Not long now until we will return to Oxford's beautiful Christ Church Cathedral to sing Britten’s Missa Brevis and Ceremony of Carols for the St Nicolas feast day service. Thank you John Paton for asking us to sing for you again!
One of my favourite evenings of the year - Ealing Choral Society's carol concert! This year we are singing in support of the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity. Come if you can!
Jonathan will be at the Opéra de Paris's Amphithéâtre Bastille in the spring to conduct Rameau's Les fêtes d'Hébé directed by choreographer Thomas Lebrun. Rehearsals begin in January ready for four performances on 22, 23, 25 and 27 March. The production moves to London for the UK's very first fully staged performances of Les fêtes d'Hébé at the RCM's Britten Theatre on 5 and 6 April.
I am thrilled to announce that I will be conducting the English Touring Opera's production of Rameau's Dardanus - the ETO's first ever Rameau production - next autumn. Thank you James Conway for inviting me to join this hugely exciting project!
It's with huge anticipation that the musicians of St Hilda's College and I are looking forward to giving the first performance of a new cantata at the University Church on 18 February. Commissioned by the St Hilda's Association of Senior Members, St Hilda of Whitby is written by poet Wendy Cope and composer Nicola Lefanu - two distinguished former members of college - and will be performed as part of the 125th anniversary celebrations of the founding of St Hilda's…