Contemplative Music from the 15th to the 19th centuries
Programme
- Josquin des Prez — Gaude Virgo, Mater Christi
- John Taverner — Mater Christi Sanctissime
- Robert Parsons — Ave Maria
- John Sheppard — Verbum caro factus est
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Prelude No1 BMV 1007
- Orlando Gibbons — Lift up your heads
- William Byrd — Lætentur cœli
- Thomas Weelkes — Gloria in excelsis Deo
- Josef Rheinberger — Mass for double choir in E flat major
- Yuquijiro Yocoh — Sakura
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Komm, Jesu, Komm
Performers
William Petter
William Petter (1982–2016) was Musical Director of the Sine Nomine Singers from 2013 to 2016. A chorister at New College School, Oxford, he read neuroscience at University College London before studying as a tenor at the Royal Academy of Music, and sang with Philharmonia Voices, the choirs of Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral, The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia Voices and London Voices. He directed the professional choir of St Magnus the Martyr for ten years, as well as Concordia Voices and Sine Nomine, and in his last years composed a body of sacred music, recorded after his death. He died on 10 October 2016, a month after his 34th birthday; the choir's concert of 17 December 2016, Sing Lullaby, was given in his memory.
More at williampetter.org.
Dominic McDonald
Dominic McDonald is currently studying for his A-levels at St Olave’s Grammar School, with plans to read Music at university next year. He studies the guitar with Adrian Harrison and has also received tuition from Johannes Moller and Frank Gerstmeier. He is also a member of the ‘Guitar Circus’ ensemble, coached and directed by Gary Ryan and Chris Stell at the Royal College of Music.
From the programme of 23 November 2013.
The choir
Sopranos
- Kathryn Bartlett
- Christine Brand
- Jenny Burgess
- Alison Cooke
- Nancy Khan
- Sue Thompson
Altos
- Sally Aldred
- Jill Saudek
- Carol Whinnom
Tenors
- Martin Fosten
- Matthew Price
- Nick Stein
Basses
- James Loader
- Bob Pruden
- Clive Richards
- Roger Thorpe