Macmillan Carol Concert
at Ripon Cathedral By Candlelight
Ticket Release Date: 4th November 2024
Monday, 2nd December 2024 at 7.30pm (doors open 6.45pm)
Please save the date, 2nd December, for this special evening of entertainment. Tickets will go on sale from Monday 4th November 2024
Tickets Available For
7:30 PM
Christmas prize draw
Featured Guests 2024
Together with professional musicians and the choirs of Aysgarth and Queen Mary’s schools.
Guest Speaker
William Butler-Adams OBE
Chief Executive Officer, Brompton Bicycle
Will is a Chartered Engineer having studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Newcastle and previously worked for Nissan and DuPont. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute and has an honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London. He has a keen interest in education and was a founding trustee of the Inspiring the Future charity, as well as a trustee of Investors in People and Commissioner for the governments UK Commission for Education and Skills. He is a visiting lecturer at Imperial Collage on engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship, has published a book on business and lectures globally. In 2015 he was awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to Industry.
Guest Reader
Belinda Williams
Belinda Williams, is Co owner founder of the highly respected Yorkshire Party Company Events producing incredible events and parties. Belinda co founded of the Yorkshire Provender soup brand in 2008 , seeing a gap in the market for premium soup. The Buisness was grown from the events company kitchen moving to its own a purpose built multi-million pound factory in 2013 . Proud to be a Yorkshire business and working with artisan farmers and suppliers, making the ingredients the Heroes ,retailing in most national supermarkets . Yorkshire Provender was sold to multi national Hain Celestial in 2018. Belinda continues to play an active role at Yorkshire Party Co, and sits as NED on a number of boards.
Jenny Bianco
Soloist
Prior to her career as Aysgarth and Queen Mary’s mum, Jenny was a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama’s Opera course, performing with the Welsh National Opera, Chelmsford City Opera, Opera’r Ddraig and British Youth Opera. As concert soloist, Jenny has appeared at the Dinas Powys Music Festival, Powderham Castle, St Chad’s Shrewsbury, St James Piccadilly and has performed with Wetherby Choral Society, Exeter Bach Society, Ryton Chorale and the Chanticleer Singers. Jenny has also been a member of choirs including the Bach Choir and Kings College London Chapel Choir, taking part in concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Cadogan Hall, touring to France and Australia and CD and film recordings.
Jenny is also a founding member of the professional soloists choir the Jervaulx Singers, who have appeared at the Grassington and Swaledale Festivals, St James’ Piccadilly, the Peak Music Concert Society, the Wensleydale Concert Series and the University of Leeds Concert Series. Jenny and musical director Charlie Gower-Smith have an innovative approach to programming, combining sacred and secular choral music alongside opera extracts and solo songs to convey narrative whilst giving display to the group’s incredible individual voices. The group’s debut album Les Chansons des Roses was released in October 2024 on the Convivium Records label.
Compere
Jane Ashe
Jane Ashe (nee Tennant) is a director at Tennants Fine Art Auctioneers, the largest specialist auction house in the UK. Tennants’ twenty-seven different departments hold over 85 auctions each year with a major focus on Private Collections, Specialist Sales and Single Owner Estates. Alongside an extensive and varied programme of auctions, Tennants’ free to enter galleries and exhibitions have helped the business to become a major visitor destination which now welcomes more than 300,000 people each year. Jane is a fourth-generation member of the family business, and as a long-time supporter of the Macmillan Carol Concert at Ripon Cathedral, is delighted to be master of ceremonies this evening.
Having started her career in the salerooms in her early 20s when she was then one of the youngest female auctioneers in the country, Jane has been on the rostrum on a weekly basis ever since and is now widely regarded as one of the UK’s foremost auctioneers. Jane leads on many national, international and specialist sales at Tennants which include Fine Art and Antiques, Modern Art and Interiors, Jewellery, Fashion and more. During a career spanning more than 15 years, Jane has experienced many highlights, the most recent when she sold “The North Sea” a rare work by L.S. Lowry which achieved more than £1 million, a house record for Tennants’ Pictures department.
With a degree from the University of Durham and as a qualified interior designer, Jane’s passion for history, style and interiors is a strong theme in her personal life. Jane is a keen advocate of the Antiques Industry as a sustainable alternative to buying “new”. She has made appearances on BBC radio, been published in trade magazines and has helped to raise thousands of pounds for good causes through auctions and events.
Ticket Release Date: 4th November 2024
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