Rosie Cameron, soprano

David O’Shea, piano

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

‘Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion’ – Messiah (1742)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

‘Blute nur, du liebes Herz’ – St Matthew Passion (1727)

William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)

‘I will love Thee, O Lord’ – The Woman of Samaria (1867)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

‘Hear ye, Israel’ – Elijah (1846)

Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

‘My Redeemer and My Lord’ – The Golden Legend (1886)

Ina Boyle (1889-1967)

‘Sleep Song’ (1923)

Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891-1918)

‘La Tristesse’ (1914)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

‘Silent Noon’ – The House of Life (1904)

Hamilton Harty (1879-1941)

‘The Fiddler of Dooney’ (1938)

Charles Wood (1866-1926)

‘Shall I Forget’ (N/A, pub. 1927)

Rosie Cameron is a soprano and an aspiring musicologist from Rostrevor, County Down. She is currently undertaking the MA in Performance and Musicology degree at Maynooth University where she studies voice with Kathryn Smith. Her thesis, supervised by Prof. Fiona M. Palmer, explores the profile of the oratorio soprano in the British Marketplace (1840s–1950s). Rosie graduated with a first-class BMus degree from Maynooth University in 2023 and she was also awarded the Third Year BMus Prize for the highest mark. A keen choral singer, she performed with the Ulster Youth Chamber Choir at the 2018 BBC Proms in the Park at Titanic Slipways, broadcast on BBC1. In August 2023, she was awarded the William Lauder Scholarship with the Charles Wood Singers where she performed in broadcasts on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio 3. In March 2024, she was a finalist and placed second in the Charles Wood Junior Song Competition held in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh. Rosie has also participated in masterclasses led by Sir Thomas Allen, Paul Farrington, Sharon Carty, and the late Kathryn Harries OBE. In Maynooth, she has performed with the Maynooth University Chamber Choir, and she is a current member of the Maynooth University Choral Society with whom she has performed choral works including Haydn’s Creation and the Fauré and Verdi Requiems. Having developed an interest in plainchant during her undergraduate studies, Rosie is also a member of the specialist all-female ensemble Schola Gregoriana Maynooth

David O’Shea enjoys a busy musical career as a keyboard-player, conductor, teacher and researcher. He was educated at the DIT Conservatory of Music (BMus), University of Cambridge (MMus), and Trinity College, Dublin (PhD), and is Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Since 2011, David has been organist of the grouped parishes of Sandford Parish Church, Ranelagh, and St Philip’s, Milltown, where he coordinates a busy musical programme and directs the junior and adult choirs. He has given organ recitals in such varied venues as the National Concert Hall, Dublin, St Michael’s Church, Dún Laoghaire, Armagh Cathedral, St Martin’s Church, Dudelange (Luxembourg), and the Sinsinawa Dominican Centre, Wisconsin, USA. David is involved with numerous music education projects, and lectures at the TU Dublin Conservatoire in Grangegorman. He teaches the organ privately, and is also the Education & Outreach Officer with Pipeworks. He is also occupied with research into church music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and his book The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, 1814–1922 was recently published by the Boydell Press.

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