The House of the Mind
Joseph Beaumont’s meditation on the immense capabilities of human imagination is made even more powerful in Howells’s sublime setting, which closes our concert: As earth’s pageant passes by, Let reflection…
Composer focus: Janet Graham
The themes of light and creation have threaded their way through everything we’ve done this season, and so, as the year draws to a close, we return to the ‘The…
Composer focus: Judith Weir
This week, we went out to Ushaw College for our first rehearsal in the venue of our summer concert programme, ‘Our World’. After so much grey weather, the sun had…
Introducing ‘Our World’
In an extract from the concert programme note, our Musical Director, Julian Wright, explains how our summer concert programme explores musical responses to the miraculous beauty of creation, and how…
Interview with mezzo-soprano Marnell Blair
Marnie Blair in Samling Academy 2014 with Samling Artist pianist James Baillieu. Photo (c) Mark Pinder / www.markpinder.eu Mezzo-soprano Marnell Blair joins us for the demanding and dramatic solo part…
Bass vacancies
We have two vacancies for basses and bass-baritones from September 2016. We are a chamber choir that performs three programmes a year, in addition to serving the wider community in…