Contact Polyphony

20/08/2022

Our final recital is coming up this week! We're putting on two performances and can't wait to see you 😌 We are so excited to be featuring two premieres of pieces written especially for the occasion by Joshua Adams - Baritone & Composer and Eoghan Desmond!

Sunday, August 21 at 3:00 PM (tomorrow!)
St Mary's Bishophill Jr, York YO1 6EN
Free admission

OR

Thursday, August 25 at 2:00 PM
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
Free admission
Also livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatyork

26/07/2022

We can't wait to perform this program in just two weeks! Featuring big Renaissance sings by Crecquillon and Byrd alongside contemporary favorites by Sir John Tavener and Sir James MacMillan. Who's coming?

05/06/2022

SVES is back in York after a lovely marathon week of Iberian polyphony at the Canadian Renaissance Music Summer School! We met so many talented folks and learned a mountain of music. It was such a joy to sing Vespers and our final concert in the gorgeous chapel at St Peter's Seminary in London, Ontario.

We're grateful to the Department of Music, University of York and CRMSS who worked together so we could have the opportunity to travel and participate!

22/05/2022

SVES in Canada! 🇨🇦🇨🇦 Meet your 2022 international Scholars for the Canadian Renaissance Music Summer School. We've traveled from London, England to London, Ontario for a week of Iberian Renaissance polyphony.

12/05/2022

Members of Contact Polyphony are in London this week to rehearse in the chorus of Rameau's Castor & Pollux. The rarely-performed 1737 version will receive its UK premiere this Sunday with Music at Oxford!

11/05/2022

We're scattering to the four winds for exciting performances this weekend! 🚄✈💨

This Saturday, Izzie, Josh, Rachel, and T.J. will perform with the Lacock Scholars and director Greg Skidmore in "Dazzling Light"—a presentation of 40-part choral music as a part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. The program includes new 40-part works by living composers alongside famous Renaissnace motets including Tallis's "Spem in alium". Tickets are available through the festival: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/lfccm

Meanwhile, soprano Sarah will sing with Chamber Choir Ireland in "Orpheus", a set of choral works inspired by Greek mythology's most storied bard. This concert features works by Henze, Purcell, and Ørjan Matre. Tickets start from €5! https://www.chamberchoirireland.com/events/orpheus-grete-pedersen/

18/04/2022

Thank you to everyone who came out to our spring recitals! If you missed it, you can check out the archive of our marked recital on YouTube.

Summer term is about to begin and we'll be busy bees! Watch this page for updates 🐝🌼🌞

31/03/2022

Recital stream starting shortly!

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