The Renaissance Singers of London
The Renaissance Singers is London’s leading amateur chamber choir specialising in European sacred music of the 15th-17th centuries. We perform music by well-known great composers of the period including Josquin, Tallis, Byrd, Lassus, Palestrina and Victoria as well as giving rare airings to gems by lesser-known musicians.
We have a varied annual programme giving around five concerts a year, mainly in London, and undertake occasional overseas tours and exchange projects with foreign choirs.
The choir also hosts three workshops a year, open to all, where we explore Renaissance repertoire under expert direction. Among our recent workshop leaders are John Milsom, Sally Dunkley, Philip Thorby and Bruno Turner.
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Open Workshops 2012/2013
Our open workshops allow anyone with some experience of singing and an interest in Renaissance repertoire the opportunity to explore this music alongside members of the Renaissance singers.
New Recording
The Renaissance Singers are thrilled and proud to announce the release of ‘Vigilate’, the culmination of our ‘Unearthing Treasures’ project funded by the BBC Performing Arts Fund ‘Choral Ambition’ scheme.
Sing Joyfully: celebrating William Byrd
Saturday 29th June 2013
St Mary-at-Hill, Lovat Lane, London EC3R 8EE
6.15pm free pre-concert talk by Dr Kerry McCarthy
7.30pm Concert, directed by David Allinson
“Since singing is so good a thing I wish all men would learn to sing” –Byrd
William Byrd was the foremost English composer in the decades around 1600. His music is unmatched for sheer inventiveness, richness and depth of feeling while his life story is endlessly fascinating, shedding light on the social and religious tensions of the time.
As her major new study of Byrd’s life and music is published by Oxford University Press, we are delighted to be joined by Dr Kerry McCarthy (Duke University), who will give a pre-concert talk about Byrd’s life and musical achievement.
The concert programme includes movements of Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices and the Great Service, and the motets Sing Joyfully and Infelix Ego.
