What inspired the programme you’re bringing to the Holy Week Festival? Tell us a bit about the music and what we should listen out for. Our concert consists entirely of various settings of the famous Easter text Crucifixus pro nobis. Whilst some interpretations we will present date back to the early 1700s, we will be performing… continued

What inspired the programme you’re bringing to the Holy Week Festival? Tell us a bit about the music and what we should listen out for. We’re performing an amazing eight-part mass setting for Easter by the late Renaissance composer Hieronymus Praetorius. It’s effervescent music. We’ve contrasted it with a series of motets for Holy Week… continued

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

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

Applications are now open for the tenor position on our Associate Artist Scheme for the 2020-21 season and for professional singers of all voice parts wishing to join our deputy singer list. ASSOCIATE ARTIST VACANCY: TENOR Find out more about what the Associate Artist scheme entails. This opportunity is aimed specifically at young professional singers:… continued

36,000 feet up in the air and somewhere over the Hudson Bay, we are on our way home. We have turned back from the furthest point on the tour (122° W and thus a third of the way around the globe) after the last gig of the trip in Ashland, Oregon at the University of… continued

The day started with an 08.30 departure for our drive to Salt Lake City for our flight to LA. The weather was pretty rough as we departed and there were a fair few bumps on the flight both on the way up and the way down. Not my favourite thing… We arrived into LA to… continued

We had a rare morning off, and I began it by eating too much granola. As a relative newcomer to touring life, one thing I’m still learning is how to pace myself at hotel breakfasts. With an empty stomach and effectively unlimited food, I overdo it time after time. I realised I’ve developed a lot… continued

Any day which begins with an 05:00 alarm is met with some trepidation by singers. Couple that with the previous evening’s post-concert reception and there were some groggy heads on the early morning bus to St Louis airport. We flew back to Chicago before catching a flight to Dallas. Upon arrival at the hotel, many… continued

We’ve made it to day 8 and concert 6 of our USA tour and we have officially passed the halfway point. St. Louis was the first place on this tour that I was returning to after coming in March 2018 and I had mixed memories of the place. On one hand I remembered the fantastic… continued

Day 5 and, for most, the first and last rest day of the tour. Six plucky Tenebrae members (former and current Associate Artists + Jimmy) would give a workshop at the University of Maryland in the afternoon but more on that later! First came the chance to catch up on sleep – this was the… continued

By the time we arrived in Maryland, we’d clocked up eighteen hours of coach travel. This has been a really civilised way to start the tour. It’s nice not to be rushing around airports, and to be able to look out of the window and see a bit of the country as we travel. The… continued