Christmas Tour 2019
We are excited to be touring a programme of festive works from our Christmas CD at the end of this year. Continue reading
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Autumn Report
Hello from us all at The Gesualdo Six! As we await the start of Advent and our festive concert series, it feels like a good opportunity to talk about a few of the wonderful projects that we enjoyed this autumn before we look ahead to a few of the exciting… Continue reading
O Radiant Dawn: music for voices and trumpet
We are delighted to be collaborating with rising star Matilda Lloyd in a programme of music for voices and trumpet. Our first two concerts will be in Wells and Bristol 4-5 October, and feature works from the English renaissance by Thomas Tallis and Robert White alongside contemporary pieces by Roxanna… Continue reading
Guy and Joseph in Gesualdo
After a busy and rewarding two weeks performing in Cambridge, Germany’s Black Forest and the now familiar rolling green hills of the Herefordshire borders, Joseph and I set off early for Bristol airport to meet up with our Italian friends Odhecaton in Naples. In-between rehearsals and the performance in Wagner’s… Continue reading
Muswell Hill Music Festival Compline – July 9th
We’re very excited to be taking part in the inaugural Muswell Hill Music Festival! Tomorrow evening The Gesualdo Six and friends will be performing a service of compline in St. Michael’s Church, Highgate at 9:30pm. The compline follows directly on from a concert at 8pm of music by Tavener, Pärt,… Continue reading
Herefordshire Concerts
We are looking forward to returning to Herefordshire to give two concerts at the end of July. We will be performing two different programmes at two historic venues: St Clydawg’s Church in Clodock on 30 July, and Dore Abbey on 31 July. We hope you can join us for our… Continue reading
European debuts in April
We are looking forward to giving our debut performances in three European countries this month. We begin in Lausanne, Switzerland with our Passion and Polyphony programme, followed by a concert of atmospheric Fading music in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Finally, we will visit Italy to perform our English Motets programme in the beautiful city of… Continue reading
Composition Competition 2019
Owain Park, Director of The Gesualdo Six, writes: We were all thrilled with the standard of the entries, 307 in total, which arrived from six continents in a variety of interesting styles. Singing through the pieces has been an immensely enjoyable experience, and it is heartening to see composers writing… Continue reading
Kepler’s Trial in Tübingen
The astronomer who saved his mother from being burned as a witch. In January 2019, we visited the beautiful university town of Tübingen in southwest Germany to perform excerpts from Kepler’s Trial alongside a new work written for us by British composer, Tim Watts, ‘Kepler-Motetten’. In 1615, when Johannes Kepler… Continue reading
CD Recording Appeal
We are asking for your help to release our second album, a CD of music for Advent and Christmas. Since we first performed this repertoire in 2014, we knew that we wanted to make it into a CD recording. Over the past few years, we have been developing the tracklist,… Continue reading