Events at St Peter’s Eaton Square

The first in a series of concerts themed around music written during the choir’s lifetime

Music by Kodály, Bartók, Mátyás Seiber and Ligeti

Conductor: Matthew Greenall. The choir’s founder returns to the podium after an eight year absence to direct an all-twenty-first century programme

Guest Conductor: Jeremy Summerly

Music by Walton, Górecki, John Tavener, Philip Glass and Eric Whitacre

Settings of the poetry of W. H. Auden.
Including the first performance of a new work commissioned by the choir

The surprisingly turbulent story of Hubert Parry and Charles Stanford, told through their letters and music

Five wartime works, including Poulenc’s masterpiece ‘Figure Humaine’, at once a threnody and a celebration of the French Resistance

Music with Scottish texts, links or composers, including a seminal work by Peter Maxwell Davies, who turns eighty this year

Elysian Singers @30: Psalmfest #1

A celebration of America’s greatest all-round musician

Music spanning six centuries