| Harry Sever was BBC Young Chorister of the Year 2003. He is currently a music and academic scholar at Winchester College, where he was
Head Quirister from 2003-2004. Harry has performed widely as a soloist and broadcast frequently on radio and television. he has appeared on Songs of Praise, Sunday Half Hour and taken part in charity events with Katherine Jenkins, Aled Jones, and Sir Cliff Richard; recent concerts have included Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at the Barbican and (in March 2005) Classic Response at the Albert Hall. Among his recordings are 'Hear my Prayer' with Winchester College Chapel Choir (Herald HAVPCD 303) and 'In Paradisium' with The Boys' Air Choir (Victor VICP 62874). He has sung the role of Miles in Britten's 'Turn of the Screw' at Cambridge, and as first boy in Mozart's 'Magic Flute' at Glyndebourne. Besides singing, Harry plays the piano, organ and viola, and is a keen sportsman.
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Discography
My Own Country: a Recital of English Song (2005)
Herald HAVPCD 311
With Harry Sever - boy soprano and Robert Bottone - piano
1. Orpheus with his lute (Sullivan)
2. Edward Gray (Sullivan)
3. Weep you no more (Parry)
4. Willow, willow, willow (Parry)
5. Over the mountains (Quilter)
6. Drink to me only (arr. Quilter)
7. A poet's hymn (Dyson)
8. Song of the Cyclops (Dyson)
9. The stranger (Armstrong Gibbs)
10. Five eyes (Armstrong Gibbs)
11. Down by the Salley Gardens (Gurney)
12. Snow (Gurney)
13. O, my deir hert (Howells)
14. King David (Howells)
15. My own country (Warlock)
16. Rest, sweet nymphs (Warlock)
17. Tewkesbury Road (Head)
18. Lavender Pond (Head)
19. Tom Bowling (Britten)
20. The choirmaster's burial (Britten)
Hear my prayer (2004)
Herald HAVP303
With trebles Harry Sever and Thomas Jesty and James Davy (organ)
Winchester College Chapel Choir directed by Christopher Tolley
1 Hear my prayer (Harry Sever)
2 I know that my redeemer liveth (Harry Sever)
3 O nomen Jesu (Harry Sever and Thomas Jesty)
4 I will lift up mine eyes
5 Hear ye, Israel (Harry Sever)
6 God is gone up
7 The Woodcutter's Song (Thomas Jesty and Ashley Riches (flute)
8 O mysterium ineffabile
9 Pie Jesu (Harry Sever)
From the Stabat mater
10 Stabat mater dolorosa (Harry Sever and Tomas Jesty)
11 Vidit suum dulcem natum (Harry Sever)
12 Eia, mater, fons amoris (Thomas Jesty)
13 Quando corpus morietur (Harry Sever and Thomas Jesty)
14 Amen
15 Te Deum in C (Harry Sever)
16 Jubilate in E flat
Something's Coming (2002)
Herald HAVPCD 276
with trebles Harry Sever, Nicholas Stenning and Samuel Wesley
and the Winchester College Quiristers
1. Something's coming (Bernstein)
2. The Salley Gardens (Britten) treble - Nicholas Stenning
3. Weg der Liebe (Brahms)
4. To Sylvia (Schubert) treble - Harry Sever
5. Ah perdona al primo affetto (Mozart)
6. Vocalise étude (Messiaen)
7. O waly, waly (Britten)
8. The birds (Britten) treble - Harry Sever
9. Fancie (Britten)
10. Willow willow (Grainger) treble - Nicholas Stenning
11. Corpus Christi Carol (Britten)
12. Over the mountains (Quilter) treble - Nicholas Stenning
13. It was a lover and his lass (Rutter)
14. Bridge over troubled water (Simon)
15. La vendetta (Mozart)
16. My ship (Weill) Soloist: Samuel Wesley
17. Angels, ever bright and fair (Handel)
18. Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams) treble - Nicholas Stenning
19. Old Sir Faulk (Walton)
20. Somewhere (Bernstein) treble - Harry Sever
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