The Annual Christmas Concert, 2007

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The Christmas Concert was a magical evening...

with stunning international musicians including Diana Galvydyte, Jo Appleby, Andrew Rees,The Sussex Symphony Orchestra & choirs...

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Top Left: Mark Andrew James, Andrew Rees, Jake Sutherland Rowe, Diana Galvydyte & Jo Appleby

Top Center: Jake Sutherland Rowe Top Right: Diana Galvydyte

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             left to right: Diana Galvydyte  : Mark Andrew James : Andrew Rees : Jo Appleby
 (photos courtesy of Picsnapper.co.uk)

 Click here for more information about the performers on the SSO website

   REVIEW:

Tim French & It's Magic Christmas Concert was a festive feast of Christmas warmth. The audience enjoyed a relaxed concert with balanced vocal and musical clarity from The Sussex Symphony Orchestra, choirs and stunning international musicians and vocalists.

Jake Sutherland-Rowe sang the 1st verse of 'Once in Royal David's City' and later a beautiful rendition of 'Walking in the air'.

Jo Appleby looked stunningly beautiful and floated onto the set in red. Andrew Rees looked dashing and the pair sang together beautifully for duets including 'A perfect Year', 'Joy to the World', 'Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas' and 'Winter Wonderland'.

An international success, Diana Galvydyte, is a prize winner of 15 International competitions and recently has been awarded a special commendation by the president of Lithuania for recognition of her efforts in promoting her homeland throughout the world. Diana truly proved to be in a league of her own, and had the ability to amaze the audience with a seemingly effortless Tchaikowsky violin concerto. This was thoroughly enjoyed by the audience and one person was heard to comment ' she made the violin sing'. (Diana will be returning to Victoria Park, Haywards Heath next summer July 5th, as a soloist at Katherine Jenkins in concert, subscribe FREE on

www.itsmagic.org.uk for early ticket release information)

The conductor, Mark Andrew James and Tenor, Andrew Rees, also read comical extracts adding their own flavour of quality entertainment for an appreciative audience.

This concert was a fitting introduction to the goodwill of the festive season, with raffle funds raised to support the Princess Royal Hospital Campaign to save the maternity unit, everyone went away in good spirits full of music and festive song.

Tim and It’s Magic would like to wish concert goers and supporters a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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Diana Galvydyte - International Violin

Due to her international performing success the president of the Lithuanian Republic, Algirdas Brazauskas, awarded Diana with a special commendation: ‘These awards are in recognition of your successful efforts in promoting our Homeland Lithuania throughout the World’.
Diana has performed in the UK, Lithuania, Netherlands, Austria and Canada appearing with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Madeira Classical Orchestra, Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Charkov Symphony Orchestra and various Lithuanian orchestras. She has performed in venues such as Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, Chamber Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Theater Diligentia in the Hague, Konzerthaus in Vienna. Diana is a recipient of Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Foundation Award, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award, Hattori Foundation Award and Musicians Benevolent Fund Music Education Award. She is also a winner of the 2007 Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, awarded by the Making Music Federation. Supporting the Princess Royal Hospital

Diana was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1984. At the age of six she entered Ciurlionis Gymnasium of Art in Lithuania and in 2000 was invited to the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. She is currently studying at the Royal College of Music with Professor Natalia Boyarsky.

Diana has also received coaching from Mstislav Rostropovich, Zakhar Bron, Stefan Gheorghiu, Rudolf Koelman, Dora Schwarzberg, Petru Munteanu and Zvi Zeitlin. Diana is a prize-winner of 15 international competitions including Hohenlohe in Germany, Kotorovich in Ukraine, and Remember Enescu in Romania. Recent successes include becoming a laureate of the International Jasha Heifetz Competition in Lithuania. She was a finalist in the Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition and was awarded the prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary set work. In Denmark was also awarded the European Prize for Achievement.

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