By Andrew Clarke

Last updated at 10:27, Friday, 22 June 2012

THREE soloists are flying into Whitehaven to help boost a church’s restoration fund.

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Tenerife-based trio Trevor Dane (clarinet), Mary Dane (organ) and Hamish Stewart (baritone) perform a Grand Concert in the United Reformed Church – accompanied by the newly-formed Whitehaven Symphonica orchestra, a group of talented local musicians, in its first ever concert.

Money raised from the show, on Saturday, July 7 at 7.30pm, will go towards the church’s roof restoration fund.

The programme includes Mozart’s famous Clarinet Concerto K 622, Handel’s well-known Organ Concerto in Bb and his fantastic Music for the Royal Fireworks, plus a selection of popular songs including favourites from South Pacific.

Hamish has been performing lead roles since the age of 17, and starred in 15 Gilbert & Sullivan operas and other musicals with the Perth Operatic Society.

He continued studying with Donald Maxwell, the principal bass/baritone with the English National Opera in London, and at the age of 25, he made his operatic debut as Count Tomski in The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky.

He became principal baritone, singing in a variety of operatic roles, and was invited to sing the role of the Count in The Marriage of Figaro at the Scottish Royal Academy. He moved to Tenerife in 1999.

Mary qualified as a music teacher in London where she was active as a soloist and continued her love of composition. Before moving to Tenerife in 1981, she taught music at both secondary and junior levels, directing and writing shows.

On her arrival in Tenerife, she joined the staff of the British School in Puerto de la Cruz and was appointed organist and choir mistress at All Saints’ Church in 1993.

Trevor started playing the clarinet when he was 13, and two years later, represented the North Ridings of Yorkshire in the National Orchestra of Great Britain.

He won two scholarships, one to the Royal Northern College of Music and the other to the Royal College of Music in London, and in 1958, he became professor of clarinet at Dartington Hall, Devon.

He became solo clarinet of the Royal Horse Guards The Blues, and nine years later, was headhunted by the RAF where he found himself principal clarient of all the RAF bands.

Upon retiring from the RAF, Trevor took the position of principal clarinet of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, followed by a career as a soloist.

Tickets are £10, including a refreshment, and accompanied under 16-year-olds go free. They are available from Whitehaven Tourist Information Centre, Jean Gordon on 01946 65450 or on the door.

First published at 11:10, Thursday, 21 June 2012
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk