CHICAGO ALUMNI CLUB CHRISTMAS CONCERT ******************************************************************

When: Wednesday, 9th December 2009
Where: Temple Church
Time: 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Tube: Temple, Blackfriars, Chancery Lane, St.Paul's
Train: City Thameslink
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The University of Chicago Alumni Club of the UK invites all alumni, friends, family and guests to a Christmas concert at Temple Church, a magnificent historic gem, hidden away within the Inns of Court and dating back to the 12th century.

This is the first concert hosted by the Chicago Alumni Club of the UK in collaboration with the accomplished, young composer and conductor Alexander Campkin, a graduate of Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music and a finalist in the British Composer of the Year Award 2008.

Alexander will conduct The Oxbridge Singers, a chamber choir of professional singers, who will perform a repertoire of well known pieces and carols, as well as his own award winning compositions and the premiere of Christmas Gifts.

Following the performance a reception will be held in the oldest part of Temple Church, the Norman Round Church, which some of you might remember from the movie The Da Vinci Code.

 Devotees or critics of the Dan Brown novel will even find a book there, which explores the novel's claims and is authored by the Master of the Temple, the Revd Robin Griffith-Jones. 

We look forward to bring together alumni and guests from across the community for a musical celebration and hope to make this an annual seasonal occasion.

The event is kindly supported by

Global Markets Consultants

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When: Wednesday, 9th December 2009
Where: Temple Church
Time: 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Tube: Temple,  Blackfriars, Chancery Lane, St.Paul's
Train: City Thameslink
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Children are admitted free of charge

Contact:
Ulrike Koeppl, MBA'08 (EXP-13)

ukoeppl@chicagobooth.edu

Alexander Campkin (b. 1984) studied Music at Oxford University, where he was Choral Scholar, Assistant Organ Scholar, and conductor of the Oxford Chamber Choir and Arcadian Singers of Oxford University. He completed a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music in 2008, after which he began a Postgraduate Diploma in Vienna at the Universität für Musik. Alexander was a finalist in the 2008 British Composer Awards, and was highly commended in the BBC Proms Young Composers’ Competition. Alexander was recently appointed Composer-in-Residence in Neresheim Abbey in Germany and Composer-in-Residence of the Fulham Camerata. His music has been in numerous radio broadcasts in the UK, US and South America. As conductor and composer, he has worked with ensembles including the BBC Singers, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Sinfonietta, Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Tyler Youth Orchestra (Texas, USA), Ensemble Progress (Berlin) and the Jeunnesse Kammerchor (Vienna).

The Oxbridge Singers were founded in 2005 by their principal conductor Alexander Campkin. The choir is drawn from a hand-picked selection of Choral Scholars from Oxford and Cambridge both past and present and further includes postgraduate singers from the Royal Academy of Music. The choir is based in London, and in addition to a busy concert schedule, The Oxbridge Singers have raised thousands of pounds in a concert series for charities including Cancer Research and Crisis.