Rowan Pierce becomes a Samling Artist
Congratulations to Rowan Pierce on being named one of the 2016 Samling Artists.
21 Jan 2016
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Congratulations to Rowan Pierce on being named one of the 2016 Samling Artists.
Durham University Choral Society make a big impact in Clare Lawrence-Wills’s first concert as conductor, bounding joyfully through Haydn’s Nelson Mass and giving an absolutely gripping performance of Britten’s cantata ‘St Nicolas’.
It’s not often that you hear Slade and Bruckner in the same concert: Northern Spirit Singers brightened up a gloomy, stormy night with magical Christmas sparkles.
A bright new voice in Durham’s musical as Orchestra Cipriani, a new chamber orchestra conducted by Lewis Wilkinson gave a well-polished and very enjoyable concert of works by Mendelssoh, Beethoven, Malcolm Arnold and Steve Robson.
Durham has a new orchestra! I’ve been finding out more about Orchestra Cipriani, and the music that they’re playing for their debut concert.
Some musings on music and light and science that have been floating around my head as I rehearse lots of magnificent music inspired by light, for a joint music and science event with Durham University physicists.
The rich spread of sixteenth century choral music in miniature, in a short concert given by five singers from Renaissance: Camilla Harris, Jessica Gillingwater, Hugo Hymas, David Le Prevost and Ben Rowarth.
My overwhelming experience of singing Thomas Tallis’s Spem in Alium for the first time, in a workshop with Oxford’s Schola Cantorum, led by James Burton
A review of Northern Spirit Singers’ new digital album, Cantus Mundi, a round-the-world tour that takes in Europe, Russia, the Americas, India and Durham showcasing the choir’s talent for both the exciting and the sublime.