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  • Foldings and Whirlings

    Saturday 25th April 2026 at 7.30pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Ellie Slorach, conductor

    A choral programme that celebrates the joy of deep breaths and the full possibilities of the human voice

    Further details at the Dunedin Consort website; tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

    John Sheppard, Libera nos I
    Caroline Shaw, How to fold the wind
    John Taverner, Dum transisset II
    Randall Thomspon, Alleluia
    John Sheppard, Libera nos II
    Aaron Jay Kernis, Ecstatic Meditations
    John Taverner, Dum Transisset II
    Jake Runestad, Alleluia

  • Foldings and Whirlings

    Friday 24th April 2026 at 7.30pm

    Cairns Church, Milngavie

    Dunedin Consort
    Ellie Slorach, conductor

    A choral programme that celebrates the joy of deep breaths and the full possibilities of the human voice

    Further details at the Dunedin Consort website; tickets at the Milngavie Music Club website.

    John Sheppard, Libera nos I
    Caroline Shaw, How to fold the wind
    John Taverner, Dum transisset II
    Randall Thomspon, Alleluia
    John Sheppard, Libera nos II
    Aaron Jay Kernis, Ecstatic Meditations
    John Taverner, Dum Transisset II
    Jake Runestad, Alleluia

  • Palestrina and Bach

    Thursday 16th April 2026 at 7.30pm

    Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

    The Marian Consort
    The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
    Rory McCleery and Gawain Glenton, directors

    The Marian Consort and the players of ECSE perform a programme of Renaissance polyphony and early baroque music known to J.S. Bach, culminating in his motet Komm, Jesu, komm

    Tickets and further details at the Cambridge Early Music website.

    Giovanni Gabrieli, Jubilate Deo, omnis terra
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Sine nomine a6
    Hans Leo Hassler, Pater noster a8
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pater Noster a8
    Heinrich Schütz, Selig sind die Toten SWV 391
    Heinrich Schütz, Sehet an den Feigenbaum SWV 394
    Annibale Stabile, Nunc dimittis a8
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Nunc dimittis a8
    J.S. Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm

  • St John Passion

    Friday 3rd April 2026 at 2.30pm

    Smith Square Hall, London

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

       (Chorus and Petrus)

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion

    Tickets and further information at the Sinfonia Smith Square website.

    Ruairi Bowen, Evangelist
    Neal Davies, Christus
    Lydia Teuscher, soprano
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    Archie Inns, tenor
    James Atkinson, bass-baritone

  • St Matthew Passion

    Tuesday 31st March 2026 at 6.30pm

    Westminster Abbey

    The Choir of Westminster Abbey
    The English Concert
    Andrew Nethsinga, director

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion 

       (Pilatus)

    Tickets and further details at the Westminster Abbey website.

  • Peace and Harmony

    Saturday 21st March 2026 at 7.30pm

    The Church of St James the Greater
    Leicester

    Leicester Bach Choir
    Richard Laing, director

    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem 

       (Baritone soloist)

    Further information and tickets at the Leicester Bach Choir website.

    Pēteris Vasks, Dona Nobis Pacem
    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem
    Gerald Finzi, Eclogue

  • A Time to Dance

    Sunday 15th March 2026 at 3.00pm

    Smith Square Hall

    Dulwich College Chorus, Chapel Choir and Madrigal Choir
    Gareth Hemmings, conductor

    Alec Roth, A Time to Dance

    Tickets available here.

    Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor: Allegro molto appassionato
    Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor
    Alec Roth, A Time to Dance

    Katy Hill, soprano
    Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
    Ed Saklatvala, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • St John Passion

    Saturday 7th March 2026 at 7.30pm

    St Martin's Church, Epsom

    Ashtead Choral Society
    Kent Sinfonia
    Dan Ludford-Thomas, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St. John Passion (English version by Ivor Atkins)

       (Pilatus and Arias)

    David de Winter, Evangelist
    Jonathan Brown, Christus
    Lucy Cox, soprano
    Helen Meyerhoff, mezzo-soprano
    Ashley Catling, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, bass/Pilatus

  • Looking Bach

    Thursday 5th March 2026 at 5.30pm

    Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    As part of a residency working with vocal performance and composition students at the RCS, the Marian Consort perform a programme of Renaissance polyphony and early baroque music known to J.S. Bach, culminating in his motet Komm, Jesu, komm

    Tickets and further details at the RCS website.

    Giovanni Gabrieli, Jubilate Deo, omnis terra
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Sine nomine a6
    Heinrich Hartmann, Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn
    Jacob Handl, Media vita
    Heinrich Schütz, Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe SWV 280
    Annibale Stabile, Nunc dimittis a8
    Hans Leo Hassler, Pater noster a8
    J.S. Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm

  • City of Echoes

    Saturday 14th February 2026 at 7.30pm

    Church of St Mary the Virgin
    West 46th Street, New York

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music from 16th-century Rome

    Further details and tickets at the Miller Theatre website.

    Felice Anerio, Ave Regina caelorum
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Josquin des Pres, Ave Maria... virgo serena
    Jean L'Heritier, Surrexit Pastor Bonus
    Orlande de Lassus, Regina caeli laetare a7
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum a8
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata
    Jean de Mouton, Ave Maria gemma virginum
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 'Kyrie' from Missa Benedicta es
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (arr. Francesco Soriano), 'Gloria' from Missa Papae Marcelli
    Benedicta es, caelorum regina 
    (plainchant)

  • City of Echoes

    Thursday 12th February 2026 at 7.30pm

    St John's of Lattingtown
    Locust Valley, NY

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

  • Messiah

    Tuesday 23rd December 2025 at 7.30pm

    Smith Square Hall, London

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets available from the Sinfonia Smith Square website.

    Hilary Cronin, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    James Gilchrist, tenor
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Monday 22nd December 2025 at 7.30pm

    Smith Square Hall, London

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Parts I, II and III)
    Heinrich Schütz, Hodie Christus Natus Est SWV 456

    Tickets available from the Sinfonia Smith Square website.

    Hilary Cronin, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    James Gilchrist, tenor
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Glasgow

    Friday 19th December 2025 at 7.00pm

    St Aloysius's Church, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets available from the RCS website.

    Nardus Williams, soprano
    Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
    Joshua Ellicott, tenor
    Dingle Yandell, bass

  • Children's Messiah

    Friday 19th December 2025 at 4.00pm

    St Aloysius's Church, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Tickets available from the RCS website.

  • Messiah in Perth

    Thursday 18th December 2025 at 6.30pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets available from the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall website.

    Nardus Williams, soprano
    Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
    Joshua Ellicott, tenor
    Dingle Yandell, bass

  • Messiah in Edinburgh

    Wednesday 17th December 2025 at 7.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.

    Nardus Williams, soprano
    Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
    Joshua Ellicott, tenor
    Dingle Yandell, bass

  • Children's Messiah

    Wednesday 17th December 2025 at 4.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.

  • Messiah

    Monday 15th December 2025 at 7.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director and harpsichord

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets at the Barbican website.

    Nardus Williams, soprano
    Reginald Mobley, counter-tenor
    Thomas Walker, tenor
    Ashley Riches, bass-baritone

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Saturday 13th December 2025 at 7.30pm

    Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden

    Polyphony
    Britten Sinfonia
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Parts I, II, III and VI)

       (Consort and step-out soloist)

    Further details and tickets at the Britten Sinfonia website.
    This performance was recorded for later broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

    Zoë Brookshaw and Lucy Cox, sopranos
    Angharad Rowlands and Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-sopranos
    Sebastian Hill and Archie Inns, tenors
    Malachy Frame and Jon Stainsby, baritones

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Friday 12th December 2025 at 7.00pm

    St John's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Norwich

    Polyphony
    Britten Sinfonia
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Parts I, II, III and VI)

       (Consort and step-out soloist)

    Further details and tickets at the Britten Sinfonia website.

    Zoë Brookshaw and Lucy Cox, sopranos
    Angharad Rowlands and Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-sopranos
    Sebastian Hill and Archie Inns, tenors
    Malachy Frame and Jon Stainsby, baritones

  • Bach x Palestrina

    Monday 8th December 2025 at 6.30pm

    National Centre for Early Music, York

    The Marian Consort (Rory McCleery, director)
    English Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble (Gawain Glenton, director)
     

    A celebration of Palestrina’s 500th anniversary would not be complete without looking at how hugely influential his music has been on subsequent generations, among them the towering figure JS Bach. As well as making his own performing edition of Palestrina’s Missa sine nomine, Bach also performed works by Palestrina’s Italian contemporaries from the anthology Florilegium portense with his choir at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, singing them so often that the books had to be replaced in 1729 as thy had been ‘sung to pieces’! We hear these alongside festive motets by Palestrina and works from Heinrich Schütz’s seminal Geitliche Chormusik, which also wears its Italian influence prominently and is dedicated to the city of Leipzig and the musicians of the Thomanerchor.

    Further details and tickets at the NCEM website.

  • The Language of Flowers

    Sunday 7th December 2025 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and recently commissioned works.

    Further details and tickets at the Barbican website.

    Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
    Amy Bryce, Madrigals for Plants
    Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
    Francisco Guerrero, Ego flos campi
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vidi speciosam
    Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
    Sebastián de Vivanco
       Veni dilecte mi
       Sicut lilium

    Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary

  • Wintering

    Friday 5th December 2025 at 7.00pm

    Bristol Beacon

    The Marian Consort
    Manchester Collective

    The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

    Further details and tickets at the Bristol Beacon website.

    Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
    David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
    Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
    Samantha Fernando, Wintering

  • Wintering

    Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 7.30pm

    Sir Jack Lyons Hall, York

    The Marian Consort
    Manchester Collective

    The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

    Further details and tickets at the York Concerts website.

    Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
    David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
    Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
    Samantha Fernando, Wintering

  • Bach Vespers

    Sunday 30th November 2025 at 6.30pm

    Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

    City Bach Collective

    J.S. Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 62

       (Consort and step-out soloist)


    and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

    For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

    Johann Joseph Fux, Ouverture K357/1
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Chorale Prelude 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' BuxWV 211
    Johann Ulrich Steigleder, Chorale Prelude 'Vater unser' (No. 7)
    Andreas Raselius, Wir glauben all an einen Gott
    J.S. Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 62
    Johann Joseph Fux, Ad te, Domine, levavi animan meam
    J.S. Bach, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645

    Emily Atkinson, soprano
    Mercè Bruguera Abelló, mezzo-soprano
    Matt Supramaniam, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    The City Bach Collective
    Hazel Brooks, leader

  • Wintering

    Saturday 29th November 2025 at 7.30pm

    Tung Auditorium, Liverpool

    The Marian Consort
    Manchester Collective

    The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

    Further details and tickets at the Tung Auditorium website.

    Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
    David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
    Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
    Samantha Fernando, Wintering

  • Wintering

    Friday 28th November 2025 at 7.30pm

    Howard Assembly Room, Leeds

    The Marian Consort
    Manchester Collective

    The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

    Tickets and further details at the Opera North website.

    Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
    David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
    Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
    Samantha Fernando, Wintering

  • Wintering

    Thursday 27th November 2025 at 7.30pm

    Stoller Hall, Manchester

    The Marian Consort
    Manchester Collective

    The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

    Further details and tickets at the Stoller Hall website.

    Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
    David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
    Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
    Samantha Fernando, Wintering

  • Wintering

    Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 1.00pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    The Marian Consort
    Manchester Collective

    The Marian Consort joins Manchester Collective’s string quartet for this intimate performance of music from across the centuries. Expect a deeply restorative performance, as we find respite in an alternative nativity song, crystalline harmonies, and a meditation on freedom and unity.

    Tickets and further details at the Wigmore Hall website.

    Orlande de Lassus, Prophetiae Sibyllarum (selections)
    David Lang, the national anthems (selections)
    Andrzej Panufnik, Song to the Virgin Mary
    Samantha Fernando, Wintering (world première, commissioned by Wigmore Hall)

  • The Prince of Music: Palestrina at 500

    Saturday 15th November 2025 at 7.30pm

    St Thomas's Church, Salisbury

    Sarum Consort
    Alastair Carey, director

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
       Missa Papae Marcelli
       Canticum canticorum
       Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae
       Assumpta est Maria

    Tickets and further details at the Sarum Consort website.

  • Charpentier Cantatas | London International Festival of Early Music

    Friday 14th November 2025 at 7.30pm

    St Michael and All Angels, Blackheath

    GSMD Cantata Project
    Academy of Ancient Music
    James Johnstone, musical director

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier
       Le Reniement de Saint Pierre

       Les Plaisirs de Versailles

       (Comus)


    and airs de court by Michel Lambert

    Tickets and further information at the LIFEM website.

  • Charpentier Cantatas

    Thursday 13th November 2025 at 6.00pm

    Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London

    GSMD Cantata Project
    Academy of Ancient Music
    James Johnstone, musical director

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier
       Le Reniement de Saint Pierre

       Les Plaisirs de Versailles 

       (Comus)


    and airs de court by Michel Lambert

    This is a free event, for which no tickets are required.
    Further information at the GSMD website.

  • Vale of Tears | City of Derry International Choir Festival

    Thursday 23rd October 2025 at 7.30pm

    Guildhall, Derry

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Funerary motets by members of the Bach family preface Heinrich Schütz's Musicalische Exequien and a new work inspired by Schütz's example.

    Further information and tickets at the City of Derry International Choir Festival website.

    Johann Christoph Bach, Mit Weinen hebt sichs an
    Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen tod
    Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
    Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, kom
    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien: I. "Nacket bin ich von Mutterliebe kommen"
    David Fennessy, Two pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672): "Naked"
    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien: II. "Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe"
    David Fennessy, Two pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672): "In Frieden (In peace)"
    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien: III. "Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener"

  • Music for Queen Mary

    Saturday 18th October 2025 at 2.15pm

    Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

    Early Opera Company
    Christian Curnyn, director

    The Early Opera Company celebrates the Netherlands' old dynastic and artistic ties with England, with odes by Purcell to Queen Mary and songs by Constantijn Huygens.

    Further information and tickets at the Concertgebouw website.

    Nicholas Lanier, No more shall meads be decked with flowers
    Matthew Locke, Suite from The Tempest
    Constantijn Huygens
       De profundis clamavi
       Aubade: Le reveil de Calliste
       Serenade: Ne crains point le serain
       Aria: Con la candida man

    Henry Purcell
       Come ye sons of Art
       Celebrate this Festival
       Funeral Music for Queen Mary


    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Samuel Boden, haut-contre
    Nick Pritchard, tenor
    Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
    Samuel West, narrator (script by Tom Guthrie)

  • Pater Peccavi: Music from Renaissance Portugal

    Saturday 11th October 2025 at 7.30pm

    St Andrew's Church, Lyddington, Rutland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

    Further information and tickets at the Music in Lyddington website.

    Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
    Duarte Lobo, Pater Peccavi
    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' from Missa Veni Domine
    Filipe de Magalhaes, Commissa mea pavesco
    Aires Fernandez, Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
    Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
    Duarte Lobo, 'Gloria' from Missa Veni Domine
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Commissa mea pavesco
    Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa Veni Domine
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adoramus te
    Duarte Lobo, 'Benedictus' from Missa Veni Domine
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Emendemus in melius
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    Manuel Cardoso, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Tradent enim vos
    Duarte Lobo, Audivi vocem de caelo

  • Pater Peccavi: Music from Renaissance Portugal

    Friday 10th October 2025 at 7.45pm

    Stapleford Granary, nr. Cambridge

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

    Further information and tickets at the Stapleford Granary website.

    Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
    Duarte Lobo, Pater Peccavi
    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' from Missa Veni Domine
    Filipe de Magalhaes, Commissa mea pavesco
    Aires Fernandez, Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
    Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
    Duarte Lobo, 'Gloria' from Missa Veni Domine
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Commissa mea pavesco
    Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa Veni Domine
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adoramus te
    Duarte Lobo, 'Benedictus' from Missa Veni Domine
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Emendemus in melius
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    Manuel Cardoso, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Tradent enim vos
    Duarte Lobo, Audivi vocem de caelo

  • Lingua Ignota | Music@Malling

    Friday 26th September 2025 at 1.00pm

    Malling Abbey, West Malling, Kent

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by the twelfth-century abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen is interspersed with new works by leading female composers of the present day.

    Further details and tickets at the Music@Malling website.
    The performance will be preceded by a free talk at 12.15pm: Hildegard's biographer, the distinguished music critic Fiona Maddocks, in conversation with Festival director Thomas Kemp.

    Kerry Andrew, Hevene Quene
    Hildegard of Bingen, O frondens virga
    Claire Cope, I lie alone (world première)
    Hildegard of Bingen, O viridissima virga
    Zoë Martlew, Lingua Ignota (world première)
    Hildegard of Bingen, Caritas abundant in omnia
    Elizabeth Maconchy, Propeta mendax
    Hildegard of Bingen, O splendidissima gemma
    Joy Nkoyo, I write to you now (UK première)
    Cheryl Frances-Hoad, In the Crypt of the Wood

  • A Celebration of Orlando Gibbons

    Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 1.00pm

    St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey

    St Margaret's Consort
    Greg Morris, director

    400 years after his death in 1625, this concert celebrates the life and work of Orlando Gibbons in a building which held particular family significance for him. Besides serving as organist of Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal, Gibbons was also a parishioner of St Margaret’s, and his seven children were all baptised in the church. Illustrating his standing as one of the most melodious and inventive of English Renaissance composers, the programme includes some of his finest church anthems and organ music, as well as his madrigal "The Silver Swan," a setting of words by Sir Walter Raleigh, who lies buried beneath the altar of St Margaret’s.

    Further details and tickets at the Westminster Abbey website.

  • The Prophetic Bird: an Aviary in Song

    Sunday 21st September 2025 at 3.00pm

    St Nicholas Church, Chiswick

    Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Gavin Roberts, piano

    A recital presented in association with the Finzi Friends. Songs with ornithological connections by Finzi, Gurney, Howells, Rubbra, Britten, Robin Milford, Imogen Holst, Judith Weir and Cecilia McDowall chart a journey through the seasons.

    Tickets available on the door; tea and cake will be served after the performance.

    Gerald Finzi, 'Before and After Summer'
    Robin Milford, 'If it's ever spring again'
    Benjamin Britten, 'Proud Songsters' from Winter Words
    Gerald Finzi, 'It was a lover and his lass' from Let us Garlands Bring
    Ivor Gurney, 'Spring' from Five Elizabethan Songs
    Imogen Holst, 'Weathers'
    Judith Weir, 'White Eggs in the Bush' from The Voice of Desire
    Cecilia McDowall, 'Angel Radar' from Flights of Angels
    Gerald Finzi, 'Summer Schemes'
    Gerald Finzi, 'As I lay in the early sun'
    Ivor Gurney, 'All night under the moon'
    Gerald Finzi, 'Overlooking the River'
    Gerald Finzi, 'The Too Short Time'
    Judith Weir, 'The Voice of Desire' from The Voice of Desire
    Herbert Howells, 'King David'
    Ivor Gurney, 'On the Downs'
    Judith Weir, 'Written on Terrestrial Things' from The Voice of Desire
    Edmund Rubbra, 'A Widow Bird sate mourning'
    Herbert Howells, 'Before Dawn'
    Gerald Finzi, 'Proud Songsters'
    Gerald Finzi, 'A linnet in a gilded cage'

  • An Auld Alliance | Melrose Music Festival

    Friday 12th September 2025 at 7.00pm

    Melrose Parish Church
    Melrose, Scotland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books.

    Further details and tickets available from the Melrose Music Festival website.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    John Buchan, Psalm 128
    'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
    Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Inviolata
    David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • The English Concert at Anima Mundi

    Tuesday 9th September 2025 at 9.00pm

    Cattedrale e Camposanto di Pisa, Italy

    The English Concert
    Trevor Pinnock, director

    Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria RV589
    Joseph Haydn, Missa in angustiis ('Nelson Mass')

    Tickets available here.

    Hilary Cronin, soprano
    Sara Mingardo, contralto
    Stuart Jackson, tenor
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • The Atonement | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor MiniFestival

    Friday 15th August 2025 at 7.30pm

    King's College London Chapel

    English Chamber Voices
    The Choir of King's College London
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Joseph Fort, conductor

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, The Atonement (chamber version, arr. Joseph Fort)

    Tickets via Kings College London.

  • Hail, Queen of Heaven | Festival Internacional de Música Las Navas del Marqués

    Friday 18th July 2025 at 8.00pm

    Castillo-Palacio de Magalia
    Las Navas del Marqués, Spain

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Following a week as guest tutors at the Zenobia Música International Singing Week in Ávila, the Marian Consort present a programme of music celebrating two Renaissance composers associated with the city, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Cristóbal de Morales.

    Ave regina caelorum (plainchant)
    Cristóbal de Morales
       Ave regina caelorum
       'Kyrie' from Missa de Beata Virgine
    Oliver Tarney, Prayer to the Mother of God
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Gloria' from Missa Trahe me post te
    Joy Nkoyo, I write to you now (world première)
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa Trahe me post te
    Cristóbal de Morales
       O sacrum convivium
       
    'Agnus Dei' from Missa de Beata Virgine
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum
    Cristóbal de Morales, Ave Maria

  • The Language of Flowers | Harrogate International Festival

    Sunday 6th July 2025 at 8.00pm

    St Wilfred's Church, Harrogate

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, juxtaposed with recently commissioned works.

    Further details and tickets at the Harrogate International Festivals website.

    Kyrie Orbis Factor (plainsong)
    Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
    Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
    Hugo Bell, Hermitage
    Nneka Cummins, Awake
    Hildegard of Bingen, O viridissima Virgo
    Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
    Sebastián de Vivanco
       Veni dilecte mi
       Surge propera
       Sicut lilium

    Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary
    Francisco Guerrero, Ego flos campi

  • Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo

    Saturday 5th July 2025 at 7.30pm

    Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington

    Teddington Choral Society
    Julian Collings, conductor

    Joseph Horowitz, Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo 

       (Captain Noah)

    Further details at the Teddington Choral Society website.

  • Bach Vespers

    Sunday 29th June 2025 at 6.30pm

    Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

    City Bach Collective

    J.S. Bach, Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam BWV 7

       (Consort and step-out soloist)


    and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

    For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

  • Gloria!

    Saturday 28th June 2025 at 7.00pm

    St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey

    St Margaret's Consort and Choristers
    The English Concert
    Greg Morris, director

    Henry Purcell, O Sing unto the Lord Z 44

    J.S. Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4

       (Step-out soloist)


    Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria RV 589

    Tickets and further details at the Westminster Abbey website.

  • Songs of the Soul | Louth Contemporary Music Society

    Saturday 14th June 2025 at 8.00pm

    St Nicholas Church of Ireland, Dundalk

    Chamber Choir Ireland
    Nils Schweckendiek, conductor

    Kevin Volans, Glosa a lo Divino
    Sarah Davachi, Songs of the Smile's Fig (world première)
    Beat Furrer, Selections from Enigmas

    In the closing concert of Louth Contemporary Music Society's summer festival, Chamber Choir Ireland performs music of peace, strangeness, and hope. Led by Guest Director, Nils Schweckendiek, the programme features a setting of words by St John of the Cross to unearthly harmonies by Kevin Volans, and a new meditation by Canadian composer, Sarah Davachi.

  • Choral Sketches

    Thursday 12th June 2025 at 5.00pm

    St Finian's Lutheran Church, Dublin

    Chamber Choir Ireland
    Nils Schweckendiek, conductor

    Works by Bianca Gannon, Laura Heneghan and Caterina Schembri

    The final performance read-through of three new choral works developed through Choral Sketches, a professional development programme for composers delivered by Chamber Choir Ireland and the Contemporary Music Centre.

    Further details and booking at the Chamber Choir Ireland website.

    Laura Heneghan, Veins of Water
    Caterina Schembri, Ode to Psyche
    Bianca Gannon, New Work

  • Feis Ceoil Choral Conducting Competition Final

    Sunday 8th June 2025 at 2.00pm

    Purcell House, DCU All Hallows Campus, Dublin

    Chamber Choir Ireland
    Nils Schweckendiek, adjudicator

    The finalists of the 2025 Feis Ceoil Choral Conducting Competition will rehearse and perform with Chamber Choir Ireland.
    Further details at the Feis Ceoil website.

  • Dunster Festival Finale

    Monday 26th May 2025 at 3.30pm

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
       Rory McCleery, director
    Spiritato!
       Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in G Major BWV 236

       (Step-out soloist)


    J.S. Bach, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich BWV 17
    ​J.S. Bach, Du Wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23
    Johann Kuhau, arr. J.S. Bach, Der gerechte kommt um

    Further details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

  • Treasures from the Sistine Chapel

    Saturday 24th May 2025 at 7.30pm

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A celebration of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, "the eternal father of Italian music", in his 500th anniversary year. The programme also features music from the greatest composer of an earlier age, Josquin Desprez, as well as masterpieces by Palestrina’s Roman contemporaries, students and successors, showing his music in context and revealing the network of musical and personal connections underlying these astonishing pieces.

    Further details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Ave Maria a8
    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es, caelorum regina
    Benedicta es, caelorum regina 
    (plainchant)
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 'Kyrie' from Missa Benedicta es
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria a8
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
       Sicut cervus
       Magnificat 
    a8
       Super flumina Babylonis
    Francesco Soriano, after Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 'Gloria' from Missa in Papae Marcelli
    Ruggiero Giovannelli, 'Kyrie' from Missa Vestiva i colli
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Brevis
    Felice Anerio, Ave regina caelorum
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Salve regina a8

  • Hidden Polyphony

    Saturday 17th May 2025 at 7.30pm

    Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort
    RSNO
    Thomas Søndergård, conductor
    Anna Dennis, soprano

    Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)

    Further information and tickets at the RSNO website.

    G.F. Handel, Water Music Suite No. 3
    Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)
    Henk de Vlieger/Richard Wagner, The Ring: an orchestral adventure

  • Hidden Polyphony

    Friday 16th May 2025 at 7.30pm

    Usher Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    RSNO
    Thomas Søndergård, conductor
    Anna Dennis, soprano

    Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)

    Further information and tickets at the RSNO website.

    G.F. Handel, Water Music Suite No. 3
    Neil Tòmas Smith, Hidden Polyphony (world première)
    Henk de Vlieger/Richard Wagner, The Ring: an orchestral adventure

  • Afternoon Choral Recital | London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

    Tuesday 13th May 2025 at 3.15pm

    Southwark Cathedral

    LFCCM Festival Singers
    Alastair Carey, director

    A selection of works drawn from LFCCM's Call for Scores.

    Further details at the LFCCM website.

    Cassie White, O for a closer Walk with God
    Dominic McGonigal, Ubi caritas
    Richard Barnard, Tantum ergo
    Joseph Schubert, Ave Verum Corpus
    Phillip Cooke, Salve Regina
    Gregory Rose, When David Heard
    Sara Ramos Contioso, Hoc est corpus
    CF Thompson, Ave Verum Corpus
    Paolo Furlan, O salutaris hostia
    Richard Nye, Fear not, for I am with you
    Tomas Bezkorowajnyj, Call to Remembrance
    Łukasz Urbaniak, Exsultate Deo

  • Compline | London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

    Monday 12th May 2025 at 8.30pm

    All Saints Church, Fulham

    LFCCM Festival Singers
    Alastair Carey, director

    Works by young composers, submitted for LFCCM's Call for Scores, in a liturgical performance.

    Further details at the LFCCM website.

    Benedict Moriarty, Renew us by Your Spirit
    John Smith, Te lucis ante terminum
    Philip Godfrey, Let There Be Light
    James D'Angelo, Nunc Dimittis
    Ernest Chui, An Easter Flower Gift
    Will Jefferies, Behold the Saviour of Mankind

  • The Language of Flowers | SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele

    Wednesday 7th May 2025 at 7.30pm

    Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Speyer

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and recently commissioned works.

    Tickets and further information via the SWR website. This concert will be broadcast on SWR Kultur Radio on May 29th.

    Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
    Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
    Francisco Guerrero, Ego flos campi
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vidi speciosam
    Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
    Amy Bryce, Madrigals for Plants (world première)
    Sebastián de Vivanco
       Veni dilecte mi
       Surge propera
       Sicut lilium

    Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary

  • The Passing of the Year

    Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 7.00pm

    Stoller Hall, Manchester

    ORA Singers
    Suzi Digby, conductor
    Katie Derham, reader

    A programme of music marking the stages of the liturgical year, revolving around Jonathan Dove's song cycle for double choir and piano, The Passing of the Year.

    Tickets and further information at the Stoller Hall website.

    Epiphany
    Magi videntes stellam (plainchant)
    Orlando de Lassus, Omnes de Saba
    Emily Pedersen, Reflection on Lassus, Omnes de Saba

    Lent and Passiontide
    Pablo Casals, O vos omnes
    Peter Philips, Ecce vicit Leo

    Easter
    Victimae Paschali laudes (plainchant)
    Gregorio Allegri, Christus resurgens

    Jonathan Dove, The Passing of the Year
    Annabel Baxter, Spring

    Trinity
    John Sheppard, Libera nos
    Ryan Wigglesworth, Libera nos

    All Saints and All Souls
    William Byrd, Justorum animae
    Tom Coult, Reflection on Byrd, Justorum animae

    Advent and Christmas
    Adrian Peacock, Venite Gaudete!
    Hodie Christus est (plainchant)
    David Norland, Visitation
    Steven Sametz, Gaudete

  • St Matthew Passion

    Saturday 19th April 2025 at 2.00pm

    Melrose Parish Church

    The Borders Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra
    Robert Marshall, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion 

       (Christus and bass soloist)

    Tom Raskin, Evanglist
    Georgie Malcolm, soprano
    Cath Backhouse, mezzo-soprano
    David Lee, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, bass-baritone

  • St John Passion with AAM

    Friday 18th April 2025 at 3.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion

    Further details and tickets at the Barbican website.

    Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
    Dingle Yandell, Christus
    Carolyn Sampson, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    Ed Lyon, tenor
    Jonathan Brown, bass-baritone

  • Pater Peccavi: Music of Lamentation

    Friday 4th April 2025 at 7.30pm

    St John's Church, Silverdale, Lancashire

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

    Further information and tickets available here.

    Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
    Duarte Lobo, Pater Peccavi
    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' from Missa Veni Domine
    Filipe de Magalhaes, Commissa mea pavesco
    Aires Fernandez, Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
    Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
    Duarte Lobo, 'Gloria' from Missa Veni Domine
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Commissa mea pavesco
    Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa Veni Domine
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adoramus te
    Duarte Lobo, 'Benedictus' from Missa Veni Domine
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Emendemus in melius
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    Manuel Cardoso, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Tradent enim vos
    Duarte Lobo, Audivi vocem de caelo

  • Pater Peccavi: Music of Lamentation

    Thursday 3rd April 2025

    St George's Church, Tombland, Norwich

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music of extraordinary beauty and hidden meaning from Renaissance Portugal.

    Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
    Duarte Lobo, Pater Peccavi
    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' from Missa Veni Domine
    Filipe de Magalhaes, Commissa mea pavesco
    Aires Fernandez, Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
    Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
    Duarte Lobo, 'Gloria' from Missa Veni Domine
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Commissa mea pavesco
    Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa Veni Domine
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Adoramus te
    Duarte Lobo, 'Benedictus' from Missa Veni Domine
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Emendemus in melius
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    Manuel Cardoso, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Tradent enim vos
    Duarte Lobo, Audivi vocem de caelo

  • The Quality of Mercy

    Sunday 30th March 2025 at 2.00pm

    Cowdray Hall, Schoolhill, Aberdeen

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    An a cappella programme for the season of Lent, featuring Renaissance polyphony alongside music by Francis Poulenc and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

    Tickets available via the Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums website.

    Francis Poulenc, Tristis est anima mea from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Orlandus Lassus, Tristis est anima mea
    Francis Poulenc, Vinea mea electa from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Imogen Holst, 'Kyrie' from Mass in A minor
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
    James Macmillan, Miserere
    Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Sarah MacDonald, Crux fidelis
    Anna Meredith, Heal you
    William Harris, Bring us, O Lord God
    William Byrd, Iustorum animae
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, The Dead
    Francis Poulenc, Timor et Tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Imogen Holst, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass in A minor
    Cheryl Frances-Hoad, At the round earth's imagined corners
    John Sheppard, Libera Nos I

  • The Quality of Mercy

    Saturday 29th March 2025 at 7.00pm

    Dundee Parish Church, Dundee

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    An a cappella programme for the season of Lent, featuring Renaissance polyphony alongside music by Francis Poulenc and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

    Tickets available via the Dundee City Box Office.

    Francis Poulenc, Tristis est anima mea from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Orlandus Lassus, Tristis est anima mea
    Francis Poulenc, Vinea mea electa from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Imogen Holst, 'Kyrie' from Mass in A minor
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
    James Macmillan, Miserere
    Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Sarah MacDonald, Crux fidelis
    Anna Meredith, Heal you
    William Harris, Bring us, O Lord God
    William Byrd, Iustorum animae
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, The Dead
    Francis Poulenc, Timor et Tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Imogen Holst, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass in A minor
    Cheryl Frances-Hoad, At the round earth's imagined corners
    John Sheppard, Libera Nos ​I

  • The Quality of Mercy

    Friday 28th March 2025 at 7.30pm

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    An a cappella programme for the season of Lent, featuring Renaissance polyphony alongside music by Francis Poulenc and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

    Tickets available via the Queen's Hall website.

    Francis Poulenc, Tristis est anima mea from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Orlandus Lassus, Tristis est anima mea
    Francis Poulenc, Vinea mea electa from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Imogen Holst, 'Kyrie' from Mass in A minor
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
    James Macmillan, Miserere
    Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Sarah MacDonald, Crux fidelis
    Anna Meredith, Heal you
    William Harris, Bring us, O Lord God
    William Byrd, Iustorum animae
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, The Dead
    Francis Poulenc, Timor et Tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Imogen Holst, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass in A minor
    Cheryl Frances-Hoad, At the round earth's imagined corners
    John Sheppard, Libera Nos ​I

  • The Quality of Mercy

    Thursday 27th March 2025 at 7.30pm

    St Aloysius's Church, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    An a cappella programme for the season of Lent, featuring Renaissance polyphony alongside music by Francis Poulenc and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

    Tickets available via the RCS website.

