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Viking Festival
The Ebor Singers are appearing in
this year's Viking Festival. In the 'Fit for a King' concert in
York Minster, on Friday 19 February, they will be performing music by
Finnish composer Rautavaara, as well as a brand new piece commissioned
for the festival from the choir's composer-in-residence, Hilary Campbell.
Also featuring in the concert are
the renowned verse playwright Peter Oswald with his
poem Egil, harpist Sarah Dean and the choir
Enkelit , an upper-voice a cappella choir who specialise in
music from Scandanavia. Tickets are £10 (£8 concessions)
and are available from York Minster Box Office (01904 557208; www.boxoffice.yorkminster.org)
Date added: 24/01/2010
The Ebor Singers were featured on
on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction on Thursday 14 January,
when Ivan Moody's Canticum canticorum, from the CD Dusk Songs,
were played.
> Click here for more information on the CD Dusk Songs.
Date added: 24/01/2010
Merry
Christmas!
We'd like to thank you for your support over the last year, so we've put
together some recordings made at our concerts over 2008-9, including
a Christmas carol composed escpecially for the choir in 2007
by Ian Colson.
We hope you enjoy, and we look forward to seeing
you soon!
Date added: 15/12/09
Wassail
Dinner returns in 2010
Celebrate the end of the Chirstmas season in style with The Ebor Singers!
On the evening of Saturday 16 January at the Merchant Taylor's Hall, Aldwark,
The Ebor Singers wil be providing an evening of entertainment - music,
readings, and the not-to-be-missed traditional(ish) Wassail Play - to
accompany a three-course dinner in the beautiful surroundings of the Merchant
Taylor's Hall. Tickets, costing £35, are now available via the tickets page of the website - book now to avoid disappointment!
Date added: 28/10/09
Happy Birtyhday Purcell!
Members of the choir have been involved in a Key Stage 2 resource celebrating
the life of Henry Purcell, in a project funded by Sing Up and organised
by the National Centre for Early Music. This resource is now available
online.
Date added: 28/10/09
Minster under Siege: music from the English Civil War
York Minster has faced many threats over the centuries, but few can compare to the events during the Siege of York in 1644, when the Minster was bombarded by during a Sunday morning service! Several contemporary accounts describe how the Scottish army, using cannons on the roof of nearby St Olave's Church, fired on the Minster deliberately when members of the army were attending a service there. The Ebor Singers will be performing music heard on that very Sunday service, in a concert of readings and music tracing events of the English Civil War. Says the choir's director Dr Paul Gameson, ‘There is a wonderful description of the service on Trinity Sunday during the siege, when choir and congregation including generals, nobles and commoners, all sang psalms with great camaraderie – all while bullets ricocheted around the building. With help from the Sealed Knot and the audience we look forward to recreate this atmosph ere!' The choir will be singing music by Gibbons, Tomkins, Purcell, then Minster Organist John Hutchinson and composer of Charles I, William Lawes, present at York during the Siege and killed in 1645 during the Siege of Chester.
The concert is promoted by the York Archaeological Trust and is part of the English Civil War Festival, which is running from 22-31 August. Tickets for the concert (£12, £10 concessions, £5 students) are available on the door or in advance from York Minster Box Office (telephone: 01904 557200). On Friday 28 August, members of the choir and the Sealed Knot are singing drinking and marching songs from the period in York Brewery. Tickets, costing £5, are available from the Jorvik Booking Office (01904 615505).
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Date added: 03/08/09
YORK CHOIR ON SONG FOR GERMANY
York-based chamber choir The Ebor Singers put the Eurovision Song Contest to shame during their recent tour to Germany at the end of May. The choir received ‘maximum points’ from their hosts, with local newspaper headlines including “Brillanter Klang” and “Dynamische Bandbreite”.
The choir’s Director, Dr Paul Gameson, said: “The tour was a huge success. Our programme of early and modern English church music received long standing ovations wherever we went, and our hosts welcomed us like VIPs.”
The Ebor Singers were invited to Germany by Kultursommer, a summer-long arts festival in the Rhineland, and performed four concerts across the region in as many days. Despite a heavy schedule, the choir found time to take a cruise up the Rhine and enjoyed an exclusive wine-tasting at a Riesling vineyard overlooking the Rhine.
Now returned to York, the choir are preparing for their final concert of the 2008-9 season, on Saturday 13 June in the York Guildhall, which celebrates the double anniversary of Handel’s death (1759) and Purcell’s birth (1659). Music includes Handel’s Dixit Dominus, and Purcell’s Rejoice in the Lord.
Images:
Germany 2009: The Ebor Singers in concert (© Michael Brunsden)
Date added: 5/06/09
WINNERS OF NCEM COMPOSERS AWARD 2009
The winners of the 2009 National Centre for Early Music Composers Award have been announced as Elizabeth Edwards (in the under 18s section) and Michael Perrett (in the 18 to 25 section). The competition final took place at the NCEM in Walmgate on 14 May, and was led by The Ebor SIngers and composer Christopher Fox. A workshop during the day saw choir and short-listed composers working in collaboration, and in an evening recital the choir performed all the works in front of the judges which included Peter Phillips, the Director of The Tallis Scholars; Chris Wines, Senior Music Producer, BBC Radio 3 and Delma Tomlin, Director of the National Centre for Early Music. The winners will be performed by The Tallis Scholars on July 10 in the York Early Music Festival.
Link:
National Centre for Early Music
Date added: 15/05/09
Sunday 17 May
7-8.30pm in York Minster
Free Admission
As part of the European-wide ‘Nuits des Musées’, the Minster is opening its doors from 5pm-midnight, with ‘hidden Minster’ tours as well as trips up the tower and bell-tower. The Ebor Singers will be performing in a variety of locations around the building from 7-8.30pm.
Date added: 7/05/09
COMPOSITION COMPETITION WITH THE TALLIS SCHOLARS
Thursday 14 May
7pm at St Margaret's Church, Walmgate
The Ebor Singers are leading a nationwide competition for composers at school and university organised by York-based National Centre for Early Music supported by BBC Radio 3 and The Tallis Scholars. The Ebor Singers are taking part in a workshop with short-listed composers during the day, followed by an evening recital of all the entries. The judges include Peter Phillips, the Director of The Tallis Scholars; Chris Wines, Senior Music Producer, BBC Radio 3 and Delma Tomlin, Director of the National Centre for Early Music, and the winning entry will be performed by The Tallis Scholars on July 10 in the York Early Music Festival.
Link:
National Centre for Early Music
Date added: 7/05/09
CONCERTS IN GERMANY
Date added: 5/05/09
1 November 2008
THE
EBOR SINGERS ON CLASSIC FM
The Ebor Singers will be featured on ‘ The Full Works', Classic FM's evening programme, on Tuesday 18 November (9pm-midnight.) This opportunity arose from a competition organised by Making Music (the association formerly known as The National Federation of Music Societies ). The programme will include a complete playing of dusksongs as recorded by The Ebor Singers, and other music from York.
Date added: 1/11/08