Lunchtime Concert ft. Sonare Choir. NB 1.30pm

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welcomes Sonare Choir for a fabulous perfomance celebrating female composers.

Maestra: 900 Years of Female Composers

Hildegard von Bingen - O Pastor Animarum

Maria Xaveria Perucona - Cessate Tympana

Sulpitia Cesis - Stabat Mater

Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn) - Im Wald

Clara Schumann - Abendfeier in Venedig

Undine Smith Moore - We Shall Walk Through the Valley

Amy Beach - Peace I Leave with You

Rebecca Clarke - Music, When Soft Voices Die

Joan Szymko - Wake, Love, Wake!

Sarah MacDonald - Crux Fidelis

Sarah Quartel - I Will Be With You

Stella Bracegirdle - This is No Place of Honour

Reena Esmail - TaReKiTa

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are an exciting London-based choral quartet bringing sophisticated and accessible concerts to communities around the UK.

Formed in 2021, we have toured the country with five highly acclaimed concert series, with our sixth, entitled Musica Poetica, currently underway.

We pride ourselves on the diversity of the repertoire we cover in every programme: from Lassus and Hildegard of Bingen to Mendelssohn, Britten, contemporary composers and our own arrangements of songs by artists like Bob Dylan and The Beatles.

Our concerts are constructed around a theme, which we explore from as many angles as possible. We present audiences with interesting combinations of music, designed to highlight particular aspects of the theme, elucidated by short verbal introductions. For example, one section from our Elements series, based on the elements of music, paired pieces by Undine Smith Moore, Hugo Wolf and Hoagy Carmichael to illustrate the confluence of melodic and harmonic influences from African-American spirituals and European Romanticism on early pioneers of jazz.

It is a key part of our ethos to shine a light on pieces and composers that we feel have been unjustly neglected, and particularly to champion the work of female composers. Our Maestra series featured music by women over a span of 900 years, including two unrecorded pieces by Rebecca Clarke.

Significant recent engagements include a performance of our Elements programme at the Jacqueline du Pré Concert Hall in Oxford, and a collaboration with the artist Katrine Skovsgaard on her installation Six Infinity at the Royal College of Art.

PLEASE NOTE this week only - start time 1.30pm!

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