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
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
We will be performing live at Sage Gateshead on Friday 29th March as part of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Festival. We’re looking forward to singing a wide selection of pieces, including William Byrd’s ‘Aspice Domine’ and ‘The Wind’s Warning’ by Alison Willis, winner of our Composition Competition. Tune in… Continue reading
We are looking forward to our debut at Cadogan Hall on Thursday 7 March. Tickets for this concert, which coincides with our fifth anniversary, are available here. Passion and Polyphony Exploring a relationship between old and new, sacred and secular, our programme juxtaposes Tallis with Talbot and Tormis in an… Continue reading
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
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
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
In February 2019, we will be touring a programme of music inspired by the ancient service of compline, Fading. Concerts will include atmospheric works by Nicolas Gombert, Thomas Tallis, Sarah Rimkus and Joanna Marsh. 15 February 2019 Leeds | Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall Start time: 1:05 PM More Information 17 February 2019 London |… Continue reading
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
We had a fantastic time performing for our 5th (we can’t quite believe it either!) time on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune. We spoke with Sean Rafferty about some of our upcoming projects, including our Composition Competition, and performed My heart is like a singing bird by 2016 competition entrant Sarah Rimkus,… Continue reading
