Out of Darkness into Light
Programme
- Thomas Tallis — O nata lux
- Carlo Gesualdo — Tribulationem et Dolorem
- Carlo Gesualdo — Tristis Est Anima Mea
- James MacMillan — Miserere
- Edgar Bainton — And I Saw a New Heaven
- James MacMillan — A New Song
- John Ireland — Greater Love Hath No Man
- Johann Sebastian Bach — O Jesu Christ, Meins Lebens Licht
- Gustav Mahler — Urlicht
- Edward Bairstow — Blessed City, Heavenly Salem
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.
Paul Plummer
Paul Plummer was organ scholar at New College, Oxford before moving to London in 1995 to study piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School; he also attended courses at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. Whilst working and studying in London he was Director of Music at St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, where he began and accompanied the weekly Rush-Hour Recital series; he also conducted the West London Vocal Ensemble (later “Hythe Singers”). In 2008 he moved to Germany to work as repetiteur at the opera house in Kiel; then from 2010‒12 served as Studienleiter (Head of Musical Preparation) at the Tiroler Landestheater, whose Intendantin (General Director) was mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender. Since 2012 he has been freelance again, and now lives in South London, working as a vocal coach privately, for the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists’ Programme, and for various young singers’ programmes in Germany and Italy. Visit him at www.paulplummer.co.uk.
From the programme of 28 March 2015.
The choir
Sopranos
- Christine Brand
- Jenny Burgess
- Anne Greenidge
- Sue Thompson
Altos
- Rachel Bowley
- Jill Saudek
- Sarah Westley
- Isobel Whelan
- Carol Whinnom
Tenors
- Martin Fosten
- Matthew Price
- Nick Stein
Basses
- James Loader
- Mark Pinchin
- Bob Pruden
- Clive Richards
- Roger Thorpe