The Pamoja Hall really came into its own on Friday 18 March with a spectacular Choral Concert performed to a full house.

The first half of the evening was a perfectly balanced programme of interesting and varied pieces. A choral arrangement of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess provided an uplifting and amusing opening by the Sennocke Consort, with an outstanding solo performance from Zoe Bailey.

There followed a number of high quality solo performers selected from the recent Gerald Finley Lieder masterclass. Oliver Clarke’s ‘Gute Nacht’ by Schubert was confident and engaging. In Mozart’s ‘Sull’aria’ there was great rapport between the two lively sopranos, Heather Catchpole and Morwenna Kotz. Tom Triffit’s debonair ‘The Vagabond’ by Vaughan Williams was professionally accompanied, as ever, by Jacob Rainbow.

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