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Amabile Girls' Choir, Kendal
Amabile Girls' Choir gave its first formal concert in
March 1996. Its founder, Charlotte Jackson, subsequently
established a Training Choir for girls aged 8 - 12 years
in 2000, followed in 2002 by a Pre-Training Choir for
girls aged 4 - 7 years. In February 2000, Pamela Cook
MBE became Amabile's President.
Amabile has sung in five Music for Youth National Choral
Festivals. In 2000 it was a semi-finalist in the Sainsbury's
Choir of the Year Competition. At the Llangollen International
Musical Eisteddfod 2002 Amabile won the Senior Children's
Choir class.
The choir's foreign tours include Belgium in 2000, Washington
DC 2003, Provence and, Thessaloniki Greece,in 2004. Most
recently the choir was awarded a first prize in a European
Musical Festival for Youngsters, Neerpelt, Belgium, May
2006.
Local and national performances include, A National Choral
Festival at the Royal Northern College of Music, A Centenary
Celebration of Gerald Finzi in the Lake District, two
shared concerts with Cantamus Girls' Choir, the Kendal
Jack Symons Christmas Charity Concert, with Wyn Davies
conducting and a performance at the inaugural celebrations
of The Sage, Gateshead.
In March 2005 Amabile's outstanding contribution to the
civic life of Kendal was formally recognised with the
Alfred Wainwright Memorial Award.
As well as the broadcast of Sainsbury's Choir of the Year
2000, Amabile has appeared on the BBC's Songs of Praise
programme, Border TV and Greek national television.
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