Alice Halstead on BBC One Songs of Praise

KEHS Upper Vth Alice Halstead appears again on BBC One Songs of Praise at 5pm this Sunday 17th January, singing “Be Still for the Presence of the Lord” from St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, in a programme featuring X-Factor runner up Rhydian Roberts.
 
Alice has just finished her year as BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year, which included her first recording experience on Karl Jenkins' album Stella Natalis for EMI, which was Number 1 for four weeks in the Specialist Classical Chart.  
 
Alice said: “I am so grateful for the keen support and interest of my school. My year of being Young Chorister has been full of amazing experiences, and I have had so many incredible opportunities. I’m now working for my GCSEs, before an exciting World Challenge trip to Mongolia in the summer, and then: who knows?”
 
Alice is one of the youngest members of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and sings in Ex Cathedra’s Academy of Vocal Music.
 
During the last year, Alice has made several appearances on BBC One Songs of Praise, and featured in many national radio broadcasts.
 
For BBC Radio 2 she has been heard on:
 
•              Good Morning Sunday with Aled Jones;
•              Sunday Half Hour with Fr Brian D’Arcy from Belfast, Manchester and Wells Cathedral;
•              Friday Night Is Music Night at Christmas with Aled Jones, Ailish Tynan, Sue Perkins, the BBC Concert Orchestra and London Voices;
•              At The Foot of the Cross with Ken Bruce - excerpts from the Messiah in St. Paul's Cathedral with the BBC Concert Orchestra in front of an audience of over 2,000 people, broadcast on Good Friday.
 
For BBC Radio 3 she performed live from Birmingham Town Hall as part of the Mendelssohn weekend on In Tune with Sean Rafferty singing “O for the Wings of a Dove”.
 
For BBC Radio 4 she led the singing in Sunday Worship from St Alphege Church, Solihull, on Mothering Sunday, and sang twice on the Daily Service.
 
Alice has also performed in several celebrity charity concerts:
 
•              With Ruby Turner in Birmingham Town Hall celebrating 100 years of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital;
•              For the Institute of Cancer Research in the Royal Hospital Chapel, Chelsea, helping to raise £75,000;
•              For Churches Action on Homelessness with the Aber Valley Male Voice Choir;
•              For Christian Solidarity Worldwide in Glasgow and London, and on Premier Christian Radio and God TV;
•              For Birmingham Churches Together in a multi-lingual fundraiser in Birmingham Cathedral.


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