Death of Gesualdo
Following the success of Secret Byrd, The Gesualdo Six reunite with Bill Barclay and Concert Theatre Works for Death of Gesualdo, exploring the life and music of Carlo Gesualdo. Continue reading
Category: Projects
Manchester Sound Gallery
This October, we will be visiting Manchester for a weekend of concerts, collaborations and workshops. You can find out more below, including details about our performance at Hallé St Peters on Sunday 8 October. We are looking forward to our return to Manchester, and hope you can join us! Saturday… Continue reading
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
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
Interview with John Rutter
As part of our second Composition Competition, John Rutter CBE has been kind enough to answer questions submitted by composers on a range of topics: from notating scores to having them performed. This week, we will be releasing one video every day at 5pm, each on a different subject. The full… Continue reading
WWI Filming Project
To mark the centenary of the Armistice that ended World War I, we present ‘Sequence: In Parenthesis’. About the project ‘Sequence: In Parenthesis’ is a composition by Owain Park, inspired by David Jones’s epic poem, ‘In Parenthesis’, which narrates the experiences of Private John Ball during World War I. Based… Continue reading
NEW Composition Competition
Over the last few months, we have been planning a second Composition Competition to coincide with our fifth anniversary and debut appearance at the Cadogan Hall. After the success of our inaugural competition in 2016, we are delighted to be able to reveal the details of our next competition, running from… Continue reading
A look back at our 2017 Spring Season
Guy James reflects on our first concerts in the North of England, CD recording and performance at the SJSS Holy Week Festival 2017. An early start heralded the beginning of our Spring projects, with me meeting Owain, Joseph, and the familiar rented 7-seater just outside Cambridge on Sunday morning. Engineering… Continue reading
#LiveHolyWeek – Videos from Ely Lady Chapel
We teamed up with Ely Cathedral to release five videos for Holy Week as part of their #LiveHolyWeek initiative. We really enjoyed getting to sing in the incredible acoustic of the Ely Lady Chapel, and we’re very pleased to be able to share the results with you. We recorded pieces… Continue reading
Composition Competition 2016
Our first Composition Competition was held in 2016, in conjunction with St John’s Smith Square and Music Sales. The judges were John Rutter, Stephen Layton, Kate Johnson, Owain Park and members of the group. We were all amazed by the number of entries (173) and the extremely high standard of… Continue reading