Due to technical difficulties with our website, (which we hope are now fixed once and for all!) we weren’t able to publish our last two tour blogs when they were ready. Presented here in all it’s slightly-delayed glory we have Day 5 (Salisbury), written by local boy Joseph: Friday began with… Continue reading
Guy talks us through the happenings on the fourth day of our Christmas Tour. After the reception in the wonderful Willey Place we went straight to bed as we’d had a very long day, and the next morning we enjoyed the (much-needed) first lie-in of the tour. Spurred on by… Continue reading
Day the third comes from Alex Chance, who’s always trying his luck. Day 3 was moving day for us: one which began bright and early in the balmy climes of the Cote D’Azur and ended in wintry Hampshire frost. We all came down for breakfast in our Monaco hotel… Continue reading
On Monday 24th October we will convene in St John’s Smith Square with some of the young composers who entered our 2016 Composition Competition. We were delighted with the positive response we received for the competition and we are very excited to be able to workshop with some of the talented… Continue reading
One of our favourite parts of our summer tour programme was exploring some lighter compositions and arrangements. Of these, my personal favourite was a fabulous arrangement combining ‘Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child’ and ‘Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen’ by the talented Dale Adelmann and it’s our second… Continue reading
We are thrilled to announce that we have appointed Alex Chance as our new Countertenor II. Alex recently graduated from New College, Oxford, where he read Classics and was a choral scholar under the direction of Edward Higginbottom and Robert Quinney. Born in London, Alex took up the recorder at the… Continue reading
The results of our inaugural Composition Competition will be announced this Friday. We thank composers for their patience while the panel deliberated. To find out more about the competition, visit this page. Continue reading
We are delighted to have appointed Josh Cooter as our new Tenor II. Josh began his musical studies as a chorister at Chichester Cathedral before accepting a music scholarship to Eton College. Having finished his degree at King’s College London, where he sang in the chapel choir under the late David… Continue reading
It is with sadness that we announce that Hiroshi will perform his last concert with us in June. Hiroshi joined the group in September 2014 and has since performed with us all over the UK, delighting audiences with his charming renditions of Poulenc’s Les Petites Voix and characterful interpretations of Ligeti’s Nonsense Madrigals. There are… Continue reading
Despite not having any scheduled concerts in March, the team have been hard at work rehearsing and planning over the last few weeks for some exciting developments this summer. We can’t say too much yet, but we’re very excited about the prospect of releasing our first disc and performing abroad for the first… Continue reading
