Those who attended the Celebration of St David’s Day Concert at MLC on Saturday 25 February would have gone home with a feeling of satisfaction that the quality and enjoyment of this event keeps getting better year by year.

Our soloist Naomi Flatman’s performance of Una voce Poco fa (Barber of Seville) and Laudate Dominum (Mozart) together with James Emerson’s stirring Aprite Un po’ Quegli Occhi (Mozart) and Listen Mary (Mae Brahe) clearly demonstrated that the future of Australian classical singing is in good
hands.

Naomi’s later performance of Can’t help lovin’ that man (Gershwin) and So in Love (Cole Porter) and James’ Some enchanted evening (Rodgers/Hammerstein) and Stars (Schonberg/Boublil) which was sung with choir backing, showed these artists to be equally at home in the world of
musical theatre.

The choir’s stirring opening bracket of Llanfair, Hiraeth and The World in Union set the tone for a wonderful evening’s
entertainment.

The evening ended with Naomi and James joining the choir for the evocative You’ll Never Walk Alone followed by the Welsh National Anthem. The resounding applause at the end of
the evening said it all.

We were lucky to have James perform with us since he is shortly heading off to London to continue his studies at the Royal Academy of Music.

Thank you, James and Naomi, we wish you well in your studies and your future careers. Thanks too, to Konrad Olszewski whose artistry at the piano brought out the best in all
the performers.