Amy Patton - The National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland: online but in-tune!
Grosvenor Grammar School pupil Amy Patton, who was invited to attend the National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland’s online training course during Halloween half-term.
Congratulations to Grosvenor’s talented chorister Amy Patton, Year 11, who was recently selected to attend an online training course with the National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland’s Junior Choir, held at the end of October.
The event, which would normally take place in July but was delayed due to Covid, was instead held during the October half-term and involved a tightly-structured, well-organised programme: this included online activities each morning with conductor Alison McNeill, such as musicianship classes, with music and backing tracks sent out to the participants in advance. The afternoons were spent engaging in various tasks, such as walks at local beaches and forests, where participants were asked to take photographs for use in videos put together at the end of the week, while evening sessions saw further events take place, such as a ceili and a talent show - where anything but singing was allowed!
Despite the event being unable to proceed in its normal fashion, it still proved highly worthwhile, with Amy commenting on the energy that she felt off her fellow participants, as well as how enjoyable she found the course in general. The final singing pieces, recorded digitally throughout the week, were put together through November 2020 and released in December – the finished videos can be seen at the links below.
When I Close My Eyes – NYCNI Junior Choir
For Amy, the NYCNI training week helped to build her confidence and develop her already impressive singing voice yet further – with this in mind, when current circumstances change we look forward to seeing her on the Grosvenor stage once again, impressing all with her enviable ‘voice of an angel’.