Rebecca Clarke Song Competition - Applications
Katy Garden
SINGER
Katy Garden
NATIONALITY:
British
PIANIST
Ben Jenkins
PIANIST TO BE CONSIDERED FOR PRIZE?
Yes
SINGER BIOGRAPHY:
Katy Garden is a Canadian-British soprano who lives in the South-West of England. Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, after a successful start to her music career in Vancouver performing contemporary classical music, she moved to the UK in 2010 to pursue her Masters of Music at the Royal College of Music. Since then, she has performed with professional choirs in the UK and Norway, and performed as a soprano soloist with a number choral societies, with highlights including Verdi's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria and Jenkin's Armed Man. She has performed in several operas including Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro with Bath Opera. Ben Jenkins and Katy Garden first started working together after performing in a Ukraine fundraising concert at the Bristol Beacon. They perform regularly together as a duo in Clevedon and Bristol and their favourite regular gig is with 100 year old cinema, The Curzon Clevedon - providing live music before their ROH screenings.
Video and Audio links:
1. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RaZS2exJFBM
2.https://www.icloud.com/photos/#/icloudlinks/0759MFoTUIpTAurnrMWF9n4DQ/
APPLICATION VIDEO 1:
Lift Me into Heaven by Libby Larsen from Cowboy Songs. 17 Novemer, 2025
APPLICATION VIDEO 2:
It was a Lover and His lass- Madeline Dring. 17 November, 2025
SEMI-FINAL AND FINAL PROGRAMME PROPOSED:
Semi Final:
Under the Greenwood Tree - Madeline Dring 1.49
It was a lover - Madleine Dring 2.10
Shy one - Rebecca Clarke 1:38
The Cloths of Heaven - Rebecca Clarke 2:14
Nightingale - 4 Songs from Hafez - Sally Beamish 3:33
Finals:
It was a lover - Madeline Dring 2:10
Blow Blow thou Winter Wind - Madeline Dring 1:47
Shy one - Rebecca Clarke 1:38
The Cherry Blossom Wand - Rebecca Clarke 2:53
Nightingale - 4 Songs from Hafez - Sally Beamish 3:33
Down by the Sally Gardens - Rebecca Clarke 1:51
Cradle Song - Rebecca Clarke 2:56
Jesus on a Train - Errolyn Wallen 3:01
