I was very happy to be singing with Stevie Wishart’s group Sinfonye this summer, performing Stevie’s Vespers for Hildegard of Bingen as part of the York Early Music Festival in York Minster. The Vespers is Stevie’s creative re-imagining of a choral evensong, and it was written in honour of Hildegard of Bingen who was made […]
‘Inner Garden’ brought together the music and lingua ignota (the unknown language) of Hildegard Von Bingen; the composer Stevie Wishart; members or FoAM and Ghent’s Vooruit; me; and the glasshouse plants. The result was a unique dawn-to-dusk event where the music truly became a part of its context. Here is an audio fragment of Viriditas […]
This December I am singing a number of concerts in Flanders with the Aquarius ensemble in the run up to Christmas: December 9th, 2012: a morning concert of music for mixed choir by Lucien Posman in Kapel Elzenveld, Lange Gasthuisstraat 45, 2000 Antwerp at 11:00. December 14th, 2012: a concert for female chorus and harp […]
Tomorrow, Sunday November 4th, 2012, at 20:00 I will be singing a programme of contemporary music with the Aquarius ensemble in De Singel, Antwerp. Some very exciting pieces by an international selection of young composers within the framework of the ISCM’s festival ‘World Music Days’. Click here for more info.
Here, as promised, are more details of our Viriditas weekend (see previous post). In workshops over the past two months, the Viriditas Community Choir has come together to develop the musical ideas of Stevie Wishart for a piece designed specially to be sung in the Botanical Gardens in Gent. These workshops culminate this Sunday 28th […]