    Francis Poulenc, Tristis est anima mea from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Orlandus Lassus, Tristis est anima mea
    Francis Poulenc, Vinea mea electa from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Imogen Holst, 'Kyrie' from Mass in A minor
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, Drop, drop slow tears
    James Macmillan, Miserere
    Francis Poulenc, Tenebrae factae sunt from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Sarah MacDonald, Crux fidelis
    Anna Meredith, Heal you
    William Harris, Bring us, O Lord God
    William Byrd, Iustorum animae
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, The Dead
    Francis Poulenc, Timor et Tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
    Imogen Holst, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass in A minor
    Cheryl Frances-Hoad, At the round earth's imagined corners
    John Sheppard, Libera Nos ​I

  • Transatlantic: Classical Masters

    Thursday 13th March 2025 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, London

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    Music by the Brazilian composer-priest José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, set alongside that of his fellow classical masters Mozart and Haydn.

    Further information at the AAM website. Tickets available via the Barbican website.

    José Mauricio Nunes Garcia
       Overture in D major
       Dilexisti justitiam
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major
    José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Tantum ergo
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ave verum corpus
    Joseph Haydn, Divertimento in G major
    José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Litany of the Sorrows of Our Lady

    Katherine Spencer, clarinet

    Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
    Rebekah Nießer-Jones, mezzo-soprano
    Rory Carver, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, bass-baritone

  • Transatlantic: Classical Masters

    Wednesday 12th March 2025 at 7.30pm

    West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    Music by the Brazilian composer-priest José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, set alongside that of his fellow classical masters Mozart and Haydn.

    Further information at the AAM website. Tickets available via Cambridge Live Tickets.

    José Mauricio Nunes Garcia
       Overture in D major
       Dilexisti justitiam
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major
    José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Tantum ergo
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ave verum corpus
    Joseph Haydn, Divertimento in G major
    José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Litany of the Sorrows of Our Lady

    Katherine Spencer, clarinet

    Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
    Rebekah Nießer-Jones, mezzo-soprano
    Rory Carver, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, bass-baritone

  • Reformations: Cantata

    Friday 7th March 2025 at 7.30pm

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    Jan Dismas Zelenka, Lamentation V
    Georg Philipp Telemann, Du aber, Daniel
    J.S. Bach, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ('Actus Tragicus') BWV 106
    David Fennessy, Bog Cantata (first performance)

    Discovered in a County Tipperary bog in 2006, the early medieval Faddan More Psalter manuscript provides the starting point for David Fennessy’s seductively scored new cantata. Its mellow instrumental hinterland echoes that of the young J.S. Bach’s heart-stopping Actus Tragicus which, like his friend Telemann’s Du aber, Daniel, seeks consolation in the sublime interplay of recorders and violas da gamba.
    Tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

    Nardus Williams, soprano
    Jess Dandy, alto
    Ed Lyon, tenor
    Roderick Williams, baritone

  • Reformations: Cantata

    Thursday 6th March 2025 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, London

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    Jan Dismas Zelenka, Lamentation V
    Georg Philipp Telemann, Du aber, Daniel
    J.S. Bach, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ('Actus Tragicus') BWV 106
    David Fennessy, Bog Cantata (first performance)

    Discovered in a County Tipperary bog in 2006, the early medieval Faddan More Psalter manuscript provides the starting point for David Fennessy’s seductively scored new cantata. Its mellow instrumental hinterland echoes that of the young J.S. Bach’s heart-stopping Actus Tragicus which, like his friend Telemann’s Du aber, Daniel, seeks consolation in the sublime interplay of recorders and violas da gamba.
    Tickets at the Barbican website.

    Nardus Williams, soprano
    Jess Dandy, alto
    Ed Lyon, tenor
    Roderick Williams, baritone

  • Mass in B Minor | Bath Bachfest

    Saturday 22nd February 2025 at 7.30pm

    Bath Abbey

    The English Concert
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor BWV 232

    Tickets and further information at the Bach Bathfest website.

    Isabel Schicketanz and Joanna Songi, soprano
    Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
    Samuel Boden, tenor
    Florian Störtz, bass-baritone

  • Mass in B Minor

    Thursday 20th February 2025 at 7.30pm

    St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

    The English Concert
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor BWV 232

    Tickets and further information at the St Martin-in-the-Fields website.

    Isabel Schicketanz and Joanna Songi, soprano
    Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
    Samuel Boden, tenor
    Florian Störtz, bass-baritone

  • Vicente Lusitano: Black Composer of the Renaissance

    Saturday 8th February 2025 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Cathedral
    Portland, OR

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery director

    Tickets and further details at the Cappella Romana website.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
    Orlandus Lassus, Regina caeli laetare à 7
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Salve Regina à 8
    Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
    Cristobal de Morales, Sancta Maria
    João Lourenço Rebelo, Panis angelicus
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8

  • Vicente Lusitano: Black Composer of the Renaissance

    Friday 7th February 2025 at 7.30pm

    St Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
    Seattle, WA

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Further details and tickets at the Cappella Romana website.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
    Orlandus Lassus, Regina caeli laetare à 7
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Salve Regina à 8
    Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
    Cristobal de Morales, Sancta Maria
    João Lourenço Rebelo, Panis angelicus
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8

  • Messiah | La Folle Journée

    Thursday 30th January 2025 at 9.00pm

    Auditorium Apollon, Cité des Congrès, Nantes

    Dunedin Consort
    Johanna Soller, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (Dublin version, 1742)

       (Bass II soloist)

    Rowan Pierce, soprano
    Helen Charlston, alto I
    Judy Louie Brown, alto II
    Joshua Ellicott, tenor
    Stephan Loges, bass I
    Jon Stainsby, bass II

  • Susanna

    Sunday 26th January 2025 at 6.00pm

    Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Susanna

    Tickets and further details at the Wiener Konzerthaus website.

    Anna Dennis and Jessica Cale, sopranos
    Alex Potter, counter-tenor
    Joshua Ellicott, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass-baritone

  • Susanna

    Friday 24th January 2025 at 7.00pm

    St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Susanna

    Tickets at the St Martin-in-the-Fields website.

    Anna Dennis and Jessica Cale, sopranos
    Alexander Chance, counter-tenor
    Joshua Ellicott, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass-baritone

  • An Auld Alliance

    Friday 10th January 2025 at 11.00am

    Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books, presented alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

    Tickets and further information at the RCS website.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Kenneth Tay, Duo Seraphim
    Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Inviolata
    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • Messiah | Sinfonia Smith Square Christmas Festival

    Monday 23rd December 2024 at 7.30pm

    Smith Square Hall, London

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Further information at the Sinfonia Smith Square website. This event has now sold out.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    James Gilchrist, tenor
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • Christmas Oratorio | Sinfonia Smith Square Christmas Festival

    Sunday 22nd December 2024 at 7.30pm

    Smith Square Hall, London

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Parts I, II, and III)
    Arcangelo Corelli, Christmas Concerto

    Tickets at the Sinfonia Smith Square website.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    James Gilchrist, tenor
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Nottingham

    Saturday 7th December 2024 at 7.00pm

    Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

    Nottingham Harmonic Choir
    Orchestra da Camera
    Richard Laing, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah 

       (Baritone soloist)

    Tickets and further details at the Nottingham Harmonic Choir website.

    Rebecca Bottone, soprano
    Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
    Christopher Turner, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Fauré and Stanford centenary concert

    Saturday 23rd November 2024 at 7.30pm

    St John the Evangelist, Barnet

    Barnet Choral Society
    Rory McCleery, director

    Gabriel Fauré, Requiem Op. 48
    C.V. Stanford, Mass in G
    Giacomo Puccini, Requiem

    Tickets and further information at the Barnet Choral Society website.

    Catriona Holsgrove, soprano
    Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
    Graham Neal, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
     

  • An Auld Alliance

    Sunday 17th November 2024 at 3.00pm

    Michael Jaharis Recital Hall, Haverford College
    Ardmore, PA

    The Marian Consort

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books, presented alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

    Further information at the Haverford College website.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    John Buchan, Psalm 128
    'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
    Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Inviolata
    'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • An Auld Alliance

    Saturday 16th November 2024 at 7.30pm

    Church of St Mary the Virgin
    145 West 46th St, New York, NY

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books.

    Further information at the Miller Theatre Early Music Series website.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    John Buchan, Psalm 128
    'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
    'Credo' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Inviolata
    'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • An Auld Alliance

    Friday 15th November 2024 at 7.30pm

    St Mark's Episcopal Church
    Columbus, OH

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books.

    Further details at the website of St Mark's Music Series.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    John Buchan, Psalm 128
    'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
    'Credo' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Inviolata
    'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • An Auld Alliance | Vanguard Concerts Series/ArtsLIVE

    Sunday 10th November 2024 at 3.00pm

    Roger Glass Center for the Arts
    University of Dayton, OH

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books, presented alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

    Further details at the website of the Roger Glass Center for the Arts.
    Tickets available here.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    John Buchan, Psalm 128
    'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
    Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Inviolata
    'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • An Auld Alliance

    Friday 8th November 2024 at 7.30pm

    Cathedral of St John the Evangelist
    Cleveland, OH

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century part books, presented alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

    Thanks to a generous endowment from the family of Helen D. Schubert, admission to this concert is free. Further information is available at the website of the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    John Buchan, Psalm 128
    'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
    Magnificat a4 (7th tone) (Anonymous)
    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Inviolata
    'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • Seeing through Sound

    Sunday 27th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Colyer-Fergusson Hall
    Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Tim Shephard, speaker

    A visual and aural feast featuring some of the greatest painters and composers of the Renaissance. New music by Barbara Monk Feldman provides a contemporary meditation on the experience of viewing Renaissance art.

    Further details and tickets at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre website.

    Nuper almos rosa flores (plainchant)
    Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
    Ave Maria
     (lauda; plainchant)
    Johannes Brassart, Ave Maria
    Regina Coeli
     antiphon (plainchant)
    John Dunstaple, Regina Coeli à3
    Jean Mouton, Gloria from Missa Tu es Petrus
    Barbara Monk Feldman, Watchman (Marian Consort commission; world première)
    Heinrich Isaac, Ne più bella di queste
    Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella
    Philippe Verdelot, Dormend'un giorno
    Josquin des Près, "Domina labia mea aperies" from Miserere mei

  • An Auld Alliance

    Friday 18th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Kings Place, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland's few surviving sixteenth-century partbooks, alongside works by contemporary Scottish composers.

    Tickets and further details at the Kings Place website.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina
    Felix namque (Plainchant)
    'Kyrie' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    John Buchan, Psalm 128
    James MacMillan, Ave maris stella
    'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
    David Peebles, Psalm 150
    Pierre Certon, Pater Noster/Ave Maria
    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis
    Johannes Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • Last of the Leaves

    Sunday 13th October 2024 at 4.00pm

    St Stephen's, Dulwich

    The Concordium String Ensemble
    Lucy Goddard, conductor
    Anthony Friend, clarinet

    Stephen Dodgson, Last of the Leaves 

       (Baritone soloist)

    The programme will also feature Leoš Janáček's Suite for Strings and Gerald Finzi's Clarinet Concerto.
    This performance is generously supported by the Stephen Dodgson Charitable Trust and the Finzi Friends.

  • Seeing through Sound

    Friday 11th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Wiltshire Music Centre
    Bradford on Avon

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Tim Shephard, speaker

    A visual and aural feast featuring some of the greatest painters and composers of the Renaissance. New music by Barbara Monk Feldman provides a contemporary meditation on the experience of viewing Renaissance art.
    The concert will be preceded at 6.30pm by a talk by Prof Tim Shephard.

    Tickets and further details at the WMC website.

    Nuper almos rosa flores (plainchant)
    Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
    Ave Maria
     (lauda; plainchant)
    Johannes Brassart, Ave Maria
    Regina Coeli
     antiphon (plainchant)
    John Dunstaple, Regina Coeli à3
    Jean Mouton, Gloria from Missa Tu es Petrus
    Barbara Monk Feldman, Watchman (Marian Consort commission; world première)
    Heinrich Isaac, Ne più bella di queste
    Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella
    Philippe Verdelot, Dormend'un giorno
    Josquin des Près, "Domina labia mea aperies" from Miserere mei

  • Charpentier and Rameau

    Wednesday 9th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, London

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Actéon
    Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pygmalion

    Further details at the AAM website; tickets at the Barbican website.

    Anna Dennis and Rachel Redmond, sopranos
    Katie Bray, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Walker, tenor

  • Charpentier and Rameau

    Tuesday 8th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Actéon
    Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pygmalion

    Further details at the AAM website.

    Anna Dennis and Rachel Redmond, sopranos
    Katie Bray, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Walker, tenor

  • Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

    Saturday 5th October 2024 at 6.00pm

    Évora Cathedral, Évora, Portugal

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by Vicente Lusitano and his Portuguese contemporaries.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Duarte Lobo, 'Introitus' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Estêvão de Brito, Heu Domine
    Duarte Lobo, 'Kyrie' and 'Gradual' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine de sede
    Duarte Lobo, 'Offertorium' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Manuel Cardoso, Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
    Estêvão Lopes Morago, Versa est in luctum
    Duarte Lobo, 'Sanctus' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Filipe de Magalhães, Commissa mea pavesco
    Duarte Lobo, 'Agnus Dei' and 'Lux aeterna' from Missa pro defunctis a8
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Estêvão de Brito, Vidi Dominum
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata a8

  • Candlelight Concert | Hexham Abbey Festival

    Sunday 29th September 2024 at 7.30pm

    Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Further details at the Hexham Abbey Festival website; tickets available from the Queen's Hall Arts Centre box office.

    Venite exultemus Domino (plainchant)
    Thomas Tallis, O come in one to praise the Lord
    James MacMillan, O Radiant Dawn
    John Tavener, The Lord's Prayer
    Felix namque (plainchant)
    'Kyrie' and 'Gloria' from Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    William Byrd, Ad Dominum cum tribularer
    Magnificat a4, 7th Tone (Anonymous, from the Carver Choirbook)
    William Byrd, Salve Regina
    Te lucis ante terminum (plainchant)
    Ben Rowarth, Night Prayer: Psalm 134
    Jonathan Dove, Into Thy Hands
    Gustav Holst, Nunc Dimittis

  • Brahms Requiem Choral Workshop

    Saturday 28th September 2024 at 2.30pm

    St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London

    Sonoro
    Neil Ferris, conductor
    Libby Burgess, piano

    Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem 

       (Baritone soloist)

    A come-and-sing choral workshop, led by BBC Symphony Chorus and Sonoro conductor Neil Ferris.
    Tickets and further details at the Sonoro website.

  • Singing in Secret | Musica Sacra Maastricht

    Saturday 21st September 2024 at 2.00pm

    Kapel Zusters Onder de Bogen, Maastricht

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music for clandestine devotion by William Byrd: the complete Mass for Four Voices, and the Propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi.

    Further details and tickets at the Musica Sacra Maastricht website.
    Recorded for future broadcast on NPO 4 Klassiek.

    William Byrd:
       Adorna thalamum tuum
       Senex puerum 
    a5
       Ad Dominum cum tribularer
       Civibat eos
       
    'Kyrie' and 'Gloria' from Mass for Four Voices
       Oculi omnium
       
    'Credo' from Mass for Four Voices
       Sacerdotes Domini
       
    'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Mass for Four Voices
       Ave verum corpus
       
    'Agnus Dei' from Mass for Four Voices
       Quotiescunque manducabitis
       Salve regina

  • Light of the World | Music@Malling

    Friday 20th September 2024 at 1.00pm

    Malling Abbey, West Malling, Kent

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Greta Mutlu, violin

    The Marian Consort explore music from England’s turbulent 17th Century. Doleful works from the dying embers of the English Renaissance by Byrd and Tomkins are contrasted with the Italianate brilliance of the ‘English Orpheus’, Henry Purcell, and with contemporary works by John Woolrich and Deborah Pritchard.

    Tickets and further details at the Music@Malling website.

    Deborah Pritchard, Light of the World
    William Byrd, Retire my soul
    John Woolrich, 'A Hymn on Melancholy' from Three Choruses
    Henry Purcell, Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?
    Deborah Pritchard, Heart of Light for solo violin (world première)
    Thomas Tomkins, Then David mourn’d
    Henry Purcell, Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes mei
    John Woolrich, 'The Years Glide Swiftly' from Three Choruses
    Henry Purcell, Remember not, Lord, our offences
    John Woolrich, 'A Hymn against Despair' from Three Choruses
    John Blow, Salvator Mundi
    Deborah Pritchard, The Light Thereof

  • Bach Vespers

    Saturday 27th July 2024 at 6.30pm

    Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

    City Bach Collective

    J.S. Bach, Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort BWV 168

       (Consort and step-out soloist)


    and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

    For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

    Georg Philipp Telemann, 'Ouverture' from Concerto in B flat major TWV 55:B1
    Heinrich Isaac, Ecce Deus adjuvat me
    J.S. Bach, Chorale Prelude 'Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottessohn' BWV 601
    Samuel Scheidt, Chorale Prelude 'Vater unser im Himmelreich' SSWV 104
    Andreas Raselius, Wir glauben all an einen Gott
    J.S. Bach, 'Herr Jesu Christ! dich zu uns wend' BWV 332
    J.S. Bach, Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort BWV 168
    J.S. Bach, 'Air' from Suite No. 3 in D BWV 1068
    J.S. Bach, Allabreve in D BWV 589

    Emily Atkinson, soprano
    Tristram Cooke, counter-tenor
    Graham Neal, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    The City Bach Collective
    Hazel Brooks, leader

  • In Sorrow's Footsteps | Ryedale Festival

    Thursday 25th July 2024 at 7.30pm

    Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Further details and tickets at the Ryedale Festival website.

    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Salve regina à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Gregorio Allegri, Lamentations
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria' from Missa 'Salve'
    Gregorio Allegri, Miserere
    Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, Ave Maria
    Tomàs Luis de Victoria, 'Sanctus' and 'Agnus Dei' from Missa 'Salve'
    Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, Regina caeli
    James Macmillan, Miserere

  • Triple Concert | Ryedale Festival

    Wednesday 24th July 2024 at 7.00pm

    Castle Howard, North Yorkshire

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    As part of Ryedale Festival’s famed triple concert, the Marian Consort presents a programme opening with the world première of a new piece by Sarah Frances Jenkins, inspired by the stunning Pre-Raphaelite designs of Castle Howard’s chapel. Works by English Renaissance composers Weeles, Dowland and Byrd are juxtaposed with contemporary commentary in works by Laurence Osborn.

    Further details and tickets at the Ryedale Festival website.

    Sarah Frances Jenkins, New work (world première)
    Thomas Weelkes, Death hath deprived me
    Laurence Osborn, Spare Parts (i): loop (after Weelkes)
    John Dowland, His golden locks
    Laurence Osborn, Spare Parts (iii): spring (after Dowland)
    William Byrd, Ad Dominum cum tribularer

  • Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

    Sunday 21st July 2024 at 5.00pm

    Wallfahrtskirche Hohenstadt ("Mariä-Opferungskirche")
    Festival Europäische Kirchenmusik, Schwäbisch Gmünd

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

    Tickets and further information at the Festival website.

    Tomás Luis de Victoria
       Ave regina caelorum à 8
       Missa 'Ave regina caelorum' à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Beati omnes
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8

  • The Language of Flowers | Cheltenham Festival

    Sunday 7th July 2024 at 6.00pm

    Christ Church, Cheltenham

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and newly commissioned works.

    Further details and tickets at the Cheltenham Music Festival website.

    Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
    Laura Cannell, For the Plants that Bind Us (world première)
    Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
    Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
    Sebastián de Vivanco
       Veni dilecte mi
       Surge propera
       Sicut lilium

    Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary (world première)

  • Duruflé Requiem

    Saturday 6th July 2024 at 7.30pm

    St Andrew's Church, Surbiton

    Teddington Choral Society
    Julian Collings, conductor

    Maurice Duruflé, Requiem 

       (Baritone Soloist)

    Further details at the Teddington Choral Society website.

    The programme will also feature choral works by Gabriel Fauré and Déodat de Séverac.

    Clara Kanter, mezzo-soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Rebecca Hepplewhite, cello
    Peter Jaekel, organ
    Phil Culling, piano

  • Face to Face | Aldeburgh Festival

    Saturday 15th June 2024

    Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape Maltings, Suffolk

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, musical director
    Helen Atkinson, sound designer
    Ell Potter, actor
    Liv Penny, film
    Tom Taylor, visuals
    Becky Namgauds, movement director
    James Hardie, creative producer

    Renaissance madrigals by Casulana, Gesualdo, Meldert, Cipriano de Rore, Rossi and Giaches de Wert and new music by Joanna Ward form the core of a rich, emotionally charged musical encounter - part performance, part installation - developed in a residency with Britten Pears Arts.

    Further details at the Aldeburgh Festival website; this event is now sold out.

    Cipriano de Rore, 'Da le belle contrade d'oriente'
    Giaches de Wert, 'Occhi de l'alma mia'
    Michelangelo Rossi, 'Occhi un tempo mia vita'
    Leonard Meldert, 'Il più leggiadro viso'
    Cipriano de Rore, 'Solea lontana'
    Maddalena Casulana, 'Morir non può'l mio core'
    Carlo Gesualdo, 'Sparge la morte'
    Joanna Ward, new works

    11.00am, 1.00pm and 3.00pm
  • Lunchtime concert at St Margaret's Church

    Wednesday 12th June 2024 at 1.00pm

    St Margaret's Church, Westminster

    St Margaret's Consort
    Greg Morris, conductor

    St Margaret's Church has a rich and fascinating history. This concert explores the wealth of connections between the church and prominent composers, literary figures and political thinkers over the course of the past 500 years, including the world première of a work by a member of the current Consort.

    Further details at the Westminster Abbey website.

    William Byrd, O quam gloriosum
    Nicholas Ludford, 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa Sabato
    Robert Whyte, Christe qui lux es et dies (3rd setting)
    Henry Purcell I was glad
    Gareth Treseder, Certum tenentes ordinem (world première)
    Charles Villers Stanford, Praised be Diana (words by Sir Walter Raleigh)
    Ignatius Sancho, Thou soft flowing Avon (words by David Garrick)
    Edwin Lemare, Andantino in D flat
    Hubert Parry, "But let my due feet never fail" from L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso (words by John Milton)

  • Mystic Ritual | Aldeburgh Festival

    Monday 10th June 2024 at 8.00pm

    Blythburgh Church, Suffolk

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Daniel Pioro, violin

    Tom Coult’s new reimagining of music by the medieval abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, and the Byzantine mystic, Kassia, are a wonderful match for The Marian Consort’s interest in marrying ancient and contemporary musical influences into a new and coherent whole. Created especially for Blythburgh Church at dusk, this flow of music spans millennia and links two of the earliest female composers with classics of the choral repertoire.

    Tickets and further details at the Aldeburgh Festival website.

    Tom Coult (after Hildegard of Bingen), O Ecclesia
    Tom Coult (after Hildegard of Bingen), O Euchari (Britten Pears Arts commission / first performance)
    Tom Coult (after Kassia), Hymns of Kassiana (Britten Pears Arts commission / first performance)
    John Tavener, Mother of God, Here I Stand
    Arvo Pärt, Morning Star
    Arvo Pärt, Da pacem Domine
    Gaspar van Weerbeke, Mater digna Dei
    Jean Lhéritier, Ave domina mea
    Josquin des Prez, Ave Maria

  • Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

    Saturday 1st June 2024 at 9.30pm

    Basilica di San Vitale, Ravenna

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

    Further information and tickets at the Ravenna Festival website.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Regina caeli à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8

  • The Language of Flowers | Dunster Festival

    Friday 24th May 2024 at 7.30pm

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and a newly commissioned work.

    Details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

    Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
    Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
    Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
    Sebastián de Vivanco
       Veni dilecte mi
       Surge propera
       Sicut lilium

    Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary (Marian Consort commission)

  • The Hunt of the Unicorn | London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

    Saturday 18th May 2024 at 7.30pm

    St George's, Bloomsbury

    The LFCCM Singers
    Alastair Carey, director

    A selection of the medieval “unicorn” tapestries, portraying key moments in the life of Christ, are accompanied by contemporary sacred music from the Festival’s “Call for Scores” project in this depiction of the journey from Christmas to Easter.

    Further details and tickets at the LFCCM website.

  • Scattered Rhymes

    Wednesday 15th May 2024 at 7.30pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

    Tickets from the Wigmore Hall website.

    James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
    Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
    Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
    Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
    Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
    Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
    Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
    Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
    Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem

  • The Marian Consort in Penzance

    Tuesday 14th May 2024 at 7.30pm

    Penzance Catholic Church

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Works by Byrd, Tallis, Parsons, and contemporary composers.

    Further details and tickets at the festival website.

  • Scattered Rhymes

    Sunday 12th May 2024 at 7.30pm

    Laidlaw Music Centre
    University of St Andrews

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

    Tickets via the Byre Theatre website.

    James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
    Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
    Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
    Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
    Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
    Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
    Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
    Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
    Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem

  • Scattered Rhymes

    Saturday 11th May 2024 at 7.30pm

    Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

    Tickets via the RCS website.

    James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
    Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
    Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
    Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
    Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
    Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
    Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
    Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
    Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem

  • Scattered Rhymes

    Friday 10th May 2024 at 7.30pm

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

    Tickets via the Queen's Hall website.

    James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
    Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
    Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
    Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
    Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
    Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
    Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
    Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
    Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem

  • Scattered Rhymes

    Thursday 9th May 2024 at 7.30pm

    St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    Settings of the Song of Songs, from the Renaissance and the present day.

    Tickets at the Aberdeen Performing Arts website.

    James MacMillan, Behold, you are beautiful, my love
    Gavin Bryars, A la dolce ombra
    Bianca Maria Furgeri, Ego flos campi
    Stephanie Martin, Rise up, My Love
    Tarik O’Regan, Scattered Rhymes
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Duo ubera tua
    Adrian Willaert, Lasso ch’i ardo
    Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Surge amica mea
    Guillaume Bouzignac, Vulnerasti cor meum
    Caroline Shaw, New work (world première; Dunedin Consort commission)
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vadam et circuibo civitatem

  • Bach Vespers

    Sunday 28th April 2024 at 6.30pm

    Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

    City Bach Collective

    J.S. Bach, Wahrlich, wahrlich ich sage euch BWV 86

       (Consort and step-out soloist)


    and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

    For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

    J.S. Bach, 'Sinfonia' from Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis BWV 21
    Melchior Franck, Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
    J.S. Bach, Chorale Prelude 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her' BWV 638
    Samuel Scheidt, Chorale Prelude 'Vater unser im Himmelreich' SSWV 104
    Balthasar Resinarius, Wir glauben all an einen Gott
    J.S. Bach, 'Herr Jesu Christ! dich zu uns wend' BWV 332
    J.S. Bach, Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch BWV 86
    Heinrich Schütz, 'O süßer, o freundlicher' SWV 285
    Johann Pachelbel, 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' P.58

    Emily Atkinson, soprano
    Judy Louie Brown, mezzo-soprano
    Tom Kelly, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    The City Bach Collective
    Hazel Brooks, leader

  • Hymn of Praise

    Friday 26th April 2024 at 7.00pm

    Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
    London

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Sir András Schiff, director

    Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 2 ("Lobgesang")

    Further details and tickets at the OAE website.

    Felix Mendelssohn
       Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
       Symphony No. 2 ("Lobgesang")

    Alina Ibragimova, violin
    Lucy Crowe, soprano
    Hilary Cronin, soprano
    Nick Pritchard, tenor
    Sir András Schiff, fortepiano / director

  • Seeing through Sound

    Friday 19th April 2024 at 6.30pm

    V&A South Kensington, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Tim Shephard, speaker

    A visual and aural feast featuring some of the greatest painters and composers of the Renaissance. New music by Barbara Monk Feldman provides a contemporary meditation on the experience of viewing Renaissance art.

    Further details and tickets at the V&A website.

    Nuper almos rosa flores (plainchant)
    Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
    Ave Maria
    (lauda; plainchant)
    Johannes Brassart, Ave Maria
    Regina Coeli
    antiphon (plainchant)
    John Dunstaple, Regina Coeli à3
    Jean Mouton, Gloria from Missa Tu es Petrus
    Barbara Monk Feldman, Watchman (Marian Consort commission; world première)
    Heinrich Isaac, Ne più bella di queste
    Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Poi che volse la mia stella
    Philippe Verdelot, Dormend'un giorno
    Josquin des Près, "Domina labia mea aperies" from Miserere mei

  • Handel, Corelli and Ferrandini

    Wednesday 10th April 2024 at 7.30pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    The English Concert
    Harry Bicket, director
    Emily D'Angelo, mezzo-soprano

    G.F. Handel, Donna, che in ciel HWV 233
    and works by Corelli and Ferrandini

    Unfortunately, Emily d'Angelo has withdrawn from this performance due to illness; Iestyn Davies will now perform in her place, but the programme has been amended accordingly and I will no longer be participating. Further details are available at the Wigmore Hall website.

    G.F. Handel, Concerto grosso in A, Op. 6 no. 11, HWV 329
    Giovanni Ferrandini, Il pianto di Maria
    Arcangelo Corelli, Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6 no. 4
    G.F. Handel, Donna, che in ciel HWV 233

    (For the amended programme, see the Wigmore Hall website.)

  • St John Passion

    Saturday 30th March 2024 at 2.00pm

    Melrose Parish Church

    The Borders Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra
    Robert Marshall, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion

       (Christus and Bass arias)

    Tom Raskin, Evangelist
    Georgie Malcolm, soprano
    Judy Louie Brown, mezzo-soprano
    Chris Elliott, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • St John Passion with Polyphony

    Friday 29th March 2024 at 2.30pm

    St John's, Smith Square, London

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion

    Tickets at the SJSS website.

    Nick Pritchard, Evangelist
    James Rutherford, Christus

    Rowan Pierce, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    Ruairi Bowen, tenor
    Ashley Riches, bass

  • Divine Revolutions with Daniel Pioro

    Thursday 28th March 2024 at 7.30pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Daniel Pioro, violin

    Violinist, composer and ardent advocate for new music Daniel Pioro collaborates with the Marian Consort.

    Further details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

    Hildegard of Bingen, arr. Tom Coult, O ecclesia oculi tui (world première)
    Hildegard of Bingen, arr. Daniel Pioro and the Marian Consort, O virtus Sapientie (world première)
    Nick Martin, Growth Rings (UK premiere)
    J.S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004, with accompanying chorales in the Chaconne

  • From Darkness into Light | Bach Weekend

    Friday 22nd March 2024 at 7.30pm

    Kings Place

    Brecon Baroque
    Rachel Podger, director and violin

    For the opening concert of the Kings Place Bach Weekend, a musical journey of spiritual transformation for Eastertide.

    Further details and tickets at the Kings Place website.

    Johann Sebastian Bach, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150
    Johann Michael Bach, Ach wie sehnlich
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Ciaccona in E minor BuxWV 160 (transcribed for string quartet by Brian Clark)
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BuxWV 76 and Klaglied BuxWV 76b
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Lobet den Herrn BWV 230
    Johann Michael Bach, Es ist ein großer Gewinn
    Johann Christoph Bach, Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein / Ciaconne from Meine Freundin ist schön
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4

    Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
    Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-soprano
    Gwilym Bowen, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Brecon Baroque
    Rachel Podger, director and violin

  • The Language of Flowers | Music at Oxford

    Saturday 16th March 2024 at 6.00pm

    St Barnabus Church, Jericho, Oxford

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort continues its residency at Music at Oxford, with an exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and newly commissioned works.

    Full programme details at the Music at Oxford website.

    Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
    Laura Cannell, For the Plants that Bind Us
    Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
    Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
    Sebastián de Vivanco
       Veni dilecte mi
       Surge propera
       Sicut lilium

    Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary
    Electra Perivolaris, Our Shared Planet (world première)

  • The Language of Flowers

    Thursday 14th March 2024 at 7.00pm

    St George's Colegate, Norwich

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An exploration of the sensory delights of flowers and gardens in works by composers of the Spanish Renaissance, together with Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs and newly commissioned works.

    Further details and tickets at the Marian Consort website.

    Rodrigo de Ceballos, Hortus Conclusus
    Laura Cannell, For the Plants that Bind Us (world première)
    Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Missa 'Ego flos campi'
    Benjamin Britten, Five Flower Songs
    Sebastián de Vivanco
       Veni dilecte mi
       Surge propera
       Sicut lilium

    Leo Chadburn, Flower Dictionary (world première)

  • English Music for Lent

    Saturday 9th March 2024 at 7.30pm

    St Martin's Church, Epsom

    Epsom Choral Society
    Peter Jaekel, organ
    Julian Collings, conductor

    John Stainer, The Crucifixion
    and other penitential works by English composers

    Details and tickets at the Epsom Choral Society website.

    John Stainer, The Crucifixion
    Edward Elgar, The Spirit of the Lord
    Gerald Finzi, Lo, the full, Final Sacrifice
    Herbert Howells, Like as the Hart
    John Ireland, Greater Love

  • Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

    Sunday 18th February 2024 at 4.00pm

    Duke University Chapel, Durham, North Carolina

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

    Tickets and further details at the Duke Arts website.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Magnificat à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Regina caeli à 8
    Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
    João Lourenço Rebelo, Panis angelicus
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8

  • Lecture recital with Prof Michael Noone

    Wednesday 14th February 2024 at 12.30pm

    Gasson 100, Boston College

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Motets by Vicente Lusitano, Diego de Bruceña, Juan de Anchieta and Tomás Luis de Victoria

  • Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

    Tuesday 13th February 2024 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Chapel, Boston College

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

    Further details at the Boston College website.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Regina caeli à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Magnificat à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8

  • Vicente Lusitano: a lecture recital

    Monday 12th February 2024 at 4.15pm

    Memorial Chapel, Wesleyan University, Connecticut

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director and speaker

    Motets by Vicente Lusitano and his contemporaries.

    Further details at the website of the Wesleyan University Center for the Arts. This event will be preceded by a workshop with Wesleyan's Collegium Musicum.

