Title: Talk by LEWIS ALLAN
Location: British Library
Start Time: 17:00 hrs
Date: 2009-02-25
Talk at British Library on 25 February at 5.00 P.M. by yoga instructor and Trinity College examiner
LEWIS ALLAN BA(Hons.) LGSM LRAM PGCE MSTSD
Examiner for Trinity College, London Speech & Drama
organised by British Library and JAGRITI
Lewis Allan has been a professional concert singer for over twenty-five years, and a teacher of speech, drama and musical theatre since 1990. He has examined and adjudicated in the UK, Ireland, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Malta, Australia, India, Hong Kong and California and continues to perform, and to teach both at his home and at his studio near Edinburgh.
Lewis is a qualified yoga instructor, which he finds invaluable in his teaching and performing.
Following a term with the Scottish Opera, Lewis became a freelance professional singer/actor and performed with The Scottish Theatre Company at The Edinburgh International Festival and in Warsaw with The Tyne and Wear Theatre Company; with Music Theatre (Scotland), The Scottish Singers’ Company in “Fiddler on the Roof” and in the World War I epic (later shown on BBC 2), “The Big Picnic”. His portrayal of Noye in Benjamin Britten’s opera, “Noye’s Fludde” received excellent press comments.
Lewis was bass-baritone soloist at The Seychelles International Festival of Classical Music in Nairobi and The Seychelles in May-June, 2004, where he was involved in Verdi’s ”Requiem” and Puccini’s “Messa di Gloria”.