Singing

All enquiries to the Section Co-Ordinator: Mrs Helen Mountain, 01392 681528, Email

NO AMPLIFICATION OF ANY KIND IS ALLOWED.  BACKING TRACKS ARE PERMITTED BUT MUST CONTAIN NO VOCALS AT ALL AND THE PLAYBACK MACHINE MUST BE PROVIDED/OPERATED BY THE COMPETITOR 

Adjudicator: Irene Grant-Jones BA(Hons),LRAM,QTS

Irene is a specialist singing adjudicator and teacher based in Bedford.

Regularly coaching pupils for auditions, grades and diplomas, pupils have gone on to study at Mountview, Italia Conti, Emil Dale, and The Royal Northern College of Music.

Her enthusiasm for inspiring singers of all ages underpins her vocal journey. She won the soprano prize at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in North Wales as a teenager before continuing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music under Flora Nielsen and Clara Taylor and being awarded the Parepa Rosa prize.

Irene’s work covers opera, oratorio, solo recitals and musical theatre. Most recent performances include the Messiah, Carmina Burana, Bach Cantata 51 and operatic arias from Carmen, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, Russalka, Gianni Schicchi, Cavalleria Rusticana, La Traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor, as well as many of the show songs from musicals and soloist at the Bedford Proms in the Park with the London Philharmonia.

In recent months, Irene has enjoyed adjudicating at the following Festivals: Isle of Wight, Northfield, Worcester, Oundle, Chipping Norton, Leamington Spa, Burton upon Trent, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Broadstairs, Gorleston, Suffolk, Sudbury, Rochester, Darlington, Dudley, Leamington Spa, Hatfield, Leicester, Worcester, Chelmsford,