  • Vicente Lusitano: The Forgotten Portuguese Motets

    Sunday 11th February 2024 at 4.00pm

    Music Before 1800
    Corpus Christi Church, 529 W 121st St, New York

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Motets by Lusitano and his contemporaries

    Tickets and further details at the Music Before 1800 website.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Magnificat à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Regina caeli à 8
    Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
    Dom Pedro de Cristo, Miserere mihi Domine
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta mater
    João Lourenço Rebelo, Panis angelicus
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8

  • Dixit Dominus at Wigmore Hall

    Monday 29th January 2024 at 7.30pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    The English Concert
    Harry Bicket, director

    G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus HWV 232
    and Italian cantatas

    Full details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website (though nb this concert has now sold out)

    G.F. Handel
       Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi HWV 197
       Trio Sonata in B flat HWV 402
       Il duello amoroso HWV 82
       Dixit Dominus HWV 232

    Lucy Crowe and Joanna Songi, sopranos
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    James Way, tenor
    Ashley Riches, bass-baritone

  • Fauré Requiem

    Saturday 20th January 2024 at 7.30pm

    St James's, Piccadilly

    Sonoro
    The Dionysius Ensemble
    Neil Ferris, conductor

    Gabriel Fauré, Requiem Op. 48

       (Baritone soloist)


    and a selection of French music

    *Unfortunately this concert has been postponed until the autumn*

    Gabriel Fauré:
       Cantique de Jean Racine
       Ave verum corpus
       Tantum ergo

    Lili Boulanger, Pie Jesu
    Rebecca Dale, Panis Angelicus
    Cécile Chaminade, Meditation
    Camille Saint-Saëns Choruses, Op. 68:
       "Calme des nuits"
       "Les herbes et les arbres"
    Lili Boulanger, Sous bois
    Francis Poulenc, Exsultate Deo
    Gabriel Fauré, Requiem

  • London Voices in Lucerne

    Friday 5th January 2024 at 7.30pm

    KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

    London Voices
    City Light Symphony Orchestra
    Kevin Griffiths, conductor

    Music by John Powell

    A "concert screening" of How to Train your Dragon, with live performance of the film soundtrack.

  • Messiah with Polyphony and OAE

    Saturday 23rd December 2023 at 7.30pm

    St John's, Smith Square, London

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets available at the SJSS website.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    James Gilchrist, tenor
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Glasgow

    Thursday 21st December 2023 at 7.00pm

    St Aloysius' Church, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets available from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland website.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Bethany Horak-Hallett, mezzo-soprano
    Anthony Gregory, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah

    Thursday 21st December 2023 at 4.00pm

    St Aloysius' Church, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Tickets available from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland website.

  • Messiah in Edinburgh

    Wednesday 20th December 2023 at 7.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Bethany Horak-Hallett, mezzo-soprano
    Anthony Gregory, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah

    Wednesday 20th December 2023 at 4.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Tickets available at the Queen's Hall website.

  • Messiah in Perth

    Tuesday 19th December 2023 at 7.00pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets available at the Perth Concert Hall website.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Bethany Horak-Hallett, mezzo-soprano
    Anthony Gregory, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah

    Tuesday 19th December 2023 at 4.00pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Tickets available at the Perth Concert Hall website.

  • Christmas Concert

    Saturday 16th December 2023 at 6.30pm

    St John the Evangelist, Barnet

    Barnet Choral Society
    Rory McCleery, director
    William Whitehead, organ

    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols
    Songs by Peter Warlock, and other seasonal music

    Tickets available here.

  • Christmas Fantasia

    Saturday 9th December 2023 at 7.30pm

    Chandlers Ford Methodist Church, nr. Winchester

    Romsey Choral Society
    Richard Pearce, conductor
    Richard McVeigh, organ/piano

    Seasonal music including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols and songs by Wolf and Cornelius

    Tickets available here.

    Peter Cornelius (arr. Ivor Atkins), The Three Kings
    Trad. French (arr. David Willcocks), Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols
    Hugo Wolf, Schlafendes Jesuskind
    Peter Cornelius, "Christbaum" (from Weihnachtslieder)
    Mateo Flecha el Viejo, Ríu, Ríu, Chíu
    and seasonal carols

  • A Jacobean Christmas | York Early Music Christmas Festival

    Thursday 7th December 2023 at 7.00pm

    National Centre for Early Music, York

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Nicholas Morris, organ

    The Marian Consort return to York with a programme of festive music from the Stuart court.

    Further details and tickets at the NCEM website.

    Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
    William Byrd, This day Christ is born
    Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
    William Byrd, Lullaby
    Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
    William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
    John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
    Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
    John Amner, O ye little flock
    Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
    John Bull, The Star Anthem

  • A Jacobean Christmas | Cambridge Early Music

    Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 7.30pm

    Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Nicholas Morris, organ

    A seasonal programme featuring early English composers at their most unbuttoned and celebratory, with music written for the famously festive Stuart court.

    Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
    William Byrd, This day Christ is born
    Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
    William Byrd, Lullaby
    Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
    William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
    John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
    Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
    John Amner, O ye little flock
    Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
    John Bull, The Star Anthem

  • A Jacobean Christmas | Music at Oxford

    Saturday 2nd December 2023 at 6.00pm

    St Barnabus Church, Oxford

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Nicholas Morris, organ
    with singers from St Barnabus Church Choir and Jericho Youth Choir

    The Marian Consort continue their residency with Music at Oxford, with a programme of festive music from the Stuart court.

    Further details and tickets at the Music at Oxford website.

    Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
    William Byrd, This day Christ is born
    Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
    William Byrd, Lullaby
    Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
    William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
    John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
    Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
    John Amner, O ye little flock
    Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
    John Bull, The Star Anthem

  • A Jacobean Christmas

    Friday 1st December 2023 at 8.00pm

    Little Missenden Church (St John the Baptist), Buckinghamshire

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Nicholas Morris, organ

    A seasonal programme featuring early English composers at their most unbuttoned and celebratory, with music written for the famously festive Stuart court.

    Further details and tickets at the Little Missenden Festival website.

    Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
    William Byrd, This day Christ is born
    Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
    William Byrd, Lullaby
    Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
    William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
    John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
    Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
    John Amner, O ye little flock
    Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
    John Bull, The Star Anthem

  • A Jacobean Christmas

    Thursday 30th November 2023 at 7.00pm

    St George's Colegate, Norwich

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Nicholas Morris, organ

    The Marian Consort returns to Norwich with a festive programme that features early English composers at their most unbuttoned and celebratory, with music written for the Stuart court. Alongside these are more intimate, introspective sacred works by a golden age of English composers – Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes and Bull – that in some cases belie their creators’ often colourful personal lives.

    Tickets available here.

    Orlando Gibbons, Behold, I bring you glad tidings
    William Byrd, This day Christ is born
    Anonymous, Sweet was the Song
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Orlando Gibbons, See, see, the Word is incarnate
    William Byrd, Lullaby
    Martin Peerson, Upon my lap my Sovereign sits
    William Byrd, An earthly tree / Cast off all doubtful care
    John Bull, Een kindeken ist ons geboren
    Thomas Weelkes, Gloria in excelsis Deo
    John Amner, O ye little flock
    Orlando Gibbons, The Angels' Song
    John Bull, The Star Anthem

  • Laurence Osborn Day

    Saturday 25th November 2023 at 3.00pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Two works by Laurence Osborn (b. 1989), including one new commission, alongside works by four composers from earlier periods.

    Further information and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

    Thomas Weelkes, Death hath deprived me
    Ruth Crawford Seeger, 'To an Unkind God' from 3 Chants
    John Dowland, His Golden Locks
    Laurence Osborn, Spare Parts (first performance)
    Guillaume de Machaut, Quant en moy
    Thomas Weelkes, Whilst youthfull sports
    Ruth Crawford Seeger, 'To an Angel' from 3 Chants
    Laurence Osborn, Juvenilia

  • Snape Residency: Open Session

    Friday 10th November 2023 at 3.00pm

    Jerwood Kiln Studio
    The Maltings, Snape

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Helen Atkinson, sound designer

    A first public sharing of work developed over the course of the Marian Consort's week-long residency with Britten Pears Arts at Snape Maltings.

    Further details at the Marian Consort website.

  • The Judgement of Paris

    Saturday 28th October 2023 at 7.15pm

    Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

    Cambridge Handel Opera Company
    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Julian Perkins, director

    John Weldon, The Judgement of Paris

    Read more about this first modern revival of Weldon's opera here.

  • Bach Actually | Brecon Baroque Festival

    Friday 20th October 2023 at 7.30pm

    Brecon Cathedral

    Brecon Baroque
    Joanne Lunn, soprano
    Rachel Podger, violin and artistic director

    J.S. Bach, "Audition Cantatas":
       Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
       Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23
    as part of an all-Bach programme to open the 2023 Brecon Baroque Festival

    Full details at the Brecon Baroque Festival website.

    J.S. Bach
       Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
       Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23
       Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV 51
       Violin Concerto in G minor BWV 1056a
       'Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' Ihn' BWV 1127

    Joanne Lunn, soprano
    Martha McLorinan, mezzo-soprano
    Gwilym Bowen, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Brecon Baroque
    Rachel Podger, leader and artistic director

  • New Worlds: South American Baroque

    Monday 16th October 2023 at 9.00pm

    Duomo di Monreale, Sicily

    Academy of Ancient Music
    Bojan Čičić, leader and director

    Music by Domenico Zipoli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni da Palestrina and Roque Jacinto de Chavarria.

       (Consort and step-out soloist)

    Further details and tickets at the website of Bellini International Context.

    Anon, Hanacpachap cussicuinin
    Pasquini, 'Sinfonia' from La Sete di Christo
    Domenico Zipoli, Tantum Ergo
    Domenico Zipoli, Verso do organo
    Alessandro Scarlatti, Dixit Dominus
    Domenico Zipoli, Confitebor tibi
    Diego Sanchez de Cáseda, Silencio, no chiste al aire
    Domenico Zipoli, Beatus Vir
    Giovanni Gabrieli, Sonata No.21 for 3 violins
    Domenico Zipoli, Laudate Dominum
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Magnificat primi toni
    Biagio Marini, Sonata in eco for 3 violins
    Domenico Zipoli, Tantum Ergo
    Alessandro Scarlatti, 'Gloria Patri' from Dixit Dominus
    Roque Jacinto de Chavarria, Naranjitay Hisiño

  • William Byrd 400 | Music@Malling

    Friday 29th September 2023 at 1.00pm

    Malling Abbey, West Malling, Kent

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort celebrates the legacy of William Byrd, 400 years after his death, in a programme that juxtaposes a selection of his music with new works by Brian Elias and Deborah Pritchard.

    Tickets and further details at the Music@Malling website.

    William Byrd, Memento Domine
    Deborah Pritchard, Light of the World
    William Byrd, Domine praestolamur
    William Byrd, Audivi vocem
    Deborah Pritchard, Audivi vocem
    William Byrd, Tristitia et anxietas
    William Byrd, Lullaby
    Brian Elias, Lullaby
    William Byrd, Circumdederunt me

  • Bach and Handel | Hexham Abbey Festival

    Saturday 23rd September 2023 at 7.30pm

    Hexham Abbey

    Hexham Abbey Festival Chorus
    David Murray, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Four Coronation Anthems
    J.S. Bach, Magnificat 

       (Baritone soloist)

    Laurie Ashworth, soprano
    Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
    Nicholas Hurndall-Smith, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Singet dem Herrn | New Paths Festival

    Friday 22nd September 2023 at 8.00pm

    St Mary's Church, Beverley

    New Paths Voices
    Ian Wilson, recorder
    Libby Burgess, chamber organ and director

    Three of J.S. Bach's motets, interspersed with music on a celestial theme for recorder.

    Further details at the New Paths Festival website; tickets available via Ticketsource.

    J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn
    Jacob van Eyck, Divisions on Onse Vader in Hemelryck
    J.S. Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm
    Christiane Martini, La Luna
    J.S. Bach, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied

  • Compline at New Paths Festival

    Thursday 21st September 2023 at 10.00pm

    Beverley Minster

    New Paths Voices

    The ancient office of compline, including music by William Byrd to mark 400 years since his death.

    Further information and registration at the New Paths Festival website.

    Music to be performed as part of the liturgy:
    John Sheppard, Libera nos, salva nos
    William Byrd, Miserere mei
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria

  • Music for the Queen of Heaven | Korkyra Baroque Festival

    Wednesday 13th September 2023 at 7.00pm

    Parish Church of St Nicholas, Račišće, Croatia

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries, interspersed with a selection of new works.

    Clemens non Papa, O Maria vernans rosa
    Ben Rowarth, Ave Maris Stella
    William Byrd, Audivi vocem de caelo
    Deborah Pritchard, Audivi vocem
    William Byrd, Tristitia et anxietas
    Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God
    William Byrd, Memento Domine
    Julije Skjavetić, Asperges me
    William Byrd, Lullaby
    Brian Elias, Lullaby
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria

  • Music for the Queen of Heaven | Korkyra Baroque Festival

    Tuesday 12th September 2023 at 9.00pm

    St Mark's Cathedral, Korčula, Croatia
    (note change of venue from Franciscan Monastery, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Badija)

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries, interspersed with a selection of new works.

    Further details and tickets at the Korkyra Baroque Festival website.

    Clemens non Papa, O Maria vernans rosa
    Ben Rowarth, Ave Maris Stella
    William Byrd, Audivi vocem de caelo
    Deborah Pritchard, Audivi vocem
    William Byrd, Tristitia et anxietas
    Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God
    William Byrd, Memento Domine
    Julije Skjavetić, Asperges me
    William Byrd, Lullaby
    Brian Elias, Lullaby
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria

  • Music from the Dunkeld Partbooks | Lammermuir Festival

    Saturday 9th September 2023 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The so-called ‘Dunkeld’ Partbooks give a glimpse of the musical riches found in Scotland in the period before the Reformation, combining motets by the latest and greatest continental composers sourced directly from Paris with mass settings by more local musicans, among them the beautiful anonymous Missa Felix namque.

    Further details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.

    Felix namque (plainchant)
    Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous)
    Pierre Certon, Pater Noster/Ave Maria
    Jachet of Mantua, Descendi in hortum meum
    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es caelorum Regina 
    Claudin, O Maria stans sub cruce
    Lupi, Salve celeberrima virgo

  • St Mary's Church, Haddington: A Glory of the Middle Ages

    Saturday 9th September at 3.00pm and 4.30pm

    St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    Lizzie Swarbrick, historian/speaker

    Art historian Lizzie Swarbrick leads an afternoon programme guiding visitors in a kinetic experience around St Mary’s, Haddington as it might have looked and sounded before the siege of Haddington in 1548.

    Further details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.

  • Les Troyens | BBC Proms

    Sunday 3rd September 2023 at 4.00pm

    Royal Albert Hall, London

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
    Dinis Sousa, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

    Further details and tickets at the BBC Proms website.

    Cassandre: Alice Coote
    Énée: Michael Spyres
    Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
    Panthée: Ashley Riches
    Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
    Hécube: Rebecca Evans
    Didon: Paula Murrihy
    Anna: Beth Taylor
    Narbal: William Thomas
    Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby

    Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.

  • Les Troyens | Musikfest Berlin

    Friday 1st September 2023 at 5.00pm

    Philharmonie Berlin

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
    Dinis Sousa, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

    Further details and tickets at the Berliner Philharmoniker website.

    Cassandre: Alice Coote
    Énée: Michael Spyres
    Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
    Panthée: Ashley Riches
    Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
    Hécube: Rebecca Evans
    Didon: Paula Murrihy
    Anna: Beth Taylor
    Narbal: William Thomas
    Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby

    Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.

  • Les Troyens | Versailles

    Tuesday 29th August 2023 at 6.00pm

    Château de Versailles, Paris

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
    Dinis Sousa, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

    Further details and tickets at the Château de Versailles Spectacles website.

    Cassandre: Alice Coote
    Énée: Michael Spyres
    Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
    Panthée: Ashley Riches
    Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
    Hécube: Rebecca Evans
    Didon: Paula Murrihy
    Anna: Beth Taylor
    Narbal: William Thomas
    Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby

    Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.

  • Les Troyens | Salzburg Festival

    Saturday 26th August 2023 at 5.00pm

    Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
    Dinis Sousa, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens

    Further details and tickets at the Salzburg Festival website.

    Cassandre: Alice Coote
    Énée: Michael Spyres
    Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
    Panthée: Ashley Riches
    Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
    Hécube: Rebecca Evans
    Didon: Paula Murrihy
    Anna: Beth Taylor
    Narbal: William Thomas
    Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby

    Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.

  • Les Troyens II: Les Troyens à Carthage | Festival Berlioz

    Wednesday 23rd August 2023 at 9.00pm

    Cour du Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
    Dinis Sousa, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens Acts III, IV & V: Les Troyens à Carthage

    Full details and tickets at the Festival Berlioz website.

    Didon: Paula Murrihy
    Énée: Michael Spyres
    Anna: Beth Taylor
    Narbal: William Thomas
    Panthée: Ashley Riches
    Iopas/Hylas: Laurence Kilsby
    Ascagne: Adèle Charvet

    Dinis Sousa replaces Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has withdrawn from this project.

  • Les Troyens I: La prise de Troie | Festival Berlioz

    Tuesday 22nd August 2023 at 9.00pm

    Cour du Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
    Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens Acts I & II: La prise de Troie

    Full details and tickets at the Festival Berlioz website.

    Cassandre: Alice Coote
    Énée: Michael Spyres
    Chorèbe: Lionel Lhote
    Panthée: Ashley Riches
    Ascagne: Adèle Charvet
    Hécube: Rebecca Evans

  • Byrd at Elizabeth's Court | York Early Music Festival

    Tuesday 11th July 2023 at 1.00pm

    National Centre for Early Music, York

    The Marian Consort (Rory McCleery, director)
    The Rose Consort of Viols

    Settings of psalms and spiritual poetry for voices and viols by William Byrd, juxtaposed with examples of Byrd's instrumental music and a new work by Juta Pranulyte.

    Further details and tickets at the NCEM website.

    William Byrd
       Have mercy upon me, O God
       Rejoice unto the Lord

    Thomas Tallis
       O sacrum convivium
       Fantasia a5

    William Byrd
       Ye sacred muses
       A Voluntarie for Lady Nevell
       La Virginella
       Lullaby
       Pavan & galliard a5

    Juta Pranulyté, Lullaby (first performance)
    William Byrd
       Come to me grief for ever
       Browning a5
       O God that guides the cheerful sun

  • Byrd at Secret Prayer | York Early Music Festival

    Monday 10th July 2023 at 7.30pm

    National Centre for Early Music, York

    The Marian Consort (Rory McCleery, director)
    The Rose Consort of Viols

    A recreation of music for a Mass as it might have been practised in the 1580s at a Catholic house in Protestant England: held in secret and performed to music by England’s leading composer, William Byrd. In this performance combining voices and viols, the sublime Mass in 5 Parts is interspersed with the Propers for Candlemas from Byrd’s Gradualia, varied versions for viol consort of the Latin plainsong ‘In nomine’, and intense motets whose texts seem to reflect the oppression suffered by the worshippers.

    Further details and tickets at the NCEM website.

    William Byrd
       Mass for Five Voices
       Suscepimus Deus - Sicut Autivimus
       Nunc Dimittis
       Diffusa est gratia
       O salutaris hostia
       Responsum accepit Simeon
       Miserere mihi, Dominum

    interspersed with 'In nomine' pieces for viol consort.

  • Inviolata at the Aldeburgh Festival

    Saturday 24th June 2023 at 11.00am

    Orford Church, Suffolk

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A triptych of linked settings of the Inviolata, by Josquin des Prez, Vicente Lusitano and Roderick Williams; and three pieces reflecting on the annunciation, connected both by their Marian texts and their interest in the music of the past.

    Further details and tickets at the Britten Pears Arts website.

    Josquin des Prez, Inviolata
    Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata
    Jonathan Harvey, The Annunciation
    Anonymous (Josquin des Prez?), Missus est angelus/A une Dame
    Roderick Williams, Inviolata (after Lusitano)

  • Holy Week in Renaissance Rome | Thaxted Festival

    Saturday 17th June 2023 at 7.30pm

    Thaxted Parish Church, Essex

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of penitential music from Renaissance and early Baroque Rome, culminating in Domenico Scarlatti's setting of the Stabat Mater.

    Further details and tickets at the Thaxted Festival website.

    Felice Anerio, Ave regina Caelorum
    Grigorio Allegri
       Lamentations
       
    Miserere
    Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
       Sicut cervus
       
    'Agnus Dei' from Missa Brevis
    Domenico Mazzocchi, Vide Domine
    Felice Anerio, Ad te lavavi
    Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater

  • Holy Week in Renaissance Rome | Naunton Music

    Friday 16th June 2023 at 7.00pm

    St Andrew's Church, Naunton, Gloucestershire

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of penitential music from Renaissance and early Baroque Rome, culminating in Domenico Scarlatti's setting of the Stabat Mater.

    Booking details at the Naunton Music website.

    Felice Anerio, Ave regina Caelorum
    Grigorio Allegri
       Lamentations
       
    Miserere
    Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
       Sicut cervus
       
    'Agnus Dei' from Missa Brevis
    Domenico Mazzocchi, Vide Domine
    Felice Anerio, Ad te lavavi
    Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater

  • Princess Ida

    Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th June at 7.00pm

    Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
    London

    Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    John Wilson, conductor

    W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Princess Ida

    A semi-staged performance with narration by Simon Butteriss.
    Full details at the OAE website.

    Princess Ida: Sophie Bevan
    Prince Hilarion: Benjamin Hulett
    King Hildebrand: Robert Hayward
    King Gama/Narrator: Simon Butteriss
    Lady Blanche: Catherine Wyn-Rogers
    Lady Psyche: Bethany Horak-Hallett
    Melissa: Marlena Devoe
    Cyril: Ruairi Bowen
    Florian: Charles Rice
    Arac: Morgan Pearse
    Guron: Robert Davies
    Scynthius: Jonathan Brown
    Sacharissa: Claire Ward

  • Dunster Festival Service

    Sunday 28th May 2023 at 11.00am

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Missa 'Felix namque' (Anonymous, from the Dunkeld Partbooks)
    Imogen Holst, A Hymne to Christ
    Thomas Tallis, Loquebantur variis linguis

  • Singing in Secret | Dunster Festival

    Saturday 27th May 2023 at 7.00pm

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort returns to the Dunster Festival with ‘Singing in Secret’, a programme exploring clandestine Renaissance musical masterpieces alongside works by contemporary British composers, including music by Italian nun Raffaella Aleotti, who was described as “not human, but truly an angelic spirit”, and the “English nightingale” William Byrd in his 400th anniversary year.

    Further details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

    Philippe de Monte, Super flumina Babylonis
    William Byrd, Quomodo cantabimus
    Amy Stewart, Hannah (first performance)
    Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
    Caroline Shaw, Dolce cantavi
    William Byrd, Ad Dominum cum tribularer
    Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
    William Byrd, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass for Three Voices
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
    Judith Weir, Madrigal
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata

  • On the Outside Looking In | Music at Oxford

    Saturday 20th May 2023 at 7.30pm

    SJE Arts (St John the Evangelist, Iffley Road), Oxford

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort begins its residency with Music at Oxford, with a programme showcasing new and marginalised compositional voices, alongside the recusant English composer William Byrd in his anniversary year.

    Full details at the SJE Arts website.

    Philippe de Monte, Super flumina Babylonis
    William Byrd, Quomodo cantabimus
    Amy Stewart, Hannah (first performance)
    Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
    Caroline Shaw, Dolce cantavi
    William Byrd, Ad Dominum cum tribularer
    Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
    William Byrd, 'Agnus Dei' from Mass for Three Voices
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge propera
    Judith Weir, Madrigal
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata

  • A Winged Woman | Perth Festival of the Arts

    Thursday 18th May 2023 at 7.30pm

    St John's Kirk, Perth

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Scottish and continental music from the golden age of Polyphony found in Scottish manuscripts, alongside two major new works by award-winning composers Dani Howard and Electra Perivolaris.

    Further details and tickets at the Perth Festival of the Arts website.

    Josquin des Prez, Benedicta es, caelorum Regina
    Josquin des Prez, Salve celeberrima virgo
    David Peebles, Quam multi Domine
    Dani Howard, Unbound
    Electra Perivolaris, A Winged Woman
    David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
    Jachet of Mantua, Descendi in hortum meum
    Anonymous, Descendi in hortum meum
    Adrian Willaert, Infelix Ego

  • BBC Radio 3 In Tune

    Tuesday 16th May 2023 at 6.00pm

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort perform live on BBC Radio 3, ahead of performances in Perth, Oxford and Dunster.

  • Hail, O Queen

    Sunday 14th May 2023 at 7.30pm

    Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    A programme inspired by the figure of the Virgin Mary which explores her shifting status as both mother of God and a young woman, through settings of texts both familiar and new.

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Assumpta est Maria
    Joanna Ward, Hail, O Queen
    Giles Swayne, Magnificat
    Cecilia McDowall, There is no rose
    Kerry Andrew, Apples, Plums, Cherries
    Carlo Gesualdo, Ave, dulcissima
    Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria WAB 6

  • Hail, O Queen

    Saturday 13th May 2023 at 7.30pm

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    A programme inspired by the figure of the Virgin Mary which explores her shifting status as both mother of God and a young woman, through settings of texts both familiar and new.

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Assumpta est Maria
    Joanna Ward, Hail, O Queen
    Giles Swayne, Magnificat
    Cecilia McDowall, There is no rose
    Kerry Andrew, Apples, Plums, Cherries
    Carlo Gesualdo, Ave, dulcissima
    Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria WAB 6

  • Hail, O Queen

    Friday 12th May 2023 at 7.30pm

    St John's Kirk, Perth

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    A programme inspired by the figure of the Virgin Mary which explores her shifting status as both mother of God and a young woman, through settings of texts both familiar and new.

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Assumpta est Maria
    Joanna Ward, Hail, O Queen
    Giles Swayne, Magnificat
    Cecilia McDowall, There is no rose
    Kerry Andrew, Apples, Plums, Cherries
    Carlo Gesualdo, Ave, dulcissima
    Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria WAB 6

  • Hail, O Queen

    Thursday 11th May 2023 at 7.30pm

    St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    A programme inspired by the figure of the Virgin Mary which explores her shifting status as both mother of God and a young woman, through settings of texts both familiar and new.

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Assumpta est Maria
    Joanna Ward, Hail, O Queen
    Giles Swayne, Magnificat
    Cecilia McDowall, There is no rose
    Kerry Andrew, Apples, Plums, Cherries
    Carlo Gesualdo, Ave, dulcissima
    Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria WAB 6

  • Carmina Burana

    Saturday 22nd April 2023 at 7.30pm

    Medina Theatre
    Newport, Isle of Wight

    Isle of Wight Cantata Choir
    Rachel Tweddle, conductor

    Carl Orff, Carmina Burana 

       (Baritone soloist)

    *Unfortunately I had to withdraw from this concert due to illness. I am very grateful that William Dazeley was able to replace me at short notice."

    Gilliam Ramm, soprano
    Matthew Howard, tenor
    William Dazeley, baritone (replacing Jon Stainsby)

  • Grier and Tavener at the SJSS Easter Festival

    Friday 7th April 2023 at 8.00pm

    St John's, Smith Square

    London Choral Sinfonia
    Michael Waldron, conductor

    John Tavener, Mother and Child
    Francis Grier, Sword in the Soul: A Meditation for Good Friday

    Samantha Bond and Anton Lesser, narrators
    Brian O'Kane, cello
    James Orford, organ

  • St John Passion with Polyphony

    Friday 7th April 2023 at 2.30pm

    St John's, Smith Square

    Polyphony
    Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion

    Tickets and further information here.

    Nick Pritchard, Evangelist
    James Rutherford, Christ
    Rowan Pierce, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    Ruari Bowen, tenor
    Ashley Riches, bass-baritone

  • Fauré and Haydn with the Burford Singers

    Sunday 2nd April 2023 at 7.30pm

    The Church of St John the Baptist, Burford

    The Burford Singers
    The Cotswold Chamber Orchestra
    Brian Kay, conductor

    Joseph Haydn, Missa in Angustiis ("Nelson Mass") Hob.XXII:11
    Gabriel Fauré, Requiem 

       (Baritone soloist)

    Sarah Power, soprano
    Emily Gray, mezzo-soprano
    Peter Martin, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Ethel Smyth Mass in D

    Saturday 1st April 2023 at 7.30pm

    St Martin's Church, Dorking

    Brockham Choral Society
    Cole Bendall, conductor

    Ethel Smyth, Mass in D

       (Baritone soloist)


    Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Toward the Unknown Region

    Further information at the Brockham Choral Society website.

    Joanna Tomlinson, soprano
    Judy Louie Brown, mezzo-oprano
    Joshua Baxter, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    23rd March at 2.30pm (schools performance), and 24th March at 10.00am (schools performance) and 8.00pm (full performance)

    Grand Angle, Voiron, France

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
    Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

    In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

    A new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs. 

    *Due to industrial action in France, the performance scheduled for 2.30pm on 23rd March was postponed to the same time on 24th March*

  • New Worlds: South American Baroque

    Saturday 18th March 2023 at 8.00pm

    Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk, Antwerp

    Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    Music by Domenico Zipoli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni da Palestrina and Roque Jacinto de Chavarria.

       (Consort and step-out soloist)

    Part of the Baroque Influencers festival. Tickets and further details at the AMUZ website.

    Anon, Hanacpachap cussicuinin
    Pasquini, 'Sinfonia' from La Sete di Christo
    Domenico Zipoli, Tantum Ergo
    Domenico Zipoli, Verso do organo
    Alessandro Scarlatti, Dixit Dominus
    Domenico Zipoli, Confitebor tibi
    Diego Sanchez de Cáseda, Silencio, no chiste al aire
    Domenico Zipoli, Beatus Vir
    Giovanni Gabrieli, Sonata No.21 for 3 violins
    Domenico Zipoli, Laudate Dominum
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Magnificat primi toni
    Biagio Marini, Sonata in eco for 3 violins
    Domenico Zipoli, Tantum Ergo
    Alessandro Scarlatti, 'Gloria Patri' from Dixit Dominus
    Roque Jacinto de Chavarria, Naranjitay Hisiño

  • Singing in Secret | Nishinomiya

    Thursday 23rd February 2023 at 2.00pm

    Hyogo Performing Arts Centre, Nishinomiya, Japan

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

    William Byrd:
       Aspice Domine
       
    Gaudeamus Omnes
       Mass for Four Voices
    : 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
       Lord, in thy wrath
    Philippe de Monte, Illumina oculos meos
    William Byrd:
       Timete Dominum
       O Lux beata Trinitas

    Thomas Morley, Laboravi in gemitu meo
    William Byrd:
       Justorum Animae
       The Nightingale
       Mass for Four Voices: 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
       Beati Mundo Corde
    Robert White, Ad te levavi oculos meos
    William Byrd:
       Domine praestolamur
       Mass for Four Voices​: 'Agnus Dei'
       Turn our captivity, O Lord

  • Singing in Secret | Tokyo

    Tuesday 21st February 2023 at 7.00pm

    Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

    Further details and tickets at the Bunka Kaikan website.

    William Byrd:
       Aspice Domine
       
    Gaudeamus Omnes
       Mass for Four Voices
    : 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
       Lord, in thy wrath
    Philippe de Monte, Illumina oculos meos
    William Byrd:
       Timete Dominum
       O Lux beata Trinitas

    Thomas Morley, Laboravi in gemitu meo
    William Byrd:
       Justorum Animae
       The Nightingale
       Mass for Four Voices: 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
       Beati Mundo Corde
    Robert White, Ad te levavi oculos meos
    William Byrd:
       Domine praestolamur
       Mass for Four Voices​: 'Agnus Dei'
       Turn our captivity, O Lord

  • Singing in Secret | Tokyo

    Monday 20th February 2023 at 2.00pm

    Toyosu Bunka Center Hall, Tokyo, Japan

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

    William Byrd:
       Aspice Domine
       
    Gaudeamus Omnes
       Mass for Four Voices
    : 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
       Lord, in thy wrath
    Philippe de Monte, Illumina oculos meos
    William Byrd:
       Timete Dominum
       O Lux beata Trinitas

    Thomas Morley, Laboravi in gemitu meo
    William Byrd:
       Justorum Animae
       The Nightingale
       Mass for Four Voices: 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
       Beati Mundo Corde
    Robert White, Ad te levavi oculos meos
    William Byrd:
       Domine praestolamur
       Mass for Four Voices​: 'Agnus Dei'
       Turn our captivity, O Lord

  • Singing in Secret | Canterbury

    Friday 10th February 2023 at 7.30pm

    Colyer-Fergusson Hall
    Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by William Byrd and his contemporary, Robert White.

    Tickets and further details at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre website.

    William Byrd:
       Aspice Domine
       
    Gaudeamus Omnes
       Mass for Four Voices
    : 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
       Lord, in thy wrath
       
    O Lux beata Trinitas
       Timete Dominum
    Robert White, Ad te levavi oculos meos
    William Byrd:
       Justorum Animae
       The Nightingale
       Mass for Four Voices
    : 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
       Beati Mundo Corde
       Mass for Four Voices: 'Agnus Dei'
       Turn our captivity, O Lord

  • Singing in Secret | Norwich

    Thursday 9th February 2023 at 7.00pm

    St George's Colegate, Norwich

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by William Byrd and his contemporaries.

    Further details at the Marian Consort website; tickets available here.

    William Byrd:
       Aspice Domine
       
    Gaudeamus Omnes
       Mass for Four Voices
    : 'Kyrie' and 'Gloria'
       Lord, in thy wrath
    Philippe de Monte, Illumina oculos meos
    William Byrd, Timete Dominum
    Thomas Morley, Laboravi in gemitu meo
    William Byrd:
       Justorum Animae
       The Nightingale
       Mass for Four Voices
    : 'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus'
       Beati Mundo Corde
       Mass for Four Voices
    : 'Agnus Dei'
       Turn our captivity, O Lord

  • London Voices in Lucerne: Spotlight on John Powell

    Saturday 4th February 2023 at 7.30pm

    KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

    London Voices
    City Light Vocal Ensemble
    Holly Sedillos, soprano
    City Light Symphony Orchestra
    Kevin Griffiths, conductor

    Film music by John Powell

  • London Voices in Lucerne

    Friday 3rd February 2023 at 7.30pm

    KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

    London Voices
    City Light Symphony Orchestra
    Kevin Griffiths, conductor

    Music by John Powell

    A "concert screening" of How to Train your Dragon, with live performance of the film soundtrack.

  • Bach Vespers

    Sunday 29th January 2023 at 6.30pm

    Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

    City Bach Collective

    J.S. Bach, Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit BWV 14

       (Consort and step-out soloist)


    and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

    For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

    George Philipp Telemann, 'Spirituoso' and 'Grave' from Quartet in B flat major TWV 43: B2
    Melchior Vulpius, 'Da Traten die Jünger zu Jesu'
    Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Chorale Preludes 'Jesu, meine Freude' LV 49 (Variatio 3) and 'Vater unser im Himmelreich' LV 22
    Balthasar Resinarius, 'Wir gläuben all an einen Gott'
    J.S. Bach, 'Herr Jesu Christ! dich zu uns wend' BWV 332
    J.S. Bach, 'Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit' BWV 14
    J.S. Bach, 'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr,' BWV 715

    Emily Atkinson, soprano
    Tristram Cooke, counter-tenor
    Tom Castle, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    The City Bach Collective
    Hazel Brooks, leader

  • London Voices in Lucerne

    Friday 13th January 2023 at 7.30pm

    KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne

    London Voices
    City Light Symphony Orchestra
    Kevin Griffiths, conductor

    Music by John Powell

    A "concert screening" of How to Train your Dragon, with live performance of the film soundtrack.

  • Christmas Cantatas at Wigmore Hall

    Saturday 31st December 2022 at 7.00pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    Antonio Caldara, Sinfonia in C
    J.S. Bach:
       Christen, ätzet diesen Tag BWV 63
       Unser Mund sei voll Lachens BWV 110

    Full details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    James Hall, counter-tenor
    Hugo Hymas, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah

    Friday 23rd December 2022 at 7.30pm

    St John's Smith Square

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Further information at the SJSS website.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    Gwilym Bowen, tenor
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • Schütz Christmas Story at Wigmore Hall

    Tuesday 20th December 2022 at 7.30pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    Heinrich Schütz, Weihnachtshistorie
    and other Christmas works by Schütz, Monteverdi, Gabrieli and Grandi

    Full details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

    Heinrich Schütz, 'Das Wort ward Fleisch' and 'Der Engel sprach zu den Hirten' from Geistliche Chormusic Op. 11
    Alessandro Grandi Plorabo die ac nocte
    Giovanni Gabrieli, O Jesu mi dulcissime C56
    Heinrich Schütz, Hodie Christus natus est SWV 315
    David Pohle, Sonata a5 in C
    Claudio Monteverdi, Laudate pueri Dominum (Secondo) SV 271
    Giovanni Gabrieli Quem vidistis, pastores
    Heinrich Schütz Die Weihnachtshistorie (The Christmas Story) SWV 435

  • Messiah in Edinburgh

    Friday 16th December 2022 at 7.00pm

    Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Full details and tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    Guy Cutting, tenor
    Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah in Edinburgh

    Friday 16th December 2022 at 4.00pm

    Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Full details and tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    Guy Cutting, tenor
    Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Lanark

    Thursday 15th December 2022 at 7.00pm

    St Mary's RC Church, Lanark

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Full details and tickets at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    Guy Cutting, tenor
    Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah in Lanark

    Thursday 15th December 2022 at 4.00pm

    St Mary's RC Church, Lanark

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Full details and tickets at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    Guy Cutting, tenor
    Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Glasgow

    Wednesday 14th December 2022 at 7.00pm

    St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Full details and tickets at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    Guy Cutting, tenor
    Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah in Glasgow

    Wednesday 14th December 2022 at 4.00pm

    St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

  • Inspiring Bach at York Early Music Christmas Festival

    Sunday 11th December 2022 at 5.00pm

    National Centre for Early Music, York

    The Marian Consort
       Rory McCleery, director
    Spiritato!
       Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

    Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
    Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
    Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
    Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
    Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

    Tickets and further details at the NCEM website.

  • Marian Music from Renaissance Ávila

    Thursday 8th December 2022 at 7.30pm

    Church of San Juan Bautista, Ávila

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of music by composers associated with Ávila Cathedral.

    Cristóbal de Morales
       Ave regina caelorum
       'Kyrie' from Missa de Beata Virgine a5
       Salva nos, stella maris
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Gloria' from Missa 'Trahe me post te'
    Cristóbal de Morales
       Veni redemptor gentium
       Puer natus est nobis

    Tomás Luis de Victoria, 'Santus' and 'Benedictus' from Missa 'Trahe me post te'
    Cristóbal de Morales
       O sacrum convivium
       
    'Agnus Dei' from Missa de Beata Virgine a4
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum
    Cristóbal de Morales, Ave Maria

  • Messiah in Epsom

    Saturday 3rd December 2022 at 7.30pm

    Epsom Playhouse

    Epsom Choral Society
    English Sinfonietta
    Julian Collings, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah 

       (Baritone soloist)

    Tickets available from the Epsom Playhouse website.

    Elizabeth Findon, soprano
    Henry Capper-Allen, counter-tenor
    John Findon, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Messiah on the Isle of Wight

    Saturday 26th November 2022 at 7.00pm

    Medina Theatre, Newport, Isle of Wight

    Isle of Wight Cantata Choir
    Rachel Tweddle, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah 

       (Baritone Soloist)

    Tickets available here.

    Siân Roberts, soprano
    Samantha Lewis, mezzo-soprano
    Jack Parry, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • An die ferne Geliebte

    Wednesday 23rd November 2022 at 7.30pm

    St Michael and All Angels, Walthamstow

    Steven Devine, fortepiano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Ludwig van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98
    and keyboard works by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Dussek

    Part of the Music in the Village concert series.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Variations on "Rule, Britannia!" WoO.79
    Joseph Haydn, Sonata in E minor Hob.XVI:34
    Ludwig van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte Op.98
    Jan Ladislav Dussek, Variations on "God Save the King"
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata in A minor K.310

  • Mozart C Minor Mass at Saffron Hall

    Saturday 19th November 2022 at 7.30pm

    Saffron Hall
    Saffron Walden, Essex

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 80 in D minor
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Great" Mass in C Minor K.427

    Full details and tickets at the Saffron Hall website.

    Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis, sopranos
    Benjamin Hulett, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass

  • Music for a Polish Pope

    Tuesday 8th November 2022 at 7.30pm

    The Polish Sacred Music Festival in London
    St Martin-in-the-Fields

    Polyphony
    Stephen Layton, conductor
    Rupert Jeffcoat, organ

    Music by Polish composers written in tribute to Pope John Paul II

    Tickets and further details at the St Martin-in-the-Fields website.

    Wojciech Kilar, Agnus Dei
    Michał Ziółkowski, Ave maris stella
    Marcin Łukaszewski, Pie Jesu
    Stanisław Moryto, Veni creator (organ solo)
    Miłosz Bembinow, Veni Creator Spiritus
    Marian Borkowski, Regina caeli
    Dariusz Przybylski, Kölner Fanfare (organ solo)
    Paweł Łukaszewski, Missa Sancti Papae Ioannis Pauli Secundi Magni
    Marian Borkowski, Libera me

  • Inspiring Bach at Wiltshire Music Centre

    Saturday 29th October 2022 at 7.30pm

    Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon

    The Marian Consort
       Rory McCleery, director
    Spiritato!
       Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

    Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
    Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
    Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
    Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
    Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

    Further details and tickets at the WMC website.

  • Inspiring Bach at Brighton Early Music Festival

    Saturday 22nd October 2022 at 7.30pm

    St Martin's Church, Brighton

    The Marian Consort
       Rory McCleery, director
    Spiritato!
       Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

    Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
    Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
    Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
    Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
    Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

    Further details and tickets at the Brighton Early Music Festival website.

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Thursday 20th October 2022 at 7.00pm

    Upper Chapel, University of Sheffield

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
    Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

    Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
    Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
    William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
    Philip van Wilder, Aspice Domine
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
    William Byrd Domine praestolamur
    Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
    Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
    William Byrd, Circumdederunt me

  • Vale of Tears

    Monday 17th October 2022 at 7.30pm

    Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Heinrich Schütz, Musicalische Exequien
    David Fennessy, Two Pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Sunday 9th October 2022 at 3.00pm

    Little Missenden Festival
    Little Missenden Church (St John the Baptist), Buckinghamshire

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
    Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

    Further details and tickets at the Little Missenden Festival website.

    Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
    Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
    William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
    William Byrd, Aspice Domine
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
    William Byrd Domine praestolamur
    Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
    Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
    William Byrd, Circumdederunt me

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Saturday 8th October 2022 at 7.30pm

    The Georgian Concert Society
    St Andrew's and St George's West Church, Edinburgh

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
    Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

    Tickets and further details at the Georgian Concert Society website.

    Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
    Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
    William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
    William Byrd, Aspice Domine
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
    William Byrd Domine praestolamur
    Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
    Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
    William Byrd, Circumdederunt me

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Tuesday 4th October 2022 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Church, Warwick

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
    Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

    Further details and tickets at the Leamington Music website.

    Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
    Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
    William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
    William Byrd, Aspice Domine
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
    William Byrd Domine praestolamur
    Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
    Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
    William Byrd, Circumdederunt me

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Saturday 1st October 2022 at 7.30pm

    Lichfield Festival Chamber Music Weekend
    The Hub at St Mary's, Lichfield

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
    Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

    Details and tickets at the Lichfield Festival website.

    Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
    Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
    William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
    William Byrd, Aspice Domine
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
    William Byrd Domine praestolamur
    Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
    Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
    William Byrd, Circumdederunt me

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Thursday 29th September 2022 at 8.00pm

    Roman River Festival
    Coggeshall Church, nr. Colchester

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
    Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

    Further details and tickets at the Roman River Festival website.

    Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
    Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
    William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
    William Byrd, Aspice Domine
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
    William Byrd Domine praestolamur
    Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
    Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
    William Byrd, Circumdederunt me

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Wednesday 28th September 2022 at 7.00pm

    St George's Colegate, Norwich

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England.
    Music by Tallis, Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Parsley and Giles.

    Further details at the Marian Consort website.

    Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah I
    Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
    William Byrd, Why Do I use my paper, ink and pen?
    William Byrd, Aspice Domine
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
    William Byrd Domine praestolamur
    Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
    Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah
    William Byrd, Circumdederunt me

  • Nelson Mass at Hexham Abbey Music Festival

    Saturday 24th September 2022 at 7.30pm

    Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

    Hexham Abbey Festival Orchestra and Chorus
    David Murray, conductor

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto Op. 61

    Joseph Haydn, Missa in Angustiis ("Nelson Mass") Hob.XXII:11

       (Baritone soloist)

    Details and tickets at the Queen's Hall website.

    Laurie Ashworth, soprano
    Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
    Richard Pinkstone, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Bradley Creswick, violin

  • Mozart C Minor Mass in Perth

    Tuesday 20th September 2022 at 7.30pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 80 in D minor
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Great" Mass in C Minor K.427

    Full details and tickets at the Perth Concert Hall/Horsecross Arts website.

    This performance was originally due to take place on Monday 19th September, but was postponed out of respect for the funeral of Her Majesty Queen.

    Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis, sopranos
    Joshua Ellicott, tenor (replacing Benjamin Hulett)
    Robert Davies, bass

  • Mozart C Minor Mass at Lammermuir Festival

    Sunday 18th September 2022 at 8.00pm

    St Mary's Church, Haddington

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 80 in D minor
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Great" Mass in C Minor K.427

    Full details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.

    Lucy Crowe and Anna Dennis, sopranos
    Benjamin Hulett, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass

  • Inspiring Bach at Lammermuir Festial

    Tuesday 13th September 2022 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Church, Haddington

    The Marian Consort
       Rory McCleery, director
    Spiritato!
       Kinga Ujszaszi, leader and director

    Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
    Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
    Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
    Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
    Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

    Further details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.

  • Palestrina and John Browne at the Oslo Church Music Festival

    Thursday 8th September 2022 at 7.00pm

    Oslo Cathedral

    Polyphony
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    John Browne, Stabat Mater
    Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli
    Ēriks Ešenvalds, Salutation and Sun Dogs (ii)
    Paweł Łukaszewski, Nunc dimittis

    Details and tickets at the Oslo Church Music Festival website.

  • Saints and Stones at the Fishguard Festival

    Wednesday 31st August 2022 at 10.00am

    St Cwrda’s Church, Jordanston; St Rhian’s Church, Llanrhian; Capel Bach, Trefin; St Nicholas Church
    (Tour sets off from Fishguard Town Hall)

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Local historian Richard Davies leads a guided tour of four of North Pembrokeshire’s many fascinating churches and chapels, where music will be provided by members of the Marian Consort.
    Music to include works by William Byrd, Clemens non Papa and Nathaniel Giles.

    Details and tickets at the Fishguard Festival website.

  • Music from the Sistine Chapel at the Fishguard Festival

    Tuesday 30th August 2022 at 7.30pm

    St David's Cathedral

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater and other works from the Sistine Chapel, alongside a new commission by Geraint Lewis

    Further details and tickets at the Fishguard Festival website.

    Felice Anerio, Ave Regina Caelorum à 8
    Gregorio Allegri, Lamentations
    Geraint Lewis, Ave Regina Caelorum (world première)
    Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus
    Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Sicut cervus
    Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis
    Domenico Mazzocchi, Vide, Domine, afflictionem nostram from Sacrae Concertationes
    Felice Anerio, Ad te levavi
    Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater

  • Music for the Queen of Heaven at the North Norfolk Festival

    Thursday 18th August 2022 at 7.00pm

    St Mary's Church, South Creake, Norfolk

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of Marian motets by twentieth-century and contemporary composers, juxtaposed with works by two neglected composers of the Renaissance.

    Further details and tickets at the North Norfolk Music Festival website.

    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis*
    Raffaella Aleotti, Congratulamini mihi omnes
    Howard Skempton, Ave Virgo sanctissima
    Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
    Rebecca Clarke, Ave Maria
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Mater
    Dani Howard, Unbound*
    Chloe Knibbs, Esse indubitatamente son donne*
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge, propera amica mea
    Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
    Raffaella Aleotti, Vidi speciosam
    Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God*
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    James Macmillan, Laudi alla Vergine

    * denotes Marian Consort commission

  • Fidelio at the Edinburgh International Festival

    Wednesday 10th August 2022 at 7.30pm

    Usher Hall, Edinburgh

    Philharmonia Orchestra and soloists
    Philharmonia Voices
    Aidan Oliver, chorus master
    Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Fidelio (concert performance with narration)

    Further details and tickets at the Edinburgh International Festival website.

    Florestan: Clay Hilley
    Leonore: Emma Bell (replacing Jennifer Davis)
    Don Pizzarro: Markus Brück
    Rocco: Günther Groissböck
    Don Fernando/Narrator: Sir Willard White
    Jacquino: Gideon Poppe
    Marzelline: Kim-Lillian Strebel

    Narration text by Sir David Poutney

  • Music for the Queen of Heaven at Lake District Summer Music

    Thursday 4th August 2022 at 7.30pm

    Ambleside Parish Church

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of Marian motets by twentieth-century and contemporary composers, juxtaposed with works by two neglected composers of the Renaissance.

    Further details and tickets at the Lake District Summer Music Festival website.

    Phillip Cooke, Canticum Mariae Virginis*
    Raffaella Aleotti, Congratulamini mihi omnes
    Howard Skempton, Ave Virgo sanctissima
    Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
    Rebecca Clarke, Ave Maria
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Mater
    Dani Howard, Unbound*
    Chloe Knibbs, Esse indubitatamente son donne* (English première)
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge, propera amica mea
    Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
    Raffaella Aleotti, Vidi speciosam
    Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God*
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    James Macmillan, Laudi alla Vergine

    * denotes Marian Consort commission

  • Bach Vespers

    Sunday 31st July 2022 at 6.30pm

    Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

    City Bach Collective

    J.S. Bach, Es wartet alles auf dich BWV 187

       (Consort and step-out soloist)


    and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

    For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

    J.S. Bach, Es wartet alles auf dich BWV 187
    Melchior Franck, Herr Gott nun sey gepreiset
    Johann Walther, Wir gläuben all an einen Gott
    Heinrich Schütz, Lobet den Herrn SWV 350

    Emily Atkinson, soprano
    Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
    Greg Tassell, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    The City Bach Collective
    Hazel Brooks, leader
    Geoff Coates, oboe

  • Il Tabarro at the BBC Proms

    Saturday 30th July 2022 at 7.30pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    Hallé Orchestra and soloists
    Philharmonia Voices
    Sir Mark Elder, conductor

    Giacomo Puccini, Il Tabarro

    Further details at the BBC Proms website. The performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and on BBC Four on Sunday 31st July.

    Paul Dukas, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    Ottorino Respighi, Fountains of Rome
    Giacomo Puccini, Il Tabarro (concert performance)

    Cast for Il Tabarro:
    Michele: Lucio Gallo
    Giorgetta: Natalya Romaniw
    Luigi: Adam Smith (replacing Ivan Gyngazov)
    La Frugola: Annunziata Vestri (replacing Daniela Barcellona)
    Tinca: Alasdair Elliott
    Talpa: Simon Shibambu
    Ballad-Seller: Shengzhi Ren (replacing Jung Soo Yun)
    Lovers: Laura Lolita Perešivana and Ryan Vaughan Davies

    Philharmonia Voices, offstage chorus
    Aidan Oliver, chorus master
    Richard Hetherington, offstage conductor

  • Music for the Queen of Heaven at Conwy Classical Music Festival

    Friday 29th July 2022 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Church, Conwy, Wales

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A programme of Marian motets by twentieth-century and contemporary composers, juxtaposed with works by two neglected composers of the Renaissance.

    Details and tickets at the Conwy Classical Music Festival website.

    Anna Semple, Quae est ipsa?*
    Raffaella Aleotti, Congratulamini mihi omnes
    Howard Skempton, Ave Virgo sanctissima
    Raffaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
    Rebecca Clarke, Ave Maria
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Mater
    Dani Howard, Unbound*
    Chloe Knibbs, Esse indubitatamente son donne* (première performance)
    Raffaella Aleotti, Surge, propera amica mea
    Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
    Raffaella Aleotti, Vidi speciosam
    Oliver Tarney, Hymn to the Mother of God*
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli laetare
    James Macmillan, Laudi alla Vergine

    * denotes Marian Consort commission

  • Clemens non Papa - Man of Bruges

    Sunday 17th July 2022 at 7.00pm

    St Mary's Church, Sastamala, Finland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director
    (Rory McCleery was indisposed for this performance; I led the Marian Consort in his absence)

    A programme centred on the association of the composer Jacobus Clemens non Papa with the church of St Donatien in Bruges, where he was choirmaster in the early 1540s, and for which he wrote the Missa 'Gaude Lux Donatione.' The Marian Consort perform movements from the mass, interspersed with motets by Clemens and his predecessor in Bruges, Jacob Obrecht, and other music associated with the church.

    Part of Sastamala Gregoriana Festival 2022: Enchanting Bruges

    Clemens non Papa
       Missa 'Gaude Lux Donatione'
       O Maria, vernans Rosa
       Ego flos campi 
    à3
       Job tonso capite
       Ave maris stella
       Ave Maria
       Videte miraculum

    Jacob Obrecht
       Ave Regina Caelorum
       Ave maris stella

    Walter Frye, Ave Regina Caelorum

  • From Darkness to Light: Bachs and Buxtehude

    Tuesday 5th July 2022

    Church of St Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk

    Brecon Baroque
    Rachel Podger, director and violin

    Music by Dieterich Buxtehude and members of the Bach family

    Part of Music in Suffolk Churches: the Martin Randall Festival of Sacred Music. Admission to the concert is exclusive to patrons of this tour.

    Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Ciaccona in E minor BuxWV 160 (transcribed for string quartet by Brian Clark)
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BuxWV 76 and Klaglied BuxWV 76b
    Johann Michael Bach, Es ist ein großer Gewinn
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Lobet den Herrn BWV 230
    Johann Michael Bach, Ach wie sehnlich
    Johann Christoph Bach, Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein / Ciaconne from Meine Freundin ist schön
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150

    Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
    Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Herford, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Brecon Baroque
    Rachel Podger, director and violin

  • Inspiring Bach at Stour Music Festival

    Sunday 19th June 2022 at 3.00pm

    All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph, Kent

    The Marian Consort
    Spiritato!

    Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
    Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
    Johann Pachelbel, Christ lag in Todesbanden
    Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Christ Lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Sonata à2
    Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit

    Details and tickets at the Stour Music Festival website.

  • Britten and Schubert with the Barnes Choir

    Saturday 18th June 2022 at 7.30pm

    All Saints Church, East Sheen

    The Barnes Choir
    Julian Collings, director

    Franz Schubert, Mass in G
    Benjamin Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb

    Full details and tickets at the Barnes Choir's website.

    Felix Mendelssohn, Hear My Prayer
    Franz Schubert, Mass in G
    Benjamin Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
    Russell Hepplewhite, While There is Still Time
    Hubert Parry, Blest Pair of Sirens

    Eleanor Pennell-Briggs, soprano
    Henry Capper-Allen, counter-tenor
    Joseph Doody, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Peter Jaekel, organ

  • Mit Psalter und Harfen at Leipzig Bachfest

    Saturday 11th June 2022 at 12.00pm

    Paulinum Aula and Universitätskirche, Leipzig

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Nicolaus Bruhns:
       Great Praeludium in E minor
       De profundis clamavi
    Matthias Weckmann, Weine nicht, es hat überwunden
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab BuxWV 38
    J.S. Bach:
       Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150
       Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131

    Eugénie Warnier, soprano
    Mélodie Ruvio, mezzo-soprano
    Johannes Weiss, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Daniel Beilschmidt, organ

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey Live

    Friday 3rd June 2022 at 7.00pm

    Royal Festival Hall

    London Voices
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Robert Ziegler, conductor

    A live screening of Stanley Kubrick's classic film, accompanied by a live performance of the film soundtrack, including excerpts from György Ligeti's Requiem and Lux Aeterna

    Details and tickets at the Southbank Centre website.

  • Bach and Schütz at the Dunster Festival

    Saturday 28th May 2022 at 7.30pm

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
    and a selection of motets by members of the Bach family

    Details and tickets at the Dunster Festival website.

    Johann Christoph Bach, Mit Weinen hebt sich's an
    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281
    Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen Tod
    Johann Bach, Sei nun wieder zufrieden
    Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
    Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
    Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229

  • Haydn's Creation in Putney

    Saturday 21st May 2022 at 7.00pm

    St Paul's Church Wimbledon Parkside

    Putney Choral Society
    Christopher Braime, conductor

    Joseph Haydn, The Creation (baritone soloist)

    Tickets available here.

    Hilary Cronin, soprano
    James Robinson, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Schütz and Fennessy at the Brighton Festival

    Friday 13th May 2022 at 8.30pm

    All Saints Church, Hove

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    J.C. Bach, Mit Weinen hebt sichs an
    Heinrich Schütz, Musicalische Exequien
    David Fennessy, Two Pieces about Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

    Further details and tickets at the Brighton Festival website.

  • BBC Radio 3 In Tune

    Thursday 12th May 2022 at 5.00pm

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort perform live on BBC Radio 3, ahead of our performances at the Brighton and Dunster Festivals

  • Dona Nobis Pacem: A Concert for Ukraine

    Tuesday 10th May 2022 at 7.00pm

    St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey

    St Margaret's Consort
    Thomas Trotter, organ
    Philippa Mo, violin
    Greg Morris, director

    A special concert to raise funds in support of the DEC's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. The programme draws on music from across Europe to express solidarity with the Ukrainian people and to pray for peace, and includes works by Byrd, Tavener, Pärt and Bach, and musical responses to the conflict by John Rutter and Gareth Treseder.

    Tickets and further information at the Westminster Abbey website.

    William Byrd, Civitas sancti tui
    Arvo Pärt, De profundis
    W.A. Mozart, Ave verum corpus
    Valentin Silvestrov, Prayer for Ukraine
    John Rutter, A Ukrainian Prayer
    Gareth Treseder, Otche Nash
    Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Sicut cervus
    John Tavener, Song for Athene
    J.S. Bach, Gloria, Agnus Dei and Dona nobis pacem from Mass in B minor

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Friday 29th April 2022 at 7.00pm

    Stoller Hall, Manchester

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort explores powerful, heartfelt music from Renaissance England alongside songs of plea and protest from the folk tradition in new arrangements by Stef Connor.

  • Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Thursday 28th April 2022 at 8.00pm

    Holy Trinity Boar Lane, Leeds

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort explores powerful, heartfelt music from Renaissance England alongside songs of plea and protest from the folk tradition in new arrangements by Stef Connor.

  • St John Passion

    Friday 15th April 2022 at 2.30pm

    St John's, Smith Square, London

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion

    Nick Pritchard, Evangelist
    Will Thomas, Christus

    Rowan Pierce, soprano
    Hugh Cutting, counter-tenor
    Ruari Bowen, tenor
    Ashley Riches, bass

  • St John Passion in Burford

    Saturday 9th April 2022 at 7.00pm

    Church of St. John the Baptist, Cirencester

    The Burford Singers
    Baroque Ensemble Canzona
    Brian Kay, director

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion BWV 245 (in English)

    Further information at the Burford Singers' website.

    David Webb, Evangelist
    Jon Stainsby, Christus
    Jessica Cale, soprano
    James Neville, counter-tenor
    Frederick Long, bass/Pilatus

  • Bach and Schütz in Southampton

    Tuesday 5th April 2022 at 7.30pm

    Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
    and a selection of motets by members of the Bach family

    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281
    Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen Tod
    Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
    Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
    Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229

  • Bach and Schütz in London

    Friday 1st April 2022 at 7.00pm

    St Giles Cripplegate, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
    and a selection of motets by members of the Bach family

    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281
    Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen Tod
    Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
    Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
    Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229

  • Bach and Schütz in Norwich

    Thursday 31st March 2022 at 7.00pm

    Church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien
    and a selection of motets by members of the Bach family

    Tickets and full details are available here.

    Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281
    Johann Bach (attrib.), Weint nicht um meinen Tod
    Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
    Johann Michael Bach, Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
    Johann Ludwig Bach, Das blut Jesu Christi
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229

  • Stainer's Crucifixion

    Saturday 26th March 2022 at 6.00pm

    Hampstead Parish Church

    John Stainer, The Crucifixion (bass soloist)

    A Come-and-sing event at the Parish Church of St-John-at-Hampstead

    Prayer for Ukraine (trad. Ukrainian folksong, elaborated by Geoffrey Webber)
    John Stainer, The Crucifixion

    Aidan Coburn, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Timothy Wakerell, organ
    Geoffrey Webber, conductor

  • Consort Singing and Original Sources: The Iberian Golden Age (course)

    4th-6th March 2022

    Benslow Music, Hitchin

    Led by Rory McCleery and members of The Marian Consort

    A course for advanced amateur singers, with a focus on Iberian music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

    Course details (including booking) are available at the Benslow Music website.

  • Ode to Purcell

    Sunday 20th February 2022 at 6.00pm

    Cologne Philharmonie

    Freiburger Barockorchester
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

    Henry Purcell:
    ​   Birthday Ode for Queen Mary 'Love's Goddess sure was blind' Z.331   
       Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

    Henry Purcell:
       Overture from Abdelazer Z.570
       Hornpipe from The Fairy Queen Z.629
       Slow Air from The Old Bachelor Z.607
       First Act Tune from The Virtuous Wife Z.611
       'How blest are shepherds' (instrumental version) from King Arthur Z.628
       Curtain Tune from Timon of Athens Z.632
    ​   Birthday Ode for Queen Mary 'Love's Goddess sure was blind' Z.331   
       Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

  • Ode to Purcell

    Monday 14th February 2022 at 5.30pm and 8.30pm

    Konzerthaus Freiburg

    Freiburger Barockorchester
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

    Henry Purcell, Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

    These performances will be recorded for future broadcast on Südwestrundfunk 2.

    Henry Purcell:
       Overture from Abdelazer Z.570
       Hornpipe from The Fairy Queen Z.629
       Slow Air from The Old Bachelor Z.607
       First Act Tune from The Virtuous Wife Z.611
       'How blest are shepherds' (instrumental version) from King Arthur Z.628
       Curtain Tune from Timon of Athens Z.632 
       Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

  • Ode to Purcell

    Saturday 12th February 2022 at 8.00pm

    Kammermusiksaal, Berliner Philharmonie

    Freiburger Barockorchester
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, director

    Henry Purcell:
       Birthday Ode for Queen Mary 'Love's Goddess sure was blind' Z.331
       Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

    Henry Purcell:
       Overture from Abdelazer Z.570
       Hornpipe from The Fairy Queen Z.629
       Slow Air from The Old Bachelor Z.607
       First Act Tune from The Virtuous Wife Z.611
       'How blest are shepherds' (instrumental version) from King Arthur Z.628
       Curtain Tune from Timon of Athens Z.632
    ​   Birthday Ode for Queen Mary 'Love's Goddess sure was blind' Z.331   
       Hail! Bright Cecilia Z.328

  • Heinrich Schütz Triptych in Metz

    Saturday 8th January 2022 at 8.00pm

    Grand Salle, L'Arsenal de Metz, France

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Heinrich Schütz:
       Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi
       Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (Jesus)
       Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi (Jesus)

    Tickets and further information at the Cité Musicale Metz website.

    *Unfortunately, I had to withdraw from this concert due to the pandemic-related restrictions on travel between the UK and France*

  • Messiah

    Thursday 23rd December 2021 at 7.30pm

    St John's Smith Square

    Polyphony
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Stephen Layton, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Further information at the SJSS website. Tickets for this event have now sold out.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
    James Gilchrist, tenor
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah at Wigmore Hall

    Saturday 18th December 2021 at 7.00pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Tickets and further information at the Wigmore Hall website.

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    James Hall, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah at Wigmore Hall

    Saturday 18th December 2021 at 4.00pm

    Wigmore Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Further information and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    James Hall, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Edinburgh

    Friday 17th December 2021 at 7.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    James Hall, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah in Edinburgh

    Friday 17th December 2021 at 4.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    James Hall, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Perth

    Thursday 16th December 2021 at 7.00pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Tickets and further information at the Perth Concert Hall website.

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    James Hall, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah in Perth

    Thursday 16th December 2021 at 4.00pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    James Hall, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Bach Vespers for Advent Sunday

    Sunday 28th November 2021 at 6.30pm

    Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

    City Bach Collective

    J.S. Bach, Schwingt freudig euch empor BWV 36

    For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

    Emily Atkinson, soprano
    Vanessa Heine, mezzo-soprano
    Chris Tortise, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    The City Bach Collective
    Hazel Brooks, leader

  • Composers' workshop at the University of Aberdeen

    Friday 12th November 2021 at 10.00am

    King's Pavilion, University of Aberdeen

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort will workshop new choral and consort works by postgraduate composition students from the University of Aberdeen's Faculty of Music.

    Further details at the University of Aberdeen website.

  • The Marian Consort in Aberdeen

    Thursday 11th November 2021 at 7.30pm

    King's College Chapel, Aberdeen

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music by Vicente Lusitano, Rafaella Aleotti, James MacMillan, and Howard Skempton, and the première of a new work by Philip Cooke.

    Further details and tickets at the website of the Music Faculty at the University of Aberdeen.

  • Baroque Splendour with Epsom Choral Society

    Saturday 6th November 2021 at 7.30pm

    St Martin's Parish Church, Epsom

    Epsom Choral Society
    Julian Collings, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus

    Full details at the Epsom Choral Society website.

    J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
    G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus

    Miranda Heldt and Eleanor Pennell-Briggs, sopranos
    Beth Moxon, mezzo-soprano
    Joseph Doody, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • The Constant Heart at the Cambridge Festival of the Voice

    Wednesday 3rd November 2021 at 7.30pm

    Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis and Osbert Parsley, motets by Robert Parsons and Clemens non Papa, and new works by Ben Rowarth and Donna McKevitt.

    Further information at the Cambridge Early Music website.

  • Bach Vespers for Reformation Sunday

    Sunday 31st October 2021 at 6.30pm

    Church of St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, London

    City Bach Collective

    J.S. Bach, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80
    and other liturgically appropriate music from the German baroque.

    For further information about the City Bach Collective and the Bach Vespers series, visit their website.

    J.S. Bach, 'Sinfonia' from Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats BWV 42
    Martin Luther, Non moriar, sed vivam
    Johann Gottfried Walther, Chorale prelude: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Chorale prelude: Vater unser im Himmelreich BuxWV 219
    Johann Gottfried Walther, Wir gläuben all an einen Gott
    J.S. Bach, Chorale: Herr Jesu Christ! dich zu uns wend BWV 332
    J.S. Bach, Cantata: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80
    J.S. Bach, 'Siciliano' from Oboe Concert in F major BWV 1053Rr
    Johann Pachelbel, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott  P.106

    Emily Atkinson, soprano
    Vanessa Heine, mezzo-soprano
    Graham Neal, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    The City Bach Collective
    Hazel Brooks, leader
    Geoff Coates, oboe

  • Inspiring Bach

    Thursday 28th October 2021 at 6.30pm

    St Giles Cripplegate, London

    The Marian Consort
    Spiritato!

    Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit
    Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
    Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
    Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören

    The first public performance of the Inspiring Bach project, prior to a major tour in 2022.

  • Inspiring Bach: Open rehearsal

    Tuesday 26th October 2021 at 2.30pm

    St Giles Cripplegate, London

    The Marian Consort
    Spiritato!

    Johann Christoph Bach, Es erhub sich ein Streit
    Johann Pachelbel, Gott sei uns gnädig
    Johann Christoph Bach, Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte
    Sebastian Knüpfer, Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören

    The first stage in an exciting collaboration between The Marian Consort and period instrument ensemble Spiritato!
    Further details about this project can be found at the Spiritato! website.

  • Boulez in Paris

    Thursday 21st October 2021 at 6.00pm

    Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris

    EXAUDI
    Ensemble intercontemporain
    Matthias Pintscher, director

    Pierre Boulez, Cummings ist der Dichter

    Private event.

  • Yince a Paradise

    Sunday 17th October 2021 at 3.00pm

    Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews

    Dunedin Consort
    Grete Pedersen, director

    Coinciding with the COP-26 Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, a programme exploring music's relationship with nature, and the ways in which the arts can reflect and inspire concern for the natural environment.

    Full details at the Dunedin Consort website.
    *Regrettably, I had to withdraw from this project due to self-isolation requirements.*

    Programme to include:
    J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
    James MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver
    Bo Holten, Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk
    Drew Hammond, Yince a Paradise (world première)
    Sven-David Sandström/Henry Purcell, Hear My Prayer
    Norwegian folk songs, arr. Grete Pedersen

  • Yince a Paradise

    Saturday 16th October 2021 at 7.30pm

    Memorial Chapel, Glasgow University

    Dunedin Consort
    Grete Pedersen, director

    Coinciding with the COP-26 Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, a programme exploring music's relationship with nature, and the ways in which the arts can reflect and inspire concern for the natural environment.

    This performance is part of The Dear Green Bothy, a collaborative cultural programme presented by the University of Glasgow's College of Arts showcasing creative and critical responses to the climate emergency.

    Full details at the Dunedin Consort website.
    *Regrettably, I had to withdraw from this project due to self-isolation requirements.*

    Programme to include:
    J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
    James MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver
    Bo Holten, Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk
    Drew Hammond, Yince a Paradise
    Sven-David Sandström/Henry Purcell, Hear My Prayer
    Norwegian folk songs, arr. Grete Pedersen

  • Yince a Paradise

    Friday 15th October 2021 at 7.30pm

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Grete Pedersen, director

    Coinciding with the COP-26 Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, a programme exploring music's relationship with nature, and the ways in which the arts can reflect and inspire concern for the natural environment.

    Full details at the Dunedin Consort website.
    *Regrettably, I had to withdraw from this project due to self-isolation requirements.*

    Programme to include:
    J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
    James MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver
    Bo Holten, Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk
    Drew Hammond, Yince a Paradise
    Sven-David Sandström/Henry Purcell, Hear My Prayer
    Norwegian folk songs, arr. Grete Pedersen

  • Yince a Paradise

    Thursday 14th October 2021 at 7.30pm

    St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

    Dunedin Consort
    Grete Pedersen

    Coinciding with the COP-26 Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, a programme exploring music's relationship with nature, and the ways in which the arts can reflect and inspire concern for the natural environment.

    Full details at the Dunedin Consort website.
    *Regrettably, I had to withdraw from this project due to self-isolation requirements.*

    Programme to include:
    J.S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
    James MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver
    Bo Holten, Regn og Rusk og Rosenbusk
    Drew Hammond, Yince a Paradise (world première)
    Sven-David Sandström/Henry Purcell, Hear My Prayer
    Norwegian folk songs, arr. Grete Pedersen

  • Haydn's Creation at the Barbican

    Tuesday 28th September 2021 at 7.30pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Laurence Cummings, director

    Joseph Haydn, The Creation

    Further information and tickets (including access to online streaming) at the Barbican website.

    Gabriel: Mary Bevan
    Uriel: Stuart Jackson
    Raphael: Matthew Brook
    Eve: Rachel Redmond
    Adam: Ashley Riches

    Video and Production Designer: Nina Dunn

  • Music for the Queen of Heaven at Barnard Castle

    Friday 17th September 2021

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    *Postponed in response to precautions relating to the Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Music for the Queen of Heaven at Hexham Abbey Festival

    Thursday 16th September 2021 at 7.30pm

    Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Marian settings by Josquin des Pres, Vicente Lusitano, Raffaella Aleotti, Jean Mouton, Rebecca Clarke, James MacMillan, Dani Howard, Anna Semple and Ben Rowarth

    Further details and tickets at the Hexham Abbey Festival website.

  • Mass in C Minor at Musikfest Bremen

    Wednesday 1st September 2021 at 8.00pm

    Verden Cathedral

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C Minor K.427 (reconstruction/completion by Clemens Kemme, 2018)

    Further information at the Musikfest Bremen website.

    Mhairi Lawson and Nardus Williams, sopranos
    Benjamin Hulett, tenor
    Robert Davies, baritone

  • Davide Penitente at Musikfest Bremen

    Tuesday 31st August 2021 at 8.00pm

    St Vitus Church, Löningen

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Cantata "Davide Penitente" K.469
    Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 80 in D Minor

    Further information at the Musikfest Bremen website.

    Mhairi Lawson and Nardus Williams, sopranos
    Benjamin Hulett, tenor

  • Handel and Purcell Royal Odes at Musikfest Bremen

    Saturday 28th August 2021 at 10.00pm

    St Peter's Cathedral, Bremen

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    George Friedrich Handel:
       Coronation Anthem No. 1: Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
       Chandos Anthem No. 9: O praise the Lord with one consent, HWV 254
    Henry Purcell, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons of Art

    Part of Eine Grosse Nachtmusik, the opening night of Musikfest Bremen.

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    James Laing and Rory McCleery, counter-tenors
    Benjamin Hulett, tenor
    Robert Davies, baritone

  • Handel and Purcell Royal Odes at Musikfest Bremen

    Saturday 28th August 2021 at 7.30pm

    St Peter's Cathedral, Bremen

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    George Friedrich Handel:
       Coronation Anthem No. 1: Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
       Chandos Anthem No. 9: O praise the Lord with one consent, HWV 254
    Henry Purcell, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons of Art

    Part of Eine Grosse Nachtmusik, the opening night of Musikfest Bremen.

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    James Laing and Rory McCleery, counter-tenors
    Benjamin Hulett, tenor
    Robert Davies, baritone

  • Heinrich Schütz Triptych at Festival de La Chaise Dieu

    Thursday 26th August 2021 at 9.00pm

    Abbaye de La Chaise Dieu, France

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Heinrich Schütz:
       Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi
       Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (Jesus)
       Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi (Jesus)

    Further details and tickets at the festival website.

  • Dido's Ghost at the Edinburgh International Festival

    20th, 21st and 22nd August 2021 at 7.30pm

    International Festival Stage, Edinburgh Academy Junior School

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, conductor
    Frederic Wake-Walker, director

    Errollyn Wallen, Dido's Ghost
    incorporating Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

    Tickets and further details at the Edinburgh International Festival website.

    Dido: Golda Schultz
    Aeneas: Matthew Brook
    Belinda: Nardus Williams
    Lavinia/Spirit: Allison Cook
    Elymas/Sorcerer: Henry Waddington
    Ascanius/Sailor: David Lee
    Second Woman: Jessica Leary
    Witches: Catherine Backhouse, Judy Brown

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, conductor
    Frederic Wake-Walker, director

  • Josquin at the BBC Proms

    Monday 9th August 2021 at 6.00pm

    Cadogan Hall, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Motets by Josquin des Prez and his Renaissance imitators.

    Full details and tickets at the BBC Proms website.

    Josquin des Prez, 'Praeter rerum seriem'
    Sethus Calvisius, 'Praeter rerum seriem'
    Josquin des Prez, 'Benedicta es, caelorum regina'
    Adrian Willaert, 'Benedicta es, caelorum regina'
    Josquin des Prez, 'Inviolata, integra et casta es'
    Vicente Lusitano, 'Inviolata, integra et casta es'

  • Josquin at the BBC Proms

    Monday 9th August 2021 at 1.00pm

    Cadogan Hall, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Motets by Josquin des Prez and his Renaissance imitators.

    Full details and tickets at the BBC Proms website.
    This concert was The Marian Consort's BBC Proms debut, and was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; it can be heard on BBC Sounds for 30 days after broadcast.

    Josquin des Prez, 'Praeter rerum seriem'
    Sethus Calvisius, 'Praeter rerum seriem'
    Josquin des Prez, 'Benedicta es, caelorum regina'
    Adrian Willaert, 'Benedicta es, caelorum regina'
    Josquin des Prez, 'Inviolata, integra et casta es'
    Vicente Lusitano, 'Inviolata, integra et casta es'

  • Stabat Mater at the Three Choirs Festival

    Monday 26th July 2021 at 3.00pm

    College Hall, Worcester

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Gabriel Jackson, Stabat Mater
    Thomas Tomkins, Then David Mourned
    Dani Howard, New Work
    Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater

    Further details and tickets at the Three Choirs Festival website.

  • Man of Bruges at Sastamala Gregoriana

    Sunday 18th July 2021 at 7.00pm

    St Mary's Church, Sastamala, Finland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Works by Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    *Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Dido's Ghost at the Buxton International Festival

    11th, 14th and 17th July 2021 at 7.15pm

    Buxton Opera House

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, conductor
    Frederic Wake-Walker, director

    Errollyn Wallen, Dido's Ghost (world première)
    incorporating Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

    Details and tickets at the Buxton International Festival website.

    Dido: Isabelle Peters (replacing Idunnu Münch)
    Aeneas: Matthew Brook
    Belinda: Nardus Williams
    Lavinia/Spirit: Jessica Gillingwater
    Elymas/Sorcerer: Tim Dickinson
    Ascanius: David Lee
    Second Woman: Jessica Leary
    Witches: Lucy Goddard/Philippa Boyle, Judy Brown

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, conductor
    Frederic Wake-Walker, director

  • Dido's Ghost at the Barbican

    Sunday 6th June 2021 at 8.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, conductor
    Frederic Wake-Walker, director

    Errollyn Wallen, Dido's Ghost (world première)
    incorporating Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

    Details of tickets and online streaming at the Barbican website.

    Dido: Isabelle Peters (replacing Golda Schultz)
    Aeneas: Matthew Brook
    Belinda: Nardus Williams
    Lavinia/Spirit: Allison Cook
    Elymas/Sorcerer: Henry Waddington
    Ascanius/Sailor: David Lee
    Second Woman: Jessica Leary
    Witches: Jessica Gillingwater, Judy Brown

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, conductor
    Frederic Wake-Walker, director

  • The Marian Consort at the Dunster Festival

    Saturday 29th May 2021 at 7.00pm

    Priory Church of St George, Dunster, Somerset

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Tudor motets and Lamentations, and new works by Ben Rowarth and Donna McKevitt

    Tickets and further details at the Dunster Festival website.

    In a programme created especially for Dunster, The Marian Consort will explore music from the time of Sir John Luttrell, feudal baron of Dunster in the 16th Century and a notable soldier, diplomat and courtier to Henry VIII and Edward VI. Beautiful sacred music by Thomas Tallis, Robert Parsons and other English Tudor composers sits alongside a new piece by award-winning young composer Ben Rowarth which sets Sir John's personal motto, found on his portrait which hangs both in the Courtauld Institute of Art and in Dunster Castle.

    Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah (I)
    Nathaniel Giles, Tibi soli peccavi
    Donna McKevitt, Lament 16 (world première)
    Philip van Wilder, Aspice Domine
    Robert Parsons, Ave Maria
    Ben Rowarth, Ave Maris Stella (world première)
    Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi
    Clemens non Papa, Job tonso capite
    Osbert Parsley, Lamentations of Jeremiah

  • BBC Radio 3 In Tune

    Monday 24th May 2021 at 5.00pm

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort appear on In Tune to talk to Sean Rafferty about our forthcoming concert at the Dunster Festival

  • LUMOS Festival

    24th-30th April 2021

    Reims, Épernay and surrounding area

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    A festival of baroque music in unusual settings

    *Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Passio

    Saturday 10th April 2021 at 8.00pm

    St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Hebrides Ensemble
    Will Conway, director

    Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Passio

    Friday 9th April 2021 at 8.00pm

    King's College Chapel, Aberdeen

    Dunedin Consort
    Hebrides Ensemble
    Will Conway, director

    Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Passio

    Thursday 8th April 2021 at 8.00pm

    Glasgow University Chapel

    Dunedin Consort
    Hebrides Ensemble
    Will Conway, director

    Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

    *Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this live performance was replaced by a radio broadcast from Edinburgh (see below)*

  • Passio on BBC Radio 3

    Thursday 8th April 2021 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Hebrides Ensemble
    Will Conway, director

    Arvo Pärt, Passio (Evangelist Quartet)

    This performance was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and is available online for 30 days after broadcast.
    An online video broadcast of the performance will be made available at the Dunedin Consort website from Saturday 17th April, also for 30 days.

    Matthew Brook, Jesus
    Hugo Hymas, Pilate

    Rachel Ambrose-Evans, soprano
    Jessica Gillingwater, mezzo-soprano
    David Lee, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Dunedin Consort
    Hebrides Ensemble
    Will Conway, director

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    Thursday 18th, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th March 2021

    Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
    Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

    In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

    A new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

    *Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Schütz Triptych in Reims

    Friday 26th February 2021

    Opéra de Reims

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Heinrich Schütz
       Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (Weihnachtshistorie) SWV 435
       Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 (Jesus)
       Historie der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50 (Jesus)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    Wednesday 20th January 2021

    Grand Angle, Voiron, France

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby / Romain Bockler, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
    Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

    In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

    A new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs. 

    *Due to the restrictions imposed on France in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, these première performances were replaced by an artistic residency; but amid the continuing uncertainty surrounding travel quarantine arrangements and the outcome of the negotiations over the UK's exit from the European Union, I had to suspend my participation. I am grateful to Romain Bockler for stepping in to replace me at short notice.*

  • Messiah in Glasgow

    Wednesday 23rd December 2020 at 7.00pm

    St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Jess Dandy, contralto
    Anthony Gregory, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah Streamed Performance from Perth

    Wednesday 23rd December 2020 at 7.00pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

    *Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this planned live performance was to have been replaced by a live online stream; but the imposition on travel restrictions between England and Scotland forced the cancellation of the whole project*

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Anthony Gregory, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Edinburgh

    Monday 21st December 2020 at 7.00pm

    St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Jess Dandy, contralto
    Anthony Gregory, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Children's Messiah Streamed from Perth

    Monday 21st December 2020 at 1.00pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (excerpts)

    *Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this planned live performance was to have been replaced by a live online stream; but the imposition on travel restrictions between England and Scotland forced the cancellation of the whole project*

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Anthony Gregory, tenor
    Robert Davies, bass-baritone

  • Messiah at the Barbican

    Saturday 19th December 2020 at 7.30pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    *Following the announcement that London is to enter Tier 3 restrictions in response to the rise in rate of Covid-19 infections, this event will no longer go ahead as a live concert. It will, however, be live-streamed at the Barbican website.

    Rowan Pierce, soprano
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    Ben Johnson, tenor
    Ashley Riches, bass-baritone

  • All Creation Waits

    Tuesday 15th December 2020 at 6.30pm

    Kings Place

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An hour-long sequence for voices, on the theme of the mystery of Advent

    Tickets and full details at the Kings Place website.

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Magnificat Primi Toni
    Francis Poulenc, O Magnum Mysterium
    Jean L'Héritier, Ave Maria
    Gareth Treseder, O Virgo splendens
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata, integra, et casta es, Maria
    Benjamin Britten, A Hymn to the Virgin
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, O Magnum Mysterium
    James MacMillan, O Radiant Dawn
    Josquin des Prez, Ave Maria
    Pierre Villette, O Magnum Mysterium

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th December 2020

    Scène Nationale d'Orléans

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby / Romain Bockler, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
    Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

    In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

    A new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs. 

    *Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, these public performances were replaced by a residency and a private performance for promoters. Unfortunately the UK government's quarantine policy for arrivals from overseas made it impractical for me to travel to France for this period. I am grateful to Romain Bockler for stepping in to replace me at short notice.*

  • The Great Mystery

    Saturday 5th December 2020

    National Centre for Early Music, York

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    An hour-long sequence for voices, on the theme of the mystery of Advent

    4.30pm and 7.00pm
  • Schütz Triptych in Reims

    27th and 28th November at 6.30pm

    Opéra de Reims

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Heinrich Schütz
       Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (Weihnachtshistorie) SWV 435
       Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 (Jesus)
       Historie der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50 (Jesus)

    *Postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • How Lonely Sits the City

    Thursday 19th November 2020 at 7.30pm

    Online Broadcast

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    An exploration of themes of isolation, centred on the Lamentations of Orlande de Lassus

    *Unfortunately the UK government's quarantine policy for arrivals from overseas made it necessary for me to withdraw from this project*

    Orlande de Lassus, Hieremiae prophetae lamentationes
    William Byrd, Ne irascaris Domine / Civitas sancti tui
    James MacMillan, Miserere
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Vigil I (new commission)
    Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth

  • How Lonely Sits the City

    Saturday 7th November 2020 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    An exploration of themes of isolation, centred on the Lamentations of Orlande de Lassus

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Orlande de Lassus, Hieremiae prophetae lamentationes
    William Byrd, Ne irascaris Domine / Civitas sancti tui
    James MacMillan, Miserere
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Vigil I (new commission)
    Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth

  • How Lonely Sits the City

    Thursday 5th November 2020 at 7.30pm

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    An exploration of themes of isolation, centred on the Lamentations of Orlande de Lassus

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Orlande de Lassus, Hieremiae prophetae lamentationes
    William Byrd, Ne irascaris Domine / Civitas sancti tui
    James MacMillan, Miserere
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Vigil I (new commission)
    Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth

  • How Lonely Sits the City

    Wednesday 4th November 2020 at 7.30pm

    Inverness Cathedral

    Dunedin Consort
    Nicholas Mulroy, director

    An exploration of themes of isolation, centred on the Lamentations of Orlande de Lassus

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Orlande de Lassus, Hieremiae prophetae lamentationes
    William Byrd, Ne irascaris Domine / Civitas sancti tui
    James MacMillan, Miserere
    Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Vigil I (new commission)
    Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth

  • "O Magnum Mysterium" at Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Engelberg

    Sunday 25th October 2020 at 4.00pm

    Klosterkirche, Engelberg, Switzerland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    A capella vocal works on the theme of the mystery of the incarnation

    The culmination of The Marian Consort's residency at the Zwischentöne festival.

    Peter Maxwell Davies, O Magnum Mysterium
    Thomas Tallis, Videte Miraculum
    William Byrd, O Magnum Mysterium
    Congaudeat turba from Engelberg Codex 314
    Francis Poulenc, O Magnum Mysterium
    Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder, Mirabile Mysterium
    Cecilia McDowall, Alma Redemptoris Mater
    Surge radix jesse from Engelberg Codex 314
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, O Magnum Mysterium
    James MacMillan, Ave Maris Stella
    Procedentem sponsum de thalamo from Engelberg Codex 314
    Pierre Villette, O Magnum Mysterium
    Nicholas Ludford, 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Videte Miraculum

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

  • "Hay que caminar" at Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Engelberg

    Saturday 24th October 2020 at 5.00pm

    Kursaal, Engelberg, Switzerland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort contribute to a mixed chamber music programme

    Part of The Marian Consort's residency at the Zwischentöne festival.

    Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Sinfonia' and 'Allemande' from Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV 826
    György Kurtág, Aus der Ferne III
    Hodie progreditur from Engelberg Codex 314
    Carlo Gesualdo, Vinea mea electa
    Luigi Nono, "Hay que caminar" soñando
    Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Passacaglia from Mystery Sonatas (Rosary Sonatas)
    György Kurtág, Ligatura op. 31b
    Françoise Couperin, Les Ombres Errantes

    Marianna Shirinyan, piano
    The Merel Quartet
    The Marian Consort
    Tobias Feldmann, violin
    Mary Ellen Woodside, violin
    Eduoard Mätzener, violin
    Nevena Tochev, violin
    Rafael Catalá, cello
    Rafael Rosenfeld, cello
     

  • "Confession" at Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Engelberg

    Friday 23rd October 2020 at 8.00pm

    Kursaal, Engelberg, Switzerland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort contribute to a mixed chamber music programme

    Part of The Marian Consort's residency at the Zwischentöne festival.
    Recorded for broadcast by SRF2.

    Arvo Pärt, Morning Star
    Ludwig van Beethoven, Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 102 No. 1
    Arvo Pärt, Fratres
    Gustav Mahler, Piano Quartet in A minor
    Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95

    The Marian Consort
    Marianna Shirinyan, piano
    Rafael Rosenfeld, cello
    Tobias Feldmann, violin
    Nevena Tochev, violin
    Alessandro D'Amico, viola
    The Merel Quartet

  • "Mirabile Mysterium" at Zwischentöne Kammermusik Festival, Engelberg

    Friday 23rd October 2020 at 6.00pm

    Kursaal, Engelberg, Switzerland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Works by Handl, Gesualdo, Maillard and Clements non Papa, and excerpts from the Engelberg Codex 314, as part of a mixed chamber music programme

    Part of The Marian Consort's residency at the Zwischentöne festival.
    Recorded for broadcast by SRF2.

    Jacob Handl, Mirabile Misterium
    Salve Regina / O flos virginitatis from Engelberg Codex 314
    Carlo Gesualdo, Ave dulcissima Maria
    Morton Feldman, Vertical Thoughts 2
    Ernest Bloch, Méditation Hébraïque
    Jean Maillard, Gaudent in caelis
    Haec est turris from Engelberg Codex 314
    Jacob Clemens non Papa, Ego flos campi
    Tōru Takemitsu, Rain Tree Sketch I
    Claude Debussy, Violin Sonata in G minor

    The Marian Consort
    Nevena Tochev, violin
    Marian Rosenfeld, piano
    Rafael Catalá, cello
    Marianna Shirinyan, piano
    Tobias Feldmann, violin

  • Abschlusskonzert - Edelsteine at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

    Sunday 11th October 2020 at 5.00pm

    St. Marienkirche, Weißenfels

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Le Reniement de Saint Pierre H 424
    Johann Schop, Lacrimae Pavan
    Heinrich Schütz, Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478
    Claudio Monteverdi: Pianto della Madonna
    Heinrich Schütz: Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt SWV 393

    Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020
    Recorded for broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur

  • Festkonzert - Abendmusiken at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

    Saturday 10th October 2020 at 7.00pm

    Dom St. Peter und Paul, Zeitz

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Sacred works by Schütz, Buxtehude, Bruhns, Pfleger, Schop, Tunder and Meder

    Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020

    Dietrich Buxtehude: Jesu, meines Lebens Leben BuxWV 62
    Heinrich Schütz:
       Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott SWV 447
       O süsser, o freundlicher, o gütiger Herr Jesu Christe SWV 285
    Augustin Pfleger: Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte (Jesus)
    Johann Schop: Nasce la pena mia
    Nicolaus Bruhns: De profundis clamavi (soloist)
    Franz Tunder: Ach Herr, laß deine lieben Engelein
    Johann Valentin Meder: Unser keiner lebt ihm selber

  • Festkonzert Triptychon II & III at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

    Sunday 4th October 2020 at 5.00pm

    St. Salvatorkirche, Gera

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Heinrich Schütz:
       Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 (Jesus)
       Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50 (Jesus)

    Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020

  • Festkonzert Triptychon I: Die Geburt eines Menschen at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

    Saturday 3rd October 2020 at 8.00pm

    St. Marienkirche, Weißenfels

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon à 10
    Heinrich Schütz:
       Tröstet mein Volk SWV 382
       O lieber Herre Gott SWV 381
       Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (Weihnachtshistorie) SWV 435

    Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020

  • Eröffnungskonzert - Triptychon II & III at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

    Friday 2nd October 2020 at 9.15pm

    Kreuzkirche, Dresden

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Heinrich Schütz:
       Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 (Jesus)
       Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50 (Jesus)

    Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020
    This concert was broadcast live on MDR Kultur

  • Eröffnungskonzert - Triptychon I at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest

    Friday 2nd October 2020 at 7.30pm

    Kreuzkirche, Dresden

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Heinrich Schütz: Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (Weihnachtshistorie) SWV 435

    Part of Akadêmia's residency at Heinrich Schütz Musikfest 2020
    This concert was broadcast live on MDR Kultur

  • Candlelight Concert at the Hexham Abbey Festival

    Thursday 17th September 2020 at 7.45pm

    Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music for the Queen of Heaven: contemporary Marian motets

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Carmen

    Saturday 12th September 2020

    Fingest Great Barn, near Henley-on-Thames

    Diva Opera
    Cameron Menzies, director
    Bryan Evans, musical director

    Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Carmen: Catherine Lafont
    Don José: Adam Gilbert
    Escamillo: Kyu Choi
    Micaëla: Lucy Hall
    Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
    Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
    Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
    Remendado: Ashley Catling
    Morales: Jon Stainsby
    Zuniga: David Stephenson

  • Carmen

    Wednesday 9th September 2020

    The Great Conservatory, Syon Park, London

    Diva Opera
    Cameron Menzies, director
    Bryan Evans, musical director

    Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Carmen: Catherine Lafont
    Don José: Adam Gilbert
    Escamillo: Kyu Choi
    Micaëla: Lucy Hall
    Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
    Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
    Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
    Remendado: Ashley Catling
    Morales: Jon Stainsby
    ​Zuniga: David Stephenson

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    7th-11th September 2020

    Théâtre Garonne (Scène Européenne), Toulouse

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
    Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

    In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

    Research and development residency for a new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs. We will be joined by the distinguished French director Jean-François Sivadier.

  • Heinrich Schütz Triptych at Festival de La Chaise Dieu

    Thursday 27th August 2020 at 9.00pm

    Abbaye de La Chaise Dieu, France

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Heinrich Schütz:
       Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi
       Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz
       Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Carmen

    Monday 17th August 2020

    Domaine des Vaux, Jersey, Channel Islands

    Diva Opera
    Cameron Menzies, director
    Bryan Evans, musical director

    Geoges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Carmen: Catherine Lafont
    Don José: Adam Gilbert
    Escamillo: Kyu Choi
    Micaëla: Lucy Hall
    Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
    Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
    Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
    Remendado: Ashley Catling
    Morales: Jon Stainsby
    ​Zuniga: David Stephenson

  • Carmen

    Thursday 13th August 2020

    Les Musicales de Cormeilles, France

    Diva Opera
    Cameron Menzies, director
    Bryan Evans, musical director

    Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Carmen: Catherine Lafont
    Don José: Adam Gilbert
    Escamillo: Kyu Choi
    Micaëla: Lucy Hall
    Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
    Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
    Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
    Remendado: Ashley Catling
    Morales: Jon Stainsby
    ​Zuniga: David Stephenson

  • Carmen

    Friday 7th and Sunday 9th August 2020

    Festival de la Vézère, near Brive la Gaillarde, France

    Diva Opera
    Cameron Menzies, director
    Bryan Evans, musical director

    Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Carmen: Catherine Lafont
    Don José: Adam Gilbert
    Escamillo: Kyu Choi
    Micaëla: Lucy Hall
    Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
    Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
    Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
    Remendado: Ashley Catling
    Morales: Jon Stainsby
    ​Zuniga: David Stephenson

  • Carmen

    Wednesday 5th August 2020

    Nuits Musicales en Vendée Romane, France

    Diva Opera
    Cameron Menzies, director
    Bryan Evans, musical director

    Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Carmen: Catherine Lafont
    Don José: Adam Gilbert
    Escamillo: Kyu Choi
    Micaëla: Lucy Hall
    Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
    Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
    Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
    Remendado: Ashley Catling
    Morales: Jon Stainsby
    ​Zuniga: David Stephenson

  • Carmen

    Friday 24th July 2020

    Holkham Hall, Norfolk

    Diva Opera
    Cameron Menzies, director
    Bryan Evans, musical director

    Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Carmen: Catherine Lafont
    Don José: Adam Gilbert
    Escamillo: Kyu Choi
    Micaëla: Lucy Hall
    Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
    Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
    Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
    Remendado: Ashley Catling
    Morales: Jon Stainsby
    ​Zuniga: David Stephenson

  • Man of Bruges at Sastamala Gregoriana

    Tuesday 21st July 2020 at 7.00pm

    St Mary's Church, Sastamala, Finland

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Works by Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Carmen

    Saturday 27th June 2020

    Flâneries Musicales de Reims, France

    Diva Opera
    Cameron Menzies, director
    Bryan Evans, musical director

    Georges Bizet, Carmen (Morales)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Carmen: Catherine Lafont
    Don José: Adam Gilbert
    Escamillo: Kyu Choi
    Micaëla: Lucy Hall
    Frasquita: Faustine de Monès
    Mercedes: Katherine Aitken
    Le Dancaïre: Meilir Jones
    Remendado: Ashley Catling
    Morales: Jon Stainsby
    ​Zuniga: David Stephenson

  • Mit Psalmen und Harfen at Bachfest Leipzig

    Sunday 14th June 2020 at 5.00pm

    Thomaskirche, Leipzig

    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassèrre, director

    Sacred works by Bruhns, Buxtehude, Weckmann and J.S. Bach
    (bass soloist and consort)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Nicolaus Bruhns, Praeludium in E minor
    Matthias Weckmann, Weine nicht, es hat überwunden
    Dieterich Buxtehude, Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab BuxWV 38
    J.S. Bach, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150
    Nicolaus Bruhns, De profundis clamavi
    J.S. Bach, Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131

    Eugénie Warnier, soprano
    Mélodie Ruvio, mezzo-soprano
    Johannes Weiss, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, bass
    Daniel Beilschmidt, organ
    Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassère, director

  • St Matthew Passion

    Sunday 12th April 2020 at 3.00pm

    Snape Maltings

    Britten Sinfonia
    Britten Sinfonia Voices

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
    Roderick Williams, Christus
    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Tim Mead, counter-tenor
    Eamonn Dougan, Britten Sinfonia Voices director
    Jacqueline Shave, leader/director

  • St Matthew Passion

    Friday 10th April 2020 at 6.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Britten Sinfonia
    Britten Sinfonia Voices

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
    Roderick Williams, Christus
    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Tim Mead, counter-tenor
    Eamonn Dougan, Britten Sinfonia Voices director
    Jacqueline Shave, leader/director

  • St Matthew Passion

    Thursday 9th April 2020 at 7.00pm

    St Andrew's Hall, Norwich

    Britten Sinfonia
    Britten Sinfonia Voices

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
    Roderick Williams, Christus
    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Tim Mead, counter-tenor
    Eamonn Dougan, Britten Sinfonia Voices director
    Jacqueline Shave, leader/director

  • St John Passion

    Saturday 4th April 2020 at 7.30pm

    Church of St John the Baptist, Burford, Oxfordshire

    Burford Singers
    Brian Kay, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion (Christus)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Benedict Hymas, Evangelist
    Jon Stainsby, Christus
    Frederick Long, Pilatus and Bass arias
    Alison Rose, soprano
    James Neville, counter-tenor
    Laurence Kilsby, tenor

  • Seven Last Words from the Cross

    Tuesday 31st March 2020 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, London

    Dunedin Consort
    The Scottish Ensemble
    John Butt, director

    Jacobus Gallus, Ecce quomodo moritur
    Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
    Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
    James MacMillan, For Sonny
    Jacobus Gallus, Filiae Jerusalem
    Arvo Pärt, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
    James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Seven Last Words from the Cross

    Sunday 29th March 2020 at 8.00pm

    The V&A Museum, Dundee

    Dunedin Consort
    The Scottish Ensemble
    John Butt, director

    Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
    Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
    James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Seven Last Words from the Cross

    Saturday 28th March 2020 at 7.30pm

    Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort
    The Scottish Ensemble
    John Butt, director

    Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
    Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
    James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Seven Last Words from the Cross

    Friday 27th March 2020 at 8.00pm

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    The Scottish Ensemble
    John Butt, director

    Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
    Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
    James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Seven Last Words from the Cross

    Thursday 26th March 2020 at 8.00pm

    Inverness Cathedral, Inverness

    Dunedin Consort
    The Scottish Ensemble
    John Butt, director

    Carlo Gesualdo, O crux benedicta
    Erkki-Sven Tüür, L’ombra della croce
    James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

  • Musical Seascapes with Nottingham Harmonic Choir

    Monday 16th March 2020 at 7.30pm

    Albert Hall, Nottingham

    Nottingham Harmonic Choir
    Orchestra da Camera
    Richard Laing, conductor

    Herbert Howells, Sir Patrick Spens
    Charles Villiers Stanford, Songs of the Fleet (baritone soloist)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Felix Mendelssohn, Overture 'The Hebrides' ('Fingal's Cave)
    Hamish MacCunn, The Wreck of the Hesperus
    Benjamin Britten, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
    Herbert Howells, Sir Patrick Spens
    Charles Villiers Stanford, Songs of the Fleet

  • Beethoven: 1808 Reconstructed

    Sunday 15th March 2020 at 2.00pm

    Royal Festival Hall, London

    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Philharmonia Voices
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
    Stephen Fry, speaker
    Gerard McBurney, creative director

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Mass in C Op. 86 and Fantasia in C Minor for piano, chorus and orchestra ("Choral Fantasy"), Op. 80 (chorus)

    Full details at the Southbank Centre website.

    Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral"), Op. 68
    Ah! Perfido, Op. 65
    'Gloria' from Mass in C, Op. 86
    Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58
    Symphony No. 5, Op. 67
    'Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Mass in C
    Fantasia in G minor for piano, Op. 77
    Fantasia in C Minor for piano, chorus and orchestra ("Choral Fantasy"), Op. 80

    A reconstruction of Beethoven's famous Vienna concert of December 1808.

    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
    Golda Schultz, soprano
    Aoife Miskelly, soprano
    Clare Presland, mezzo-soprano
    Stuart Jackson, tenor
    David Shaw, tenor
    Ashley Riches, baritone
    Stephen Fry, speaker
    Philharmonia Voices
    Rodolfus Choir
    Gerard McBurney, creative director

  • Dixit Dominus in Epsom

    Saturday 14th March 2020

    St Martin's Church, Epsom, Surrey

    Epsom Choral Society
    Julian Collings, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus (baritone soloist)

    *Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic*

    Claudio Monteverdi, Beatus Vir
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
    G.F. Handel, Dixit Dominus

    Miranda Heldt and Eleanor Ross, sopranos
    Carolyn Holt, mezzo-soprano
    Rory Carver, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Epsom Choral Society
    English Sinfonietta
    Julian Collings, conductor

  • Dona Nobis Pacem

    Saturday 7th March 2020

    Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey

    Haslemere Musical Society Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
    Janice Watson, soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    James Ross, conductor

    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem (baritone soloist)

    Benjamin Britten, Soirées Musicales
    Edward Elgar, Sea Pictures
    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    2nd-5th March 2020

    Grand Angle, Voiron, France

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
    Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

    In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

    Research and development residency for a new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

  • Messiah in Arundel

    Saturday 21st December 2019 at 7.30pm

    St Nicholas’s Church, Arundel, West Sussex

    The Hanover Band
    Andrew Arthur, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Tickets at the Hanover Band website.

    Erica Eloff, soprano
    William Towers, counter-tenor
    Bradley Smith, tenor
    Edward Grint, bass-baritone

  • Messiah in Piccadilly

    Friday 20th December 2019 at 7.30pm

    St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London

    Six Centuries Chamber Choir
    Linden Baroque
    Peter Fender, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (baritone soloist)

    Helen Semple, soprano
    Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
    John Upperton, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • In Tune Christmas Special

    Friday 20th December 2019 at 5.00pm

    St George's, Hanover Square, London

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort, the English Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, Ermonela Jaho, the Consone Quartet and Alexandra Dariescu join Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham for the annual In Tune Christmas Special, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

  • Messiah in Glasgow

    Tuesday 17th December 2019 at 7.00pm

    St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Jess Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Roland Wood, baritone

  • Children’s Messiah in Glasgow

    Tuesday 17th December 2019 at 4.00pm

    St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, excerpts from Messiah (consort)

    An accessible performance for younger listeners.

