Vachel Baroque

March 15, 16, 22, 23, 24 & 25, 2025

Auditions: January 17 & 18, 2025 in London

The 2025 JBYAP aims to empower 6 emerging singers (SSATBB) aged 18 – c.26 to pursue solo opportunities alongside consort and choral singing. Our Young Artists will take part in two residential weekends of intensive training at The Vache, including movement sessions, individual coaching sessions, a consort masterclasses with Jonathan Howard (The King’s Singers) and a solo masterclass with Joanne Lunn (Bach specialist, one of Britain’s leading Baroque sopranos in great demand throughout Europe and across the world). JBYAs will also receive professional development support, including a CV workshop, a headshot photoshoot and a video recording session.

The programme will culminate with JBYAs performing as part of our Out of the Deep project at Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford and Smith Square Hall, London alongside leading soloists, choral colleagues and the VB Band.

Further information: https://vachebaroque.com/jbyap/

Audition repertoire:

- An aria or song from any era which you think shows off your voice and musicianship well!

- The voice part that suits you best from John Wilbye’s ‘Ye that do live in pleasures plenty’, b. 43 ‘Come sing…’ to the end

- The voice part that suits you best from J. S. Bach’s ‘Aus der Tiefen’, p. 42 (Figure W) up to the first beat of p. 48 (Figure Y)

Audition pack: https://vachebaroque.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/JBYAP-2025-Information-sheet.pdf

Application form: https://vachebaroque.com/jbyap/