Concert at St Bartholomew’s Otford
Programme
- Gerald Finzi — My spirit sang all day
- Charles Villiers Stanford — The Blue Bird
- Gustav Holst — I Love My Love
- Gustav Holst — Ave Maria
- Celso Machado — Three Brazilian Dances
- Astor Piazzolla — Cafe 1930 & Bordel 1900 from Histoire du Tango
- Ralph Vaughan Williams — Three Shakespeare Songs: Full Fathom Five, The Cloud-Capp’d Towers, Over Hill Over Dale
- Herbert Howells — A spotless Rose
- Benjamin Britten — Five Flower Songs
- Roland Dyens — Tango en Skai
- Paulo Bellinati — Jongo
- Jorge Morel — Danza Brasilera
- James MacMillan — Cantos Sagrados (Virgin of Guadalupe; Sun Stone)
- Michael Tippett — A Child of Our Time: 5 spirituals
Performers
Stephen Davies
Stephen Davies, a former chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and Music Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford, was awarded a scholarship by the Austrian Institute to study with the great organist and composer Anton Heiller at the Academy of Music in Vienna. He has since been active both in the field of music education – particularly at St Olave’s School, Orpington, where he was Director of Music for seventeen years – and as an organ recitalist. In this capacity he has given concerts in major venues throughout Europe, in New York and in New Zealand. In 2017 he gave concerts in Estonia, Germany, and Norway, and last year he performed in King’s College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He founded the Sine Nomine Singers in 1994 and conducted this chamber choir for almost 20 years, giving concerts in local venues as well as in Estonia, France and Germany. He was Director of Music here at St George’s from 2002 to 2016.
From the programme of 15 October 2022.