We are delighted to share the news that Jonathan Lane, one of our singers and also an accomplished composer of choral works, has won a major prize in the prestigious Orfeó Català Composition Competition – which this year attracted entries from a total of 219 composers from 51 nationalities. His setting of the...
jcosco_admin, Author at Joyful Company of Singers - Page 2 of 20
-
In this second blog about our next performance, ‘Boundless’, our Music Director Peter Broadbent introduces us to these two composers… Paul Reade (1943-1997) spent the first part of his professional life as a repetiteur. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music he went on to the London Opera Centre and worked...
-
Our next performance is truly ‘Boundless’ – celebrating sacred and secular choral music spanning over four centuries, on themes of earth and sea and the celestial. Here’s the first of two blogs we’ll be posting to introduce the pieces we’ll be performing… The two great English composers who died exactly 400 years ago, William...
-
We send our joyful congratulations to all those who made such marvellous music at the Coronation today – including our Vice Presidents Roxanna Panufnik and John Rutter, amongst the contributing composers whose works enriched the ceremony. And if we may, to a JCS baritone appearing in a non-singing role – that’s our very own Coronation...
-
Our next performance – of two major choral works for unaccompanied choir – commemorates the 150th anniversaries, to within a few days of the actual dates, of the births of composers Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov (1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943) and Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916)....