It’s a welcome Spring return for JCS to Cornwall! Our concert on Saturday 30th April, titled Symphonies for Voices, is in the 15th century church of St Endellion, and is full of melody and beautiful choral writing, drawn almost entirely from music of the 20th century, including John Rutter’s Hymn to the Creator of...
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Our programme of Passiontide Music, to be performed at St Gabriel’s Pimlico on 31st March, includes pieces from the late Renaissance interspersed with works by 20th century and contemporary composers. Our Music Director, Peter Broadbent, shares some of the background to this programme… The offices of Tenebrae (Darkness) as celebrated in the three days...
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We are delighted to congratulate Peter Broadbent, our Music Director, on his being awarded an MBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours for his services to music. While our followers – and as his award citation recognises – might know him best as our conductor since we came together, he has also conducted the...
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We are delighted to welcome Cecilia McDowall as a new Vice President of the Joyful Company of Singers. Born in London, 1951, Cecilia McDowall has won many awards, been short-listed eight times for the British Composer Awards and in 2014 won the Choral category of the British Composer Awards for her haunting work, ‘Night...
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We are delighted to welcome Olivia Tait as our latest Junior Conducting Fellow, following in the footsteps of four other young conductors who have been supported by the JCS: Christopher Hann, Helen Smee, Patrick Barrett and Louisa Denby. Olivia will be conducting us in Cecilia McDowall’s Deus, qui claro lumine when we perform at St Gabriel’s...