Heavenly Harmonies

West Derbyshire URC Church

United Reformed Church, DE4 4FB, Wirksworth, England, United Kingdom

Natalie Windsor

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Artist BiographyNatalie Windsor studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, following on from a degree in Music with Japanese at Keele University, and singing with the Stoke-on-Trent City Youth Choir. Natalie has worked with many fantastic coaches, each one suggesting interesting ways to approach making sound, and thinking about the voice.Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Natalie grew up and studied amidst a thriving, passionate amateur music scene performing grand choral works in the newly refurbished Victoria Hall, Hanley, and local productions of musicals and opera. While studying at Keele University, through ambitous leadership of Matthew Willis, Natalie performed in collaborations of great works such as Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony and Berlioz’ Grande messe des morts, an opera gala evening and semi-staged productions of Dido and Aeneas and Acis and Galatea.As a soprano and alto soloist, Natalie has sung the role of Dido at the Westminster Theatre in North Staffordshire, Handel’s Galatea in a semi-staged production at Keele, and Belinda in Opera Ingestre’s production of Dido and Aeneas, cond. Olly Lees. In sacred works, Natalie performed Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the London LLB Orchestra and Choir dir. Matthew Willis, Mozart’s Requiem with The Barbara Walton Singers cond. David Burrowes, and Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle with Derby Bach Choir cond. Richard Roddis.After university, alongside classical development, Natalie immersed herself in jazz music and improvisation, exploring the boundaries between contemporary and baroque ornamentation. Natalie taught with Derby Jazz and recorded an album with jazz pianist Matt Ratcliffe, for Tariq Abdulla’s ‘Scientific Songs of Praise’, which went viral, and some was featured on Richard Dawkins’ website. Natalie is emerging as a jazz soloist, and leads a holistic singing group where members explore the therapeutic qualities, and improvise in modes of the major scale.Natalie is performing with Jonathan Priestley, classical guitarist, with music from Hildegard von Bingen to Mikis Theodorakis. With Nick Gravestock, lutenist, Natalie performs in period costume as ‘Ayres and Graces’, in historical venues. Songs and sonnets from the melancholy to the bawdy, with authentic pronunciation.