Meet our vocalist for 'A Walk in Hamilton Gardens' performance at Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival - Cecily Shaw
Cecily has recently completed a Master of Music at the University of Waikato, under the tutelage of Glenese Blake, and supervision of Stephanie Acraman and Dr. Rachael Griffiths-Hughes. This year, Cecily was delighted to receive the Wallace Corporation Blues Award for University of Waikato's Performing and Creative Arts Person of the Year.
Cecily has been an alto soloist with VOX Baroque, the Edgecumbe, New Zealand Choir, Cantando Choir Hamilton, Hamilton Civic Choir, and Scholars Baroque Aotearoa, and has attended Chamber Music New Zealand’s 2017 Bach Cantata Residency, with Juliard415 and Masaaki Suzuki. She has played the role of Cherubino in Waikato University’s 2016 production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Cornelia in Handel Consort and Quire’s 2019 production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto. In her spare time, Cecily enjoys composing humorous songs for ukulele, which can be found on her YouTube channel, Socratena -
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