To help celebrate the Christmas season, Sky Arts will be showing "The King's Singers Christmas" throughout the Christmas week. Recorded at LSO St. Luke's in London, and released for Christmas 2011, the DVD sets an eclectic assortment of modern Christmas classics with special arrangements of some much loved favourites. Ranging from the beautiful simplicity of Michael Pretorius’s Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen to the mad
The Lincoln Center have published the video footage of the launch of Virtual Choir 3 ‘Water Night’ that took place in the David Rubenstein Atrium of the Lincoln Center, New York on 2nd April 2012. The event, hosted by Young Patrons of Lincoln Center (YPLC) and The Juilliard Club, featured the projection of VC3 onto the Atrium’s immense 40-foot media wall as well as a
'On Christmas Eve 2012 Alan Greaves, a church organist from Sheffield, was attacked as he walked to church for Midnight Mass. Sadly, he died a few days later, and soon after we heard of this I happened to come across a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Bethlehem Star, that affected me in the light of this tragedy. I decided to set it in his
To mark the start of the North American tour of Great American Songbook, The King's Singers are doing a one-off performance in the intimate and evocative performance space SubCulture, a subterranean music-and-arts oasis hidden beneath the streets of New York. Seating just 150 people, SubCulture is a new venue that plays host to a dynamic range of performances across the year. and was designed to
Already nominated for a Gramophone Award earlier this year, Tenebrae's recording of the Faure Requiem and Bach Partita No. 2 in D with the London Symphony Orchestra has been put forward in the Choral categoral of the International Classical Music Awards. Released on the LSO Live label, the disc was recorded in the sublime acoustic of the Church of St Giles Cripplegate in May 2012. Alongside
On Thursday 21 November, Eric gave a presentation entitled "Inspiring Creativity via the web" at The Marketing Society’s Annual Conference in the beautiful setting of the Royal Opera House in London. You can watch the talk in full on The Marketing Society’s website.
After flying to the US for Thanksgiving on Thursday 28 November, The King's Singers have begun their series of festive performances across the United States. Over the next eleven days, they will perform seven concerts in six different states, deliver a lecture-demonstration, a workshop, and also have the wonderful opportunity to perform live on Music and the Spoken Word. A full list of their performances
