A Moment of Stillness from the Heart of the City
Each year, we partner with St. John’s Smith Square to present our annual Holy Week Festival. Showcasing some of the world’s finest ensembles, this week-long programme celebrates the vast range of... 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.
The Mass in B Minor is Bach’s final great work, a testament of his life’s... 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 Renaiss... 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 mus... 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.
Shortly after the Festival, we (Siglo de Oro) will be recording a disc of music that... continued
Església de Sant Genís, Torroella de Montgrí
Crumbs, it’s been ages since I wrote one of these so here goes, I just hope my memory serves me well for some of the performances that were a few months ago…
We had a steaming return to SJSS on J... continued
My very first appearance with Tenebrae was back in 2006 for some of the sessions for the Allegri Miserere recording. I’d been at Westminster Cathedral for just under a term and had had my Tenebrae ‘audition’ when Nigel had stepped in for m... continued
Tenebrae performing at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, USA. Credit: Rene Zajner.
March took Tenebrae to the US for another tour of fabulous concert venues and ecclesiastical spaces. This time round we were performing Joby Talbot’s cho... continued
26th March – 1st April 2018
Returning after a hugely successful inaugural year, we are delighted to present our Holy Week Festival curated in partnership with St John’s Smith Square.
St John’s Smith Square hosts workshops, ticketed concerts and... continued
We are proud to announce our 2017-18 London Season. We will be returning to London’s top venues including the Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Kings Place and Cadogan Hall, with a range of choral repertoire from Bach, Allegri and Palest... 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 ... 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 atmosp... continued