Handel - Eternal Source of Light Divine - Avington Park

On Saturday 31st July 2021 I performed for a wedding celebration at Avington Park near Winchester. A couple of classical music lovers from New York state celebrated a wedding ceremony at this fantastic venue in the Itchen valley, and hired the quartet Leos Strings for their special day. 

I played Purcell's Trumpet Tune for the entrance of the Groom and Groomsmen, with Leos Strings - led by Laura Senior (we were contemporaries at the RNCM). 

Another RNCM alumna, Jennifer Coleman, was the soprano soloist. She sang Andrew Lloyd Weber's Pie Jesu, and we performed Handel's Eternal Source of Light Divine together as the couple signed the book.

I played John Stanley's Trumpet Voluntary with Leos Strings as the happy couple departed.

The ceremony also featured Borodin's Notturno, Debussy's Clair de Lune and Puccini's Nessun Dorma. The whole event was live-streamed so their friends and family across the Atlantic could tune in.