  • Messiah in Edinburgh

    Monday 16th December 2019 at 7.00pm

    Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Jess Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Roland Wood, baritone

  • Children’s Messiah in Edinburgh

    Monday 16th December 2019 at 4.00pm

    Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, excerpts from ​Messiah (consort)

    An accessible performance for younger listeners.

  • Messiah in Kendal

    Saturday 14th December 2019 at 6.30pm

    Westmorland Hall, Kendal Leisure Centre, Kendal

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Jess Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Roland Wood, baritone

  • Messiah in Brighton

    Friday 13th December 2019 at 7.30pm

    St George’s Church, Kemp Town, Brighton

    The Hanover Band
    Andrew Arthur, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Tickets at the Hanover Band website.

    Erica Eloff, soprano
    Timothy Morgan, counter-tenor
    Bradley Smith, tenor
    Edward Grint, bass-baritone

  • In Sorrow’s Footsteps

    Saturday 7th December 2019 at 8.30pm

    Sacra Capilla de El Salvador, Úbeda, Spain

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Sacred music by Palestrina, Victoria, Allegri, Gabriel Jackson and James MacMillan (consort)

    Further details from the Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza.
    This concert was recorded for broadcast on 21st November 2020 by Radio Clásica.

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Stabat Mater
    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ave Maria
    Gabriel Jackson, Stabat Mater
    ​Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus
    Rodrigo de Ceballos, O virgo benedicta
    Duarte Lobo, Pater peccavi
    James MacMillan, Miserere mei, Deus

  • B Minor Mass in Moscow

    Tuesday 26th November 2019 at 7.00pm

    Zaryadye Concert Hall

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, ​Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

    Tickets and further details at the Zaryadye Concert Hall website.

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    25th-29th November 2019

    Centre National de la Danse, Paris

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer
    Jim Clayburgh, lighting design

    In association with Ballets Confidentiels and Corps à Sons Théâtre

    Research and development residency for a new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs. The week culminates in a private performance for producers and promoters of forthcoming performances.

  • Mass in B Minor in Lyon

    Saturday 23rd November 2019 at 8.00pm

    Chapelle de la Trinité, Lyon

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

    Tickets and further details via Les Grands Concerts Lyon.

  • Mass in B Minor in Paris

    Friday 22nd November 2019 at 8.30pm

    Eglise Saint-Roch, Paris

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

    Tickets and further details through Philippe Maillard Productions.

  • Mass in B Minor in Brussels

    Thursday 21st November 2019 at 8.00pm

    Henri Leboeuf Hall, Bozar, Brussels

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

    Tickets and further details at the Bozar website.

  • Welcome to All the Pleasures

    Sunday 17th November 2019 at 6.00pm

    Philharmonie
    Cologne

    Freiburger Barockorchester
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and director

    English works by Handel and Purcell (consort)

  • Welcome to All the Pleasures

    Friday 15th November 2019 at 8.00pm

    Konzerthaus
    Freiburg

    Freiburger Barockorchester
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and director

    English works by Handel and Purcell (consort)

  • Welcome to All the Pleasures

    Thursday 14th November 2019 at 8.00pm

    Philharmonie
    Berlin

    Freiburger Barockorchester
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and director

    English works by Handel and Purcell (consort)

  • Welcome to All the Pleasures

    Wednesday 13th November 2019 at 8.00pm

    Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle
    Stuttgart

    Freiburger Barockorchester
    Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and director

    English works by Handel and Purcell (consort)

  • Der Vampyr

    Sunday 3rd November 2019 at 5.00pm

    Asylum Chapel, Peckham, London

    Gothic Opera
    Kelly Lovelady, conductor
    Julia Mintzer, director

    Heinrich Marschner, Der Vampyr (Lord Davenaut)

    Lord Ruthven: Ian Beadle
    Malwina: Alice Usher
    Sir Edgar Aubrey: Jack Roberts
    The Vampire Master: Gráinne Gillis
    Emmy: Charlotte Osborn
    Sir Humphrey Davenaut: Jon Stainsby
    Sir John Berkeley: Richard Moore
    Janthe: Béatrice de Larragoïti
    George Dibdin: Matthew Clark
    Suse: Rosemary Clifford
    Tom Blunt: Richard Moore

  • Der Vampyr

    31st October and 1st November at 7.30pm

    The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London

    Gothic Opera
    Kelly Lovelady, conductor
    Julia Mintzer, director

    Heinrich Marschner, Der Vampyr (Lord Davenaut)

    Lord Ruthven: Ian Beadle
    Malwina: Alice Usher
    Sir Edgar Aubrey: Sam Smith
    The Vampire Master: Gráinne Gillis
    Emmy: Charlotte Osborn
    Sir Humphrey Davenaut: Jon Stainsby
    Sir John Berkeley: Richard Moore
    Janthe: Béatrice de Larragoïti
    George Dibdin: Matthew Clark
    Suse: Rosemary Clifford
    ​Tom Blunt: Richard Moore

  • Der Vampyr - concert performance

    Sunday 27th October 2019 at 7.30pm

    Brompton Cemetery Chapel

    Gothic Opera

    Heinrich Marschner, Der Vampyr (Lord Davenaut)

    Lord Ruthven: Ian Beadle
    Malwina: Milena Knauß
    Sir Edgar Aubrey: Jack Roberts
    The Vampire Master: Gráinne Gillis
    Emmy: Susanna MacRae
    Sir Humphrey Davenaut: Jon Stainsby
    Janthe: Laura Curry
    George Dibdin: Matthew Clark

  • Mass in B Minor at Festival de Lanvellac

    Sunday 6th October 2019 at 3.00pm

    Carré Magique, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque en Bretagne, Lannion, France

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort and baritone soloist)

    Further details and tickets at the festival website.

  • Dussek at the Barbican

    Wednesday 2nd October 2019 at 7.30pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor

    Jan Ladislav Dussek, Mass in C (choir)

    Further details at the Barbican website.

  • David et Salomon at Ambronay

    Friday 20th September 2019 at 8.30pm

    Abbatiale, Ambronay, France

    Les Cris de Paris
    Geoffroy Jourdain, conductor

    Heinrich Schütz, selections from Psalmen Davids and Cantiones Sacrae (consort and baritone soloist)

  • Mozart Requiem in Cirencester

    Saturday 14th September 2019 at 7.30pm

    Church of St John the Baptist, Cirencester

    Swindon Choral Society
    Robin Nelson, conductor

    W.A. Mozart, Requiem (bass soloist)

    Elinor Rolfe Johnson, soprano
    Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
    Peter Kirk, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Benvenuto Cellini at Versailles

    Sunday 8th September 2019 at 3.00pm

    Opéra Royal, Versailles

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
    Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini (chorus)

  • Benvenuto Cellini at the BBC Proms

    Monday 2nd September 2019 at 7.00pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
    Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini (chorus)

    Further details at the BBC Proms website.

  • Benvenuto Cellini at Musikfest Berlin

    Saturday 31st August 2019 at 7.00pm

    Philharmonie, Berlin

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
    Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini (chorus)

    Further details at the Berliner Festspiel website.

  • Benvenuto Cellini at Festival Berlioz 2019

    Thursday 29th August 2019 at 8.00pm

    Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André, France

    The Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
    Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini (chorus)

    Further details at the Festival Berlioz website.

  • L'Enfance du Christ at the BBC Proms

    Wednesday 14th August 2019 at 7.00pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    Britten Sinfonia Voices
    Genesis Sixteen
    The Halle Orchestra
    Sir Mark Elder, conductor

    Hector Berlioz, L'Enfance du Christ (chorus)

    Further information and tickets at the BBC Proms website.

    Julie Boulianne, mezzo-soprano
    Allan Clayton, tenor
    Roderick Williams, baritone
    Neal Davies, bass-baritone

  • The Marian Consort in Ávila

    Friday 26th July 2019 at 7.00pm

    Colegio Mayor Magistral Honcala, Ávila, Spain

    Zenobia Música Semana Internacional de Canto 2019
    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

  • Singing in Secret: Music from Recusant Renaissance England

    Sunday 21st July 2019 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Church, Conwy

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Further information at the Conwy Classical Music Festival website.

  • Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart

    Friday 5th July 2019 at 7.00pm

    Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

    Ensemble Perpetuo
    Julian Perkins, conductor

    Stephen Dodgson, Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart (Guard)

    Further information at the Snape Maltings website.

    Cast includes Kate Howden, Matthew Brook, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Anna Dennis, William Wallace, Nicholas Morris, Alistair Ollerenshaw, Peter Willcock, Diana Moore, Robyn Allegra Parton, Jon Stainsby, Michael Bundy, Leonora Dawson-Bowling, Mark Saberton, Jonathan Hanley

  • The Dream of Gerontius

    Saturday 22nd June 2019 at 7.00pm

    Southwark Cathedral

    The Barnes Choir, Epsom Choral Society and The Arcubus Ensemble
    Regent Sinfonia
    Elgan Llŷr Thomas, tenor
    Judy Brown, mezzo-soprano
    Julian Collings, conductor

    Edward Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius (Priest/Angel of the Agony)

    Tickets available here.

  • Coronation Anthems in Katowice

    Friday 21st June 2019 at 7.30pm

    Sala Kameralna, NOSPR Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, director

    G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthems

    Tickets at the NOSPR website.

    Georg Friedrich Handel, Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem I), HWV 258
    Water Music: Suite No. 2, HWV 349
    My Heart is Inditing (Coronation Anthem IV), HWV 261
    Let thy Hand be Strengthened (Coronation Anthem II), HWV 259
    Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
    The King shall Rejoice (Coronation Anthem III), HWV 260
    Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah; Amen

  • Schubert 1828

    Monday 17th June 2019 at 7.30pm

    Snape Maltings Concert Hall

    Mark Padmore, tenor
    Roderick Williams, baritone
    Roger Vignoles, piano
    Richard Watkins, horn
    Trio Isimsiz
    Quatuor Diotima
    Chamber Choir of London

    Franz Schubert, String Quartet in G major (1st movement)
    Der Kreuzzug
    Die Sterne
    Fischerweise
    Fragment from Aeschylus
    Ständchen
    Piano Trio in E-flat
    Auf dem Strom
    Die Allmacht
    Schlachtgesang

    Schubert only once took the financial risk of mounting a concert of his own music, and it was in the last year of his life. Though the press was more interested in Paganini at the time, it sold well, and included two of his greatest masterpieces – the E-flat Piano Trio, ripe with emotional subtleties, and part of the enigmatically nuanced String Quartet in G – plus a fascinating mixture of typically jewel-like songs and unusual but delightful pieces for chorus and piano. This remarkable programme from 1828 is recreated in full.

  • Mozart and Michael Haydn at the Pinner Festival

    Saturday 15th June 2019 at 7.45pm

    Pinner Parish Church

    Pinner Festival Choir and Orchestra
    David Gould, conductor

    Michael Haydn, Requiem
    W.A. Mozart, Requiem (bass soloist)

    Tickets at the Pinner Festival website.

    Fiona Canfield, soprano
    Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano
    Anton Rich, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Beethoven 9 at the Barbican

    Sunday 26th May 2019 at 7.30pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Britten Sinfonia
    Britten Sinfonia Voices and the Choir of Royal Holloway
    Thomas Adès, conductor

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (chorus)

    The conclusion to the Britten Sinfonia's Beethoven Symphony Cycle.

    Jennifer France, soprano
    Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano
    Ed Lyon, tenor
    Matthew Rose, bass
    Eamonn Dougan, chorus master

    This concert also features a performance of The Eternal Recurrence by Gerald Barry

  • Beethoven 9 in Norwich

    Saturday 25th May 2019 at 7.30pm

    St Andrew's Hall, Norwich

    Britten Sinfonia
    Britten Sinfonia Voices and the Choir of Royal Holloway
    Thomas Adès, conductor

    Ludwig van Beeethoven, Symphony No. 9 (chorus)

    The conclusion of the Britten Sinfonia's Beethoven symphony cycle

    Jennifer France, soprano
    Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano
    Ed Lyon, tenor
    Matthew Rose, bass
    Eamonn Dougan, chorus master

    This concert also features a performance of The Eternal Recurrence by Gerald Barry

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    Sunday 19th May 2019

    Saint Aupre, France

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer

    Performance of this new music/theatre piece, inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

  • B Minor Mass in Leipzig

    Saturday 18th May 2019 at 8.00pm

    Nikolaikirche, Leipzig

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Ciara Hendrick, mezzo-soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Tomáš Král, bass

  • Bach Cantatas

    Thursday 16th May 2019 at 7.00pm

    Herderkirche, Weimar

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.G. Walther - Organ Chorale Prelude: Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod
    J.S. Bach, Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen BWV 182
    J.S. Bach, Organ Chorale Prelude BWV 639: Ich ruf zu dir
    J.S. Bach, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis BWV 21

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Tomáš Král, bass

  • Bach: The Last Resort

    Monday 13th May 2019 at 1.10pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Kuhnau, Gott sei mir Gnädig
    J.S. Bach, Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
    Graupner, Magnificat
    Telemann, Siehe, es hat überwunden die Löwe
    J.S. Bach, Du wahre Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Tomáš Král, bass

    Bach’s rich musical legacy as we know it today is partly the result of a historical accident. When he applied for the position of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1722, Bach was only third choice for the post. Telemann turned the offer down after some deliberation, and Graupner was not released from his post of Kapellmeister in Hesse. ‘Since we cannot get the best, then we will have to settle for average’, the Council concluded, as it handed the title to Bach. Join us as we step back in time and explore the programme that Bach put together for this fateful application, a move that would shape the history of western music for centuries to come.

  • Bach: The Last Resort

    Sunday 12th May 2019 at 4.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Kuhnau, Gott sei mir Gnädig
    J.S. Bach, Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
    Graupner, Magnificat
    Telemann, Siehe, es hat überwunden die Löwe
    J.S. Bach, Du wahre Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Tomáš Král, bass

    Bach’s rich musical legacy as we know it today is partly the result of a historical accident. When he applied for the position of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1722, Bach was only third choice for the post. Telemann turned the offer down after some deliberation, and Graupner was not released from his post of Kapellmeister in Hesse. ‘Since we cannot get the best, then we will have to settle for average’, the Council concluded, as it handed the title to Bach. Join us as we step back in time and explore the programme that Bach put together for this fateful application, a move that would shape the history of western music for centuries to come.

  • Bach: The Last Resort

    Saturday 11th May 2019 at 7.00pm

    St John's Cathedral, Oban

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Kuhnau, Gott sei mir Gnädig
    J.S. Bach, Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22
    Graupner, Magnificat
    Telemann, Siehe, es hat überwunden die Löwe
    J.S. Bach, Du wahre Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23

    Rachel Redmond, soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Tomáš Král, bass

    Bach’s rich musical legacy as we know it today is partly the result of a historical accident. When he applied for the position of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1722, Bach was only third choice for the post. Telemann turned the offer down after some deliberation, and Graupner was not released from his post of Kapellmeister in Hesse. ‘Since we cannot get the best, then we will have to settle for average’, the Council concluded, as it handed the title to Bach. Join us as we step back in time and explore the programme that Bach put together for this fateful application, a move that would shape the history of western music for centuries to come.

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    Friday 26th April 2019 at 7.30pm

    Le Regard du Cygne, Paris

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer

    Work-in-progress private performance for sponsors of this new music/theatre piece, inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

    More details of the project, and an opportunity to support this project, at our crowdfunding page.

  • Brockes Passion

    Friday 19th April 2019 at 3.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, director

    G.F. Handel, Brockes-Passion (consort)

  • St John Passion

    Saturday 13th April 2019 at 7.45pm

    St Mark's Church, Bromley

    The Allegri Singers
    Stephen Anthony Brown, Evangelist and conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion (Christus)

  • A Sheen of Dew on Flowers

    Thursday 11th April 2019 at 7.30pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Britten Sinfonia
    Britten Sinfonia Voices

    Natalie Murray Beale, conductor

    Joby Talbot, A Sheen of Dew on Flowers (première)

    A new work commissioned by Independent Opera. For further information, see the Independent Opera website.

    Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano
    Tobias Greenhaulgh, baritone

    Joby Talbot's new cantata will be preceded by a performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")

  • Rossini Petite Messe in Teddington

    Saturday 6th April 2019 at 7.30pm

    All Saints Parish Church, Kingston upon Thames

    Teddington Choral Society
    Julian Collings, conductor

    Gioachino Rossini, Petite Messe Solenelle (baritone soloist)

    Joanna Marie Skillet, soprano
    Judy Brown, mezzo-soprano
    John Findon, tenor

    Phil Culling, piano
    Benedict Lewis-Smith, harmonium

  • Schütz in Monte-Carlo

    Friday 5th April 2019 at 8.30pm

    Église Saint-Charles, Monte-Carlo

    Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo
    Les Cris de Paris
    Geoffroy Jourdain, director

    Heinrich Schütz, David and Solomon (created from the Psalmen Davids)

    For further information and tickets, see the festival website.

  • B Minor Mass in Oslo

    Sunday 31st March 2019 at 7.30pm

    Oslo Cathedral, Norway

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort)

  • Brahms and Dvořák in Marlborough

    Saturday 16th March 2019 at 7.30pm

    Marlborough College Chapel, Wiltshire

    Swindon Choral Society
    Leigh Michelow, soprano
    Robin Nelson, conductor

    Antonín Dvořák, Te Deum Op. 103
    Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45 (baritone soloist)

  • Creation in Haslemere

    Saturday 2nd March 2019 at 7.30pm

    Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey

    Haslemere Musical Society
    Dr James Ross, conductor

    Joseph Haydn, The Creation (Raphael/Adam)

    Susan Young, soprano
    Philip O'Brien, tenor

  • Così fan tutte (jump in!)

    Saturday 16th February 2019 at 7.30pm

    Performing Arts Centre, Pipers Corner School

    Chiltern Arts Festival/Ryedale Festival Opera
    Nina Brazier, director
    Eamonn Dougan, conductor

    W.A. Mozart, Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso), in a new English translation by John Warrack

    Clare Tunney, Fiordiligi
    Felicity Turner, Dorabella
    Kieran Carrel, Ferrando
    Michael Vickers, Guglielmo
    Jessica Cale, Despina
    Jon Stainsby, Don Alfonso

  • Messiah in Glasgow

    Thursday 20th December 2018

    City Halls, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah (consort)

  • Messiah in Edinburgh

    Wednesday 19th December 2018

    Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah (consort)

  • Messiah in Perth

    Tuesday 18th December 2018

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah (consort)

  • Concert with Tring Choral Society

    Saturday 15th December 2018 at 7.30pm

    Church of St Peter and St Paul, Tring, Herts

    Tring Choral Society
    Chiltern Orchestral Society
    Colin Stevens, conductor

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Te Deum
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C minor
    (baritone soloist)

    Augusta Hebbert, soprano
    Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano
    Ruari Bowen, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    The programme also features a performance by Colin Stevens of Denis Bédard's work for solo organ, Variations on "In dulci jubilo"

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Friday 14th December 2018

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    The Marian Consort
    Ludus Baroque
    Richard Neville-Towle, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (baritone soloist and consort)

  • Handel in Italy

    Saturday 8th December 2018 at 8.00pm

    Royal Chapel, Palace of Versailles

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    G.F. Handel, Nisi Dominus, Dixit Dominus, Ode for St Caecilia's Day
    (consort and baritone soloist)

    Ticketing details at the Palace of Versailles website.

  • A Very English Christmas

    Thursday 6th December 2018

    Church of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music for the Christmas season by Lassus, Tallis, Ferrabosco, Tye, Sheppard, Byrd and Ludford (consort)

    Tickets available through the Oxford Playhouse box office.

  • A Very English Christmas

    Tuesday 4th December 2018 at 7.30pm

    Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Music for the Christmas season by Lassus, Tallis, Ferrabosco, Tye, Sheppard, Byrd and Ludford (consort)

    Booking details

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Sunday 2nd December 2018 at 7.00pm

    Christ's Chapel, Dulwich

    Dulwich Chamber Choir
    English Heritage Chamber Orchestra
    Richard Mayo, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio Parts I, II and III (Baritone soloist)

    Nicola Corbishley, soprano
    Rachel Porter and Karen O'Keeffe, mezzo-sopranos
    Edward Saklatvala, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • The Golden Age

    Saturday 1st December 2018 at 7.30pm

    Dunkeld Cathedral

    Dunedin Consort
    Ben Parry, director

    Choral works by Victoria, Guerrero, Peebles, Johnson, Macmillan and Lauridsen (consort)

    Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Missa O Magnum Misterium
    David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
    Robert Johnson, Ave Dei patris filia
    James Macmillan, selections from Strathclyde Motets
    Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium

  • The Golden Age

    Friday 30th November 2018 at 7.30pm

    Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort
    Ben Parry, director

    Choral works by Victoria, Guerrero, Peebles, Johnson, Macmillan and Lauridsen (consort)

    Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Missa O Magnum Misterium
    David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
    Robert Johnson, Ave Dei patris filia
    James Macmillan, selections from Strathclyde Motets
    Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium

     

  • The Golden Age

    Thursday 29th November 2018 at 7.30pm

    Inverness Cathedral

    Dunedin Consort
    Ben Parry, director

    Choral works by Victoria, Guerrero, Peebles, Johnson, Macmillan and Lauridsen (consort)

    Further information at the Dunedin Consort website.

    Tomás Luis de Victoria, Missa O Magnum Misterium
    David Peebles, Si quis diligit me
    Robert Johnson, Ave Dei patris filia
    James Macmillan, selections from Strathclyde Motets
    Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium

  • Brahms Requiem

    Saturday 17th November 2018 at 7.30pm

    St Martin's Parish Church, Epsom

    Epsom Choral Society
    The Regent Chamber Ensemble
    Julian Collings, conductor
    Nina Kanter, soprano

    Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem (baritone soloist)

    The version of the Brahms Requiem performed will be the chamber arrangement by Iain Farrington.
    The concert will also include a performance of Johann Hummel's Mass in B flat. 

  • Art Sung: Alma Mahler at the London Song Festival

    Wednesday 14th November 2018 at 7.00pm

    Hinde Street Methodist Church, London

    Lorena Paz Nieto, soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Sandy Walsh, actress
    Elizabeth Mucha, piano

    A dramatised recital telling the story of Alma Mahler through her songs and those of Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Wagner, Schumann and Beethoven

    Booking details at the London Song Festival website.

  • Remembrance Sunday Concert

    Sunday 11th November 2018 at 3.00pm

    Milton Court, London

    BBC Singers
    Psappha
    Sofi Jeannin, conductor

    Bob Chilcott, Move him into the sun
    Roderick Williams, World Without End (Von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit)

    Further details and tickets at the Barbican website.
    This concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and can be heard on iPlayer until 11th December.

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    Wednesday 31st October 2018 at 8.00pm

    Salle du Tilleul, Saint Aupre, France

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer

    Work-in-progress performance of this new music/theatre piece, developed over the preceding week, inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

  • dans un train / wagon zac

    27th-31st October 2018

    Saint Aupre, France

    Eléonore Lemaire, soprano/artistic concept
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Fabien Brandel, lute
    Vincent Leterme, piano
    Richard Dubelski, percussion/voice
    Johanne Saunier, choreographer/dancer

    Research and development residency for a new music/theatre piece inspired by a scene from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, featuring Russian romantic songs for soprano and piano and English lute songs.

  • Coffee Cantata

    Sunday 21st October 2018 at 11.15am

    Holywell Music Room, Oxford

    The Adderbury Ensemble
    Charmian Bedford, Liesgen
    Jon Stainsby, Schendrian
    Christopher Bucknall, director/harpsichord

    J.S. Bach, "Coffee Cantata" BWV 211

    Programme also includes Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050

  • Haydn and Goodall in Malmesbury

    Saturday 13th October 2018 at 7.30pm

    Malmesbury Abbey

    Swindon Choral Society
    Robin Nelson, director

    Joseph Haydn, Missa in tempore bello
    Howard Goodall, Eternal Light: a Requiem
    (baritone soloist)

    Augusta Hebbert, soprano
    Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
    Nathan Vale, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Mass in B Minor

    Wednesday 10th October 2018 at 8.00pm

    Église St Jacques, Reims

    Ensemble Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassere, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)

  • Mass in B Minor

    Tuesday 9th October 2018 at 8.30pm

    Eglise Saint-Roch, Paris

    Ensemble Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassere, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)

  • Dido: A Funeral for the Queen of Carthage

    Tuesday 2nd October 2018 at 7.30pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, musical director
    Thomas Guthrie, director

    Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas and other works (consort)

    Dido: Caitlin Hulcup
    Aeneas: Ashley Riches
    Belinda: Rowan Pierce
    Sorceress: Neal Davies

  • Mass in B Minor in Tournai

    Saturday 15th September 2018 at 8.00pm

    Cathédrale de Tournai

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)

    Further details and tickets at musiCA Tournai website.

  • Mass in B Minor at Musikfest Bremen

    Friday 14th September 2018 at 7.00pm

    Kirche St. Vitus, Löningen

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)

    Full details and tickets at Musikfest Bremen website.

  • Mass in B Minor at the Chaise Dieu Festival du Musique

    22nd August at 9.00pm; 23rd August at 2.30pm

    Abbatiale Saint Robert, Chaise Dieu

    Ensemble Akadêmia
    Françoise Lassere, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (baritone soloist and consort)

  • Samson at the Edinburgh International Festival

    Monday 13th August 2018 at 6.00pm

    Usher Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    G.F. Handel, Samson (consort)

    Full details and tickets at the EIF website.

    Samson: Paul Appleby
    Dalila: Sophie Bevan
    Micah: Alice Coote
    Manoah: Matthew Brook
    Harapha: David Soar
    An Israelite/Philistine Woman: Louise Alder

  • An English Coronation

    Monday 23rd July 2018 at 7.30pm

    Ely Cathedral

    Gabrieli Consort/Gabrieli ROAR
    Paul McCreesh, director

    Further details at the Gabrieli website.

  • Bach Cantatas with Linden Baroque

    Sunday 22nd July 2018

    Hampstead

    Linden Baroque
    Ashley Solomon, director

    J.S. Bach, Cantatas BWV 151 and 123 (baritone soloist and consort)

  • Bach Masses at the Festival de Saintes

    Saturday 21st July 2018 at 1.30pm

    Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, Missa brevis in A major, BWV 234,
    and Missa brevis in G major, BWV 235
    (baritone soloist and consort)

    Details and tickets at the Abbaye aux Dames website.

  • Bach Magnificat, Nuits Musicales Uzès

    Thursday 19th July 2018 at 9.30pm

    Cathédrale Saint-Théodorit, Uzès

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    J.S. Bach, Magnificat and Mass in G major (baritone soloist and consort)

    Details and tickets at the Nuits Musicales Uzès website.

  • Handel in Rome, Nuits Musicales Uzès

    Wednesday 18th July 2018 at 9.30pm

    Cathédrale Saint-Théodorit, Uzès

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    G.F. Handel: Dixit Dominus and Ode for St. Cecilia's Day

  • Songs of the Fleet

    Saturday 30th June 2018 at 7.30pm

    St John's Church, Welwyn Garden City

    Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
    James Ross, conductor

    Charles Villiers Stanford, Songs of the Fleet (baritone soloist)

    Shostakovich, Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Themes
    Armstrong Gibbs, Slow Waltz: Dusk
    Stanford, Songs of the Fleet
    Quilter, Non nobis Domine
    Wagner, Excerpts from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

  • Gurrelieder

    Thursday 28th June 2018 at 9.00pm

    Royal Festival Hall

    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Philharmonia Voices
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Arnold Schoenberg, Gurrelieder (chorus)

  • Gurrelieder

    Tuesday 26th June 2018 at 8.30pm

    St Denis Basilica, Paris

    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Philharmonia Voices
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Arnold Schoenberg, Gurrelieder (chorus)

  • Art Sung: Alma Mahler

    Saturday 23rd June 2018 at 7.30pm

    Church of St John the Baptist, Catford

    Alexandra Weaver, soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Sandy Walsh, actress
    Elizabeth Mucha, piano

    A dramatised recital telling the story of Alma Mahler through her songs and those of Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Wagner, Schumann and Beethoven

    Production details at the Art Sung website.

  • Mass in B Minor

    Thursday 21st June 2018 at 7.30pm

    Wigmore Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort)

    Details and tickets at the Wigmore Hall website.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Thomas Hobbs, tenor
    Matthias Helm, baritone

  • Mass in B Minor

    Wednesday 20th June 2018 at 7.30pm

    Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (consort)

    Tickets and further details at the Queen's Hall website.

    Anna Dennis, soprano
    Jessica Dandy, contralto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Thomas Hobbs, tenor
    Matthias Helm, baritone

  • Gallipoli to the Somme

    Wednesday 13th June 2018 at 7.30pm

    Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

    Anna Leese, soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    City Choir Dunedin
    The Parliament Choir
    Southbank Sinfonia
    Simon Over, conductor

    Anthony Ritchie, Gallipoli to the Somme

    Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending
    Jessie Montgomery, Banner
    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
    Anthony Ritchie, Gallipoli to the Somme

    Allegri Quartet
    Annabel Drummond, violin

  • Belshazzar

    Saturday 9th June 2018 at 7.45pm

    Pinner Parish Church

    Pinner Festival Choir and Orchestra
    David Gould, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Belshazzar (Gobrias)

    Details and tickets at the Pinner Festival website.

    Philippa Boyle, soprano
    Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano
    Daniel Collins, counter-tenor
    Julian Stocker, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Gallipoli to the Somme

    Saturday 2nd June 2018 at 7.30pm

    Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

    Anna Leese, soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    City Choir Dunedin
    The Parliament Choir
    Southbank Sinfonia
    Simon Over, conductor

    Anthony Ritchie, Gallipoli to the Somme (UK première)

    Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending
    Augusta Holmès, La nuit et l'amour
    Maurice Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin
    Anthony Ritchie, Gallipoli to the Somme

    Annabel Drummond, violin

  • Voices of Revolution

    Sunday 20th May 2018 at 7.30pm

    Royal Festival Hall

    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Philharmonia Voices
    Crouch End Festival Chorus
    Students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
    David Butt Philip, tenor
    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    Sergei Prokofiev, Seven, they are Seven and Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution
     

    Programme also includes Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 (Pekka Kuusisto, violin)

  • Art Sung: Alma Mahler

    17th and 18th May 2018 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Church, Putney

    Alexandra Weaver, soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Sandy Walsh, actress
    Elizabeth Mucha, piano

    A dramatised recital telling the story of Alma Mahler through her songs and those of Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky, Wagner, Schumann and Beethoven

    Production details at the Art Sung website.

  • Unsuk Chin European Première: The Song of the Children of the Stars

    Sunday 15th April 2018 at 7.30pm

    Royal Festival Hall, London

    Philharmonia Voices
    Trinity Boys Choir
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Unsuk Chin, Le chant des enfants des étoiles (choir)

    Details at the Southbank Centre website.

    Biber, Battalia à 10 in D
    Beethoven, Symphony No. 2
    Unsuk Chin, Le chant des enfants des étoiles

  • St John Passion with the AAM

    Friday 30th March 2018 at 3.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Riccardo Minasi, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion (consort)

  • Easter Voices: Mozart and Stravinsky Choral Works

    Wednesday 28th March 2018 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, London

    Britten Sinfonia Voices
    Britten Sinfonia
    Eamonn Dougan, conductor

    W.A. Mozart, Missa brevis K.192
    Igor Stravinsky, Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Mass
    and works by Gesualdo and Gabrieli (consort)

    Further details at the Britten Sinfonia website.

    Andrea Gabrieli, Maria stabat ad monumentum
    Stravinsky, Fanfare for a New Theatre
    Mozart, Missa Brevis in F K.192
    Stravinsky, Pater Noster, Ave Maria
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, Concert etude for solo horn
    Bruckner, Aequale No. 1 for three trombones
    Gesualdo, two movements from Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday
    Stravinsky, Mass

  • St John Passion

    Sunday 18th March 2018 at 7.30pm

    St Paul's Church, Covent Garden

    Six Centuries Chamber Choir
    South London Sinfonietta
    Peter Fender, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion (baritone soloist)

    Benjamin Vonberg-Clark, Evangelist
    Philip Wilcox, Christus
    Helen Semple, soprano
    Carris Jones, alto
    John Upperton, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • The Flying Dutchman

    10th March at 6pm; 12th, 14th and 16th March at 7pm

    Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

    Bergen Nasjonale Opera
    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
    Edvard Grieg Kor
    John Ramster, director
    Eun Sun Kim, conductor

    Richard Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (chorus)

    Full details at the BNO website.

    The Dutchman: Iain Paterson
    Senta: Elisabeth Teige
    Daland: Eric F. Halfvarson
    Erik: Sergey Skorokhodov
    Mary: Tuija Knihtilä
    Steersman: Bror Magnus Tødenes

  • Venus and Adonis in Krakow

    Tuesday 13th February 2018 at 7.00pm

    Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, Krakow, Poland

    Dunedin Consort
    John Butt, musical director
    Thomas Guthrie, stage director

    John Blow, Venus and Adonis
    Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen (excerpts) (Shepherd and consort)

    Venus: Mhairi Lawson
    Adonis: Edward Grint
    Cupid: Emilie Renard

  • King Arthur

    Saturday 10th February 2018 at 8.15pm

    TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, musical director
    Simon Robson, narrator

    Henry Purcell, King Arthur (consort and baritone soloist: Grimbald, Aeolus, He)

  • King Arthur

    Friday 9th February 2018 at 9.00pm

    AMUZ Augustinus Muziekcentrum, Antwerp

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, musical director
    Simon Robson, narrator

    Henry Purcell, King Arthur (consort and baritone soloist: Grimbald, Aeolus, He)

  • King Arthur recording with Vox Luminis

    22nd-27th January 2018

    AMUZ Augustinus Muziekcentrum, Antwerp

    Vox Luminis
    Lionel Meunier, director

    Henry Purcell, King Arthur (consort and language coach)

  • Goyescas

    Friday 19th January 2018 at 7.30pm

    Barbican Concert Hall, London

    BBC Singers
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Josep Pons, conductor

    Enrique Granados, Goyescas (chorus)

    Further information and tickets at the Barbican website.

