Herbert Heyner

[4] On 27 May 1911 the London Music Festival closed with a performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion, with Heyner, Gervase Elwes, Robert Radford and Agnes Nicholls, under Sir Henry Wood's baton.

In 1912 he and the soprano Muriel Foster sang in a series of concerts at Queen's Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra, led by Arthur Nikisch, Willem Mengelberg and Hamilton Harty.

He sang in three notable performances of Elgar's oratorio The Apostles under the composer's direction, in 1922, 1925 and 1926, at the Three Choirs Festivals in Gloucester and Worcester, along with soloists Agnes Nicholls, Astra Desmond, Horace Stevens, Norman Allin, John Coates and Olga Haley.

[13] On 23 March 1922, at the Queen's Hall in London, Herbert Heyner sang in Beethoven's Choral Symphony with Amy Evans, Phyllis Lett and Arthur Jordan, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Albert Coates, in the same concert as the world premiere of Frederick Delius's Requiem.

[3] In 1925 he appeared in Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D at the Albert Hall, with Caroline Hatchard, Astra Desmond and Archibald Winter, under Malcolm Sargent's baton.

[16] At the Proms on 4 September 1930, he gave the first concert performance of Dame Ethel Smyth's Ode anacréontique, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the composer.

[17] In 1936, Herbert Heyner appeared alongside Muriel Brunskill, Norman Walker and Victor Harding in a presentation of Wagner's Parsifal for the BBC under Sir Henry Wood.

Herbert Heyner in 1922
The Queen's Hall in 1912; Heyner made his first important appearance here in 1907