Formed in 2018, this outstanding group consists of alumni from the Genesis Sixteen scheme, the Royal Academy of Music and former choral scholars from many of the UK’s leading collegiate choirs. Members have performed with the Tallis Scholars, The Gabrielli Consort, Tenebrae and The Sixteen, as well as having solo careers in opera and oratorio.
Leader Harry Bradford was Genesis Sixteen conducting scholar 2018-19 and Alec Robertson Scholar at Westminster Cathedral. He also conducts the English Baroque Choir, the Thames Philharmonic Choir and North Herts Guild of Singers and won 2nd Prize in the prestigious 2022 Eric Ericson award in Stockholm, conducting the Swedish Radio Choir.
"A very exciting young chamber ensemble". Peter Phillips, Tallis Scholars
Programme
Songs of the Setting Sun
Robert White – Christe qui lux es et dies IV
Thomas Tallis – Te lucis ante terminum
Thomas Tallis – In Manus Tuas
Philip Moore – Evening Prayers (from Three Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Kerensa Briggs – Media Vita
Henry Walford Davies – Psalm 121
Philip Radcliffe – God be in my head
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina – Nunc Dimittis
Charles Wood – Hail Gladdening Light
Interval
Owain Park – Night Prayer
Maurice Durufle – Notre Pere
Igor Stravinksy – Pater Noster
John Sheppard – The Lord’s Prayer
Gustav Holst – The Evening Watch
Benjamin Britten – The Evening Primrose
Josef Rheinberger – Abendlied
Caterina Assandra – Salve Regina
Eric Whitacre – Sleep
