Siobhán Oliver

[gareth]

At Katherine's official forum, I was introduced to the singing of 18-year old Siobhán Oliver from Ireland.

I was sufficiently impressed to get in touch with her parents, and as a result I have now added a new page to the Young Classical Performers MSN Group:

groups.msn.com/YoungClassicalPerformers/siobhanoliver.msnw

She has had very limited formal singing lessons to date - but even without that, she does sing very well.

The videos on that page were recorded by her dad - and the audio track on the videos is identical to the mp3s. There's a bit of clipping in the sound, but it doesn't detract a lot from the singing.

By the way, she is performing Lascia Chio Pianga and Panis Angelicus

Gerrit

[roger]

Thanks Gerrit. You seem to get busier by the day!

Siobhán sounds really good to me and I hope we get to hear more from her before too long.

Roger

[gareth]

Hi All,

With thanks to Sibh's mother Al, I have a new video of Sibh performing Mein Herr Marquis:

www.classicalrelatedperformances.com/siobhan/meinherrmarquis_siobhan_feb2006.wmv

I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed this performance. It's a home-made video, and you can see (hear) that - but for a home video, it's fantastic quality - and I don't mind saying, Sibh is a fantastic singer.

I so loved this performance!

Check it out!

Gerrit

[Richard]

Thanks for posting the video Gerrit!

I really enjoyed Siobhán's version of the Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II, although I don't think I've heard those lyrics before. It would have been written in German originally, so there are probably many different translations. It was a wonderful performance by Siobhán, and the man in the hat was priceless! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Best Wishes from London,

Richard