scholar at Arundel Cathedral, and the 2023-24 Alto Choral Scholar for St Cecelia Chorus, Banstead. Hope has an ongoing relationship with The Fourth Choir, and has performed at Wilton Music Hall (The Dead), The Barbican (Classical Pride; Sky Arts, A Concert of Transcendence), and The Royal Albert Hall (Handel’s Messiah; BBC Proms). Hope also performs as a competition winning Drag Queen, Lady Harmony Heaven (1st – Bootcamp; Two Brewers, Finalist – It’s A Knockout; Halfway to Heaven, 1st – Dragageddon; The Divine, 1st – Anything Goes; Bar Broadway). Previous roles include: Finn in The Legend of Finn McCool (Not Just Opera), Valintin/Wagner in Faust (NSO, Guildford Opera), Andy in 42nd Street (ESPA), Acis and Damon in Acis and Galatea (NSO, Chichester Conservertoire), The Sourceress in Dido and Aeneas (POP), Mopsa/Autumn/Chorus in The Fairy Queen (Not Just Opera), and Mercury in Orpheus in the Underworld (Chichester Conservertoire).

Presented in association with St James’s Music Scholars Programme

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