We would like to congratulate our friend and patron, Sarah Connolly, for being made a Dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours! Dame Sarah was also was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

As we make a start on our busiest year yet I could not have been more excited than to get things under way than with Joby Talbot’s extraordinary work Path of Miracles. As it’s been almost ten years since we last performed it, it’s been wonderful to see the excitement of singers coming to the… continued

Tenebrae Holy Week Festival One of the biggest challenges facing any young musician today is how versatile you have to be to make a living. At the drop of a hat you have to be able to switch from opera to close harmony, sometimes even within the same concert! When I first saw the programme… continued

We had a wonderful trip to Oslo two weeks ago for our first concert in Norway. We sang in the beautiful Trinity church in the centre of the city and were delighted when we walked in to realise it is blessed with one of the finest acoustics for choral music we’ve come across in a… continued

Nigel Short is thrilled to be conducting the BBC Singers for the first time on Sunday 9th April 2017. Featuring a programme which will include Victoria, Tallis, Bruckner, Ešenvalds and Pärt this concert will be the first in Tenebrae’s inaugural Holy Week Festival and will begin a week of workshops, concerts, Come&Sings and late-night liturgical events which will… continued

Following on from a jam-packed few weeks, I am very much looking forward to our inaugural Holy Week Festival which will take place 9 – 15 April 2017. We have some of the finest choirs and most exciting vibrant vocal groups such as VOCES8 and The Gesualdo Six performing; The Hanover Band will bring Rossini’s… continued

It’s been rather a long time since I’ve checked in, and a lot has happened since then! In November I spent a wonderful week with the people of Brigham Young University working on Handel’s Messiah. The orchestra and choirs worked their socks off and gave three electric performances including a very emotional and stirring performance… continued

Bethany Partridge, our soprano Associate Artist, takes over Nigel’s monthly blog for December and tells us about the choir’s recent tour to America! All we like sheep Two months have now passed since the official launch of Tenebrae’s Associate Artist scheme with a residency at St John’s School, Leatherhead and a English partsongs concert at St… continued

This year Tenebrae is launching a Christmas Appeal running throughout Advent (27th November – 24th December) to raise £5000 to support their Choral Development programme. This programme incorporates the choir’s Associate Artists scheme and education partnerships which, as Tenebrae celebrates its 15th anniversary this season, proudly heralds a new chapter in the choir’s commitment to the… continued

There’s no time to lose at the moment, so my apologies as I’ll have to keep this one brief! I had a fabulous few days at Westminster Choir College in New Jersey working with their numerous choirs and directors on a huge range of repertoire. The best was saved ’til last when I had the… 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

Gosh, another blog from me? Time passes so fast! So, news from the Tenebrae Office just in: we have received funding from the PRS for Music Foundation, Arts Council England and the Santander Foundation in order to support our fifteenth-anniversary tour featuring Joby Talbot’s astonishing work, Path of Miracles! We are so lucky to have Henry Southern… continued