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2022-11-14 14:31:22
Town Hall, BirminghamWorks by James MacMillan, John Joubert, Sally Beamish and Alec Roth formed this Remembrance Sunday programme in which the earlier two pieces felt more impactful‘Songs of Protest and Hope” was the title Ex Cathedra had given to their Remembrance Sunday programme of choral music, conducted by
2022-03-30 07:39:37
Arvo Pärt's Passio at St Martin's Easter Festival
The centrepiece of St Martin's Easter Festival (which runs at St Martin-in-the-Fields from 7 to 18 April 2022) is a performance of Arvo Pärt's Passio on 12 April when Owain Park conducts the Gesualdo Six, St Martin's own choirs and members of the London Mozart Players. Pärt's setting of the Latin text from St John's Gospel uses a solo quartet as the Evangelist alongside solo baritone (Jesus), solo tenor (Pilate), choir and instrumental quintet. The work was premiered in 1982 and is very much a crystallisation of his early Tinntinabuli style. The festival opens with Jeffrey Skidmore directing Ex Cathedra in music by Bach, Purcell, Lotti, Scarlattin and Monteverdi, whilst saxophonist Christian Forshaw joins forces with Tenebrae for an exploration of old and new entitled Drop, slow tears: A Meditation for Choir and Sax [see my interview with Christian]. Good Friday features a performance of Bach's St John Passion when Andrew Earis directs St Martin's Voices with […]
2022-01-24 10:20:56
Youthful opportunity: young people creating with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and NMC Recordings
[…] and Olivia Shotton, 27 from London are welcomed to the programme which offers emerging professional musicians from a diverse range of backgrounds and musical genres, a fully funded year of unique development opportunities. The NYCGB Fellowship programme has been running for six years and many of its graduates have already made impressive starts to their careers. This includes graduates of the programme performing professionally with The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen, I Fagiolini, Tenebrae, Philharmonia Voices, Dundein Consort, Ex Cathedra, London Voices, Stile Antico, and St Martins Voices. Fellowship alumni are now also working as choral leaders professionally with National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, London Youth Choirs, Barnsley Youth Choir, National Children’s Choir, Rodolfus Foundation, plus many other music and educational organisations. The Fellowship are an ensemble who perform at high- profile venues including, recently, the Royal Albert Hall, Saffron Hall, Royal Concert Hall Nottingham, and the VOCES8 Centre. Latest performance highlights […]
2021-02-23 07:49:54
Celebrating Jeffrey Skidmore's 70th birthday
Jeffrey Skidmore The conductor Jeffrey Skidmore, founder of the choir Ex Cathedra, is 70 this month and not surprisingly his choir is making the most of the celebrations despite lockdown. On Saturday 27 February 2021, Ex Cathedra is releasing a free filmed concert, Ex Cathedra: Around the World, which celebrates Skidmore's varied interests with music from 1960s America and Latin America (where Skidmore has spent a lot of time researching music created during the Baroque era), alongside music from the French Baroque, the Italian Renaissance and Jacobean era, plus traditional favourites from Sweden and Scotland. The concert is being streamed on the ensemble's website, Facebook page and YouTube channel. There will also be a chance to hear Skidmore talking about his career in an interview which is featured on BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show on Sunday 28 February. And this weekend Skidmore and Ex Cathedra are returning to […]
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