Our next concert is probably the most unusual one we've ever taken part in, for never before have any of us sung with an orchestra of 40 lute players.We've been…
Ana Fernández Guerra (second from right) with other soloists from "The Creation", Clare Tunney, Bradley Travis and James Quitman. Samling Academy soprano Ana Fernández Guerra first performed with us in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Christmas…
In the first of a series of posts introducing some of the music for our summer concert, we begin in the beginning... Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina Despite a dry title,…
By Martyn EvansFifteen dark jewels embedded in a black velvet robe soaring from the altar in front of us to the firmament above, these fifteen motets of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil yield his…