Concert on 10 December 2011
Programme
- Charles Villiers Stanford — When Mary thro’ the garden went
- Peter Philips — Salve Regina
- David Bednall — Salve Regina
- Peter Philips — Eia Ergo
- Jacques Ibert — Pièce
- Edward Elgar — Owls (an epitaph)
- Thomas Tallis — Loquebantur variis linguis
- Edward Bairstow — Blessed City, Heavenly Salem
- Henry Purcell — Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
- John Sheppard — Libera Nos, Salva Nos I
- Edward Naylor — Vox dicentis: clama
- Gabriel Fauré — Fantaisie
- Edmund Joliffe — Sweet, stay awhile
- C Hubert H Parry — Songs of Farewell (Lord, let me know mine end)
Performers
Jonny Davies
After being Queen’s Chorister and then Head Chorister at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, Jonny Davies won a music scholarship to Trinity School, Croydon. During his teenage years he studied violin with John Francis, piano with Nigel Clayton at Croydon Schools Piano Centre and organ with Simon Williams. He also acted as assistant organist at St Mary’s Church, Addington. He then went to Brasenose College, Oxford where he received an Organ Exhibition, and sang with Schola Cantorum and the Oxford Chamber Choir. Since leaving Oxford, Jonny has sung as a lay clerk in Guildford Cathedral, with the Holst Singers conducted by Stephen Layton, and with professional church choirs all over London. He was Director of Music at St Olave’s Church, Hart Street and St Katharine Cree in the City of London, from 2007 until 2015.
From the programme of 4 February 2023.
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.
Kieran Hughes
Kieran Hughes began playing the flute as his second instrument at the age of 14 and has lessons with the distinguished teacher, Karen Jones. He is originally from Bromley and was a pupil at Hayes Secondary School. He was also a member of Bromley Youth Music Trust playing both the piano and flute in various ensembles; in 2009, he toured Holland with the Bromley Youth Concert Band, where they achieved a gold prize at the World Music Contest in Kerkrade. Kieran began his music degree at Girton College, Cambridge in October 2009 and is now in his third and final year. Last year, he won the London Girton Association Award, through which he will perform a solo recital at a private function in London in March, 2013. Previous solo performances include two recitals at HM Treasury, London and several performances in various college chapels across Cambridge.
From the programme of 10 December 2011.
The choir
Sopranos
- Christine Brand
- Jenny Burgess
- Alison Cooke
- Anne Greenidge
- Nancy Khan
Altos
- Sally Aldred
- Claire Bennie
- Jill Saudek
- Carol Whinnom
Tenors
- Matt Cook
- David Coronel
- Martin Fosten
- Matthew Price
- Nick Stein
Basses
- Peter Davies
- James Loader
- Bob Pruden
- Clive Richards