HELENA Paish (ex Crediton chorister and BBC 2 Chorister of the Year Winner in 2014) will be returning to sing at Crediton Parish Church along with her friends who met through the National Youth Choir on Saturday, July 20 at 7.30pm.

The majority of the singers grew up with the choral tradition in cathedrals.

The Amariah Consort was founded in November 2018 by Esmee Loughlin-Dickenson.

The group was originally put together to participate in the Music For Youth Festival and performed in Birmingham Town Hall earlier this month as part of the National Festival.

The group is made up of eight young singers from across the South West and includes choral scholars as well as current and ex-choristers from various cathedral choirs.

“Into Thy Hands”, the title of the concert was commissioned by Salisbury Cathedral in celebration of the 750th anniversary of the canonization of St Edmund Abington, who was Canon Treasurer of Salisbury and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

The work was to be performed in Pontigny Abbey in France where St Edmund is buried and was to be a setting of the words of St Edmund.

The composer himself has written of his anthem: “Knowing that it was a very resonant building, I imagined that?the echo would be part of the piece, and set the first prayer spaciously, allowing for?the sound of each phrase to reverberate. The second prayer talks of pilgrimage and?eternity, and the music reflects this in a calm processional which does not reach an?ending, but simply, in trust, surrenders itself.”

Tickets priced at £8 are available on the door (under 18s free).