Hemiola

30/04/2026

A huge thank you to everyone that joined us in Oxford last weekend for our second performance of 'Seasons of Being' 🎵

If you've not managed to catch us yet, there's still one more chance - we're performing at the beautiful St. Marylebone Parish Church in London next Saturday, 9th May at 1pm (this is a free lunchtime concert).

Hope to see you there!

08/04/2026

Tickets are now on sale for our upcoming concert on the 25th April at St Barnabas Jericho in Oxford 🎶

Don't miss out on this special opportunity to catch our newest choral programme Seasons of Being in this beautiful venue . Adult tickets are £17, with Student tickets for just £7 🎟

Book now through the link in bio 🔗

🎥 : Jason Elberts of JET Productions

06/04/2026

Later this month, join us for our next performance of this year's brand new choral programme, Seasons of Being 🌞

🗓 25th April, 7:30pm (including an interval)
📍St Barnabas Church Jericho, Oxford
🎟 Adults £17, Students £7

Tickets available now through the link in bio or at https://www.hemiolachoir.co.uk/what-s-on

24/03/2026

Save the Date! 🗓

We're delighted to announce the next two concerts of our latest programme, 'Seasons of Being'. Our programme will guide you through a moving journey of life, mortality, and renewal - including evocative works by celebrated composers such as Jonathan Dove, Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, Lucy Walker and others.

We hope to see you there! Tickets for the 25th April in Oxford are now available to buy via our website, www.hemiolachoir.co.uk 🎶

09/12/2025

Announcing our first concert of 2026, 'Seasons of Being'! 🎶

We're thrilled to share with you our upcoming programme, including The Passing of the Year by Jonathan Dove (with piano), alongside evocative works by celebrated composers such as Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, Lucy Walker and others.

Where? St. Boltoph's Church, Cambridge
When? 17 January 2026 at 1pm
Admission is free, with a retiring collection. The concert will last for around 50 minutes. Tickets can either be reserved through the link in bio or simply turn up on the day!

26/11/2025

It was a real pleasure to perform at the Brecon Choir Festival last summer, and we are honoured that The Observer described our performance as "magical". This recognition means a great deal to us as we continue shaping new musical journeys, and we're extremely grateful for the ongoing support of our audiences and collaborators.

We look forward to sharing a number of upcoming projects soon, so stay tuned for further announcements!

21/07/2025

20/07/2025

Introducing our programme for today’s concert at , ‘R.S. Thomas: Music, Man…Machine’ 🎶

Inspired by R.S. Thomas’ poem ‘Mass for Hard Times’, today’s programme is shaped as a traditional Mass, using R.S. Thomas’ poetry as its guiding voice. Each section of music matches a part of the Mass, beginning in sorrow and disconnection (‘Kyrie’) and journeying towards peace and reconciliation (‘Agnus Dei’).

Final tickets still available! Get yours now and hope to see you this afternoon!

20/07/2025

We’ve arrived in Brecon and rehearsals are well underway for our concert today in Christ College Chapel, including this gorgeous piece of Mia Makaroff for upper voices 🎶

Tickets are still available on the website - we’d love to see you there!

29/05/2025

Adapated from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and commonly sung as a responsory during Holy Week, ‘O Vos Omens’ might at first glance seem solely as a gloomy and visceral mourning of one’s ‘dolor’ (‘sorrow’). However, a closer look reveals that beneath the speaker’s plea for the bystanders to ‘attendite et videte’ (‘attend to their sorrow’) is an inherent sense of hope that others will eventually understand and even sympathise with the speaker’s tribulations.

As part of our ‘Faith, Hope, and Love’ tour, we presented Pablo Casals’ haunting setting in tandem with Christina Rossetti’s ‘Good Friday’ poem, where the spiritually numb poetic speaker acknowledges their disconnection from Jesus’ crucifixion. Like ‘O Vos Omens’, there exists the potential for shared healing and to “turn and look once more” towards Christ.

To watch the full version of this performance, head over to YouTube using the following link: https://youtu.be/kd9Fyg9gxCo

Hemiola
Conductor: Harvey Lok
Sopranos: Lucy Mitten, Esmé-Rose Ellis
Altos: Alicia Hunt, Phoebe Wakefield
Tenors: Hugo Williamson, Nico Shaw
Basses: James Gooding, Dominic Kwan
Venue: St Cuthbert's Church, Wells

Adapated from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and commonly sung as a responsory during Holy Week, ‘O Vos Omens’ might at first glance seem solely as a gloomy an...