    María Toledo, Flamenco Singer
    Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Rosario
    Gustavo Peña, Fernando
    Lidia Vinyes Curtis, Pepa
    José Antonio López, Paquiro

    Programme also includes Manuel de Falla, El Amor Brujo (original 1915 version)

  • Messiah

    Wednesday 20th December 2017 at 7.00pm

    Barbican Concert Hall, London

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, director

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Tickets available here.

    Mary Bevan, soprano
    Reginald Mobley, counter-tenor
    Thomas Hobbs, tenor
    Christopher Purves, bass-baritone

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Saturday 16th December 2017 at 7.30pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium Cantatas 1, 4, 5 & 6 (consort)

    Tickets available here.

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Friday 15th December 2017 at 7.00pm

    Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium Cantatas 1, 4, 5 & 6 (consort)

    Tickets available here.

  • A Very English Christmas

    Sunday 10th December 2017 at 3.00pm

    Music on the Quantocks

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

  • Messiah

    Saturday 9th December 2017

    Ripon Cathedral

    Ripon Choral Society
    John Dunford, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (soloist)

    Elinor Rolfe Johnson, soprano
    Gaynor Keeble, mezzo-soprano
    Robert Johnston, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Orchestra D'Amici

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Saturday 2nd December 2017 at 7.00pm

    Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

    The Marian Consort
    Ludus Baroque
    Richard Neville-Towle, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (soloist and consort)

    Tickets available here.

  • Bach Masses

    Wednesday 1st November 2017 at 8.00pm

    Laieszhalle, Hamburg

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in G Major (BWV 234) and Mass in A Major (BWV 235) (Consort)

    Maria Keohane, soprano
    Robin Blaze, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
    Programme also includes J.S. Bach, Concerto for two oboes and bassoon (reconstruction after BWV 249 & 42)

  • Bach Masses

    Monday 30th October 2017 at 7.30pm

    St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in G Major (BWV 234) and Mass in A Major (BWV 235) (Consort)

    Maria Keohane, soprano
    Robin Blaze, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
    Programme also includes J.S. Bach, Concerto for two oboes and bassoon (reconstruction after BWV 249 & 42)

  • Bach Masses

    Sunday 29th October 2017 at 7.30pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, Mass in G Major (BWV 234) and Mass in A Major (BWV 235) (Consort)

    Maria Keohane, soprano
    Robin Blaze, counter-tenor
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
    Programme also includes J.S. Bach, Concerto for two oboes and bassoon (reconstruction after BWV 249 & 42)

  • Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Award

    Thursday 26th October 2017 at 7.30pm

    St John's Church, Waterloo

    Southbank Sinfonia
    Simon Over, conductor

    Orchestral songs by Grieg, Mahler, Turnage and Debussy

    Tickets available at the Southbank Sinfonia website.

    Edvard Grieg, 'En Svane' (Op. 25 no. 2)
    Gustav Mahler, 'Scheiden und Meiden' and 'Ablösung im Sommer' (Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, orch. Detlev Glanert)
    Mark-Anthony Turnage, 'Aftermath' (The Torn Fields)
    Claude Debussy, 'Ballade que Villon feit à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre-Dame' and 'Ballade des femmes de Paris' (Trois Ballades de François Villon)


    This biennial competition for early-career singers is devoted to the orchestral song repertoire. The following singers have been selected from the preliminary round to perform in the final:
    Madeleine Bradbury Rance, soprano
    Emma Kerr, mezzo-soprano
    Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
    Patrick Terry, counter-tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • King Arthur

    Tuesday 3rd October 2017 at 7.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor
    Daisy Evans, director

    Henry Purcell, King Arthur (consort)

    A semi-staged production of Purcell's semi-opera

    Louise Alder, soprano
    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Reginald Mobley, counter-tenor
    Charles Daniels, tenor
    Ivan Ludlow, baritone
    Ashley Riches, bass-baritone
    Ray Fearon, narrator

  • Irma

    16th and 17th September 2017 at 7.30pm

    South London Gallery, Peckham

    Apartment House
    Anton Lukoszevieze, musical director
    Netia Jones, director/designer
    Video and projection by Lightmap

    Tom Phillips, Irma

    Produced by Sound UK
    More details here and on the production blog.

    Grenville: Benjamin O'Mahony (actor)
    Irma: Josephine Stephenson (soprano)
    Nurse: Elaine Mitchener (vocalist)
    Art Officers in Uniform: Alastair Putt (tenor), Francis Brett (baritone), Jon Stainsby (baritone)

  • The Bohemian Reformation at the BBC Proms

    Saturday 26th August 2017 at 7.30pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    BBC Singers
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Svatopluk Sem, baritone
    Jakub Hrůša, conductor

    Hussite Chorale, 'Ktož jsú Boži bojovníci'
    Bohuslav Martinů, Field Mass
    Leos Janáček, 'Song of the Hussites' from The Excursions of Mr Brouček

    Programme also includes:
    Bedrich Smetana, Má vlast: Tábor and Blaník
    Josef Suk, Prague

  • St John Passion at the BBC Proms

    Sunday 20th August 2017 at 7.45pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion (consort)

    Nicholas Mulroy, Evangelist
    Matthew Brook, Christus
    Robert Davies, Pilatus

    Sophie Bevan, soprano
    Tim Mead, counter-tenor
    Andrew Tortise, tenor
    Konstantin Wolff, bass

  • Philharmonia at the BBC Proms

    Wednesday 2nd August 2017 at 7.00pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    Philharmonia Voices
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    J.S. Bach, arr. Igor Stravinsky, Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm, ich her' (chorus)

    J.S. Bach, arr. Igor Stravinsky, Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm, ich her'
    Maurice Ravel, Shéhérazade
    John Adams, Naive and Sentimental Music

    Marianne Crebasa, mezzo-soprano

  • Israel in Egypt at the BBC Proms

    Tuesday 1st August 2017 at 7.30pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    William Christie, director

    G.F. Handel, Israel in Egypt (original 1739 version) (chorus)

    Zoë Brookshaw, soprano
    Rowan Pierce, soprano
    Christopher Lowrey, counter-tenor
    Jeremy Budd, tenor
    Dingle Yandell, bass-baritone
    Callum Thorpe, bass

  • Le nozze di Figaro

    21st and 22nd July 2017 at 9.00pm

    The Kopanous Theatre, Gastouri, Corfu

    Garsington Opera Alvarez Young Artists
    Susanna Stranders, musical director
    Deborah Cohen, director

    W.A. Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro)

    Corfu Music Days

    Figaro: Jon Stainsby
    Susanna: Hazel McBain
    Count Almaviva: James Corrigan
    Countess Almaviva: Kirsty Taylor-Stokes
    Bartolo/Antonio: Andrew Tipple
    Marcellina: Ailsa Mainwaring
    Cherubino: Elizabeth Lynch
    Don Basilio/Don Curzio: Cliff Zammit Stevens

  • Figaro in Paris

    Tuesday 27th June 2017 at 7.30pm

    Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

    Garsington Festival Opera
    Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
    Douglas Boyd, conductor

    W.A. Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (chorus and cover Figaro)

    A semi-staged performance by the cast of the Garsington Festival Opera production

  • Monteverdi at 450

    Friday 23rd June 2017 at 7.30pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, director/harpsichord

    Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers (consort)

    Ticket information at the Barbican website.

    Louise Alder, soprano
    Rowan Pierce, soprano
    Charles Daniels, tenor
    Thomas Hobbs, tenor
    Richard Latham, baritone
    Philip Tebb, baritone

  • Garsington Green Theatre Recital

    Saturday 3rd June 2017 at 4.30pm

    The Walled Garden, Wormsley Estate

    Presented by Garsington Festival Opera

    Arias by Handel and Mozart

    Charlotte Beament, soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Susanne Stranders, piano

    The inaugural event in Garsington's new Green Theatre Recital series, in which members of the Alvarez Young Artists Programme present short selections of arias prior to the evening's opera performance.

  • Figaro at Garsington

    2nd, 4th, 8th, 10th and 17th June; 3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th, 14th and 16th July

    Garsington Opera at Wormsley Estate

    Douglas Boyd, conductor
    John Cox, director
    Bruno Ravella, associate director

    W.A. Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (chorus/cover Figaro)

    Figaro: Joshua Bloom
    Susanna: Jennifer France
    Count Almaviva: Duncan Rock
    Countess Almaviva: Kirsten MacKinnon
    Cherubino: Marta Fontanals-Simmons
    Bartolo: Stephen Richardson
    Marcellina: Janis Kelly
    Basilio: Timothy Robinson
    Curzio: Alun Rhys-Jenkins
    Antonio: Andrew Tipple
    Barbarina: Alison Rose

  • Semele at Garsington

    1st, 3rd, 9th, 15th, 24th and 30th June, and 4th July

    Garsington Opera at Wormsley Estate

    Jonathan Cohen, conductor
    Annilese Miskimmon, director

    G.F. Handel, Semele (chorus)

    Semele: Heidi Stober
    Jove: Robert Murray
    Juno: Christine Rice
    Cadmus/Somnus: David Soar
    Athamas: Christopher Ainslie
    Iris: Llio Evans
    Ino: Jurgita Adamonytė
    Apollo: Mikael Onelius
    High Priest: Christian Valle

  • Messiah in the Cotswolds

    Sunday 9th April 2017 at 7.30pm

    Church of St John the Baptist, Burford, Oxfordshire

    The Burford Singers
    The Cotswold Chamber Orchestra
    Brian Kay, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Messiah (baritone soloist)

    Robyn Allegra Parton, soprano
    Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
    James Oxley, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • St John Passion in Leicester

    Saturday 8th April 2017 at 7.00pm

    St James the Greater, Leicester

    Leicester Bach Choir
    Richard Laing, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion (Pilate and arias)

    Nathan Vale, Evangelist
    James Oldfield, Christus

    Katie Trethewy, soprano
    Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
    Edward Goater, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone/Pilatus

  • St Matthew Passion

    Saturday 1st April 2017 at 6.30pm

    St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London

    Six Centuries Chamber Choir
    Linden Baroque
    Peter Fender, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion (Christus)

    John Upperton, Evangelist
    Jon Stainsby, Christus

    Helen Semple, soprano
    Carris Jones, mezzo-soprano
    Ben Vonberg-Clark, tenor
    Oskar McCarthy, baritone/Pilatus

  • Mozart in Oslo

    Sunday 26th March 2017 at 7.30pm

    Oslo Cathedral, Norway

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    W.A. Mozart, Requiem and Solemn Vespers (consort)

    Joanne Lunn, soprano
    Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Walker, tenor
    Benjamin Appl, baritone

  • Eugene Onegin

    12th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th March 2017

    Whitgift School, Croydon

    The Whitgift Foundation

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin (title role)

    Tatyana: Rannveig Káradóttir
    Eugene Onegin: Jon Stainsby
    Lensky: Peter Aisher
    Olga: Polly Leech
    Gremin: David Durham

    12th March at 2:30pm / 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th March at 7:30pm
  • Haydn's Creation

    Sunday 26th February 2017 at 7.00pm

    St Silas Church, Angel, Islington

    The Angel Orchestra
    Peter Fender, conductor

    Joseph Haydn, The Creation (baritone soloist)

    A concert in aid of Music Fund.

    Melanie Mehta, soprano
    John Upperton, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Rothko Chapel in Paris

    Friday 24th February 2017 at 8.30pm

    Salle des Concerts, Cité de la Musique, Paris

    Les Cris de Paris
    Ensemble Intercontemporain
    Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

    Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel ​(ensemble)

    For full details and tickets, see the Philharmonie Paris website.

    Jay Schwartz, M
    Matthias Pintscher, beyond (a system of passing)
    Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Große Huldigung an das technischer Zeitalter
    Benjamin Attahir, Et nous tournions autour de ces fontaines hallucinées
    Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel

    Evan Hughes, bass-baritone
    Sophie Cherrier, flute
    Les Cris de Paris (Geoffroy Jourdain, director)
    Ensemble Intercontemporain
    Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

  • Missa solemnis at the Elbphilharmonie Opening Festival

    Tuesday 17th January 2017 at 8.00pm

    Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Grosser Saal

    Philharmonia Chorus
    Members of the Philharmonia Chorus Professional Singers' Scheme
    Symphoniker Hamburg
    Sir Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Missa solemnis

    Camilla Nylund, soprano
    Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
    Klaus-Florian Vogt, tenor
    Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone

  • Rothko Chapel in Cologne

    Tuesday 10th January 2017 at 8.00pm

    Kölner Philharmonie

    Les Cris de Paris
    Ensemble Intercontemporain
    Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

    Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel (ensemble)

    For full details and tickets, see the Kölner Philharmonie website.

    Jay Schwartz, M
    Matthias Pintscher, beyond (a system of passing)
    Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Große Huldigung an das technischer Zeitalter
    Benjamin Attahir, Et nous tournions autour de ces fontaines hallucinées
    Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel

    Evan Hughes, bass-baritone
    Sophie Cherrier, flute
    Les Cris de Paris (Geoffroy Jourdain, director)
    Ensemble Intercontemporain
    Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

  • Messiah with Linden Baroque

    Thursday 22nd December 2016 at 7.30pm

    St James Church, Piccadilly

    Linden Baroque
    Peter Fender, conductor

    Handel, Messiah (baritone soloist)

    Helen Semple, soprano
    Carris Jones, mezzo-soprano
    John Upperton, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Six Centuries Chamber Choir

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Tuesday 20th December 2016 at 7.00pm

    Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

    The Marian Consort (Rory McCleery, director)
    Ludus Baroque
    Richard Neville-Towle, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (Soloist and consort)

    Anna Dennis and Charlotte Ashley, soprano
    Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
    Rory McCleery, counter-tenor
    Guy Cutting and Peter Davoren, tenor
    Alex Ashworth, James Geidt and Jon Stainsby, bass

  • Messiah with the AAM

    Sunday 18th December 2016 at 2.15pm

    Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor

    Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Elizabeth Watts, soprano
    Barbara Kozelj, alto
    Andrew Tortise, tenor
    Lukas Jakobski, bass

  • Messiah with the AAM

    Saturday 17th December 2016 at 8.15pm

    De Oosterpoort, Groningen

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor

    Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Elizabeth Watts, soprano
    Barbara Kozelj, alto
    Andrew Tortise, tenor
    Lukas Jakobski, bass

  • Messiah with the AAM

    Friday 16th December 2016

    Braunschweig, Germany

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor

    Handel, Messiah (consort)

    Elizabeth Watts, soprano
    Barbara Kozelj, alto
    Andrew Tortise, tenor
    Lukas Jakobski, bass

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Friday 9th December 2016 at 8.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Britten Sinfonia Voices
    Eamonn Dougan, director

    New works for voices and ensemble by Jóhann Jóhannsson and his band

  • Gounod Messe solenelle

    Saturday 3rd December 2016 at 11.00pm

    Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey

    Haslemere Musical Society
    James Ross, conductor

    Gounod, Messe solenelle de Sainte-Cécile (baritone soloist)

    Alexander Glazunov, Winter (from The Seasons)
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, selections from Swan Lake
    Charles Gounod, Messe solenelle de Sainte-Cécile 

    Rebecca Moon, soprano
    Alex Aldren, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Finzi in Milton Keynes

    Sunday 27th November 2016 at 11.00pm

    Milton Keynes City Church

    The Cornerstone Chamber Choir and Orchestra
    Adrian Boynton, conductor

    Finzi, In terra pax (baritone soloist)

    Henry Purcell, Trumpet Sonata
    G.F. Handel, Ode on St Cecilia's Day
    Gerald Finzi, In terra pax
    Benjamin Britten, St Nicholas

    Charmian Bedford, soprano
    Stephen Anthony Brown, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • St Cecilia's Day at Wigmore Hall

    Tuesday 22nd November 2016 at 7.30pm

    Wigmore Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt (director)

    Henry Purcell, Welcome to all the pleasures and Hail, Bright Cecilia (consort and soloist)

    Henry Purcell, Welcome to all the pleasures
    Henry Purcell/Matthew Locke, selections from The Tempest
    Henry Purcell, Hail, Bright Cecilia

    Joanne Lunn and Claire Evans, sopranos
    Tim Mead, counter-tenor
    Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
    Nicholas Mulroy and Malcolm Bennett, tenors
    Matthew Brooke and Jon Stainsby, baritones

  • FAMA at HCMF

    Sunday 20th November 2016 at 11.00pm

    Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
    Huddersfield Town Hall

    Isabelle Menke, actress
    Eva Furrer, contrabass flute
    EXAUDI
    London Sinfonietta
    Beat Furrer, conductor

    Beat Furrer, FAMA for speaker, 8 voices and instrumental ensemble

    Further details at the London Sinfonietta website.

  • FAMA UK première

    Friday 11th November 2016 at 7.30pm

    St John's Smith Square

    Isabelle Menke, actress
    Eva Furrer, contrabass flute
    EXAUDI
    London Sinfonietta
    Beat Furrer, conductor

    Beat Furrer, FAMA for speaker, 8 voices and instrumental ensemble

    Further details at the London Sinfonietta website.

  • Elias at the Leipzig Gewandhaus

    22nd and 23rd September 2016 at 8.00pm

    Grosser Saal, Gewandhaus, Leipzig

    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
    Gewandhaus Orchestra
    Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor

    Felix Mendelssohn, Elias (chorus)

    Details and tickets at the Gewandhaus website.

    Camilla Tilling, soprano
    Wiebke Lehmkuhl, mezzo-soprano
    Steve Davislim, tenor
    Michael Nagy, baritone

  • Coronation Anthems at the Antepenultimate (Late) Night of the Proms

    Thursday 8th September 2016 at 10.15pm

    Royal Albert Hall, London

    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthems (choir)

    More information at the BBC Proms website.

    G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthems 'Zadok the Priest' and 'My heart is inditing'
    Georg Muffatt, Armonico tributo - Sonata No. 5 in G major
    G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthem 'Let thy hand be strengthened'
    J.S. Bach, Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 – Air (arr. L. Stokowski)
    Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas – 'When I am laid in earth' (Dido's Lament) (arr. L. Stokowski)
    G.F. Handel, Coronation Anthem 'The king shall rejoice'

  • Semiramide at the BBC Proms

    Sunday 4th September 2016 at 7.00pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    Opera Rara Chorus
    Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
    Sir Mark Elder, conductor

    Rossini, Semiramide (chorus)

    Details and tickets at the BBC Proms website.

    Semiramide: Albina Shagimuratova
    Arsace: Daniela Barcellona
    Assur: Ildebrando d'Arcangelo
    Idreno: Javier Camarena
    Oroe: Gianluca Buratto
    Azema: Susana Gaspar
    Mitrane: David Butt Philip
    Nino's Ghost: James Platt

  • 'Lo Sposalizio' at Rheingau Musik Festival

    Friday 26th August 2016 at 8.00pm

    Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau, Germany

    The King's Consort
    Robert King, conductor

    Music for a Grand Venetian Wedding:
    Works by Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi etc.

    Ticketing information at the Rheingau Musik Festival website.

  • A Fairy Queen at Iford

    23rd, 27th, 29th and 30th July, 2nd and 3rd August

    Iford Manor, nr. Bath

    Tim Nelson, director and conductor

    Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen, in a new performing version by Tim Nelson.

    Further details and tickets at the Iford Arts website.

    Titania: Lucy Page
    Oberon: Jake Arditti
    Puck/Starveling: Frederick Long

    ​Fairy/Peter Quince: Stuart Jackson
    Hermia/Flute: Ciara Hendrick
    Helena/Snout: Rose Setten
    Lysander/Snug: Simon Gfeller

    Demetrius/Bottom: Jon Stainsby

    Ensemble: Iford Arts New Generation Artists:
    Cally Youdell, Keith Pun, Ben Smith, Daniel D'Souza

  • Lennox Berkeley Stabat Mater at the Cheltenham Music Festival

    Sunday 17th July 2016 at 4.00pm

    Pitville Pump Room, Cheltenham

    The Marian Consort
    The Berkeley Ensemble
    David Wordsworth, conductor

    Lennox Berkeley, Stabat Mater
    Francis Poulenc, Un soir de neige

    This concert also includes chamber music by Berkeley's early champion Maurice Ravel, and by two British composers of the succeeding generation, including Lennox's son Michael Berkeley.
    Full details and tickets at the Cheltenham Festival website.

    Ravel Introduction and Allegro
    Poulenc Un soir de neige
    Michael Berkeley Touch Light
    Colin Matthews Five Concertinos (to Henri Dutilleux)
    Michael Berkeley Clarinet Quintet
    Lennox Berkeley Stabat Mater

  • Let us garlands bring

    Saturday 25th June 2016 at 7.30pm

    Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon

    Bath Choral Society
    Will Dawes, conductor
    William Vann, piano

    Gerald Finzi, Let us garlands bring

    A programme of twentieth-century song cycles to close Bath Choral Society's 2015-16 season

    Jonathan Dove, The Passing of the Year
    Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, The Turning Year
    Gerald Finzi, Let us garlands bring
    John Rutter, The Sprig of Thyme

    Ticket booking details at the BCS website.

  • Polyphonies spatialisés at Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims

    Thursday 23rd June 2016 at 8.00pm

    Basilique Saint-Remi, Reims, France

    Les Cris de Paris
    Geoffroy Jourdain

    Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium
    and works by Janequin, Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez, Caldara, Gabrieli, Mendelssohn, Hillborg and Dumont

  • Hippolyte et Aricie

    18th and 19th June 2016

    St John's Church, Waterloo, London

    Linden Baroque
    Peter Fender, director

    Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie (Thésée)

    A semi-staged performance with dance.

    Hippolyte: Andrew Evans
    Aricie: Aurélia Jonvaux
    Phèdre: Carola Emrich-Fisher
    Thésée: Jon Stainsby
    Pluton: Franco Kong
    Diane: Henrietta Brewley
    Œnone/Matelote/Bergere: Jenni Harper
    Tisiphone: Jeremy Vinogradov
    La Grande-Prêtresse: Eleanor Dann
    Chasseresse: Camilla Jeppeson

    18th June at 7.00pm / 19th June at 5.00pm
  • War Requiem in Paris

    17th and 20th June 2016 at 8.30pm

    Église St Marcel, Paris

    Chorus 14
    Dominique Sourisse, conductor

    Benjamin Britten, War Requiem (baritone soloist)

    Sophie Albert, soprano
    Thomas Lefrançois, tenor,
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Judas Maccabeus

    Saturday 11th June 2016 at 7.45pm

    Pinner Parish Church

    Pinner Music Festival Chorus and Orchestra
    David Gould, conductor

    G.F. Handel, Judas Maccabeus (Simon)

    Tickets and further information at the Pinner Music Festival website.

    Rachel Ambrose Evans, soprano
    Edward Edgcumbe, counter-tenor
    Thomas Dupernex, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Berkeley Stabat Mater at the Spitalfields Summer Festival

    Tuesday 7th June 2016 at 8.00pm

    St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London

    The Marian Consort
    Berkeley Ensemble
    David Wordsworth, conductor

    Lennox Berkeley, Stabat Mater
    and works by contemporary British composers

    Details and tickets at the Spitalfields Music website.

    Judith Weir Ave Regina Caelorum
    Matthew Martin Ave virgo sanctissima
    Michael Berkeley Catch me if you can
    Hilary Campbell Ave Maria
    Michael Berkeley Touch Light
    Lennox Berkeley Stabat Mater

  • God Save the Queen

    Sunday 5th June 2016 at 4.00pm

    Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie

    Les Cris de Paris
    Le Poème Harmonique
    Vincent Dumestre, director

    Henry Purcell, Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
    Henry Purcell, Welcome to all the pleasures
    Jeremiah Clarke, Come, come along for a dance and a song

    Further details at the Opéra de Rouen and Le Poème Harmonique websites.

    Hana Blazikova, soprano
    Nicholas Tamagna, counter-tenor
    Zachary Wilder, tenor
    Geoffroy Buffière, bass

    Les Cris de Paris, dir. Geoffroy Jourdain
    Orchestra du Poème Harmonique
    Vincent Dumestre, conductor

  • Dido and Aeneas at Rheingau Musik Festival / Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden

    27th and 28th May 2016 at 7.30pm

    Grosses Haus, Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden

    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
    Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor and director

    Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (Chorus)

    More information at the BNC website; tickets from the Rheingau Musik Festival or the Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

    Dido: Kate Lindsay
    Aeneas: Benedict Nelson
    Belinda: Katja Stuber
    Sorceress: Johanna Wokalek

  • Selva Morale at Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk

    Monday 16th May 2016 at 7.30pm

    Melk Abbey, Austria

    Internationale
    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Solisten
    Concentus Musicus Wien
    Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

    Claudio Monteverdi, Selva morale e spirituale

    Ticket information at the IBT Stift Melk website.

  • Dido and Aeneas at Internationale Musikfest Hamburg

    13th and 14th May 2016 at 8.00pm

    Kampnagel, Hamburg

    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
    Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor and director

    Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (Chorus)

    More information on the BNC and festival websites.

    Dido: Kate Lindsay
    Aeneas: Benedict Nelson
    Belinda: Katja Stuber
    Sorceress: Johanna Wokalek

  • Songs and Scenes from Shakespeare

    Wednesday 4th May 2016 at 5.30pm

    The Temple Church

    The Temple Singers
    Roger Sayer, conductor

    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Serenade to Music and Three Shakespeare Songs

    A concert to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, with dramatised readings. Further information at the Temple Music website.

    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Serenade to Music
    Ralph Vaughan Williams, Three Shakespeare Songs: 'Over hill, over dale,' 'Full fathom five' and 'The cloud-capped towers'
    Gerald Finzi, Let us Garlands Bring
    William Walton, Music for Henry V

    Tom Guthrie, tenor
    The Temple Singers
    Roger Sayer, piano and conductor

  • Cousser at Wigmore Hall

    Sunday 24th April 2016 at 4.00pm

    Wigmore Hall, London

    Ensemble Marsyas
    Peter Whelan, director

    John Sigismond Cousser, The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus
    G.F. Handel, 'Eternal Source of Light Divine' from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

    For more details and tickets, visit the Wigmore Hall website.

    Mhairi Lawson, Chloë Morgan, Sarah Brady, sopranos
    Emilie Renard, Niamh O'Sullivan, mezzo-sopranos
    Samuel Boden, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • Marta

    Tuesday 19th April 2016 at 8.00pm

    Opéra de Reims

    Les Cris de Paris
    Ensemble Ictus
    Clement Power, musical director
    Ludovic Lagarde, director

    Wolfgang Mitterer, Marta (Ensemble)

    Full details at the Opéra de Reims website

    Marta: Elsa Benoit
    Grot, père de Marta: Georg Nigl
    Ginevra, Reine, mère de Marta: Ursula Hesse von den Steinen
    Arthur, Roi: Martin Mairinger
    Captain: Tom Randle

  • Leith Hill Musical Festival

    Friday 15th April 2016 at 7.30pm

    Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey

    Leith Hill Festival Choirs
    Brian Kay, conductor

    Purcell, Come, Ye Sons of Art
    Schubert, Mass in G
    (Baritone soloist)

    Sarah Power, soprano
    James Neville, counter-tenor
    James Bowman, counter-tenor
    William Blake, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Part of Brian Kay's final season as conductor of the Leith Hill Festival.

  • Berkeley and Britten at the Aldeburgh Easter Weekend

    Friday 25th March 2016 at 6.00pm

    Blythburgh Church, Suffolk

    The Marian Consort
    Berkeley Ensemble
    David Wordsworth, conductor

    Lennox Berkeley, Stabat Mater
    Benjamin Britten, Sacred and Profane

    Details and tickets at the Aldeburgh Music website.

    Benjamin Britten: Sinfonietta, Sacred and Profane
    Michael Berkeley: Touch Light
    Lennox Berkeley: Mass in Five Parts, Stabat Mater

    Britten's late settings of English medieval lyrics will be performed alongside the Stabat Mater by his contemporary Lennox Berkeley, a rarely-performed work, scored for six solo voices and chamber ensemble, which the composer dedicated to Britten. The Marian Consort and the Berkeley Ensemble will be recording Berkeley's Stabat Mater and the Mass following this performance in Blythburgh, as part of a short residency at Aldeburgh. Further performances will follow in summer 2016 at the Cheltenham and Spitalfields festivals.

  • Marta

    13th, 15th, 17th, 19th and 21st March 2016

    Opéra de Lille

    Les Cris de Paris
    Ensemble Ictus
    Clement Power, musical director
    Ludovic Lagarde, director

    Wolfgang Mitterer, Marta (Ensemble): world première

    Full details at the Opéra de Lille website.

    Marta: Elsa Benoit
    Grot, père de Marta: Georg Nigl
    Ginevra, Reine, mère de Marta: Ursula Hesse von den Steinen
    Arthur, Roi: Martin Mairinger
    Captain: Tom Randle

    13th March at 16:00 / 15th, 17th, 19th and 21st March at 20:00
  • Elias with the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor

    29th and 30th January 2016

    Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden

    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
    Thomas Hengelbrock, director

    Felix Mendelssohn, Elias (Chorus)

    Genia Kühmeier, soprano
    Ann Hallenberg, alto
    Lothar Odinius, tenor
    Michael Nagy, baritone
    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
    Thomas Hengelbrock, director

    29th January at 6pm / 30th January at 5pm
  • Messiah

    Monday 21st December 2015 at 7.00pm

    Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah (Consort)

    Soloists:
    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
    Matthew Long, tenor
    Matthew Brook, baritone

  • Messiah

    Sunday 20th December 2015 at 7.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah (Consort)

    Soloists:
    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
    Matthew Long, tenor
    Matthew Brook, baritone

  • Children's Messiah

    Sunday 20th December 2015 at 4.00pm

    The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah (excerpts) (Consort)

  • Messiah: Concierto Participativo de Navidad

    Friday 18th December 2015 at 8.30pm

    Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah (Consort)

    Soloists:
    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
    Matthew Long, tenor
    Jacques Imbrailo, baritone

  • Messiah: Concierto Participativo de Navidad

    Thursday 17th December 2015 at 8.30pm

    Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah (Consort)

    Soloists:
    ​Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
    Matthew Long, tenor
    Jacques Imbrailo, baritone

  • Christmas with the Shepherds

    Monday 14th December 2015 at 7.00pm

    St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch

    Spitalfields Winter Festival
    The Marian Consort

    Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

    Read more at the Marian Consort website.
    Full details and tickets at the Spitalfields Music website.

  • Christmas with the Shepherds

    Sunday 13th December 2015 at 3.30pm

    St Mary the Virgin, Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset

    Music on the Quantocks
    The Marian Consort

    Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

    Read more at the Marian Consort website.
    Request tickets via Music on the Quantocks.

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Saturday 12th December 2015 at 7.00pm

    Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

    Ludus Baroque
    Richard Neville-Towle, director

    J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (Soloist and consort)

  • Christmas with the Shepherds

    Thursday 10th December 2015 at 7.45pm

    St Paul's Church, Canterbury

    Canterbury Music Club
    The Marian Consort

    Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

    Read more at the Marian Consort website.
    Tickets and further information at the Canterbury Music Club website.

  • Christmas with the Shepherds

    Tuesday 8th December 2015 at 7.30pm

    Keble College, Oxford

    The Marian Consort

    Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

    Read more at the Marian Consort website.

  • Christmas with the Shepherds

    Monday 7th December 2015 at 7.00pm

    National Centre for Early Music, York

    York Early Music Christmas Festival
    The Marian Consort

    Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

    Read more at the Marian Consort website.
    Ticket information at the NCEM website.

  • Christmas with the Shepherds

    Saturday 5th December 2015 at 7.30pm

    Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

    Georgian Concert Society
    The Marian Consort

    Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile.

    Read more at the Marian Consort website.
    Ticket information at the 
    GCS website.

  • Christmas with the Shepherds

    Friday 4th December 2015 at 7.30pm

    Glenalmond College, Perth

    The Marian Consort

    Music by Mouton, Morales and Stabile

    Read more at the Marian Consort website.

  • Bach and Handel with Dunedin Consort

    Sunday 22nd November 2015 at 4.00pm

    City of Edinburgh Methodist Church

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Dixit Dominus HWV 232
    J.S. Bach, Magnificat (ensemble) BWV 243a

    Julia Doyle, soprano 1
    Miriam Allen, soprano 2
    Meg Bragle, alto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass

    This concert marks the launch of Dunedin Consort's new recording of Bach's Magnificat, in the original E flat version of 1723 with choral interludes appropriate to the Christmas season. The programme also includes J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 1.

  • Bach and Handel with Dunedin Consort

    Friday 20th November 2015 at 7.30pm

    Sage Gateshead

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Dixit Dominus HWV 232
    J.S. Bach, Magnificat (ensemble) BWV 243a

    Julia Doyle, soprano 1
    Miriam Allen, soprano 2
    Meg Bragle, alto
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass

    This concert marks the launch of Dunedin Consort's new recording of Bach's Magnificat, in the original E flat version of 1723 with choral interludes appropriate to the Christmas season. The programme also includes J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 1.

  • Le Pré aux Clercs

    23rd, 27th, 29th October and 1st November

    National Opera House, Wexford

    Wexford Festival Opera
    Jean-Luc Tingaud, conductor
    Éric Ruf, director
    Laurent Delvert, revival director

    Ferdinand Hérold, Le Pré aux Clercs (Chorus)

    Co-production with Ópera-Comique, Paris
    More information on the Wexford Opera website.

    Marguerite de Valois: Marie Lenormand
    Isabelle: Marie-Ève Munger
    Nicette: Magali Simard-Galdès
    Baron de Mergy: Nico Darmanin
    Comte de Comminge: Dominique Coté
    Cantarelli: Eric Huchet
    Girot: Tomislav Lavoie

    23rd, 27th and 29th October at 8pm / 1st November at 5pm
  • Guglielmo Ratcliff

    22nd, 25th, 28th and 31st October

    National Opera House, Wexford

    Wexford Festival Opera
    Francesco Cilluffo, conductor
    Fabio Ceresa, director

    Pietro Mascagni, Guglielmo Ratcliff (Chorus)

    More information on the Wexford Festival Opera website.

    Guglielmo Ratcliff: Angelo Villari
    Maria: Mariangela Sicilia
    Count Douglas: David Stout
    Margherita: Annunziata Vestri
    MacGregor: Gianluca Burrato
    Lesley: Alexandros Tsilogiannis
    Tom: Quentin Hayes
    Willie: Sarah Richmond

    22nd, 28th and 31st October at 8pm / 25th October at 5pm
  • Koanga

    21st, 24th, 27th and 30th October at 8pm

    National Opera House, Wexford

    Wexford Festival Opera
    Stephen Barlow, conductor
    Michael Gieleta, director

    Frederick Delius, Koanga (Chorus)

    More information on the Wexford Festival Opera website.

