Photo - Will Hay

Congratulations to Head Chorister Emily Burnett and Choral Scholar Edward Reid who have recently attained remarkably high distinctions in their advanced level singing exams. They both toured Belgium recently with their school choir, Abbey Gate College Chapel Choir performing as part of the quartet in Allegri’s Miserere in Bruges.

Emily has been a chorister in the Cathedral Choir for ten years and head chorister for the last four. She will be appearing as soloist with Chester Cathedral Nave Choir in their performance of the Messiah next week. She will be leaving the choir at the end of this term to spend a gap year in Ghana volunteering in a school building programme before taking up further musical study in Cambridge or London.

Edward has been a choral scholar with the Cathedral Choir since January 2009 and recently won the People to People Vocal Award in Chester which operates a musical scholarship exchange with Lakewood in America. He will be leaving for New Zealand at the end of term to take up a post of Choral Scholar at Christchurch Cathedral.