We can’t wait to return to the USA this spring. For our tenth tour, we will be giving concerts in California, Georgia, Tennessee, New York, and Pittsburgh. Our full tour schedule can be found below, along with our commitment to tour as sustainably as possible.
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Tour Dates
La Jolla, CA, USA
Tuesday 3 February 2026
QUEEN OF HEARTS
Venue: St James By-The-Sea (MAP)
Time: 7.30pm
San Diego Early Music Society
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Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
Friday 6 February 2026
QUEEN OF HEARTS
Venue: St Matthew’s Church (MAP)
Time: 8pm
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Savannah, GA, USA
Sunday 8 February 2026
FADING
Venue: Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist (MAP)
Time: 5pm
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Chattanooga, TN, USA
Monday 9 February 2026
FADING
Venue: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (MAP)
Time: 6.30pm
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Knoxville, TN, US
Tuesday 10 February 2026
FADING
Venue: Church of the Ascension (MAP)
Time: 7.30pm
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New York City, NY, USA
Friday 13 February 2026
DEATH OF GESUALDO – USA PREMIERE
Venue: The Cathedral Church of St John the Divine (MAP)
Time: 7.30pm
Music Before 1800
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Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sunday 15 February 2026
FADING
Venue: Shadyside Presbyterian Church (MAP)
Time: 3pm
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Tour Programs
Queen of Hearts
The Gesualdo Six present a selection of Motets and Chansons from the French Court, focusing on European Queens: Anne of Brittany, Margaret of Austria, Anne Boleyn and Mary Tudor. Reflecting on these earthly regencies, devotional motets for the Queen of Heaven are interwoven with texts from the Song of Songs, appropriated to venerate the Blessed Virgin, alongside specially written chansons and motets commemorating key moments in the reign of Europe’s Queens. The programme also includes settings of Renaissance French poetry by director Owain Park, and Ninfea Crutwell-Reade, commissioned by the ensemble.
Fading
Since the fourth century, the service of Compline has marked the end of the day, ushering in the darkness of the night. Much of the music here is inspired by this ancient service, evoking a contemplative atmosphere, including renaissance polyphony by Lobo, Sheppard and Gesualdo that contains startling harmonic shifts and expressive word painting. Then there is a turning point; the light returns, birds sing, and flowers bloom once more, with contemporary reflections by Veljo Tormis, Joanna Marsh, and Gerda Blok-Wilson.
Death of Gesualdo
Death of Gesualdo is a theatrical concert fusing music, puppetry, and tableau vivant, devised by Bill Barclay and Concert Theatre Works. In this staged concert, The Gesualdo Six are joined by six actors and a puppet who enact a stunning series of tableaux vivants, filled with iconography taken directly from Renaissance painting, to superimpose Gesualdo’s psyche onto his most chilling music. The result will be the boldest look yet at how the life and music of this enigmatic prodigy must function together for the true Gesualdo to emerge from the shadows. What do we do with the art of monstrous people?
Sustainability
There is no easy way to reduce our carbon footprint, however as an ensemble, we are committed to doing all that we practically can to do so.
In addition to providing a grant to singers to allow them to purchase reusable items for travel, the group has agreed to the following steps:
- To use air travel as minimally as possible, and where practical, travel by train.
- To endeavour to plan an efficient touring calendar so that, where possible, multiple concerts are scheduled when travelling abroad.
- To offset carbon emissions when it is not possible to use public transport, and subscribe to Ecologi, with the aim of becoming a climate positive workforce.
- Where possible, to share one vehicle, and when hiring cars, to endeavour to opt for hybrid or electric models.
The group encourages its members to turn down room cleaning when staying in hotels, to reuse toiletries, and to travel with reusable water bottles, coffee cups and cutlery.
Members have also agreed to take personal responsibility to minimise the use of single-use plastics while on tour.