    Koanga: Norman Garrett
    Palmyra: Nozuko Teto
    Simon Perez: Jeff Gwaltney
    Clotilda: Kate Allen
    Don José Martinez: Christopher Robertson
    Uncle Joe / Rangwan: Aubrey Allicock

  • Saul at the George Enescu Festival

    Sunday 13th September 2015 at 10.30am

    The Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest

    Choir and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
    Laurence Cummings, conductor

    Handel, Saul (Chorus)

    More information on the George Enescu Festival website.

    Saul: Christopher Purves
    Merab: Sarah Tynan
    Michal: Sophie Bevan
    Jonathan: Paul Appleby
    David: Christopher Lowrey

  • Brahms at the BBC Proms

    Tuesday 1st September 2015 at 7.30pm

    Royal Albert Hall, London

    Choir and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
    Marin Alsop, conductor

    Johannes Brahms, Alto Rhapsody and Triumphlied (Chorus)

    More information on the BBC website.

    Brahms Academic Festival Overture
    Brahms Alto Rhapsody
    Brahms Triumphlied
    Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor

    Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano
    Benjamin Appl, baritone
    Choir of the Enlightenment
    Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment

  • Praetorius: Canticum Canticorum

    Sunday 23rd August 2015 at 8.30pm

    Cathédrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg

    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
    Pablo Heras-Casado

    Works by Hieronymus, Jacob and Michael Praetorius

    More information on the BNC website.

  • Praetorius: Canticum Canticorum

    Saturday 22nd August 2015 at 7.00pm

    St Konrad und Elisabeth, Freiburg

    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
    Pablo Heras-Casado

    Works by Hieronymus, Jacob and Michael Praetorius

    More information on the BNC website.

  • Praetorius: Canticum Canticorum

    Friday 21st August 2015 at 8.00pm

    Stiftskirche Stift Wilten, Innsbruck

    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
    Pablo Heras-Casado

    Works by Hieronymus, Jacob and Michael Praetorius

    More information on the BNC website and at www.altemusik.at.

  • Dido and Aeneas at the Salzburg Festival

    Tuesday 18th August 2015 at 5.30pm

    Felsenreitschule, Salzburg

    Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble
    Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor and director

    Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (Chorus)

    More information on the BNC website and the Salzburg Festival website.

    Dido: Kate Lindsay
    Aeneas: Benedict Nelson
    Belinda: Katja Stuber
    Sorceress: Johanna Wokalek

  • Xerxes on tour

    30th July and 2nd August

    Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London (30th July)
    St Mary in the Castle, Hastings (2nd August)

    Longborough Festival Opera Young Artists Production
    Jeremy Silver, musical director
    Jenny Miller, director

    Handel, Xerxes (Ariodate)

    Xerxes: Jake Arditti
    Arsamenes: Tai Oney
    Amastris: Lucinda Stuart Grant
    Ariodate: Jon Stainsby
    Romilda: Alice Privett
    Atalanta: Abbi Temple
    Elviro: Matthew Durkan

    30th July at 7:30pm / 2nd August at 7pm
  • Xerxes at Longborough Festival Opera

    25th and 26th July

    Longborough, Gloucestershire

    Longborough Festival Opera Young Artists Production
    Jeremy Silver, musical director
    Jenny Miller, director

    Handel, Xerxes (Ariodate)

    Xerxes: Jake Arditti
    Arsamenes: Tai Oney
    Amastris: Lucinda Stuart Grant
    Ariodate: Jon Stainsby
    Romilda: Alice Privett
    Atalanta: Abbi Temple
    Elviro: Matthew Durkan

    25th July at 6:30pm / 26th July at 3pm
  • La scala di seta

    Saturday 18th July 2015 at 7.00pm

    Henley-on-Thames

    Opera Holloway
    Lewis Gaston, conductor
    Fiona Williams, director

    Rossini, La scala di seta (Blansac)

    Giulia: Callie Swarbrick
    Lucilla: Siân Cameron
    Dorvil: Michael Solomon Williams
    Dormont: Hugh Benson
    Blansac: Jon Stainsby
    Germano: Sean Aquilina

  • European Song in the 1870s

    Sunday 12th July 2015 at 7.45pm

    Orpington Parish Church

    Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Nicola Rose, piano

    Songs and duets by Brahms, Wolf, Grieg and Duparc

    Hugo Wolf, Abendbilder
    Edvard Grieg, Sex digte af Henrik Ibsen Op. 25
    Johannes Brahms, Duette Op. 28 and Fünf Gesänge Op. 71 (selection)
    and songs by Henri Duparc

  • The Bear

    Saturday 11th July 2015 at 9.55pm

    The Proud Archivist, London N1

    Operaview
    Dale Wills, musical director 
    Natalie Katsou, director

    William Walton, The Bear (Smirnov)

    Popova: Charlotte King
    Smirnov: Jon Stainsby
    Luka: Louis Hurst

  • Messiah at Rheingau Musik Festival

    Thursday 9th July 2015 at 8.00pm

    Kloster Eberbach, nr. Eltville, Rheingau, Germany

    Choir and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment
    Conductor: Laurence Cummings

    Handel, Messiah (Chorus)

    Soprano: Katherine Watson
    Countertenor: Tim Mead
    Tenor: Thomas Walker
    Bass: George Humphreys
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Choir of the Enlightenment
    Laurence Cummings

  • The Bear

    Wednesday 8th July 2015 at 7.15pm

    The Proud Archivist, London N1

    Operaview
    Dale Wills, musical director
    Natalie Katsou, director

    William Walton, The Bear (Smirnov)

    Popova: Gráinne Gillis
    Smirnov: Jon Stainsby
    Luka: Louis Hurst

  • La scala di seta

    Saturday 27th June 2015 at 7.30pm

    St Martin of Tours, Epsom

    Opera Holloway
    Lewis Gaston, musical director
    Fiona Williams, director

    Rossini, La scala di seta (Blansac)

    Giulia: Callie Swarbrick
    Lucilla: Siân Cameron
    Dorvil: Michael Solomon Williams
    Dormont: Hugh Benson
    Blansac: Jon Stainsby
    Germano: Sean Aquilina

  • La scala di seta

    Sunday 21st June 2015 at 7.00pm

    Shipley Festival, Storrington

    Opera Holloway
    Lewis Gaston, musical director
    ​Fiona Williams, director

    Rossini, La scala di seta (Blansac)

    Giulia: Callie Swarbrick
    Lucilla: Siân Cameron
    Dorvil: Michael Solomon Williams
    Dormont: Hugh Benson
    Blansac: Jon Stainsby
    Germano: Sean Aquilina

  • La scala di seta

    Friday 19th June 2015 at 7.00pm

    Brownsword Hall, Poundbury, Dorset

    Opera Holloway
    Lewis Gaston, musical director
    ​Fiona Williams, director

    Rossini, La scala di seta (Blansac)

    Giulia: Callie Swarbrick
    Lucilla: Siân Cameron
    Dorvil: Michael Solomon Williams
    Dormont: Hugh Benson
    Blansac: Jon Stainsby
    Germano: Sean Aquilina

  • Armel Opera Competition Final

    Friday 5th June 2015

    Budapest Music Centre, Budapest

    Armel Opera Festival

    Public workshop on Péter Eötvös, Senza Sangue, with Péter Eötvös (conductor) and Róbert Alföldi (director).

  • International Workshop on the Songs of Edvard Grieg

    28th-31st May 2015

    Grieg Academy, Bergen

    Organised by the International Grieg Society, in parallel with the conference 'Grieg and the Human Voice'

    Masterclasses with with Njål Sparbo, Solveig Kringlebotn and Einar Røttingen, et al.

  • Re-opening of Troldhaugen Concert Hall

    Tuesday 26th May 2015 at 8.00pm

    Troldhaugen, nr. Bergen

    Edvard Grieg Kor
    Leif Ove Andsnes

    Works by Edvard Grieg and Ole Bull

    (Private event)

  • NCEM Young Composers Award Final

    Thursday 14th May 2015 at 7.30pm

    National Centre for Early Music, York

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    New works for early music ensemble, selected by the NCEM 2015 Competition panel.

    More details of the competition at the NCEM website.

  • Hansel and Gretel

    7th-9th May

    Belgrade Theatre (B2 auditorium), Coventry

    HighTime

    Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel (Father)

    in a new English translation commissioned by HighTime.

    Hansel: Siân Cameron (Charlotte Ireland at 9th May matinee)
    Gretel: Alexa Mason
    Mother: Wendy Dawn Thompson
    Father: Jon Stainsby
    Ringmaster: Oliver Marshall
    Sandman: Charlotte Ireland (Siân Cameron at 9th May matinee)
    Dew Fairy: Caroline Kennedy

    Piano: Richard Black
    Conductor: Benjamin Hamilton
    Director: Felicity Green

    7:15pm on 7th and 8th May / 2:15pm and 7:15pm on 9th May
  • Boris Godunov with Philharmonia Voices

    Thursday 30th April 2015 at 10.00pm

    Royal Festival Hall

    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Philharmonia Voices
    Jakub Hrůša, conductor

    Modest Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov (concert performance of excerpts) (Chorus)

    Borodin, Overture to Prince Igor
    Cui, Overture to Le filibustier
    Rimsky-Korsakov, Overture on Three Russian Themes
    Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov (excerpts)

    Boris Godunov: Dimitry Ivashchenko
    Shuysky: Hubert Francis
    Shchelkalov: Eddie Wade
    Holy Fool: James Way
    Nikitich: Johnny Herford

    Philharmonia Voices
    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Conductor: Jakub Hrůša
    Semi-staging: David Edwards

  • St Paul

    Sunday 19th April 2015 at 7.15pm

    Todmorden Town Hall, Todmorden, West Yorkshire

    Todmorden Choral Society and Orchestra
    Antony Brannick, conductor

    Felix Mendelssohn, St Paul (baritone soloist)

    Caroline Challis, soprano
    Bridget Budge, contralto
    Adam Magee, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone (St Paul)

  • Leith Hill Musical Festival

    Saturday 11th April 2015 at 7.30pm

    Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey

    Leith Hill Festival Choirs
    Brian Kay, conductor

    Franz Schubert, Magnificat D. 486
    Joseph Haydn, 'Spring' from The Seasons
    (Baritone soloist)

    Sarah Power, soprano
    Nicholas Scott, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

  • St Matthew Passion at the Barbican

    Friday 3rd April 2015 at 3.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, director

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion, 1727 version (Pilate and Ensemble)

    James Gilchrist, Evangelist
    Matthew Rose, Christ

    Elizabeth Watts, soprano
    Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
    Mark le Brocq, tenor
    Christopher Purves, bass

    Richard Latham, Peter
    David Stuart, Judas
    Jon Stainsby, Pilate
    Philippa Hyde, Pilate's wife

    Choir of the AAM
    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor

  • Haydn's 'Spring' in Burford

    Saturday 28th March 2015 at 7.30pm

    Church of St John the Baptist, Burford, Oxfordshire

    The Burford Singers
    Bob Chilcott, conductor

    Joseph Haydn, 'Spring' from The Seasons (baritone soloist)

    Bob Chilcott, Requiem
    Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending
    Joseph Haydn, 'Spring' from The Seasons

    Laurie Ashworth, soprano
    Thomas Elwin, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Michael Bochmann, violin

    The Burford Singers
    The Cotswold Chamber Orchestra
    Bob Chilcott, Conductor

  • St Matthew Passion in Valencia

    Friday 27th March 2015 at 7.30pm

    Palau de la Música, Valencia

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Edward Higginbottom, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion (Pilate and Ensemble)

    Toby Spence, Evangelist
    David Soar, Christ

    Maria Keohane, soprano
    Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
    Guy Cutting, tenor
    Ashley Riches, bass

    Richard Latham, Peter
    Samuel Queen, Judas
    Jon Stainsby, Pilate
    Charmian Bedford, Pilate's wife

    Choir of the AAM
    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Edward Higginbottom, conductor

  • St Matthew Passion in San Sebastián

    Thursday 26th March 2015 at 8.00pm

    Kurssal, San Sebastián, Spain

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Edward Higginbottom, conductor

    J.S. Bach, St Matthew Passion (Pilate and Ensemble)

    Toby Spence, Evangelist
    David Soar, Christ

    Maria Keohane, soprano
    Amy Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
    Guy Cutting, tenor
    Ashley Riches, bass

    Richard Latham, Peter
    Samuel Queen, Judas
    Jon Stainsby, Pilate
    Charmian Bedford, Pilate's wife

    Choir of the AAM
    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Edward Higginbottom, conductor

  • Don Giovanni in Bergen

    14th, 16th, 18th, 20th March

    Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

    Bergen Nasjonale Opera
    Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor
    Oliver Mears, director

    W.A. Mozart, Don Giovanni (Chorus)

    Henk Neven, Don Giovanni
    Jean Teitgen, Leporello
    Clive Bayley, Commendatore
    Elizabeth Llewellyn, Donna Elvira
    Hye-Youn Lee, Donna Anna
    Kenneth Tarver, Don Ottavio
    Hanna Husáhr, Zerlina
    Igor Bakan, Masetto

    Edvard Grieg Kor
    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    14 March at 18:00 / 16, 18, 20 March at 19:00
  • Macmillan conducts Macmillan

    Thursday 12th February 2015 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London

    BBC Singers
    London Sinfonietta
    James Macmillan, conductor

    Choral works by James Macmillan and Henryk Górecki

    Choral works by James Macmillan:
    After Virtue
    Sun Dogs
    Cum vidisset Jesus
    They saw the stone had been rolled away
    Alleluia
    (UK première)
    Catherine's Lullabies
    and selections from Henryk Górecki, Church Songs (UK première)

  • Messiah at La Folle Journée de Nantes

    27th, 28th, 29th January 2015

    La Cité, Nantes, France

    La Folle Journée de Nantes
    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah, Dublin version (Bass II soloist and Ensemble)

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Meg Bragle, alto I
    Catherine Backhouse, alto II
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass I
    Jon Stainsby, bass II

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, conductor

    27 Jan at 19:30 (private event for sponsors) / 28 Jan at 17:30 / 29 Jan at 20:30
  • Messiah at La Folle Journée en Région

    Sunday 25th January 2015 at 12.00pm

    Église de Notre-Dame-d'Espérance, St Nazaire, France

    La Folle Journée de Nantes en Région Pays de la Loire
    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah, Dublin version (Bass II soloist and Ensemble)

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Meg Bragle, alto I
    Catherine Backhouse, alto II
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass I
    Jon Stainsby, bass II

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, conductor

  • Messiah at La Folle Journée en Région

    Saturday 24th January 2015 at 8.30pm

    Théâtre St Louis, St Cholet, France

    La Folle Journée de Nantes en Région Pays de la Loire
    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah, Dublin version (Bass II soloist and Ensemble)

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Meg Bragle, alto I
    Catherine Backhouse, alto II
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass I
    Jon Stainsby, bass II

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, conductor

  • Messiah at La Folle Journée en Région

    Friday 23rd January 2015 at 8.30pm

    Haut Dortoir, L'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France

    La Folle Journée de Nantes en Région Pays de la Loire
    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    Handel, Messiah, Dublin version (Bass II soloist and Ensemble)

    Mhairi Lawson, soprano
    Meg Bragle, alto I
    Catherine Backhouse, alto II
    Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass I
    Jon Stainsby, bass II

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, conductor

  • Messiah with the AAM

    Friday 19th December 2014 at 8.00pm

    De Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, director

    Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

    Ailish Tynan, soprano
    Tim Mead, counter-tenor
    Robert Murray, tenor
    Stephan Loges, bass-baritone

    Choir of the AAM
    Academy of Ancient Music

    Richard Egarr, conductor

  • Messiah with the AAM

    Tuesday 16th December 2014 at 7.30pm

    Auditorio Nacional, Madrid

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, director

    Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

    Ailish Tynan, soprano
    Tim Mead, counter-tenor
    Robert Murray, tenor
    Stephan Loges, bass-baritone

    Choir of the AAM
    Academy of Ancient Music

    Richard Egarr, conductor

  • Choir of London 10th Anniversary Concert

    Thursday 11th December 2014 at 9.30pm

    Christ Church, Spitalfields

    Spitalfields Winter Festival
    Choir of London
    Jeremy Summerly, conductor

    John Tavener, Lament for Jerusalem (Choir and semi-chorus)

    Mary Bevan, soprano
    Andrew Watts, counter-tenor

  • Concert with the Edinburgh Bach Choir

    Saturday 6th December 2014 at 7.30pm

    St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Edinburgh

    Edinburgh Bach Choir
    Edinburgh Bach Society Orchestra
    Neil Mantle, conductor

    J.S. Bach, Magnificat
    Henry Purcell, Rejoice in the Lord Alway
    (baritone soloist)

    J.S. Bach, Magnificat
    Henry Purcell, Rejoice in the Lord Alway
    Handel, Coronation Anthems

    Catriona Hewitson, soprano
    Sue Marrs, alto
    Matthew Todd, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Edinburgh Bach Choir
    Edinburgh Bach Society Orchestra

    Neil Mantle, conductor

  • Ice Cream: the Opera

    2nd-3rd December 2014

    Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, nr. Barnsley, Yorkshire

    Young Opera Venture in collaboration with Freedom Studios

    Development workshop for Ice Cream – The Opera, a new pop-up opera by Russell Sarre with a libretto by Ian Macmillan

    Read more about the project at the Freedom Studios website. Sadly this project has nothing to do with these purveyors of actual ice cream.

  • Beethoven 9 at the Sheldonian

    Sunday 16th November 2014 at 8.00pm

    Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

    Sheldonian Anniversary Chorus and Orchestra

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' (Baritone soloist)

    Concert to mark the 350th anniversary of the foundation of the Sheldonian Theatre

    Sara Wallander-Ross, soprano
    Lise Christensen, mezzo-soprano
    Jonathan Stoughton, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Sheldonian Anniversary Orchestra and Chorus
    James Ross, conductor (replacing the indisposed Dr. Paul Coones)

  • Albert Herring

    15th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd November 2014

    Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate, London 

    Hampstead Garden Opera
    Oliver-John Ruthven, conductor
    Joe Austin, director

    Britten, Albert Herring (Sid)

    Lady Billows: Simone Sauphanor
    Florence Pike: Annette Dumville
    Miss Wordsworth: Caroline Kennedy
    Mr Gedge: Shaun Aquilina
    Mayor Upfold: William Bouvel
    Michael Pandazis: Supt. Budd
    William Johnston Davies: Albert Herring
    Jon Stainsby: Sid
    Beth Moxon: Nancy
    Heather Glansford Rowson: Mrs Herring
    Harriet Burns: Emmie
    Camilla Jeppeson: Cis
    Fabian Tindale: Harry

    15, 18, 20 November at 19:30 / 22 at 14:30 / 23 at 16:00
  • Concert with Newbury Chamber Choir

    Saturday 8th November 2014 at 2.00pm

    St John's Church, Newbury, Berkshire

    Newbury Chamber Choir
    The Music Troupe Band
    Edward Lambert, conductor

    W.A. Mozart, Requiem
    Joseph Haydn, Theresienmesse
    (baritone soloist)

    W.A. Mozart, Requiem
    W.A. Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 3
    Joseph Haydn, Theresienmesse

    Caroline Kennedy, soprano
    Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
    Sheridan Edward, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Simon de Souza, horn

    Newbury Chamber Choir
    The Music Troupe Band

    Edward Lambert, conductor

  • John Kerr Award Final

    Sunday 26th October 2014

    Finchcocks Museum, Goudhurst, Kent

    Final of the John Kerr Award for English Song

    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Jamie Akers, lute
    Katie de la Matter, harpsicord, fortepiano, piano (historic instruments from the collection at Finchcocks)

    Songs by Dowland, Humfrey, Purcell, Haydn, Greene, Dibdin and Stanford

  • Music for 40 voices

    Tuesday 21st October 2014 at 7.30pm

    Milton Court, Barbican Centre, London

    BBC Singers
    Stephen Cleobury, conductor

    Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium
    Alessandro Striggio, Ecce beatem lucem
    Gabriel Jackson, Sanctum est verum lumen
    Robin Walker, I have thee by the hand

  • Nelson Mass

    Monday 13th October 2014 at 7.30pm

    Great Hall, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London

    Barts Academic Festival Chorus and Orchestra

    Joseph Haydn, Nelson Mass (baritone soloist)

  • The Hand that Takes

    16th, 17th, 18th September 2014

    Cambridge Junction, Cambridge

    Georgie Grace, text
    Cheryl Frances-Hoad, music
    Lotte Rose Kjaer Skau, sound design
    CJ Mahoney, installation and director

    Performers:
    Sheridan Edward, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Aris Nadirian, bass

    The Hand that Takes is a new, multi-disciplinary collaboration between artists Georgie Grace and CJ Mahoney, composer Cheryl-Frances Hoad and sound designer Lotte Rose Kjaer Skau. It features live vocal performance in the context of an immersive installation, and explores themes of debt, sacrifice and economic uncertainty.

  • The Magic Flute on tour

    13th, 19th, September / 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 20th, 22nd, 24th October 2014 at 7:30pm

    Civic Theatre, Barnsley (13th Sept)
    Empire Theatre, Consett (19th Sept)
    Oldham Coliseum, Oldham (2nd Oct)
    Theatre Royal, Wakefield (3rd Oct)
    Corn Exchange, Stamford (4th Oct)
    Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough (8th Oct)
    Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield (20th Oct)
    Lawrence Batley Theatre, Hudderfield (22nd Oct)
    Queen's Hall, Hexham (24th Oct)

    Young Opera Venture
    John Longstaff, conductor
    Jane Anthony and Nina Brazier, directors

    W.A. Mozart, The Magic Flute (Speaker)

    Pamina: Aoife O'Connell
    Tamino: Jonathan Cooke
    Papageno: Philip Wilcox, 
    Sarastro: James Fisher / Andrew Slater (13th Sept)
    First Lady: Jenny Stafford
    Second Lady: Lucinda Stuart-Grant
    Third Lady: Heather Ireson
    Queen of the Night: Katy Kelly
    Speaker: Jon Stainsby
    First Boy: Katherine Williamson
    Second Boy: Alison Robertson
    Third Boy: Katie Hainbach
    Papagena: Eleanor Garside
    First Armed Man: Richard Belshaw
    Second Armed Man: Miles Horner
    First Priest: Tom Morss / Richard Hansen (13th Sept)

    Performed in the English translation by Jeremy Sams

  • Madame X

    21st, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th, 27th August and 25th September 2014 at 7:30pm

    Todmorden Hippodrome, Todmorden, West Yorkshire (21st August)
    Square Chapel, Halifax (22nd and 23rd August)
    Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London (25th, 26th and 27th August)
    (Grimeborn Festival)
    Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (25th September)

    Radius Ensemble
    Antony Brannick, conductor
    Tim Benjamin, director

    Tim Benjamin, Madame X (Botney)

    A new chamber opera by composer Tim Benjamin

    Masetto: Tom Morss
    Zerlina: Laura Sheerin
    Botney: Jon Stainsby
    Lady Brannoch: Taylor Wilson
    Mr Wilmore: Marc Callahan
    Ensemble: Rebecca Moon, Sophie Dicks, Edwin Pitt-Mansfield and Owain Browne

  • Chandos Anthems

    8th July, 1st and 17th August 2014 at 8:00pm

    Exeter College Chapel, Oxford

    Charivari Agréable
    Kah-Ming Ng, director

    Handel, Chandos Anthems Nos. 7, 9 and 11a (baritone soloist and quartet)

    Handel, Chandos Anthems:
    No. 7: My song shall be always
    No. 9: O praise the Lord with one consent
    No. 11a: Let God Arise

    Olwen Turchetta, soprano
    Elizabeth Deacon, mezzo-soprano
    Simon Beston, tenor
    Jon Stainsby, baritone

    Charivari Agréable
    Kah-Ming Ng, director

     

     

  • Beethoven 9 with the AAM

    Saturday 21st June 2014 at 5.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    The Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor

    Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (Chorus)

    Elizabeth Watts, soprano
    Daniela Lehner, mezzo-soprano
    Benjamin Hulett, tenor
    Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone

    Choir of the AAM
    Academy of Ancient Music
    Richard Egarr, conductor

  • Così fan tutte

    3rd June-13th July 2014

    The Space, Sevenoaks School, Kent (15th June)
    Hotham Hall, East Yorkshire (19th June)
    Court Lodge, Stansted, Kent (22nd June)
    Sandringham, Norfolk (11th July)
    Thorpe Tilney, Lincolnshire (13th July)
    and at 19 primary schools in outer London

    Pavilion Opera
    Peter Bailey, piano and musical director
    Freddie Stockdale, director

    W.A. Mozart, Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso and Ensemble)

    Laura Pooley / Adele Mason, Fiordiligi
    Una MacMahon / Francesca Saracino, Dorabella
    Robert Lomax / Patrick Ashcroft, Ferrando
    Victor Sgarbi / Ricardo Panela, Guglielmo
    Louise Lloyd / Belinda Evans, Despina
    Jon Stainsby / Bruno Loxton, Don Alfonso

  • Romeo and Juliet

    14th, 15th, 16th and 17th May 2014 at 7:30pm

    The Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames

    Riverside Opera
    Samuel Evans, musical director
    Sophie Gilpin, director

    Gounod, Romeo and Juliet (Duke of Verona)

    in a new English translation by Russell Plows

    Eleanor Ross (14th and 16th) / Anna Goodhew (15th and 17th), Juliet
    John-Colyn Gyeantey (14th and 16th) / Adam Smith (15th and 17th), Romeo
    Christopher Foster, Friar Lawrence
    Marc Callahan, Mercutio
    Maud Millar, Stephano
    Thomas Colwell, Capulet
    Andrew Friedhoff, Tybalt
    Sandra Porter, Gertrude
    Jon Stainsby, Duke of Verona
    Jamie Rock, Paris
    Dominic Kraemer, Gregorio

  • Six Characters in Search of a Stage

    2nd, 4th, 8th and 11th May 2014

    St Mary's Church, Kintbury, Berkshire (2nd May)
    Brighton Festival Fringe, St Andrew's Church, Brighton (4th May)
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Chiswick, London (8th May)
    The Forge, Camden, London (11th May)

    The Music Troupe
    Edward Lambert, musical director
    Ian Caddy, director

    Edward Lambert, Six Characters in Search of a Stage (The Director)

    A new chamber opera by Edward Lambert, based on Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Olivia Clarke, The Daughter
    Lindsay Bramley, The Mother
    Mark Beesley, The Father
    Sheridan Edward, The Son / Madame Pace
    Jon Stainsby, The Director

    Joseph Shiner, clarinet
    Edward Lambert, piano / music director
    Ian Caddy, director

    See reviews, photos and a full recording of the Chiswick performance at the Music Troupe website.

    2nd and 8th May at 7:30pm / 4th May at 4:30pm / 11th May at 3:30pm
  • Kopernikus

    14th, 15th, 18th and 19th April 2014 at 8pm

    Boekmanzaal, De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam

    De Nationale Opera / VOCAALLAB
    Romain Bischoff, musical director
    Marcel Sijm, director

    Claude Vivier, Kopernikus (Baritone)

    Read more at DNO's website, or watch a complete video recording.

    Katharine Dain, coloratura soprano
    Éléonore Lemaire, soprano
    Aurélie Franck, mezzo-soprano
    Marine Fribourg, contralto
    Jussi Lehtipuu, baryton martin
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Maciej Straburzynski, bass

    Players from the Nationaal Jeugd Orkest Dutch Orchestra and Ensemble Academy

    Romain Bischoff, conductor
    Miguel Angel Gaspar, movement director
    Marcel Sijm, director

  • St John Passion

    Saturday 5th April 2014 at 7.30pm

    Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

    Godalming Choral Society

    J.S. Bach, St John Passion (Christus and baritone arias)

    Philip Sheffield, Evangelist and tenor arias
    Jon Stainsby, Christ and baritone arias
    Nicholas Morton, Pilate
    Soraya Mafi, soprano
    Angela Simkin, mezzo-soprano

    Michael Veazey, conductor

  • Messiah with the AAM

    Friday 20th December 2013 at 8.00pm

    Salle Pleyel, Paris

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Bernard Labadie, director

    Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

    Lydia Teuscher, soprano
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
    Brindley Sherratt, bass

  • Messiah with the AAM

    Wednesday 18th December 2013 at 7.00pm

    King's College, Cambridge

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music

    Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

    Lydia Teuscher, soprano
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
    Brindley Sherratt, bass

  • Messiah with the AAM

    Wednesday 18th December 2013 at 7.00pm

    Barbican Hall, London

    Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Bernard Labadie, director

    Handel, Messiah (Ensemble)

    Lydia Teuscher, soprano
    Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
    Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
    Brindley Sherratt, bass

  • Christmas Oratorio

    Tuesday 3rd December 2013 at 7.00pm

    Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

    Ludus Baroque
    Richard Neville-Towle, director

    J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium (Ensemble)

    Sophie Bevan, soprano
    Daniela Lehner, mezzo-soprano
    Joshua Ellicott, tenor
    Benjamin Bevan, bass

  • The House Warming Party at Tate Britain

    Saturday 23rd November 2013

    Grand Saloon, Tate Britain, Millbank, London

    EXAUDI

    Claudia Molitor, Sounding the View

    An immersive performance installation piece commissioned for the opening of the refurbished public spaces at Tate Britain.

    Natalie Raybould, soprano
    Alastair Putt, tenor
    Jonathan Saunders, baritone
    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Claudia Molitor, director and composer

  • The Marriage of Figaro

    9th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th November

    Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate, London

    Hampstead Garden Opera
    Oliver-John Ruthven, music director
    Bruno Ravella, director

    Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro (Count Almaviva)

    Sung in the English translation by Amanda Holden

    Susanna: Julie Moote (Elinor Rolfe Johnson on 13/11)
    Figaro: Milo Harries (Tristan Hambleton on 13/11)
    Countess: Jessica Gillingwater (Elisabeth Poirel on 13/11)
    Count: Jon Stainsby
    Cherubino: Felicity Turner
    Marcellina: Alison Thorman (Michelle Jueno on 13/11)
    Bartolo: Andrew Sparling (Tobias Odenwald on 13/11)
    Basilio: William Johnston Davies (Ed Bonner on 13/11)
    Antonio: Nicholas George
    Curzio: Hugh Benson

    9, 12, 13, 14 November at 19:30 / 16 November at 14:00
  • Lecture-recital with Ensemble Combassal

    Saturday 26th October 2013 at 11.00am

    King's College Chapel, University of Aberdeen

    Ensemble Combassal
    Ralph Stelzenmüller, director and lecturer

    Carlo Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday, 1611, and works by Rossi, Schein and Mazzocchi

    Lecture recital as part of the conference on Chromaticism and Microtonality at the University of Aberdeen

    Ensemble Combassal:
    Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano
    Frauke Jurgensen, soprano
    Javier Robledano Cabrera, counter-tenor
    Dan Dunkelblum, tenor
    Adrian Horsewood, baritone
    Jon Stainsby, bass/baritone

    Caroline Ritchie, viola da gamba
    Ralph Stelzenmüller, chamber organ and musical director

  • Gesualdo Tenebrae Responses

    Friday 25th October 2013 at 6.00pm

    King's College Chapel, Aberdeen

    Ensemble Combassal
    Ralph Stelzenmüller, director

    Carlo Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday, 1611

    performed in a reconstructed liturgical setting, as part of the conference on Chromaticism and Microtonality at the University of Aberdeen

    Ensemble Combassal:
    Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano
    Frauke Jurgensen, soprano
    Javier Robledano Cabrera, counter-tenor
    Dan Dunkelblum, tenor
    Adrian Horsewood, baritone
    Jon Stainsby, bass/baritone

    Caroline Ritchie, viola da gamba
    Ralph Stelzenmüller, chamber organ and musical director

  • Victoria and Britten with the BBC Singers

    Saturday 5th October 2013 at 7.30pm

    Uppingham School Chapel, Rutland

    BBC Singers
    David Hill, conductor
    Iain Farrington, organ

    Choral music by Victoria and Britten

    Victoria, Requiem (1605)
    Britten, Hymn to St Cecilia, Rejoice in the Lamb, Hymn to St Peter, Te Deum in C, Te Deum in E, Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Victoria

  • Mozart Requiem with Dunedin Consort at the Lammermuir Festival

    Sunday 22nd September 2013 at 7.30pm

    St Mary's Church, Haddington

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    John Butt, director

    W.A. Mozart, Requiem K. 626, and Vesperae solennes de confessore K. 339 (ensemble)

    Programme also includes C.P.E. Bach Cello Concerto in A major Wq. 172

    Joanne Lunn, soprano
    Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Hobbs, tenor
    Giles Underwood, bass

  • Mozart Requiem with Dunedin Consort

    Tuesday 17th September 2013 at 10.00pm

    Perth Concert Hall

    Dunedin Consort and Players
    ​John Butt, director

    W.A. Mozart, Requiem K. 626, and Vesperae solennes de confessore K. 339 (ensemble)

    Programme also includes C.P.E. Bach Cello Concerto in A major Wq. 172

    Joanne Lunn, soprano
    Rowan Hellier, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Hobbs, tenor
    Matthew Brook, bass

  • Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition

    30th August-3rd September

    Wigmore Hall, London

    Jon Stainsby, baritone
    Chris Baxter, piano

Jon Stainsby performing in Kopernikus
Kopernikus, 2014
Eugene Onegin (photo: Bruce Atherton)
Jon Stainsby performing in A Fairy Queen
A Fairy Queen, 2016 (photo: Mitzi di Margary)
  • "Most impressive of all was the young-sounding, vigorous baritone of Jon Stainsby. His is a voice of real class and distinction, with a real sit-up-and-take-notice quality, and flexible technical proficiency too."

    Seen and Heard International

    J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio, Ludus Baroque, December 2015

  • "Jon Stainsby's calm, monitoring Speaker, beautifully spoken as well as sung."

    Seen and Heard International

    The Magic Flute, Young Opera Venture, Autumn 2014

  • "effortlessly sonorous"

    Opera Now

    Davenaut, Der Vampyr, Gothic Opera, October 2019

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