We are delighted that Continuo Connect – the not-for-profit digital initiative at the heard of Continuo Foundation – have included a news item about our Opus Klassik Award. Read the item on the Continuo Connect website.

Our performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Basel Chamber Orchestra was broadcast on 15th August on Deutschland Funk. We were delighted to perform it in the Basilica of Kloster Eberbach as part of Rheingau Festival, and you can listen to the whole performance now. Listen to the broadcast online.

We are having a wonderful time on tour with the Basel Chamber Orchestra. We are performing Bach’s B Minor Mass at some incredible venues, and had our first performance at Martinskirche Basel last night! Today, we travel to Eltville am Rhein as part of Rheingau Festival, then on to Trier (for a sneaky Path of… continued

July and August are full of exciting concerts and tours! Next week we have a fun Come & Sing in Burnham Thorpe, where we’ll be joined by lots of enthusiastic singers for Haydn’s Nelson Mass. Then, we have several tours planned in August which we’d love to see you at. With Basel Chamber Orchestra, we’ll… continued

On Monday 7th July, Tenebrae sang at the beautiful Canterbury Cathedral for St Thomas’ Day Mass. It was a sunny day spent at the stunning Cathedral. The entire service is available to livestream here to watch and listen to.

Who managed to join us in Regensburg last month? If you didn’t, you can catch our concert, which was part of the incredible Tage Alter Musik festival, on Bayerischer Rundfunk Klassik this evening at 7pm. Listen here for a polyphony-filled programme of Palestrina, Anerio and Lassus.

This Friday, Tenebrae joins the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Oliver Zeffman, and soloists Jamie Barton and Cameron Shahbazi in an exciting finale concert for Classical Pride 2025. Classical Pride is a music festival which spotlights LGBTQ+ musicians of the past, present and future, giving a voice and a platform to this community that has been… continued

We are absolutely delighted to share that we have won an Opus Klassik Award for our performance of Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music. We were awarded the ‘Orchestra/Ensemble Live Performance of the Year’ prize for our performance in Wiesbaden on 6th December 2024. In Nigel’s words, performing the Messiah is always a… continued

Third Culture Collective is a social and musical venture, seeking to make western classical music more accessible to the next generation of British Asians and aiming to inspire Western musicians to experiment with South Asian sounds. Together, Tenebrae and Third Culture Collective have begun workshopping and developing a new sound-world, all with the aim of… continued

Katie writes: “2025 got off to an exciting start, as I and three of my Tenebrae colleagues – Anna Semple, Tom Robson and Jimmy Holliday – travelled to Hong Kong. We were to spend a week collaborating with NOĒMA choir under the direction of Sanders Lau, culminating in a concert at the Tsuen Wan Town… continued

Since I last wrote the autumn has set in and the leaves are falling. The transition from summer has gone by in something of a blur as Tenebrae enjoyed its busiest September since we began performing nearly 20 years ago. In August we had tremendous fun performing at the BBC Proms, making our debut at… 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