I’m sitting in a well-known-yet-as-usual-slightly-disappointing coffee chain in Boston, reminiscing about the wonderful week I spent with my Tenebrae friends last month. It’s been three years since I left Europe and headed down-under to take up the post of Director of Music at Trinity College, Melbourne, and it was a real treat to be invited… continued

Tenebrae is thrilled to introduce its inaugural Holy Week Festival, a partnership between the choir and St John’s Smith Square. It has long been an aim of the choir to curate a series of concerts for Holy Week based around some of the most atmospheric and poignant liturgical sequences in the Christian calendar, the Tenebrae services…. continued

Tenebrae is BBC Radio 3‘s Artist of the Week! Tune into Essential Classics at 11am every day this week to find out Sarah Walker’s choices from the choir’s award-winning discography. Amongst other items, this will include Tenebrae’s recordings of works by Fauré, Parry, Poulenc, Rachmaninov, Victoria and Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles.

Huge congratulations to our friends at Signum Classics for winning Record Label of the Year at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards! We are delighted for the company who celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. We have loved working with them producing some of our most memorable recordings from Tenebrae’s debut release The Dream of Herod back… continued

We’re absolutely thrilled to announce our return to Australia in January 2020, where we’ll be performing in Melbourne and Sydney. In Melbourne and Sydney we perform our award-winning interpretation of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Requiem Mass of 1605. This luminous masterpiece has a timeless resonance that speaks to hearers across four centuries. This is performed alongside… continued

We had a wonderful time away in Australia at the end of January when we performed one concert in Melbourne and two in Sydney, making our debut there as part of the Sydney Festival. Bachtrack gave our final concert 5 stars, and there have been a whole host of excellent reviews for all the concerts:… continued

Happy new year to all. Hope you’ve put on loads of weight with excessive amounts of good cheer and the like and are now enjoying the effects after a cleansing January. I’m certainly not! It is with a heavy heart that I write to you all with some awful news about one of our most… continued

And so after a couple of unusually quiet months for Tenebrae we dived straight into our Holy Week Festival at St John’s, Smith Square, full of energy and purpose. This year the Festival had a focus on the wonderful and highly atmospheric music of composer Sir James MacMillan, celebrating his 60th birthday this year. All… continued

A lively time for us this last June and July before we hit a full August leading into our busiest autumn since the choir started nearly 20 years ago. We had another wonderful trip to Suffolk for the Aldeburgh Festival at the start of June. We’ve been to this part of the world quite a… continued

The post-Easter season has been somewhat quieter for Tenebrae, following our USA tour and Holy Week residency at St John’s, Smith Square. The Associate Artists have, however, been kept busy with various educational workshops and concerts. We travelled down to Millfield School in Somerset to repeat our World War I programme featuring music by Gurney… continued

Here’s a round up of all we’ve been up to in a busy May this year. We started the month with a day of rehearsals for both the programmes we would be taking away on tour, and then straight on to Sherborne Abbey for our first concert on 4th May. This building is absolutely beautiful,… continued

This summer sees my final few months as an Associate Artist with Tenebrae, and what an amazing journey it’s been! I’m so grateful to Nigel and his brilliant team for welcoming me on board, particular thanks go to Helen Daniels, Jessy Croghan, Henry Southern, Charlotte Nohavicka, Esther Poole and Alex Davies whose tireless work over… continued