Springtime Salvation
Programme
- William Byrd — Justorum Animæ
- Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi
- Orlando Gibbons — The Silver Swan
- Francis Poulenc — Sarabande
- Manuel de Falla — Homenaje: Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy
- John Blow — Salvator mundi
- Henry Purcell — Remember not, Lord, our offences
- Jonathan Battishill — O Lord, look down from Heaven
- Charles Villiers Stanford — Coelos ascendit hodie
- Charles Villiers Stanford — Beati Quorum Via
- C Hubert H Parry — Songs of Farewell (My soul, there is a country; Never, weather-beaten sail)
- Francisco Tárrega — Recuerdos de la Alhambra
- Antonio Lauro — Natalia (Vals Venezolano No3)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams — O Taste and See
- Benjamin Britten — Flower Songs (Marsh Flowers, The Evening Primrose)
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.
Robin Saunders
Robin Saunders was born in 1964 and studied music under Stephen Davies at St Olave’s, where he was part of a successful trio which took first place in the National Festival of Music for Youth. He attended the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music where he studied the guitar with Patrick Bashford. He then read Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity College, Cambridge while continuing his guitar studies privately with the same teacher; during this period he performed Rodrigo’s Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre with the orchestra of Trinity College Music Society and took part in a masterclass with the Czech guitarist Vladimir Mikulka, with whom he later studied briefly in Paris. After graduating he spent a further year at the Royal College of Music to obtain his ARCM (Performer’s), before finally opting to earn a living outside music. He has since performed in London and Mexico with the Coro Cervantes as soloist in Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Romencero Gitano, and has taken part in a previous Sine Nomine concert.
From the programme of 24 March 2012.
The choir
Sopranos
- Christine Brand
- Jenny Burgess
- Alison Cooke
- Anne Greenidge
- Sue Thompson
Altos
- Sally Aldred
- Janet Davies
- Jill Saudek
- Carol Whinnom
Tenors
- Matt Cook
- Martin Fosten
- Matthew Price
- Nick Stein
Basses
- Peter Davies
- James Loader
- Bob Pruden
- Clive Richards
- Peter Thompson