KÓRTÓNLEIKAR Í HALLGRÍMSKIRKJU
13. apríl 2019 laugardagur kl. 17
‘SUCH ENDLESS PERFECTNESS’
ALUMNI úr kór Clare College Cambridge
Stjórnandi: Graham Ross.
Átta afburðasöngvarar sem sungið hafa með kór Clare College í Cambrigde eru gestir Listvinafélags Hallgrímskirkju á 37. starfsári þess og flytja með sér hina þekktu bresku kórhefð með mjög fjölbreyttri efnisskrá allt frá endurreisn til nútímans, þ.s. breskri og annarra þjóða tónlist er teflt saman á mjög fallegan og áhrifamikinn hátt.
Á efnisskránni eru verk eftir Elgar, Howells, Tavener, Sigurð Sævarsson, Schütz, Gerswin o fl.
Oktettinn hefur hlotið einróma lof en kórinn í Clare College Cambridge þykir meðal allra fremstu háskólakóra í heiminum og syngja meðlimir Alumni nú með heimsþekktum sönghópum eins og Tallis Singers, The Sixteen, og hefur Alumni einnig komið fram með hljómsveitum eins og The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment og London Philharmonic Choir. Stjórnandi er Graham Ross.
About the choir:
Alumni of the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Graham Ross, director.
Since the founding of a mixed voice choir in 1972, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs. In addition to its primary function of leading services three times a week in the College chapel, the Choir keeps an active schedule recording, broadcasting, and performing. Under the direction of Graham Ross, Director of Music since 2010, it has been praised for its consistently ‘thrilling’ and ‘outstanding’ performances worldwide. Recent engagements include Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE), Mozart’s Requiem with the Manchester Camerata, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and the world première of Alexander Raskatov’s Green Mass with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), Fauré’s Requiem with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, and concerts worldwide including Notre Dame Cathedral, Library of Congress, and Sydney Opera House. The Choir’s 2018/19 schedule includes performances in Westminster Cathedral and St John’s Smith Square, and overseas across the USA, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Netherlands and China. Members of the Choir typically sing for the duration of their undergraduate degrees, and after graduating pursue a wide variety of careers across all sectors and disciplines, often combining these with a continued serious commitment to music making. Many go on to enjoy distinguish professional solo careers. Others sing in leading vocal ensembles such as the Monteverdi Choir, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, Polyphony, and the Tallis Scholars, whilst recent Organ Scholars have taken up positions at Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral. Many former Clare College Organ and Choral Scholars have established international reputations including Sir Roger Norrington, Ivor Bolton, Richard Egarr, John Rutter, Stephen Farr, Dominic Wheeler, Elin Manahan Thomas, Robin Ticciati and Nicholas Collon. In 2018 sixteen alumni of the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge joined the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a performance of Haydn’s Nelson Mass for Wiltshire Music Club.
In 2019 alumni make a return visit to Wiltshire, as well as performances in Iceland’s Hallgrímskirkja and Santiago’s Iglesia de San Martin Pinario as part of a collaboration with Tenebrae for Martin Randall Travel.
Graham Ross, conductor
Alice Halstead, soprano
Holly Holt, soprano
Henrietta Box, mezzo-soprano
Isaac Jarrett Barnham,
countertenor
Laurence Booth-Clibborn, tenor
Alexander Porteous, tenor
Hugo Popplewell, baritone
Joshua Pacey, bass
Sjá nánar: LISTVINAFELAG.IS
English:
‘SUCH ENDLESS PERFECTNESS’
CONCERT IN HALLGRIMSKIRKJA
Saturday April 13th at 5 pm
ALUMNI FROM THE CHOIR OF CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
Conductor: Graham Ross
A choral concert with a professional 8-person ensemble from Cambridge. The programme is diverse with choral pieces ranging from the renaissance to modern times. This British choir is a special guest of the Hallgrímskirkja Friends’ of the Arts Society and representative of the renowned British choir tradition.
On the programme are works by Elgar, Howells, Tavener, Sigurð Sævarsson, Schütz, Gerswin and more.
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